God of War III
God of War III is an action-adventure, hack and slash, single-player video game for PlayStation developed by SCE Santa Monica Studio. The game is the fifth entry in the fabulous series of God of War. The game takes place in ancient Greece and focuses on Greek Mythology. The player can take on the role of the protagonist named Kratos, who is a former god. The game puts the player on an epic adventure to fight against gods, monsters, and Titans to find Pandora.
The gameplay is similar as compared to its previous entries and based on combo-based combat. Kratos equips with his main weapons, such as Exile and Blades, to slaughter monsters and vicious gods. There are different types of creatures such as harpies, Cyclopes, sirens, and more. It is capable of climbing, jumping, running, and swinging by using ropes. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay, brilliant visuals, and a superb story, God of War III is a wonderful game.
#1 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: Hearts of Stone
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: Hearts of Stone is a first DLC pack for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, released in 2015 by CD Projekt Red for multiple platforms. The DLC pack revolves around Geralt of Rivia, coming in contact with a strange man named as Gaunter O’Dimm, connected to Olgired Everest, a nobleman. The nobleman sends the protagonist on an epic quest to remove a massive toad monster in the sewer of Oxenfurt. The player runs into the Shani while hunting the brutal monsters, a medic, whom the player has an option of romance. The player manipulates the world from a third-person perspective, the battle against enemies using ranged weapons and melee combat and struggle to kill them to earn experience the points. The game features a mini-maps, which can display the location of the player and the enemies from a top-down perspective. After killing the monster that is actually a prince, the guards struggle to catch the player. He can explore the world either on foot or by horseback in some specific areas. With new features, addictive gameplay for hardcore players, and smooth controls, The Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone is the wonderful game to play.
#2 The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings developed by Polish Studios, CD Projekt Red and published by Atari, Inc., Badnai Namco Games and CyberFront in the same year of 2011. This super addicting game is a sequel to The Witcher and is packed with great Action-Adventure, RPG and intense Hack and Slash elements. The game is based on the story from a novel written by a Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. From its first appearance in the market to the present day, this game is a real success. Graphics, game-play and story-line is quite to its predecessor. With an open world gaming environment, Stealth mode, tons of new content and bug fixes, this game attracts the players a lot. The Witcher, genetically mutated Geralt takes you to an amazing land of wonders. Battles with monsters and humans and their extremely disastrous super powers are a key element in the success of the game. Playing this game won’t cost you a bit of tiredness and make you feel sorry for your precious time. Give it a try and experience an extremely engaging and thrilling nature of the game.
#3 Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, developed by Platinum Games is a Single-player Action-Adventure, RPG and a Hack and Slash video game. The game focuses on the protagonist Raiden who is a Cyborg with a katana sword as his primary weapon. Raiden gets a task assigned to him by his superiors to kill the enemy Cyborgs. After gearing up, Raiden sets off to fight the enemies and engages in hard core hack and slash action using his high-frequency blade Katana sword and a lot of other weapons such as daggers, rocket launchers etc. After a long lasting effort, Raiden reaches the enemy Core of operations and destroy it. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance lets you use your best Stealth abilities and use your Katana in the amazing Blade Mode where you can slice the enemy Cyborgs in Slow Motion and steal all the parts hidden well in their bodies. Focusing strictly on Melee combats, the game allows you to encounter the equally equipped enemies and other machines in close encounters, kill them and earn experience points and loads of upgrades including unlock-able weapons, tactics and skills. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance features thrillingly fast-paced action game-play, a well written story-line and eye catching 3D graphics.
#4 Shadow Warrior
Shadow Warrior is a First-person Action-packed Hack and Slash, Shooter and RPG video game by Flying Wild Hog. The reboot of 1997’s Shadow Warrior features the protagonist with same character named Lo Wang and is set in an Asian Themed game world. Lo Wang is a Modern ninja, is controllable by a first person perspective and fight against the hordes of Evil Powers. Shadow Warrior consists of a number of game levels presented in a chapter wise order and lets you progress gradually from smaller stages to the huge ones with open Battles Arenas and Melee Combats. You as the protagonist can act and use various types of fire arms along with traditional ninja swords. Your basic task is to kill all the enemies and complete the game objectives in time to move towards the higher level of expertise. Shadow Warrior allows you to battle against differently categorized enemies who have various skills and tactics to fight against you. Their abilities are classified according to their skills and strength. You must first fight against the smaller enemies to gradually go against the ones with same strength as you possess. In order of fighting against an enemy who is stronger than you, will cost you a life. Shadow Warrior offers best graphics, a good story and an open world.
#5 Diablo 3
Diablo 3, the third installment in the Diablo Game series is developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. Diablo 3 is an Action-Adventure and Role Playing Game (RPG) and is available to play on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One gaming platforms. With a huge fan base, Diablo 3 sold over 15 million copies worldwide and is still persistent in markets. The game features a much similar game-play to its predecessors Diablo and Diablo 2 but the storyline is a bit different. With the block buster Expansion pack Reaper of Souls this game is topping the Ranks among big names of the time. The game is set in the Dark Fantasy in the Sanctuary and allows you to choose your character from 6 different choices (Demon Hunter, Witch Doctor, Monk, Crusader, Barbarian and Wizard), select the best skills and spells and go explore the game world to uncover the plot about the extreme power you can have and eventually start ruling the realms once more. The story focuses on Deckard Cain and Leah investigating about the ancient texts when suddenly a mysterious star falls on the Cathedral, makes a huge crater and Deckard Cain disappears in it. Your task is to go to the Cathedral, Start investigating about the star that struck the cathedral and the sudden disappearance of Deckard Cain. After the Rescue of Cain you must go fight and defeat the King Leoric Aka. The Skeleton king because it’s the only way to reach out to the fallen star. In order to complete the objectives, you must first find out the three pieces of the Sacred Sword, forge a Mighty Sword and kill the Skeleton King with it and eventually reach to the Fallen Star. Diablo 3 is a wonderful game of this specific genre and provides with a wonderful game-play, cool visuals and a great story.
#6 Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is an amazing Multiplayer Online Action-Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash video game by Tom Banner Studios. The game is set in Medieval Era and offers a Half-Life 2 and Age of Chivalry type of game-play and focuses on Melee combats primarily. It allows you to engage yourself into amazingly bloody battles against the enemies from a first or a third person perspective and enjoy Hacking and Slashing your way through the hordes of enemies using your swords, bows and arrows, Maces and Catapults etc. Chivalry: Medieval Warfare offers Ballistae, Catapults and Boiling oil as the secondary and the most damaging weapons as well and allows you to use against the enemies when waging wars and leading the troops. Because of the Multiplayer nature of the game, Chivalry: medieval Warfare lets you enjoy objective-based gameplay and take part in multiple game modes such as Free for All, Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Last Team Standing, King of the Hill, Capture the Flag and Team objective etc. Chivalry Medieval Warfare offers a number of character classes as well and lets you choose the character you like from Archers, men at Arms, Vanguards, knights etc. The game offers a whole load of amazing weapons all based up on the character you select along with all the special character specific abilities and skills. With a wonderfully engaging and quite immersive gameplay, fantastic story, brilliant visuals and DLC, Chivalry Medieval Warfare is one amazing game to play and enjoy.
#7 Pillars of Eternity
Pillars of Eternity is one of the best Action-Adventure and RPG and Hack and Slash video games. This wonderful game takes you to an amazing journey of an enchanted world where you destiny awaits you. With a great opportunity to recapture the deepest sense of Exploration, Adventure and Thrill of leading the most skillful companions to an amazing world of wonders and fantasies, the chance to engage yourself in the most epic battles and reaching out to success by going through hugely monster-infested dungeons, Pillars of Eternity is all about astonishment and wonderful things you experience. Pillars of Eternity is actually the Spiritual Successor to a number of top trending games such as Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale and Baldur’s gate series and offers a similar type of gameplay and mechanics. According to the story of the game, Pillars of Eternity takes place in the world of Eora, located in the region of Eastern Reach that is a home to a number of native races such as Free Palatinate of Drywood, Penitential Regency of Readceras and The Villains Republic etc. According to their Technological, Social and traditional aspects each of the nations belong to the Renaissance Era and they settled in the Eora in that era too. The games kicks off with a massive unrest in the Eora because of the discovery of certain facts about the souls that stated that the souls are not actually Metaphysical Abstractions but are quantifiable and calculable objects that can be transferred from one state to another, stored or manipulated in any way possible. Talking about the gameplay, the main character of the game arrives in Drywood in a shabby condition, his caravan gets destroyed with every soul and he’s the only survivor. Hiding in the caves, the protagonist gets exposed to unearthly energies and powers, drawn to earth by the cultist performing rituals related to their souls with the help of an advanced machine. The protagonist now becomes a Watcher, who can read souls as well as reading memories from the past. Because of these activities widespread in the lands, Drywood gets Cursed with a deadly plague known as HollowBorn and that leads to births without soul. A widespread chaos begins as the people start hunting the scientists and cultists as they think they are responsible. meanwhile the Thaos, the antagonist keeps on stealing the souls. it is now your duty to become the one savior, walk in the footsteps of Thaos, confront him and kill him to reverse the Plague and save the poor souls. With a brilliant story, amazingly addictive gameplay and loads of fantastic quests, epic PvP and PvE combats, great visuals and a well-written story, Pillars of Eternity in one of the best and most played Action-Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash video game.
#8 Neverwinter Nights
Neverwinter Nights takes you to an amazing Fantasy-based Action-RPG experience from a third-person perspective and leaves you right in the middle of an amazingly enchanting world. The game lets you enjoy lengthy campaigns and enjoy playing this masterpiece with all the user created content and loads of cool upgrades and stuff. As an adventurer, Neverwinter Nights lets you cater with the Evil and Cults both and tasks you to complete various quests in order to eliminate the enemies and restore the order in the City of Neverwinter. With a Standard RPG formula, Neverwinter Nights offer a number of player character options, cool skills and abilities to master and a great storyline to follow. The unique combat system of the game is inspired by the famous Dungeons and Dragons series and lets you enjoy similar mechanics and game-plat etc. As compared to a lot of titles of this specific genre, Neverwinter Nights is one of the best Action-RPG video games to play and enjoy. Do try it out.
#9 The Witcher
The Witcher is an Action-Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash video game created by CD Projekt RED. The game is based on a novel of the same name and is set in a Medieval Era. The story of the game revolves around Geralt a Known Witcher and a Monster Hunter gifted with supernatural powers. The Witcher offers Top-Down and First Person gaming perspectives and allows you to engage in the most epic battles against the monsters and Beasts. You can choose anyone of the three fighting techniques according to the scenarios, use whatever weapons you see fit for specific type of battles and are capable of slashing the foes. The Witcher lets you fight against a number of different kinds of enemies (Monsters, Beasts etc.) and use your supernatural powers to defeat or tame them. The game consists of seven chapters and features best HD graphics, Hardcore Action-packed and engaging game-play and a well written story.
#10 Torchlight
Torchlight, published by Runic Games and Perfect World is an Action and RPG video game released back in 2009. The game offers a fantasy-based gameplay and is set in the fictional world of Torchlight. Torchlight and its surrounding are based upon massive systems of Caverns and Dungeons and are attractions for all the adventurers and explorers. The Caverns and Dungeons hold unlimited riches and are filled with all kinds of gory monsters. The main character of the game is a skilled adventurer who explores the Caverns and Dungeons while fighting off the monsters and collecting all sorts of resources such as Weapons, Gold and various other types of loots. The game allows the players to be that Badass hero, explore the caverns and dungeons, collect Gold, Weapons, and other items, get to the Town and sell the items to NPCs and in return get the Quests. While on quests, the players can travel to various locations in dungeons, fight off Unique Bosses, and advance with the story. There are also Sidequests available that the players can have and complete them to earn experience points and loads of other rewards including the upgrades. Torchlight offers an isometric view (Top Down Perspective), beautifully created 3D graphics and addictive gameplay to enjoy. For all those who love playing games with Action and RPG elements and Isometric perspective, Torchlight would definitely be a great source of entertainment.
#11 Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire is a Role-playing and Single-player video game created by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Versus Evil for multiple platforms. The title serves as the sequel to Pillars of Eternity, released in 2015. The game is played from an isometric view, and it takes place in the fantasy-based environment. It comes with both returning and new companions, depending upon the selections of the player, which play an option role in the story of the game. This version revolves around seafaring and Island navigation via a ship. Now, the player is capable of hiring a crew to look over and assist in ship combat. Class-based gameplay has been returned from the previous title, and each class in the game has three optional sub-classes with unique abilities. According to the plot, the game is the direct sequel to the previous game, set in the world of Eora. Like the previous game, the player takes on the role of the Watcher, the character wielded with the ability to look into the souls of other people and is capable of reading their memories too, as well as explore their past lives. Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire is the wonderful game to play.
#12 The Witcher: Enhanced
The Witcher: Enhanced is the mix of Role-playing, Fantasy, and Story-Rich elements developed and published by CD Projekt Red for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. The game allows the player to become the Witcher, the monster slayer who stuck in the intrigue woven’s web by forces vying for the conquering of the globe. During the gameplay, the player must make difficult decisions and spend his life with the consequence that will engage him in an extraordinary tale as he has never experienced before. The game emphasizes story and character development elements in the vibrant world while incorporating tactical and deep combat. There are more than 250 unique abilities, including combat skills, magical powers, etc. which the player can use to build his character in the way he likes to tactical needs and style to play. The game takes place in the fantasy world where the player can move from a third-person perspective and can battle against enemies to take down them. The Witcher: Enhanced includes prominent features such as Fantasy World, Non-linear and Captivating Story, Stunning Tactical Action, and more. Check it out, and have fun.
#13 Bastion
Bastion is a Wonderful Action-RPG video game developed by Supergiant Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game lets you control The Kid, move though floating platforms in a fantasy-based environment, fight enemies, collect Shards of Rocks, Use magical powers and different weapons (Swords, Hammers, knives etc.) in epic enemy encounters, explore and solve puzzles in World of Caelondia and enjoy the ultimate fun. With wonderful graphics, and challenging game-play, Bastion is a wonderful game to play. One brilliant feature of the game is the Dynamic Voice-over presented in a beautiful 2D environment and the Isometric Camera view makes it even more involving. For all the hardcore Action-RPG enthusiasts, Bastion offers hours of pure entertainment, so do try this one out.