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 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.
#2 Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is a Third-person, Fast-paced Action and Thrill filled Action-Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash video game by Mercury Steam. The game is set in the year 1047 and tells the story about the epic Alliance between Earth and Heaven that was threatened by the mighty and evil Lords of the Shadow. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow allows you to be the main protagonist Gabriel Belmont a skilled warrior who uses advanced skills and up to 40 unique Unlockable fighting combos and his special sword fighting abilities to kill the enemies. Your task is to use all the weapons along with secondary ones such as Knives, Holy Water, and Hammers etc. to eliminate your enemies. Laced up with all the advanced melee tactics and weapons, special magical spells, you’ll have to attack your enemies in a fast-paced manner and kill them before they get you. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow offers ultra-HD visuals, a well-written story and an engaging game-play. Try it out if you really love playing Action-Adventure and RPG video games and you’ll definitely love it.
#3 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.
#4 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.
#5 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.
#6 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.
#7 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.
#8 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.
#9 Dark Souls
Dark Souls is an RPG game packed with Action-Adventure and Hack and Slash elements. It is developed and published by From Software. This game provides an open world environment, enhanced graphics, challenging game-play, an updated user interface, and an advanced A artificial Intelligence (AI)I system. You can play it on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 4. The game takes you to a fictional and mysterious world.
The player starts his journey with many weapons and rations and a little gathering of companions, and on his way to the badlands, he engages with the creatures. This game features realistic and eye-catching graphics, and the open-world allows him to interact with people, objects, and other things. Playing Dark Souls will definitely be a good experience because of its amazing story, addictive gameplay, and brilliant visuals. These features make Dark Souls among the top choices of combat gamers.
#10 Darksiders 2
Darksiders 2 is a brilliant Hack and Slash, RPG and Action-Adventure video game by Vigil Games. This game belongs to the Darksiders series and lets you be the protagonist Death, one of the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse. The game amalgamates interactive puzzle elements with the super thrilling Action, RPG and Hack and Slash game-play and tasks you to go through various environments consisting of things such as Doors, Elevators, Portals, and Platforms etc. In an open world environment, Darksiders 2 lets you explore the game world on foot or your special Horse named as Despair, traverse through a number of dungeons, complete a number of quests and side quests, engage in epic boss fights along with thrilling PvP melee combats with other enemies and enjoy immersing yourself into a brilliantly engaging game-play. Darksiders 2 offers multiple means of travel and one of them is teleporting from one location to another. Your primary weapons are two sharp edged Scythes that you can use to slice up your enemies or you can use your secondary weapons (Hammers, Axes, Maces etc.) as well. With a very interesting and very well-written story line, fantastic visuals and an immersive game-play, Darksiders 2 is one of the best games of Action-Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash genres. Do try it out.
#11 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.