Jet Li: Rise to Honor
Jet Li: Rise to Honor is a third-person shooter, beat ‘em up, and single-player video game by sony computer entertainment in 2004. The game comes with voice acting, likeness, and motion capture work of a martial arts actor named Jet Li. It introduces the cinematic presentation to mimic an action movie with no loading screens, and the sections of the game are split into scenes. The selection menu enables the player to revisit any past scenes once they have been completed.
The game is played from a third-person viewpoint, and the majority of the game is focused on the beat ‘em up elements. There are a series of levels where the player can use different firearms with limited ammunition. The game’s storyline follows the protagonist named Jet Li, an undercover police officer who is selected as the bodyguard to Boss Chiang, the friend of the father of Kit. As the game proceeds, it becomes tough to play.
#1 The Godfather 2
The Godfather 2, an Action-Adventure, RPG and Shooting video game is based on the story of a 1974 movie The Godfather Part II directed by Francis Ford Copola and written by Francis Ford Copola and Mario Puzo. Being a sequel to the most anticipated and a very much admired game The Godfather: The Game, The Godfather II is set in the four cities of Havana, Cuba, New York and Miami and features the main protagonist Michael Corleone who takes charge of the family and its businesses after the death of his father Don Vito Corleone. As his father, Michael Corleone after taking the charge, assassinates all the heads of the international mafia families and takes control of the businesses and the crime rings across the world and becomes the most powerful Don in America and Cuba. The Godfather II offers an open world gaming environment, super thrilling game-play with an extremely captivating action, gunplay, hand to hand fights, driving and single and multiplayer gaming options. A well written story-line makes the game more engaging and quite appealing and the graphic details are the real deal. Playing The Godfather II entertaining will be a great choice. You should try it out if you feel like craving for more action and adventure.
#2 Just Cause
Just Cause by Eidos Interactive is the very first Marvel in the Just Cause series. The game offers a brilliant combination of Action, Adventure, Stealth and Third-person Shooting elements and is available to play on multiple platforms such as Microsoft Windows, Xbox, and PlayStation. Just Cause features a huge game map and allows the players to explore an area of 250,000 acres or 1,012 Km square, and enjoy 21 missions and almost 300 side missions. The game features the character of Protagonist as Rico Rodriguez who works for a mega organization known as “The Agency.”. After the outrageous actions and brutality of San Esperito’s Dictator, Salvador Mendoza, The Agency calls on Rico and orders him to meet the Commanding Officer Tom Sheldon. Sheldon needs Rico’s help to overthrow the Dictator and free the nation of San Esperito. The ultimate goal of the game is to Kill Mendoza and to complete the objectives, Rico must act as the story suggests. The players are tasked to control Rico, Team up with Tom Sheldon and Maria Kane, Find the Guerrilla Group and Rioja Drug Cartel, Stage the rebellion and fire up the already raging Civil War against the Government of Salvador Mendoza. As the story furthers, after a massive defeat to Mendoza and all of his Black Hand Mercenaries, Mendoza escapes from San Esperito. Leaving back the governmental affairs trembling, Mendoza escapes in his jet to his Private Island. The player then gets tasked to follow Mendoza and Kill him to end the War and stabilize the government of San Esperito. Just Cause offers a fantastic amount of hardcore Action and Thrill in the game. With an open world environment, a huge arsenal of weapons, blasting action and addictive nature of the game, Just Cause is one of the most epic creations of this particular genre.
#3 Just Cause 2
Just Cause 2 is an excellent Action-Adventure, Stealth and Third-person Shooting video game by Avalanche Studios. The game offers a unique gaming experience by continuing the adventures of agent Rico Rodriguez, a field operative of the agency after the events of Just Cause. The game lets you shoot enemies, run, walk, fight, snatch vehicles and even fly a plane etc. Being a hardcore action thriller, Just Cause 2 puts you in the middle of the ballistic action and adventure you have ever experienced. You get a free hand to engage yourself in super-fast-paced action and do what all the heroes normally do in thrill packed action movies like jumping off the helicopters, crashing cars, blowing up the bridges, crushing the statues and killing enemies etc. Just Cause 2 is a total blast in the line of action gaming. You get to use the most sophisticated and futuristic weapons, vehicles and aircraft against your enemies and a marvelous addition to the inventory is the Grappling Hook that lets you tether yourself with anything. Just Cause 2 provides with an amazing story-line, super fine graphics and an open world to engage yourself in the best action depiction ever.
#4 APB Reloaded
APB Reloaded is an online MMOTPS (Massively Multiplayer Online – Third-person Shooter) video game developed by Real Time Worlds. The game is set in the surroundings of San Paro city and allows you to be a cop or a robber. You can select the best guise for yourself and get into the game world to dominate in the streets of the San Paro city. The game lets you fight against your opposing teams by using weapons of different kinds and mostly it engages you into close combats to show off your fighting skills. APB Reloaded follows the footsteps of Grand Theft Auto series games and provides with a similar and hardcore action filled game-play. Other great inclusions to the game are the best high quality graphics, a well written storyline and an open world gaming environment that lets you roam freely, explore and interact with countless objects like vehicles, planes, NPCs (Non Player Characters) etc. and enjoy the game to the fullest. Being a super thriller and quite addictive game, APB Reloaded will surely provide you with plenty of entertainment. Do try it out.
#5 Boiling Point: Road to Hell
Boiling Point: Road to Hell is an action-adventure, RPG and Shooting video game developed by “Deep Shadows” and published by “Atari” for PC (Microsoft Windows) only. The game is set on two fictitious locations of Puerto Sombra and Pueblo Faro. The Government controls “Puerto Sombra” and “Pueblo Faro” is in the control of the Communist insurrectionists. The story of the game features Agent Mayers who captures Don Pedro to interrogate him about the connections to criminal activities in the country. Don Pedro’s guards ambush him and the Don flees from the compound. Story continues an agent Mayers gets to know about another Don named Diego who is turning people into zombies and after a lot of effort and investigating a lot of people he learns that Don Diego is really Don Pedro. Mayers sets out in search of Don Pedro once again and finds him taking refuge in his island fortress. He confronts him and kills Don Pedro along with all of his militia. “Boiling Point: Road to Hell” provides with an open world environment, true HD graphics and a well written and acted upon storyline. You must play this game.
#6 Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames or shortly named as Mercs 2 is a fascinating piece of art when we talk about Action-Adventure and shooting games with RPG elements. The game comes with super cool graphics, an open world, thrilling gameplay and a stunningly well written storyline. A proud production of Pandemic Studios, Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is a sequel to Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction and is playable on PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. With a powerful and highly modified gaming engine “Zero”, game runs smoothly on almost every machine with the required specifications. The story of the game sets in Venezuela following the lead of a mercenary who worked honestly and got betrayed by the boss Solano. Player plans to revenge on Solano but Solano was not an easy man to find so in order to get to Solano, the player goes through a huge distance of destruction and mayhem. After a long struggle and killing a lot of low tier gang leaders, he finally catches Solano and kills him. The story of Mercenaries 2: World in Flames resembles a lot to the story of Just Cause 2 and The Saboteur and because of that this game is a inclusion to this specific genre. Trying it out won’t feel like wasting your precious time and instead, you’ll enjoy it.
#7 APB
APB or also Known as APB: All Points Bulletin is an Open World Multiplayer Action-Adventure and Third-person Shooter video game K2 Network. The game set in the Modern day setting of San Paro City where it allows the players to select any of the two Factions (Enforcers and Criminals), form sub-groups of operatives and reign hell over the enemies. APB offers a gameplay heavily inspired by the popular Grand Theft Auto and Crackdown series games and offers a truly immersive experience of Multiplayer Shooting and Action all together. The players can simply select any of the two main factions and act accordingly such as they can be Criminals and perform various crimes such as robing a convenience store or a bank, kill people, etc. The players can also be the Enforcers and perform various tasks such as chasing and killing or arresting the Criminals, Stopping robberies, etc. Players can earn in-game money by participating and completing various missions and they can use the money to buy upgrades and items to modify their character’s appearance, etc. APB lets the players enjoy a Third-person perspective, buy weapons at vending machines scattered all around the map, buy more items such as clothes, ammunition from various locations and enjoy interacting with the pedestrians (NPCs), riding in vehicles and all the other fantastic things in the game. Furthermore, APB offers PvP matches in which players can engage into epic Player versus Player battles and enjoy a totally different experience of Multiplayer Online gaming. With all the brilliant and Addictive gameplay, enhanced game mechanics and awesome graphics, APB is a fun Multiplayer Shooter and Action-Adventure video game to play and enjoy.
#8 The Godfather
The Godfather is an Action-Adventure, Open World, Single and Multi-player video game created by EA Redwood Shores and published by Electronic Arts. The game takes place in the fictional New York City and focuses on the movie of the same name. It revolves around the character named Aldo Trapani who is a criminal, and his main goal is to create his gang and raise his rank through Corleone Family. The game is played from a third-person perspective. Control the character in the game world, interact with NPCs, navigate hurdles, drive various vehicles, and accomplish missions. Earn money and use them to unlock further content. There are different weapons to use such as a pistol, shotgun, 38 snub nose, a magnum, and a Tommy gun. It includes both manual aiming and lock-on systems. Explore the game world either on foot or by vehicle, fight against enemies using weapons, and enhance your rank by progressing in the game. Different Vehicles, Weapons, Open Environment, NPCs, etc. are the prominent features of the game. With the best mechanics, addictive gameplay, exciting story and smooth controls, The Godfather is the best game to play and enjoy.
#9 No One Lives Forever 2
No One Lives Forever 2 is an Action, FPS (First-person Shooter), Stealth and Single-player video game created by Monolith Production and published by Sierra Entertainment. It is the second entry in the series of No One Lives Forever. The story of the game centered on the protagonist who is a spy named Cate Archer and her efforts to wipe out the international criminal organization named H.A.R.M. The game takes place in the fictional world comprises on various location such as a secret submarine base, a trailer park, exotic locales, and the fictional city. It has a set of missions filled consists of pure action and stealth elements. You can assume the role of the protagonist and your main task is to explore the game world where you have to fight against criminals. Use different weapons, equipment and complete a series of missions. You can use your experience points to unlock further content and can use melee weapons such as the knife to kill your enemy using stealth element. No One Lives Forever 2 offers core features such as various Locations, Open Environment, Powerful enemies, Challenging Tasks, and more. Try it out and it’ll entertain you.
#10 Bully: Scholarship Edition
Bully: Scholarship Edition is an Action-Adventure, Open World, Exploration, Third-person Perspective and Single-player video game developed by Rockstar New England and published by Rockstar Games. The game takes place in the fictional boarding school in New England, and the story revolves around the protagonist who is a 15-year-old named Jimmy Hopkins. The game consists of fun filled activities such as beat the jocks, rescue the nerds, kiss the girl, play pranks and more. The game is played from a third-person perspective and lets the player get into the role of the character and accomplish a variety of missions. It offers an open environment and lets the player explore the game world either on foot or by vehicle. The game offers the similar gameplay like GTA. The player has to earn money by completing missions and use them to rank-up. Interact with NPCs, work for him and use different weapons to defeat the foes. There are different types of vehicles, weapons, and items for use and enjoy. Unlock further vehicles, areas and characters by progressing through the game. With detailed environment, addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and open environment, Bully: Scholarship Edition is the best game as compared to other Action-Adventure games.
#11 Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a Single-player and Third-person Shooter video game created by Remedy Entertainment and published by Rockstar Games. It is the sequel to the Max Payne game and it takes place in the fictional world. The game puts the player in the role of the protagonist named as Max Payne, who is detective in the NYPD (New York City Police Department). After the previous events, the protagonist team up with Mona Sax, and set out on an adventure to resolve a conspiracy of betrayal and death. There are two different protagonists such as Mona Sax and Max Payne. You can assume the role of Max Payne, but also play as Mona Sax in some levels. In the beginning, the primary weapon is 9mm Pistol, as the game progress, you access other weapons including submachine gun, handguns, assault rifles, hand thrown weapons and more. There are a variety of missions and each mission needs a completion of certain tasks. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay, and superb visuals, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is the best game to play and enjoy.
#12 Watch Dogs
Watch Dogs is an Action-Adventure, RPG, Stealth and Third-person Shooter video game created by Ubisoft. This extraordinary game takes you to an alternate reality and lands you right into the fictitious setting of United States where you act as a vigilante named Aiden Pierce. Watch Dogs tasks you to act as the protagonist and infiltrate the network systems of mega corporations who store all the data of online behaviors of humans to its mega servers. The hackers faction, Watch Dogs helps you get into the systems and after a little time you get to know that the mega corporations and other high ranking people are the responsible for the death of your niece and countless other people. This information pushes you to the limits to burn down the mega corporations and all the enemies of humanity. You start a war against them using your hacking abilities and act as the story of the game suggests. Watch Dogs provides you with a thrilling and action filed game-play, a great story and an open world to play and enjoy the game to the limits. Do try it out if you haven’t played it yet.
#13 Deus Ex
Deus Ex is an Epic Cyberpunk Action-RPG (Role Playing Game) and FPS (First Person Shooter) and Stealth video game, developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive in collaboration with Aspyre and Square Enix. With Unreal Engine 1, this game is available to play on PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac OS X, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and Cloud OnLive. The game is set in an apocalyptic era in the year 2052, and features UN’s Anti-Terrorist Special Task Force agent JC Denton as the protagonist. JC Denton sets out to fight against the notoriously dangerous and mighty terrorist organizations prevalent in a world that is almost going to collapse. Denton being entwined deep into the world of ancient conspiracy, fights against the terrorist organizations such as Hong Kong Triads, Illuminati and Majestic 12 as he further paces into the game. With the bestselling sequel of the game, Deus Ex: Invisible War and a prequel named as Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Deus Ex have sold over 2 million copies worldwide till date. Deus Ex offers a fantastic Story-driven gameplay, great visuals and game mechanics. Do give it a try, you’ll love it.
#14 The Saboteur
The Saboteur, a third person Action-Adventure, Stealth and Shooter game that delineates the era of France in possession of Nazi Rule, is developed by Pandemic Studios. According to the storyline of the game, Sean Devlin, a race car mechanic and a hard drinker is the main protagonist. After the defeat in a car race, Sean wows to revenge a Nazi Colonel named Kurt Dierker for his actions and he sabotages his race car with the help of Jules Rousseau. Dierker captures both of them and kills Jules during investigation, Sean escapes and gets a place in French Resistance and sets out to find and kill Colonel Kurt Dierker. This brilliant action and adventure packed game features a great storyline, an open world gaming environment, thrilling game-play and super fine graphic details to provide you with an amazing and wondrous experience of gaming. The Saboteur offers a great combination of action-adventure RPG, shooting and Stealth elements and is a brilliant game to play and enjoy.
#15 Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven
Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven is an Action-Adventure, RPG and a 3rd person Shooter video game developed by 2k Czech and published by Gathering of Developers for PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2. The game is set in the fictitious city of Lost Heaven and features a Mafioso named as Tommy, as the protagonist who is a taxi driver by profession but accomplishes different missions assigned to him by Don Ennio Salieri. The protagonist drives vehicles, runs, walks on foot, and kills the targets in order to advance in the game by engaging in combats with the enemies. In close combats, the protagonist uses melee tactics and attacks the enemies with different melee weapons. Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven offers vivid graphics, an amazing storyline and a thrillingly addicting game-play. Trying this game will surely be one of your best choices.
#16 Mafia 2
Mafia 2 is a 3rd person, Open World, Action-Adventure and Shooting game developed and published by 2K Czech. This game is a direct sequel to Mafia: City of Lost heaven and is playable on Pc (Microsoft Windows), Mac OS X, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game is based in the fictional cities of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and Detroit and it revolves around the life of a former army veteran now a gangster Vito Scalata, who wants to be a don someday. Vito Scalata continues to work hard and gathers a large file of his criminal activities in the law enforcement office. The protagonist of the game mostly travels on foot or in vehicles and a lot of ammunition travels with him. Where ever he finds his enemies he kill them and also works on assignments from his multiple bosses to earn money. The gameplay of Mafia 2 greatly resembles to the GTA series games but the storyline is quite different. Mafia 2 features an era of Empire Bay so the music in the game is also quite oldish but great, you’ll get a chance to drive vintage and famous cars from the years 1940 to 1950. With great graphics, an open world gaming environment and a third person perspective, the player is forced to enjoy the game.
#17 Enforcer: Police. Crime. Action
Enforcer: Police. Crime. Action is a Third-person Action-Adventure and Shooter video game that offers an L.A Noire inspired gameplay and mechanics. The game is developed by Odin Game Studio and is available to play on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X gaming platforms. The game is set in a tiny town in the United States in which you act as the protagonist who works for the local law enforcement department and is tasked to control the law and order situations in the town. The game as the storyline suggests, lets you deal with traffic accidents, pull over the drunk, escort them to police station, stop robberies and thefts, investigate different crimes like murders, muggings, and do all the things a policeman can do. Enforcer: Police Crime Action is a police themed game so it makes you act strictly as a police officer while on duty but after the duty, you can do whatever you want. This third person game actually is a great amalgamation of thrill, action-adventure, and shooting elements and is quite great to play and enjoy.
#18 The Godfather: The Game
The Godfather: The Game is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Perspective, and Single-player video game developed by EA Redwood Shores. The game offers an exciting gameplay, in which you can assume the role of the protagonist named Aldo Trapani. The Godfather 1972 movie inspires the game and revolves around the protagonist who has selected by the Corleone Family after small jobs and petty theft. The ultimate task is to run a famous America’s criminal organization. It takes place in the fictional New York City and offers an open environment. You have to earn respect, dominate the city and rank-up through criminal families. You can explore the game world either on foot or by vehicle. Accomplish a series of legal and illegal missions to earn money. Unlock further features, modes, vehicles, and areas using the money. Interact with NPCs, fight against foes and defeat rival families to level-up. With detailed environment, addictive gameplay, superb controls, and dynamic sounds, The Godfather: The Game is the best game to play and enjoy.
#19 Mafia
Mafia takes the players back to the underworld business and offers a truly dynamic and blasting Action-packed gameplay. The game is a massive hit of 2002 and is mainly sought as one of the best Third-person Shooter video game of all times. With a very realistic Underworld environment and a great backstory, Mafia lets the players take on the role of Tommy Angelo, a hardcore Mafioso, and a skilled Marksman who in pursuit of becoming a mafia lord, completes various missions and proceeds with the storyline. The gameplay of Mafia consists of Driving (Cruising through the City), Chasing the targets, racing and Third-person navigation (On-foot), and Shooting while using various types of weapons including Pistols, Guns, Knives, etc. The game focuses on a mission-based gameplay and allows the players to get to some pointed out locations, get the missions and complete them to earn the rewards such as Money, Upgrades, and Stuff. The game offers over fifty American Cars for the players to roam in as well as 19 bonus Cars including Five Racing Cars and bikes, etc. Just like any other Open World Action video games, the Police in the game books the players for minor to significant offenses such as speeding a red light, harming the pedestrians, shooting, and running wild. With a very addictive and quite immersive gameplay, easy controls and loads of amazing missions to complete, Mafia is inspired by two of the biggest names in gaming of this particular type such as The Godfather and Goodfellas video games and offers a similar gameplay and mechanics. Mafia is available to play on Windows, PlayStation and Xbox platforms.
#20 Prototype
Prototype is an Action-Adventure, RPG, Stealth and Third-person Shooter video game by Activision. The game offers an Open World Environment, and it is set in Manhattan, USA. Prototype follows the character of an Amnesic and powerful Shapeshifter named as Alex Mercer, who sets out to fight against the Blacklight, a deadly plague that consumes the humanity of Individuals and converts them into altered ferocious monsters. Alex keeps on fighting the monsters as well as finding the truth about his lost past. Struggling hard against the monsters, Alex also comes into massive conflict with the US military and the operatives of Blackwatch, a Black operation force. With the freedom to roam free, Alex keeps on getting farther into the enemy territory and finding the secrets while the player controls the character of Alex Mercer. Prototype offers plenty of room for gameplay along with sophisticated weaponry, fantastic graphics quality, and excellent combat mechanics. Prototype provides the ability to experience the game in Sandbox style while playing it and enjoy it even more. With its amazingly addictive nature, Prototype is one of the most played and liked Action-Adventure, Stealth, and Shooter video game. It also has a sequel named as Prototype 2 that expands the story to further distances and enhances the great experience. Do try it out.