Red Faction: Guerrilla
Red Faction: Guerrilla is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Shooter, Sci-fi, Single and Multiplayer video game Volition and published by THQ. It is the third gorgeous entry in the series of Red Faction. The player can take on the role of the protagonist named Alec Mason and his main task is to lead a team of the Red Faction to fight against opposite forces on Mars. The game represents the open environment consists of Mars and offers different challenges, tasks and more. You can play the game from the third-person perspective and the main task is to protect the planet Earth from vicious factions and fend off them by destroying. Explore the game world, interact with NPCs, complete challenging quests and slaughter monsters to earn experience points. Use your points to unlock further content and collect power-ups to enhance your abilities. The game allows you to traverse the globe either on foot or by vehicle to reach faster. It offers exciting features and different modes to play and enjoy. With the stunning environment, immersive gameplay and brilliant mechanics, Red Faction: Guerrilla is the best game to play and enjoy.
#1 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.
#2 Infamous 2
Infamous 2 is an extremely hardcore Action and Adventure packed game by Sucker Punch Productions. The game is a sequel to the 2009’s famous game Infamous and the story of this thrilling game presents the scenario of a battle with zombie like alien creatures Aka. Beasts. The protagonist Cole MacGrath from a different future along with countless other humans who possess some special abilities gets in the line to fight against the creatures. This spendthrift piece of art, Infamous 2, features an amazingly engaging and quite captivating game-play, enhanced graphics, open world gaming environment and a user friendly interface. Infamous 2 supports only single player gaming mode and is available to play on PlayStation 3 only. Try it out if you haven’t yet ane enjoy the ultimate fun.
#3 L.A Noire
L.A Noire is an Action-Adventure, Interactive Drama, Third-person Shooter and Stealth video game by Team Bondi. Featuring the protagonist Cole Phelps the game is set in the city of Los Angeles. Cole Phelps recently joined in as the Detective after serving for years as an officer in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Being a police officer, Phelps worked in a lot of police departments and in every Department, he worked with different partners having different sets of skills in crime investigations and interrogations. Players get to solve the cases of different kinds, assigned to them as the investigation tasks and by using their skills, they are meant to put the responsible behind the bars. This amazingly twisted and amalgamated series of fast-paced action and adventure includes crime scene investigations, interrogations, fieldwork and super thrilling gun battles between the law-breakers and the lawmakers. Player mostly uses melee attacks, a lot of weapons and rides vehicles of different kinds in an open world environment. With greatly 3D graphics, exhilarating game-play and an appealing and well-inscribed story-line, L.A Noire takes you to a new dimension of Action-Adventure and Shooting game experience.
#4 Max Payne 3
Max Payne 3 is a super Action-Thriller Third-Person Shooter video game by Rockstar Studios. The game is set in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil and features the one and only New York City detective Max Payne as the main protagonist. Max flees to Sao Paulo and starts working as a Private Security Contractor after the dismissal from NYPD and killing the son of a local mob boss. In Sao Paulo, Max gets stuck deep into a quest filled with Treachery and Fatality and the real action begins. Max Payne 3 continues the story of Max’s hardcore adventures from where it took a pause in Max Payne 2. This Film-Noir and cinematic action-filled video game feature a great story, action-packed game-play and state of the art graphics along with 3 super-engaging Chapters, Arcade Mode, Multiplayer gaming mode, a lot of Collectibles and a huge range of Weapons. Max Payne 3 is no doubt a great blend of Action and Shooting elements that totally leaves you spellbound for a good amount of time. With all the action and Drama presented in the game is one amazing Action Thriller to enjoy.
#5 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.
#6 Manhunt
Manhunt is a Hardcore Action filled Third-person Shooter, Horror-Survival and Stealth video game. The game features the protagonist Earl Cash a death row prisoner recently executed by the lethal injection but he wakes up and finds out that the injection was just a Sedative. With second chance on life, cash gets trapped into serving The Director who orders him to complete some really challenging and hardcore tasks to eliminate the gang members of The Hoods by using firearms, sharp-edged weapons and stealth techniques. Manhunt offers a fantastic Storyline along with an immersive gameplay and quite brilliant visual details. With a number of character customization options, multiple game missions, equally equipped enemies and hardcore action and thrill filled gameplay, Manhunt is one amazing Action, Third-person Shooting and Stealth video game to play. Do try it out if you haven’t yet.
#7 Uncharted
Uncharted, developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment is an Action-Adventure and a 3rd Person Shooter video game. The story of the game is about a group of treasure hunters Nathan Drake, Victor Sullivan, and Elena Fisher. Nathan Drake acts as the protagonist in the game, Victor Sullivan is a skilled and a senior treasure hunter and Elena Is a journalist. The trio travels across the world along with their other companions in search of treasures and to find the truth about some famous and historical mysteries. The series consists of four main games (Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Uncharted: Drake’s Deception & Uncharted 4: Among Thieves) and some spin-offs and is sold over 17 million copies worldwide. Uncharted offers different and quite engaging and appealing storyline for all of the games with hardcore action-adventure and shooting elements. With all the fantastic environments, locations and depiction. Uncharted offers fantastic stories across the series, amazing characters, loads of upgrades, worlds to discover and hordes of various enemies to fight against along with very immersive gameplay and handcrafted visuals, etc.
#8 Socom 4: U.S. Navy Seals
Socom 4: U.S. Navy Seals, an amazing war based production of Zipper Interactive and Sony Computer Entertainment. This Third-person Tactical Shooter game released back in 2011 for PlayStation 3 gaming consoles. The story of the game is about a civil war going on in the fictitious surroundings of Malaysia where a group of activists called Naga picks up arms against the government, hijacks ships of a private military company and heists a large quantity of weapons and ammunition. The U.S. Navy Seals tasks Eric Schweitzer and Dion Wells to team up with NATO forces to destroy the faction and all of its assets. You can play as either one of the mentioned names as the protagonist and act accordingly. The game lets you use advanced military skills and tactics against the enemy and allows you to use weapons of different kinds, attack your enemies using tanks and guns mounted on a vehicle top. Socom 4: U.S. Navy Seals lets you choose between different game modes to play and enjoy the game. Different gaming modes include Last Defense, Up-link, Suppression, Bomb Squad, Demolition, Scrum, Sniper Alley and Last Defense Run n’ Gun modes to engage yourself in an amazing and quite thrilling war based game environment. Multiplayer gaming mode allows you to play the game online with other players and choose whoever you want to be in the game. E.g. you can be a terrorist, an insurgent or an army personnel etc.
#9 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.
#10 Mass Effect
Mass Effect is an Action, Stealth, RPG and a 3rd person Shooter video game Developed by BioWare and published by Microsoft Game Studios in collaboration with Electronic Arts. This absolutely advanced science fiction game was first launched for Pc (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 3 and Xbox, but later on BioWare released a Wii U compatible version on a huge demand from the players around the world. The story of the game revolves around Commander Shepard who is struggling to save the galaxy from a powerful and brutal Alien race of mechanical beings named as The Reapers. The story of the game actually runs back to hundreds of thousands of years when Reapers attacked the galaxy and they exterminated every living being in the vicinity. Huge battles took place and in result when the reapers left the galaxy, one reaper was left behind! Wounded badly and floating in the space in his ship. The left behind reaper woke up and somehow managed to take control over the protagonist of the last game of the series Saren Arterious and he contacted the legion of Reapers with the help of the Collectors (An Alien race in alliance with the Reapers). Commander Shepard was investigating Saren when all the reaper fleets appeared and they started annihilating the galaxy again. Humans engaged in this greatest battle of all times and started defending the galaxy. With all three parts of the game, the storyline of this Game of the Generation is very well written and acted upon and it provides with a great engaging and thrilling gameplay along with fantastic graphics, open world gaming environment and characters. Try it out and enjoy a brilliant experience of Action, Stealth, Third-person Shooting and RPG elements.
#11 Dead to Rights: Retribution
This Rebooted version of the popular game Dead to Rights is packed with fantastic Action-Adventure, RPG and Third-person Shooting elements. Dead to Rights: Retribution kicks off with the protagonist Jack fighting with the Grant City Triad members. He gets beaten up badly and was nearly killed by the triad when suddenly Jack’s Canine friend Shadow appears at the scene. Shadow kills all the four members of Triad and Jack fades off. Story continues Jack gets healed and leaves to complete the main objective of the game, killing the antagonist Riggs. Riggs hears about Jack and flees to another of his safe houses but Jack catches him and after a long run of thrilling and hardcore battle with Riggs and all of his accomplices, kills him and the game concludes. Dead to Rights: Retribution provides with an awesome combination of Shooting, Survival, and RPG elements along with a great storyline, super crystal clear 3D graphics and a huge amount of other great features. Do try it out, you’ll definitely like it.
#12 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.
#13 I Am Alive
I Am Alive is an Action-Adventure and a Horror Survival video game developed by Ubisoft Shanghai and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 gaming platforms. The game is set in a Post-apocalyptic era and sheds light on some of the most drastic and hazardous elements like the timidity of a dystopian world and human’s darkest inclinations to brutality and avariciousness. In a world mostly destroyed by mega earthquakes, most of the humanity gets left without resources, government tries to help but all the efforts are useless and the population gets agitated and violent in order to survive. The protagonist Carlo Mestroni after losing his wife and daughter gets back to his home for his belongings and finds a little girl named Mei who is trying to find her mother and gives Carlo a walkie talkie. Carlo contacts his friend and agrees bringing Mei to him. On his way to Henry, a dust storm stops their way and forces them to take shelter in a mall. Upon reaching to Henry, Carlo gets to know that Mei’s mother is kidnapped by the local killers taking refuge in a hotel. Carlo sets out to free her and reaches the hotel where he engages in combats and heavy gunfights against the hordes of killers and finally frees Mei’s mother. Carlo gets back with Mei’s mother and after uniting those two, leaves for his own family and the game continues. I Am Alive is a super best Action-Adventure video game for all those who love playing games with similar aesthetics. I Am Alive provides with a brilliantly addictive game-play, beautifully created 3D graphics and a brilliant story for the game.
#14 Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is an action-adventure and a third person shooter video game. The game revolves around the character of the Nathan Drake who travels along with his friends to find out a fable stone Cintimani and the Shangri-La among the race of Serbian Mercenaries. After setting out in search of Cintimani Stone he reaches a place and because of a brawl with Soviet Warlord who is in search of the stone too, and life threatening conditions, flees the scene and finds himself hanging by a cliff struggling to save his life. Drake gets to safety and infiltrates the Lazarevic’s camp in Borneo and gets to know that the stone resides in Shambhala and starts a new journey to Shambhala with his friends. Lazarvic gets the info about Nate and his friends and assigns his mercenaries the task to kill them and with the order a hardcore action begins. Nathan gunfights with the force of antagonist and saves his friends and finds the Phurba. Gives the Phurba to Chloe and reaches to Shambhala where Lazarvic corners him and forces him to open the gates. Lazarvics group goes in first to the temple but gets attacked by the monsters and kills them. After that Nate combats Lazarvic and leaves him to be killed by the human guardians, finds the Cintimani Stone and flees the scene. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is a wonderful game like Assassin’s Creed 3 to play and enjoy.
#15 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.
#16 Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is an Action, Third-person Shooter, Single and Multiplayer video game for hardcore players created by Relic Entertainment and published by THQ. The game is set in the fictional universe and includes the Ultramarines Chapters. The gameplay center around on shooting and melee combat element and uses a third-person view to exploring the environment. The player takes controls the protagonist named Titus who has abilities regenerate his health. When the player’s health goes down, performing some moves and action the player can refill a portion of his health. There are a variety of missions,and the player is accompanied by the AI characters named Leandros and Sidonus for a series of missions. The player must navigate the environment, fight against enemies and antagonist named the Forces of Chaos and the Orks. Use different weapons to take down foes, and protect the people from villains. The player can show off his fighting abilities and can immerse himself in shooting abilities. With superb mechanics, enhanced visuals, and excellent sounds, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is the best game as compared to other Shooting games.
#17 Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Perspective and Single-player video game created by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the first installment in the series of the Uncharted game and combines the Action-Adventure, Platform, Shooting, and Exploration elements. The game revolves around the protagonist named as Nathan Drake, an adventurer who explore the environment to find the lost treasure of EL Dorado, with the assist of a mentor named Victor Sullivan and Elena Fisher. The platforming element allows the player to swim, grab, jump and move along ledges, perform acrobatic actions, swing and climbs from ropes, and more. The player uses combo attacks when facing foes at close range and can use a variety of weapons to kill them. There are a variety of missions, and each mission needs a completion of certain objectives. The game unlocks further features, as the player progresses through the game. With addictive gameplay, brilliant mechanics and excellent controls, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune is the best game to play.
#18 The Last of Us
The Last of US, developed by NaughtyDog is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Shooting and Interactive Drama video game set in an Apocalyptic Era. The Horror Survival and RPG element makes this game stand out as one of the best games of this genre. The Last of US focuses on the characters of Joel and his daughter Sarah who both are trying to survive in the outbreak of Cordyceps Fungus, responsible of turning almost all of the humanity into the Monsters and Undead. If anybody comes into the contact with them, turns into one of them and this keeps on going until there is nobody left. While trying to scavenge for food and supplies, a soldier’s bullet kills Sarah and Joel goes against the forces and all the weapon holders. He becomes a smuggler and starts finding “Robert” for a huge supply of weapons and ammunition. When Joel encounters Robert, he tells him to have sold all the weapons to a Rebel group Fire Flies. Tess kills Robert and Teams up with Joel, Ellie joins the gang too and they all start their journey to eliminate the head of Rebel group. This is where you get into the play and take over the character of “Joel”. You must lead your team and encounter the rebels who actually are the real culprits who spread the Cordyceps Fungus. The Last of US allows you to use all kinds of weapons and engage in massive battles against the enemies so you must reach to the Rebel Head and kill him before he kills you and your team mates. The Last of US provides a great blend of variant stories and mixes them up in a very dramatic way and puts Action-Adventure, Shooting, RPG elements on a great show just for you to play and enjoy the game to the heights of entertainment.
#19 Saints Row 4
Saints Row 4, is an open world Action-Adventure, Sci-Fi, RPG and third person shooter video game. Saints Row 4 kicks off from where the Saints Row: The Third concluded. Third Street Gang’s Boss becomes the president of U.S and changes everything. The gangs, defeated by Third Street Saints are now forming alliances and an alien invasion is just about to happen. The protagonist multiplies his efforts with the Third Street Saints to act rationally and killing all the enemies for the sake of United States and the Third Street Gang. After a long lasting war with the aliens and the rival gangs combined, the President (Third Street Saints Boss) confronts Zinyak and kills him in the end of a bloody battle and moves towards the alliance of the Gangs of Steelport, eradicates them with all his might and man power and conquers the Zin forces. After the surrender of the Zin forces, the Boss becomes their new leader, acquires the Zin Time Trave Device and restores the order in present by going to the past and correcting all the errors. Zin invasion never happens and the gangs never show up on the surface of the earth, only Third Street Saints rules as a unanimous power and the boss still becomes the president of United States.
#20 Dishonored
Dishonored developed by Arkane Studios is an Action and Adventure Stealth and Third-person Shooter video game. The game takes place in a plagued city of Dunwall and its story revolves around the character of Corvo Attano. He was a personal guard of the Empress of isles. Framed in for the murder of empress, he became an assassin and set out to revenge on the conspirators. This amazing action adventure fantasy game features a first person gaming perspective and an open world. Player gets some traditional and deadly weapons to kill the conspirators one by one. A great blend of stealth, action, adventure and combat provides a player with the greatest gaming experience and a game-play feeling quite like Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. Dishonored, with a great story-line of the game along with graphics and countless other amazing features is a real treat to the players. Try it out if you really are into Action, Adventure, Stealth and Shooter gaming, you’ll definitely love it.
#21 SOCOM
SOCOM is a series of Third-person Shooter and Tactical video games. The game is designed for those players who love playing Third-person Shooter games. It is developed by Zipper Interactive and available to play on PlayStation platform only. SOCOM revolves around the groups of United States Navy SEALs accomplishing a set of challenging missions around the globe such as the GROM, SBS, and SAS. It includes various characters and lets you select one of them to get into the game world where you have to fight against foes and slay them using military weapons. Complete a series of missions and earn experience points by defeating enemies. Each entry in the game offers different gameplay, a set of weapons and environments. Create and lead your team to the game and instruct them about your strategies. Unlock other character skins using your experience points and further content. The series comprises different games such as SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs, SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo, SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation and more. The series offers exciting features, engaging gameplay, brilliant mechanics, and superb story. Try it out.