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.
#1 Dante’s Inferno
Dante’s Inferno is a fantastic Single and Multiplayer Hack and Slash and Action-Adventure video game by Visceral Games and Artificial Mind and Movement. The game features the protagonist Dante, a Crusader laced up with his primary weapon Death Scythe and the Holy Cross. According to the Storyline, Dante goes on a mission to eliminate the Hell’s Minions and engages into epic Combats, Platform and environmental Puzzles. The story takes another turn when the King goes on to search for a Holy Relic that is hidden under the folds of mystic environments. The king entrusts Dante with all the prisoners but Dante kills the Prisoners and the King sends him to find the Holy Relic as to punish him. Dante embarks on an epic journey to find the Holy Relic and reaches down to the Palace of King Saladin where he gets stabbed multiple times by the Assassins. Wounded badly, Dante returns back to Florence, Italy to his Father and his one true Love Beatrice, but instead finds them dead. Beatrice’s Soul appears in front of him and tells him all about how she and Dante’s father got killed. Dante Vows to revenge and descends into an opening into the ground at the spot where Hell and Earth borders. Dante reaches to the Hell’s Gate where he encounters the Minions of Lucifer, starts killing them selflessly, encounters Lucifer and kills him after a series of fast-paced and Action-filled melee combats. Dante then finds the Holy Relic and the game concludes. With a very interesting story, state of the art visuals and a super thrilling game-play, Dante’s Inferno is a wonderful game to play.
#2 Conception 2: Children of the Seven Stars
Conception 2: Children of the Seven Stars by Spike Chunsoft is an Action-RPG video game. The game focuses on the character named as Wake Archus who becomes the ultimate Monster Hunter and the savior of the realm after finding out the Star God Sign on his hand and the death of his sister by the monsters. Wake gets into the school of individuals like him and starts enhancing his abilities to get deep into the Dusk Circles (The place where monsters appear) and kill the monsters. Because of the high amount of Ether in his body, his ability to go into the labyrinths of Dusk Circles and using the Star Energy makes him God’s Gift and he becomes famous all around. By creating the Star Child with the help of an S-rank female student, Wake ultimately gets able to eliminate all the monsters and dark forces once and for all. You are required to act as Wake Archus and complete the game objectives. With a number of great quests, amazing combats with monsters, hardcore action and thrill based game-play and wonderful visuals, Conception 2: Children of the Seven Stars is a great RPG game to play and enjoy.
#3 Legend of Mana
Legend of Mana is a wonderful Single and multiplayer Action-RPG video game by Square. The game offers a non-linear game-play and lets you engage yourself into real-time battles with enemies, allows you to manipulate your surroundings simply by using the Land make System, Enjoy going on epic quests and have loads of fun. Legend of Mana is the Fourth main inclusion to the series of Mana that made presence in the markets after the popular Seiken Densetsu 3. The game is set in High Fantasy and allows you to be an unnamed hero who goes on epic quests and tries to restore the Land of Fa’Diel and the Tree of Mana. With its unique gameplay style, Legend of Mana allows you to shape the world around you as you like by using the unique Land Make System, generate and build new Regions of land, enjoy Non-Linear gameplay in epic quests and enjoy it to the limits. With millions of copies sold worldwide, Legend of Mana is a true predecessor of all the games of this specific genre and gameplay style. Legend of Mana offers beautiful visuals, addictive gameplay and loads of fun things to discover.
#4 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.
#5 Toukiden: The Age of Demons
Toukiden: The Age of Demons is a great replacement of Monster Hunter. This radiant Action-Adventure and RPG video game is a Sony Exclusive and takes you to an amazing Medieval setting of Ancient Japan. The game sets you up as a Warrior named Mononofu, a specialized Ninja like Warrior and the ultimate weapon against the Hellish Demons known as Oni. Just like Monster Hunter, Lord of Arcana etc. your task is to fight of the Demons, slay them and craft weapons and other items with their horns and bones etc. Toukiden: The Age of Demons offers a really unique combat system and mostly features melee combats and forces you into amazing head on rivalries. With superbly written storyline, well balanced mechanics, super cool visuals and an immersive game-play, Tokiden: The Age of Demons is a wonderful alternative to Monster Hunter.
#6 Wolfenstein
Wolfenstein is an Action, First-person Shooter, Single and Multiplayer video game for hardcore players. The game is available on multiple platforms, developed by Raven Software and published by Activision. It takes place in the WWII-themed world known as Isenstadt. According to the story, the Nazis enforces the martial law to excavate the valuable Nachtsonne crystal to get access the Black Sun dimension. As the game progresses, the population of the world including military start turning into strange creatures. The city consists of various locations including a farm, a hospital, sewers, an underground mining facility, etc. You can get into the role of the protagonist, and your ultimate task is to navigate the environment from the first-person perspective, fight against enemies and strange creatures using deadly weapons and kill them to earn points. Interact with NPCs, and uncover hidden levels. Collect power-ups to enhance your abilities and fulfill your all objectives to become the master. There are different modes such as Stopwatch, Team Deathmatch, Objective, etc. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#7 Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD
Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD is an Action-Adventure, and Single-player Shooter video game developed by Oddworld Inhabitants and published by Electronic Arts. The gameplay is a mix of both First and Third-person Shooter elements and revolves around the protagonist named as Stranger. It takes place in the fictional world filled with mysterious creatures. Assume your role, jump into the world where you have to capture outlaws to gather bounties and your basic aim is to earn moolah (game’s currency) by fulfilling your objectives and use them to enhance your abilities. In Third-player Perspective, you can take on the role of the stranger and your character is capable of jumping, climbing, and traveling the long distance, and in First-person Perspective, your character can use a variety of weapons to take down enemies and complete his tasks. There are a set of levels and each level is challenging to play. Use melee combat to fight against enemies and slaughter them to earn moolah. Unlock further content and features by progressing through the game and become the ultimate hero by showing off your abilities. Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD offers prominent features such as Thirty-Five Achievements, Three Level Difficulty, Easter, Unlockable Contents and more. Try it out, and it’ll entertain you.
#8 Guacamelee!
Guacamelee! Is a fantastic Action-Adventure, Beat em’ Up, Hack and Slash and RPG video game that features the player character named as Juan who embarks on a journey to save the El President’s Daughter. Juan is basically a wrestler type of character who uses punches and special skills to eliminate his enemies and to defeat the bosses. Guacamelee! Enables you to use grapple attack on your enemies and once they are in close range, kick them out for good using your iron hands. This brilliant fighting and beat em’ up game mostly focuses on melee combats and allows you to enjoy a side-scrolling game-play, with amazingly well designed mechanics and visuals. Every enemy kill awards you with coins that you can use to buy upgrades and stuff. With an amazing amount of challenging puzzles, ability to switch between the land of dead and the land of the living, fast-paced action and thrill filled game-play and all the wonderful things, Guacamelee! Is one amazing game to play.