The Darkness 2
The Darkness 2 is a wonderful FPS, RPG and Psychological Horror-Survival video game by Digital Extremes. You’ll have to control the character of Jackie Estacado, the leader of the Franchetti Criminal Family. Your task is to act as Jackie Estacado, use your Dark powers against the rival gang that recently attacked you, eliminate them and enjoy engaging yourself into amazingly haunting and psychological horror filled game-play. Exploration, artifacts and items collection, amazingly blasting enemy encounters and the deep prowess of dark powers makes this game more and more involving as you further flow with the story-line. With a great dark setting, unbelievably stressing situations, and your ability to cater with the problems, hardcore encounters with the bizarre creatures and enemies, loads of cool weapons to shoot down the enemies, super fine and dramatic event depictions, eye-catching visuals and a brilliant story, The Darkness 2 is one amazing game to play and enjoy.
#1 BioShock Infinite
Bioshock Infinite is an FPS (First Person Shooter) video game developed by Irrational Games. The game is set in the year 1912 and features the protagonist Booker DeWitt, a former Pinkerton Agent. DeWitt gets tasked with finding and bringing back a girl named Elizabeth from the floating city of Columbia. DeWitt reaches to the spot where she was kept and frees her but soon after her rescue they both get involved with local factions (The Nativists and Elite). After some time, DeWitt gets to know about Elizabeth’s special and strange powers that can actually manipulate the continuum of Space and Time. Elizabeth soon gets involved with the city’s most bizarre and vague enigmas. Booker starts leading units of faction operatives into fights against the enemies as the ethnic wars between America and Columbia reach to the new levels of insanity and devastation. This marvelously created game features super realistic visual details, game-play and a great storyline to follow. The open world environment makes the game more engaging as it allows the player to explore the world and engage in different activities. Bioshock Infinite is always fun to play and enjoy because of its super addictive nature and blasting game-play with great mechanics. Do try it out for an amazing Action, Adventure and FPS game-play experience.
#2 F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin is a great Action filled Horror-Survival, RPG and FPS video game that offers both single and multiplayer mode support. The game allows you to be Sergeant Michael Becket, gather up your team and go through an apocalyptic setting, gather clues and items and figure out how to defeat Alma Wade, the Antagonist. With a unique ability to slow down the time, you’ll have bundle of benefits along with easiness in interaction with world and NPCs etc. Abandoned buildings, eerie environment, corpses, pools of blood etc. are the things that will put you into the most challenging circumstances. You have to survive and complete the game objectives in order to fulfill your destiny. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin offers great story plot, brilliant visuals and an immersive game-play to enjoy.
#3 Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is a Cyberpunk, Action, RPG and First Person Shooter video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal in collaboration with Ubisoft Shanghai and published by Ubisoft. Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is set in a nuclear war torn world in the year 2007 in which you assume the role of a super-soldier laced up with the super abilities of Cybernetics. Sergeant Rex “Power” Colt and another soldier Spider travel to an unclassified island in search of the rogue Colonel Sloan. Upon their arrival to the island, Colonel kills Spider and knocks down Colt. Colonel’s doctor betrays him and frees Colt and he then starts the search of Sloan who is planning to revert the world into stone age. Colonel Sloan unleashes his super soldiers against Colt and Colt fights them off with his super abilities and finally reaches to Sloan. Sloan tries to fear Colt with his bio creations of new species like zombies but colt manages to use all of his creations against him. He inverts the whole system of the island against Colonel and flees the vicinity. Island self-destructs with the colonel and all the deadly creations of his delusional mind. Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon offers a great story, cool visuals and mechanics and a totally immersive game-play to enjoy.
#4 Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is an action packed First person shooter video game with a war based theme developed by Sledgehammer Games in collaboration with High Moon Studios and Raven Software and published by Activision. The game released recently back in the end of 2014 and is a huge success. The game provides with four main game modes named as Campaign, Multiplayer, Exo Survival and Exo Zombies in which you can play as the protagonist and engage yourself in a war like environment with different classes of enemies. The story of the game revolves around the character of Private Jack Mitchell of the U.S. Marine Corps and other characters of his companions as well. At the start, you fight against North Korea in a war alongside your platoon, enemy attacks with the most brutal force and Mitchell loses his arm and a lot of his company men get butchered. Army dismisses him as a private and he goes back to home after the funeral of a fellow soldier. Story continues and Mitchell gets a prosthetic implant and gets back into the field starts working on what he calls himself best at. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is a super thrilling game with a destructive and blasting action. It also allows the player to experience a totally military simulation type game-play in which the player can roam freely in an open world, engage in combats face-to-face with enemy, can also drive military grade vehicles and target the enemies etc. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare includes a lot of different locations for you to explore and fight for glory. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare follows an amazingly well written story based game-play and if you haven’t played this game, you are definitely missing an amazingly huge treasure of hardcore action and thrill.
#5 Singularity
Singularity is a first-person shooter and horror-survival video game developed by “Raven Software” and published by “Activision” for PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 gaming platforms. The game kicks off with an electromagnetic surge shot from uninhabited island “Katorga 12” that destroys an American satellite. American government takes it seriously and assigns the task to the protagonist to investigate the matter. You get into the role of protagonist and start investigating. While on chopper to the island, another surge disables your chopper and it crashes on the Katorga 12 island. The protagonist “Renko” wakes up after a brief amount of time, starts investigating, and finds out the surge is somehow connected to the events that took place on this island. Story continues and the protagonist gets captured by “Demichev” but later rescued by Katheryn a member of the resistance. Renko vows to end Demichev’s reign and joins the resistance, starts killing his accomplices one by one by engaging in combats and gun battles. Renko meets Brisove and they both travel back in time to destroy the island with a bomb made by Element-99 to set the history. Demichev reaches first and upon their arrival to 1955, he attacks Renko and Brisove and gets killed by the bullet from Renko’s gun and they both get back to the present after blowing up the island of Katorga 12. “Singularity” is an amazing blend of Shooting, RPG and fiction and is quite fun to play. You’ll definitely like it.
#6 Wolfenstein: The New Order
Wolfenstein: The New Order is a solid Action-Adventure First Person Shooter video game developed by Machine Games and published by Bethesda Softworks. This addicting FPS game offers the game-play on Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and 4 and Microsoft Windows platforms. The story is based on the main character, William B.J Blazkowicz, and his efforts to stop the Nazis from ruling the world. Nazis, with technologies never before seen or experienced and a lot of fire power are no easy task to defeat but William B.J Blazkowicz is no ordinary man at all. With the help of player and a wide range of weapons and all the advantages he’ll surely eliminate them all. This whole game is an amazing blend of Action, Adventure and shooting elements. Heavy armored vehicles, never ending firearms, and military tactics are the greatest features of this game. Graphically rich open world environment and a well written story-line are the key elements to engage players for hours into an immersive game-play experience. According to the story, you have to kill all the targets, restore the order and retrieve data that will eventually help take down the mighty empire of Nazis before it comes into existence. This action packed FPS game is worth playing. Give it a try if you like playing Action-filled Shooting and RPG games.
#7 Call of Duty: Black Ops
Call of Duty: Black Ops is a Multiplayer FPS, Action video game developed and published by Treyarch and Activision respectively. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 offers a similar game-play to Borderlands 2, Modern Combat 4 and others, not because of being a game from the same genre but because of a similar stories, mechanics and narratives that it provides. The game is set in the year of 1960 and is about the ist cold war between the super powers. Call of Duty: Black Ops lets you be the protagonist as a foot soldier who controls and switches between multiple characters and tasks you to carry out a number of Black Ops missions behind the enemy lines, travel to a number of locations around the world (USSR, Kazakhstan, Ural Mountains, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam, hong Kong and Arctic Circles etc.) and find out a lost experimental chemical weapon named Nova 6. In order to complete the game objectives, Call of Duty: Black Ops lets you get into the character of a Special Forces operative Alex Mason, CIA agent Jason Hudson and a number of other characters, follow the story-line join other characters, plan your attacks and kill the enemies using the advanced weapons, tactical and hardcore combat skills etc. With a number of exciting missions, single and multiplayer support, beautiful story, ultra-realistic visuals and an immersive game-play, Call of Duty: Black Ops is a fantastic Action and First-Person Shooter video game to play and enjoy.
#8 Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is a Single and Multiplayer First-Person Shooter and Action video game by Treyarch. This thrill packed video game is a direct sequel to Call of Duty: Black Ops and 9th best addition to the series. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is set in the year 2025, takes you to the era of Second Cold War and lets you be the protagonist Alex Mason. Your task is to get into the character of the protagonist, follow the story-line and act accordingly. The game tasks you with finding and eliminating the antagonist Raul Menendes who is planning to devastate China and United States by breezing them both into the Cold War. You must stop Raul before it’s too late. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 provides with plenty of state of the art weapons and ammunition, military grade vehicles, a lot of tactics based upgrades, episodic and great story-line, best ever 3D visuals and an open world environment. This amazing game offers multiple game endings all based up on your actions and paths decided by you. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is an amazingly addictive and quite engaging video game to play and it will definitely provide you with a whole lot of entertainment. Do give it a go.
#9 Doom 3
Doom 3 is an amazing FPS video game that will test your mental and physical strength by putting you into the most thrilling, Horror and Challenging game-play ever. This wonderful Survival and FPS game tells the story about a demonic invasion at the Union Aerospace Corporation’s mars Research and Development Facility. The invasion forced you into a corner and now your only objective is to survive and get out of the facility. But it’s not as easy as it seems, you’ll have to muster up your courage, pick up weapons, and go confront the devil and his apprentices. You must shoot and kill them in order to survive or else they’ll have no shame in taking you out. You can use Grenades, guns, Chainsaws, knives etc. as you primary weapons and must survive. Doom 3 offers brilliant story, cool visuals, amazing game-play along with a number of different enemies, a challenging and horror environment etc.
#10 Shadows of the Damned
Shadows of the Damned is an Open World, Third-person Shooter, Horror-Survival and Stealth video game similar to The Evil Within. The games kicks off with the protagonist Garcia opening up his apartment door only to find out that his girlfriend Paula is being abducted by the Evil Demon Lord Fleming. Fleming corners Garcia and takes Paula with him to the underworld where Garcia follows him with his shapeshifting accomplice Johnson. A series of hardcore Action and Thrill filled battles starts up as Garcia gets deep into the underworld. Equipped with the weapons like Boner, a special Revolver, a Shotgun and his sidekick Johnson who shape shifts to anything Garcia wishes for, Garcia starts taking down Fleming’s minions and finally reached to the Evil Lord. After a number of close melee combats and Gun battles, Garcia finally gets to be able to kill the demon lord but Paula starts turning into a demon because of the dark spells of Fleming. She tries to kill Garcia but after a long lasting struggle he turns her back to Human form and the story concludes until the Devil calls them again. With an amazingly engaging story, Action and thrill filled game-play and all the amazing things, Shadows of the Damned is a super exciting game to play.
#11 Bioshock 2
BioShock 2 is a great FPS, Horror-Survival and RPG video game by the popular developer 2K Marin and 2K Australia. Being the sequel of one of the most brilliant and critically acclaimed video game BioShock, this cool game offers an immersive game-play and a really well-written story-line. The game allows you to control Subject Delta a fully self-aware prototype humanoid, who knows about the use of Plasmids and goes against the enemies all alone. After waking up from a ten years sleep, protagonist embarks on a journey to get back his and Sofia Lamb’s daughter Eleanor. In order to achieve the goals, you’ll have to traverse through the Rapture on a train, fight off the enemies, Use ADAM to control the conciseness of Little Sister and finally encounter the Big Daddy, eliminate him and conclude the story. With multiplayer support, multiple game modes including Survival of the Fittest, Civil War, Last Splicer Standing, Turf War, Capture the Sister, ADAM Grab etc. both traditional and futuristic weapons, huge amounts of DLC and amazing Perks, cool visuals, a great story and an addictive game-play, BioShock 2 is one of the best First-person shooter video game to play and enjoy.
#12 Blacklight: Tango Down
Blacklight: Tango Down is another great Action FPS video game developed by Zombie, Inc. The game is set in near future and allows you to be a member of an elite Covert Operations team and tasks you to find and kill a former American Colonel of CIA. The Colonel has gone Rogue and is having information about a number of govt. secret operations. You must find the colonel, retrieve the info and files and eliminate him for good. Blacklight: Tango Down offers futuristic weaponry, amazing war based tactics, abilities and skills and lands you into the most epic combats and battles you have ever got into. With an amazing character switching option during game-play, Co-op Multilayer mode, great visuals, a great story and an engaging, action-packed game-play, Blacklight: Tango Down is one of the best Action, RPG and First person Shooter video games. Do try it out for an amazing experience of quality gaming.
#13 Destiny
Destiny, made by Bungie is a Sci-Fi, FPS video game with a unique and non-typical gameplay in which your task is to re-build planet Earth after decades of banishment. The game lets you reach down to Earth from your space habitat, fight off the alien invaders, rebuild and re-settle onto your former home. In order to complete the objectives, you must kill every remaining alien, destroy their facilities, and lead your team to victory over the most brutal enemy. Destiny lets you choose a customizable player character from the four main races, use futuristic weapons and advanced skills to eliminate your enemies and save the humanity. Some more great features of this brilliant game are advanced and enhanced game mechanics, lots of weapons, superb visual details, a great story and an addictive and fast-paced game-play.
#14 Far Cry 4
Far Cry 4 is a best Action and FPS (First Person Shooter) video game that offers a brilliant amalgamation of Action, RPG and First-Person Shooter elements. The game takes place in an open world in the city of Kyrat and puts you right into the character of the protagonist who returns to his homeland and gets stuck into an ongoing battle between the Govt. and a rebel faction named as Golden Path. Soon after finding out the truth, the protagonist joins the Faction and starts fighting against the Govt. an all of its operatives. An era of destruction begins and the protagonist gets himself engaged in hardcore battles and combats with the Royal Army of an unlawful Govt. Far Cry 4 provides with a great story, a Fast-Paced and Thrill-Packed game-play with modified mechanics and a lot of new weapons. A great new feature of “Far Cry 4” is that it lets you fly by the help of a WingSuit that actually helps you travel to long distances in less time. A huge amount of weapons, enhanced game mechanics, visuals and upgraded inventory is what makes this game stand out as one of the best FPS games ever built. Play this game for an unforgettable shooting game experience and you’ll love it.
#15 Call of Duty: Ghosts
Call of Duty: Ghosts is a fast-paced and Action filled FPS and Multiplayer video game by Infinity Ward. The game is set in a Fictional time line and focuses on the nuclear destruction of Middle East and the conflicts growing between the oil producing countries. South America becomes a super power and attacks on the Central America and destroys it. The protagonist in the game are Ghosts and the game allows you to choose a player character for yourself from a number of available individuals, get into the play and kill the enemies by using the most sophisticated weapons, tactics and skills. Call of Duty: Ghosts provides with most extensive and hardcore action-packed game-play ever. The game mainly focuses of Multiplayer gaming and allows you to team up with the sides you like and engage yourself into the super thrilling and destructive combats and battles. With a great single player campaign, great graphic details, story and an open world, Call of Duty: Ghosts is an amazingly addictive and engaging game to play. Give it a go and you’ll love what this masterpiece has to offer.
#16 Borderlands 2
Borderlands 2, developed by Gearbox Studios and published by 2K Games is an action, First-Person shooter and RPG (Role Playing Game) video game available to play on PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac OS X, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vista, Linux and Xbox 360. The game allows the player to complete different quests and collect different items such as loot and weapons, as a treasure seeker on a planet named Pandora. You get into the character of the protagonist a Vault Hunter and start the journey. As you advance in the game, you encounter the enemies and engage in battles and combats by using the guns and different weapons from a first person perspective. The game features a hardcore action and thrill filled game-play, a unique story-line along with single and multiplayer gaming modes to play the game with your friends and other players around the world online. You can play Borderlands 2 wonderful Action-Filled First-person Shooter video game to play and enjoy. You’ll find this game quite appealing and engaging, do try it out if you haven’t yet.
#17 BioShock
Bioshock, developed by 2K Boston in collaboration with 2K Australia and published by 2K Games is a First Person Shooter and an RPG (Role Playing Game) video game playable on PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac OS X, PlayStation 03, Xbox 360 Cloud OnLive and iOS platforms. The game is set in the year 1969 and features the protagonist Jack who after a plane crash near an underwater city Rapture, tries to escape but instead discovers something out of this world. The city stood in the bottom of the sea for decades but its foundations started to crumble with the discovery of a Plasmid named ADAM intended to empower humans with super powers. Jack tries to escape the city but the only possible way to get out of the city gets stormed with the ADAM powered super humans and jack starts fighting with them in order to get out. By the use of different weapons and the Plasmid, Jack fends off the enemy and frees a bunch of the last remaining sane people who then turn the city’s defensive systems against the enemies. Jack continues his journey, keeps defeating the foes and finally gets out of the city by utilizing the stealth and melee techniques along with the use of different weapons. BioShock with a horror survival and biopunk (a mixture of Biotechnology and Punk) themed environment, a brilliant story-line and quite exciting game-play provides with an amazing FPS gaming experience. Do try it out.
#18 Medal of Honor: Warfighter
Medal of Honor: Warfighter is a super thrilling Tactical First Person Shooter and Action video game developed by Danger Close Games and published by Electronic Arts EA for Microsoft Windows, Xbox360 and PlayStation 3 gaming consoles. The game kicks off at the fictitious surroundings of docks of Karachi, Pakistan where the U.S. Navy Seals team takes spots to sabotage a black market arms deal between Al-Qaeeda and another jihadi movement faction. The deal goes wrong and U.S. Navy Seals team engages in a battle with the terrorists and the story continues. Medal of Honor: Warfighter is spread over huge interconnected distances and locations in which the protagonist (You) goes on different missions to kill terrorists, rescue hostages and destroy different structures and capture the terrorist faction heads etc. The game provides with an amazing war like open world environment in which you can walk, run, crouch, jump and kill the enemies using the sophisticated weaponry and your tactical skills. Medal of Honor: Warfighter allows you to use your best stealth, military and tactical skills to encounter your enemy and complete the game objectives and missions. The unique story of the game, ultra-realistic graphics and multiplayer gaming mode makes the game more engaging. Do try it out and enjoy a brilliantly immersive experience of Action and FPS elements.
#19 The House of the Dead: Overkill
The House of the Dead: Overkill is a super Horror Survival, Action-Adventure and Thrill packed First Person Shooter video game developed by Headstrong Games and published by Sega. The game is fifth inclusion to the series and is available to play on Wii, PC, PlayStation 3, iOS and Android platforms. The game kicks off with a military’s super human experiment gone bad. The experiment got declared as a huge failure and the military abandoned the underground bunker and the laboratory. A while back some disappearances occurred and the local authorities contacted the government. Government selected you to investigate the matter and a chopper dropped you out at the location. You as the protagonist Special Agent G started the investigation and discovered about the secret of the Mutants. The story of the game takes you to a lot of haunted spaces in the bunker and surroundings where you as the protagonist encounter and eliminate the mutants by using your weapons and combating techniques. Another top tier agent Issac joins the protagonist and the game takes another turn with a series of attacks from the mutants. The story paces on with the protagonist and Issac fighting and eliminating the mutants. The game concludes with the protagonist finding and eliminating the real cause of mutant outbreak. The House of the Dead: Overkill provides with a similar game-play to its predecessors and most of the characters and game characteristics are drawn also from the previous games in the series. With an episodic nature of the game, The House of the Dead: Overkill offers a well-written story-line, enhanced visuals and mechanics and an immersive game-play to enjoy.
#20 Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! Developed by 2K Australia is an amazingly thrilling and Action-Packed First-Person Shooter video game. The story of the game revolves around the character of the protagonist Jack who works for Hyperion Corporation. The company loses its Helios Space Station to Military after the Operation Lost Legion and sends you in along with four playable characters. Your task is to fight off the captives from Helios Space Station and regain the control by defeating the Lost Legion. The game lets you interact with a lot of NPCs and switch between the four playable characters according to the needs and the situations you go through. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! offers super best visuals, a great story, a lot of weapons and upgrades etc. For a great FPS experience, you must play this action-filled game, it’ll leave you spellbound for sure.
#21 Far Cry 3
Far Cry 3 is an Action-Adventure, RPG and First Person Shooter video game by Ubisoft Montreal. The game is set on a tropical Island situated between Indian and Pacific Oceans and features the protagonist Jason Brady who travels to the Island to free his friends from the pirates. The objectives of the game are to rescue the friends and escape with the artifacts currently in the possession of the pirates. This third installment of the series provides with an awesome crafting system and allows you to use both futuristic and traditional weapons and gain skill and experience points that will eventually help you buy upgrades from the in-game stores. Advance mechanics of the game let you use new tactics and advances skills along with the stealth option. Stealth helps you hide behind different structures (Walls, Crates etc.) to keep yourself safe from enemy fire. Far Cry 3 provides with an amazingly addictive and engaging game-play, a well-written story, great visual details, a lot of exciting side missions, a lot of collectibles and upgrades etc. This super thrilling game is a stunning addition to the series and will definitely entertain you if you play it.
#22 Painkiller: Hell and Damnation
Painkiller: Hell and Damnation is an Action, RPG, MMO and episodic video game by People can Fly. Painkiller: Hell and Damnation consists of five Episodes and each chapter is of five game levels. You can use almost all kinds of weapons to kill massive numbers of your enemies/monsters. Painkiller: Hell and Damnation provides with different game settings, and it lets you be part of a team or play alone against the enemies, explore the game world filled with different structures like Castles, Monasteries, Opera houses, Graveyards etc. and kill your enemies by engaging into fights and gun battles. Painkiller: Hell and Damnation also lets you fight against the huge boss monsters and clear the level with a lot of power ups and stuff. Multiplayer gaming mode provides a chance to play the game with or against your friends by choosing a side and enjoy it even more. Painkiller: Hell and Damnation offers a great story-line, enhanced visuals and an engaging game-play to enjoy. Do try it out for an epic Action, FPS and MMO experience.
#23 Starhawk
Starhawk is a Multiplayer, First and Third Person Shooter and Vehicular Combat video game created by LightBox Interactive and SCS Santa Monika Studios. This PlayStation Specific Video game is set in a distant future and tells the story about Rift Energy being mined by humans. The mine workers turned into monsters due to the over exposure of Rift Energy and they started attacking the Rift Facilities and Mines, killed a lot of people and are still remaining at large. Starhawk lets you be the main protagonist and pilot a flying Mech named Hawk, target monstrous enemy and eliminate them. The game provides with a huge variety of weapons to mount and load on your Hawk, an open world, a really well-Written storyline and state of the art mechanics and graphics. Starhawk closely relates to the groundbreaking video game Warhawk and follows the same kind of gaming modes. The unique gaming modes of the Starhawk include Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Horde, and Co-Op etc. to make the game-play more engaging and challenging.
#24 Rage
Rage by Id Software is an FPS, Vehicular Combat and RPG video game. Set on earth, in a Post-Apocalyptic Era, the game is about an Asteroid (99942 Apophis) Impact and the destruction that followed. After the impact, a huge number of population vanished from the face of earth and the remaining humans came together to form settlements to live in and save their selves from a worldwide waves of terror, theft and loot. The game lets you be the protagonist, an Ark Survivor who wakes up from a 106 years sleep and emerges from an underground shelter called Ark. Your duty as the protagonist is to get out of the shelter, build a settlement, accommodate humans and fight off the bandits. Rage is an amazingly addictive and engaging video game that lets you use both futuristic and traditional weapons and features a very well-written story along with ultra-realistic visual details and an extremely fast-paced and action packed game-play. Core game-play of Rage is similar to the one in Borderlands and will definitely leave you spellbound with all of the stuff it has to offer. If you really want to try something really amazing of the Action and FPS genre, Rage is the game for you. Try it out and enjoy the ultimate fun.
#25 Dead island: Riptide
Dead Island: Riptide is a Horror Survival, Action and FPS (First Person Shooter) video game by Techland. The game starts up from where it ended previously and features four immune persons who cannot be infected and mutate into zombies. The patient Zero travels with them and their destination is the Military research lab where the doctors are trying to make a cure for the zombie virus outbreak. You can select any one of the four characters as the protagonist and start acting according to the storyline of the game. On your way to the Lab, you’ll have to scavenge for food, shelter and water along with supplies like Weapons, medicines etc. to fend off the zombies. You’ll have to engage in combats using mostly melee tactics and weapons as the game forces you to take part in a lot of close combats. Dead Island: Riptide is a packed with amazing Action, FPS and Horror Survival elements and it will definitely provide you with hours of great entertainment. Do try it out, you’ll definitely like it.
#26 Brink
Brink is a FPS (First Person Shooter), Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Splash Damage. The game takes place in the year 2045 and the story revolves around the ongoing conflict between two factions (The Resistance and Ark Security) over the possession of the floating and Utopian City The Ark. This thrilling FPS video game lets you choose a character from the four given classes (Soldiers, Engineers, Medics and Operatives) and put on show, your best shooting and parkour skills. Brink provides with a long single player campaign and allows you to use the most sophisticated and advanced weapons against your enemies, kill them in heavy combats and complete the game objectives. In Multiplayer mode, the game lets you play against the system AIs and other online players competitively or cooperatively according to your choice. With a super-fast-paced and thrilling game-play, Brink offers a truly well planned and written story, an open world gaming environment, great game mechanics and graphics. try it out and enjoy a great Action filled FPS gaming experience.
#27 Bulletstorm
Bulletstorm is a Sci-Fi, Co-Op FPS video game by People Can Fly and Epic Games. The game is set in the midst of 26th century and features the protagonist Garyson Hunt who works for General Sorrano, Star General of the Confederation of Planets. General Sorrano sends him on the task to lead his special Black Ops Team Dead Echo on a mission to eliminate the ones who are criminals and are gathering the forces against the Confederation. The Dark Echo kills Bryce Novak, a Civilian Reporter. The Black Ops team soon realizes that General is using them to do his dirty work and they are killing the innocents. The team then turns against the forces of General and starts devastating their unholy plans by counter attacking on them and by destroying their facilities. Bulletstorm is a thrillingly action filled video game for all the hardcore FPS game enthusiasts. If you want to try something really nice instead of any other ordinary game, you should play Bulletstorm. You’ll definitely like it.
#28 PayDay 2
PayDay 2 is First-person Shooter, Tactical Co-operative Multiplayer and Stealth video game. Game kicks off after the events of its predecessor PayDay and introduces a New Gang of Washington D.C. The game allows you to be a member of that Gang and go heisting banks, robbing Jewelry Shops, stealing Cars, Distributing Narcotics and stealing whatever you want in Washington D.C. along with 2 AI players or team up with friends and enjoy amazing Co-Operative Multiplayer gaming. With an Action-packed game-play and all the super thriller nature, PayDay 2 is a blast. If you love playing games like PayDay 2, the following Action-packed titles would definitely be of your great interest. Let’s have a look at some of the best alternatives to PayDay 2.
#29 Crysis
Crysis, First person shooter is an outstanding production of Crytek Studios played mostly on Xbox, PlayStation and Pc. This game revolves around the Alien invasion that almost totally devastated the Earth. With a bunch of Sequels it has now reached to the Latest version of the game Called Crysis Trilogy. Crysis Trilogy takes us further into the whole new world of rivalry in between Humans and Aliens and offers a unique experience of graphics. Crysis kicks off with the discovery of a massive ancient structure hidden deep into the mountains of the fictitious Lingshen Islands situated near the east coast of Philippines. The game allows you to wear on the role of Jake Dunn, a U.S. Army Delta Force operative known as the “Nomad”. Crysis offers a number of advanced weapons and other gear such as the “NanoSuit” for you to lace up your character with and go hunt down the enemies. The game tasks you to fight against two major enemies at the same time such as the North Korean forces and Aliens both opposing you for the Alien Structure discovered recently. Your task is to stop the enemy’s infiltration into key areas of the world, save the alien structure and your fellow officials. Crysis offers various modernistic weapons, military grade vehicles such as Humvees, Jet Aircraft, Excavators, Forklifts etc. as well as a multiplayer mode in which you can play with up to 32 players in Co-Op mode and fight the enemies as teams. Crysis offers a brilliant storyline along with a hardcore action and thrill filled gameplay and state of the art visuals.
#30 Call of Duty
Call of Duty or shortly named as COD is a First person Shooter and Action game created originally by Ben Chichoski. Because of being a mighty gaming franchise, Call of Duty is developed and published by a lot of companies. Few of the bigger names as Call of Duty Developers include, Infantry Ward, Sledgehammer Games, Gray Matter Interactive, Nokia, Raven Softwares and High Moon Studios. Since the beginning, this super awesome FPS and Action game was playable at PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo GameCube, Nokia N-Gage, Playstation 2, 3 and 4, Xbox One and 360, iOS, Android and BlackBerry. From its first release Call of Duty back in 2003 to its latest game Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare November 3, 2014, this superbly addicting game depicts the scenarios from WW2 to today’s modern warfare. With online versions of the game, players can interact in real time and play the game with or against each other. As compared to the early Call of Duty versions, the game now includes more enhanced graphics, advanced AIs, engaging and addicting storylines, powerful and user friendly interfaces and open worlds. This epic first person shooter is still so much famous among all the FPS and Action game lovers.
#31 Sniper Elite V2
Sniper Elite V2 is a fantastic Third-person Tactical Shooter and advanced Warfare video game developed by Rebellion Oxford and published by Rebellion Developments, 505 Games and Ubisoft. Playable from a Third-person perspective, this game is available on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii U gaming platforms. The game is set in World War II era and features the protagonist Lieutenant Karl Fairburne who is an OSS officer in American-German collation forces and is also a skilled Tactical Sniper Shooter. You as the protagonist get ordered to eliminate both Nazi and Russian military personnel who are involved in the making of V2 Ballistic Missile. The game lets you play in a number of different missions in which you get different tasks to eliminate different targets, like in first mission you are tasked to eliminate German Major-General Hans who is responsible for defecting Soviets and after that Dr. Gunther a German scientist and the game continues. Sniper Elite V2 provides you with an amazingly addicting and fast paced action filled game-play along with a separate storyline for every mission and super realistic graphics. Do give it a try if you haven’t yet played this cool game and enjoy all the Tactical Sniper Shooting fun.
#32 Borderlands
Borderlands, developed by Gearbox Software, Demiurge Studios and Feral Interactive is an amazingly Action-Packed First Person Shooter (FPS), Action-Adventure and Multiplayer Co-Op video game. Set on a planet named Pandora, Borderlands tells the story of an ancient alien Vault full with advanced technology and weapons, hidden beneath the surface of the planet. A mega Corporation named Dahl gets in conflict with Atlas Corporation over the vault and soon after taking huge damage, the Atlas Corporation leaves the planet due to the hazards connected to the alien wildlife that started getting conscious after a long lasting Hibernation. The Dahl Corporation settles up and assigns a Xeno-Archeologist named Patricia Tannis who after a great effort, finds the location of the Vault. Atlas Corporation gets aware of the development and sends down The Crimson Lance (a private Military Force) to capture Patricia and get the vault’s location. Meanwhile the Atlas Corporation Invasion and Alien Wildlife devastates the planet and Dahl Corporation along with its operatives and the rich leave the planet. The rest of the population gets left behind to scavenge in isolated settlements and wastelands. The story continues… Borderlands is a superbly cool Video game that lets you choose between four main player characters, who possess unique skills and are highly customizable. With a lot of futuristic weapons, advanced tactics, superbly embedded and quite hardcore action and thrill packed game-play and a great storyline, this game is a blast. Do give it a try if you haven’t yet and enjoy the ultimate fun.
#33 Counter Strike: Global Offensive
Counter Strike: Global Offensive or shortly abbreviated as CS: GO is an Online Multiplayer Tactical First Person Shooter Video game by Valve Corporation. Released back in 2012, the game offers amazing amounts of classic content such as new maps, characters, and game modes, cross-platform multiplayer game-play, regular updates and a huge amount of DLC. With an amazingly immersive objective-based multiplayer FPS game-play, Counter Strike: Global Offensive lets you join the teams (Counter-Terrorist Force or the Terrorists) and eliminate your enemies by the use of sophisticated weaponry and Tactics. Counter Strike: Global Offensive offers a number of fantastic and quite addictive game modes such as Classic Casual, Competitive, Bomb Scenario, Hostage Scenario, Arms Race, Demolition, Deathmatch etc. Furthermore, the game allows you to play the game offline with bots and enjoy all the fun. The Online Play option lets you go against your enemies, be part of a team and keep on enjoying the game. With a unique matchmaking system, Online game availability via Steam, Anti Cheat system, Dedicated Servers, Unique Elo Rating System, beautiful visuals and an addictive gameplay entertaining millions of online players, Counter Strike: Global Offensive is one of the most played and well liked game in the Counter Strike series.
#34 Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is a fast-paced Action-packed Tactical First Person Shooter Video game by Ubisoft Montreal. Seventh Installment in the Series, This brilliant game sets you up into the character of Bishop, the main protagonist and takes you to an amazing ride of action, adventure and thrill all together. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 could be described as part Sequel and Part Prequel to the previous game in the series and offers the story that continues from where it left in Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas. In this sequel the game allows you to enjoy brilliant new customization options, have teammate AIs with enhanced systems, you can also have loads of new commands over the AI Teammates, have new and improved weapons and loads of other great perks etc. With all the amazing Single and Multiplayer Co-Op campaigns and missions, amazingly fast paced combats and improved reaction time, enhanced game mechanics, Hardcore Action and Thrill filled gameplay, fantastic game visuals and a truly well written storyline, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is total blast.
#35 Serious Sam 3: BFE
Serious Sam 3: BFE is a single and multiplayer First-person Shooter video game that takes place in a futuristic era of 22nd century in Egypt. Serious Sam 3: BFE allows you to engage yourself in a fast-paced and action-packed game-play and fight against the huge numbers of enemies in an open world. You can have all the traditional and futuristic weapons you want and kill the enemies by strategic assaults and counter attacks. Different types of enemies show different levels of resistance so choice of weapons matters a lot. On every enemy kill, game awards you with experience points that can be used to buy upgrades. The core game-play of Serious Sam 3: BFE greatly resembles to the one on Serious Sam and allows you to experience and amazing blend of futuristic and old gaming environments and settings. Being a great shooter game with a super-fast and addictive game-play, this game will surely provide you with an amazing experience of FPS gaming.
#36 Far Cry
Far Cry is a Fast-paced Action and War-based Tactical First-person Shooter (FPS) video game series developed by Crytek and Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. With a lot of similarities to the Battlefield and its predecessors, Far Cry is one of the best Action games to play. The whole series features the character of a protagonist who single handedly or with teams, battles against the hostile enemies and uses the weapons of his choice as he advances according to the story of any game of the series specifically. The game features striking open world environments that cover the lands from the Himalayas to Africa, lets the players edit or create totally new maps, most sophisticated sets of graphics along with a compelling storyline and multiplayer gaming option. If you really want to experience an impressive and thrilling game-play, you must try Far Cry and enjoy the ultimate Action, Thrill, Shooting, and Drama altogether. Far Cry is available to play on
#37 Defiance
Defiance is a super cool Free-to-play MMO Third-person Shooter and a Multiplayer Co-Op video game. The game lets you be an alien technology hunter who goes out on some thrilling missions to eliminate the alien enemies and seize their tech. Defiance is set on the transformed Earth and lets you play and enjoy the most epic gameplay ever in which you can team up with a lot of other online players from around the world. Defiance is based on a T.V show of the same name and offers characters from the show as well. It offers a great MMO gameplay and objective-based story, great visuals, cool upgrades, DLC and a lot of other great things. In general, Defiance is one of the best MMO Shooting games and it will definitely entertain you well.
#38 The Evil Within
The Evil Within is a wonderful Horror-Survival, Action-Adventure and Third-person Shooter video game that takes this specific genre to a whole new level. The game lets you be Sebastian Castellanos, a skilled detective who is haunted by a cloaked and mysterious entity with immense paranormal powers. Set in a type of apocalyptic open world, The Evil Within lets you scavenge for items like medical supplies, food, weapons etc. and allows you to unfold the mysteries that are directly connected to the entity haunting you. Enemies in the game are equally equipped as yourself and because of that the combats in the game are quite action-packed and to properly dispose of the enemies, you must be skilled enough to survive. With a huge arsenal of weapons but limited ammunition, amazing abilities to master, various types of enemies to combat with and a great story to follow along with wonderful visual details and an engaging game-play, The Evil Within is one of the best Third Person, Action-Adventure and Survival video game to play and enjoy.
#39 Resident Evil: Revelations
Resident Evil: Revelations is a great Third-person Shooter Horror-Survival and Action-Adventure video game similar to Alan Wake. The game features the characters of agent Parker Luciani and Jessica Sherawat working for the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance (BSAA) in order to eliminate the threats posed by a Bioterrorist Organization named as II Veltro. Your task is to get into the character of the main protagonist Jessica Sherawat and go to the floating city of Terragrigia, neutralize genetically modified creatures and mutants (known as the Bio Organic Weapons BOWs) in order to save the remaining populace. Resident Evil: Revelations lets you use sophisticated weaponry against the hardcore enemies, allow you to engage yourself into amazingly action-packed melee and long distance combats, complete the tasks and enjoy an amazingly addictive and quite immersive thrill filled gaming experience. With a visually brilliant game setting, eye-catching graphics, a well-written storyline and an engaging game-play, Resident Evil: Revelations is a great blend of Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival and Shooting aesthetics.
#40 Deadly Premonition
The last entrant on our list of games like “State of Decay” is Deadly Premonition. Deadly Premonition is developed by “Access Games” in collaboration with “Rising Star Games and is available to play on PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 gaming platforms. The game is a super hit amalgamation of Open world, Psychological Horror Survival and shooting elements. The game kicks off with the investigation of the murder of “Becky Adams and Diane”. Protagonist as the investigator “York” find out that the murders are a work of the “Raincoat Killers” and suspects Thomas in the murders and Thomas after some time dies with a hook in his neck. Thomas’s death halts the investigation a bit but “York” keeps on gathering the evidence. Emily joins the investigation with York and finds out the final victim “Carol”. Carol infects Emily with red seeds and she falls ill. York leaves Emily with Kaysen and continues the investigation, encounters George and makes him confess the murders and kills him. The game concludes. The story of the game is a bit twisted and takes you to the heights of amazingness in horror-survival and psychotic experience. Try it out and you’ll definitely have your head spinning.
#41 Silent Hill: Homecoming
If you have played any game of the Silent Hill series, you would know that Silent Hill: Homecoming is not so different from other games in the series. Maintaining the standard, Double Helix Games and Konami Entertainment have provided with yet another masterpiece that truly mimics the characteristics of a brilliant Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival and Shooter video game. The game makes you the protagonist Alex Shepherd, an Army veteran who returns home after a brief time spending on overseas duty. Moments after returning home, Alex finds out about the mysterious disappearance of his Father and Brother that leaves his mother in Coma. Alex starts off his journey to find his brother Josh and maps the area for search from his home town to the Fog-shielded Town of Silent Hill. This is where you get into the paly and your duty is to continue Alex’s journey, get to Silent Hill, kill some grotesque monsters and mutants, solve challenging puzzles and search for clues and objects that will eventually lead you to the location where Josh is being held. Silent Hill: Homecoming offers an amazingly fast-paced Action, cool weapons (guns and melee), amazing stealth abilities to use against the enemies, eerie and haunted environment, great story and a wonderfully engaging game-play to enjoy.
#42 Metro: Last Light
Metro: Last Light, developed by A4 Games and published by Deep Silver and Spike Chunsoft is an Action-Adventure and a Horror Survival First person Shooter Video game set in a post-apocalyptic era in the city of Moscow. The game is available to play on Microsoft Windows, Linux, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Xbox 360 gaming platforms. The story kicks off with protagonist Artyom who is still haunted by the Dark Ones after the events of Metro 2033. Kahn informs Artyom about a single Dark One who survived the recent attack and tells them that the Dark One is the key to the survival of humanity. Colonel Miller thinks of him as a threat and sends Artyom and Anna to eliminate him. Artyom finds the Dark One who turns out to be a child. Artyom goes AWOL and turns against the Rangers after knowing the truth. Artyom starts a new wave of attacks against the rangers and engages in super thrilling battles and combats and finally relieves the humanity from unlawful and brutal reign of Colonel Miller and the government. Metro: Last Light is a super entertainer and leaves you spellbound with all the amazing stuff it holds. Holding a unique and sleek set of graphics and game-play Metro: Last Light makes you think you are a part of the world in the game. It includes both First Person Shooter Experience and horror survival gaming modes with single and multiplayer mode options. Do try it out if you haven’t yet and enjoy the ultimate blend of many genres.
#43 Resistance 3
Resistance 3 combines the elements of Action-Adventure and FPS (First-person Shooter) developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It takes place the post-apocalyptic world with fictional sci-fi themed. It is the third game in the series of Resistance trilogy. The game combines the elements of Horror-Survival and Shooting. After the murder of Nathan Hale, Corporal Joseph Capelli is only remaining survival in the group of the sentinels. After four years, the protagonist married to a woman known as Susan Farley who is living with a group of survivors in Haven. Chimeran forces discover them and find the cure for a strange virus that turned the humans into monsters. There are a series of levels, and the player must navigate the environment, interact with NPCs, and complete objectives to earn points. The player can navigate environment using the first-person view and can use different weapons to take down foes. With superb mechanics, addictive gameplay, and brilliant controls, Resistance 3 is the best game to play.
#44 Earth Defense Force 2025
Earth Defense Force 2025 is an Action, Third-person Shooter, Single and Multiplayer video game created by Sandlot for PlayStation and Xbox. There are four character classes, and the player can select one of them to get into the game fictional world. According to the story, the world is invaded by the alien faction and the player can take on the role of the protagonist, an EDF soldier to defend the world. There are a massive variety of weapons such as Rifles, Leaser gun, Rocket Launcher, Grenades, tools and armors and uses a third-person view for exploration. It takes place in an open environment and includes a variety of levels. The player can use at least two primary weapons in each level and his main aim to protect the world from alien and earn experience points to unlock further content. Modern weapons are dropped by the alien after destroyed for players. The game becomes challenging as the player gain experience. Earth Defense Force 2025 offers key features such as lots of weapons, a variety of levels, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#45 Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx
Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx is a Downloadable Content Pack for the original title Borderlands developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games. The game is a mix of Role-playing, Action-Adventure, First-person Shooter, Exploration, and Open World elements. The DLC pack introduces new events, vehicles, modes, weapons, missions and more. It takes place in the fictional world invaded by foes. The player must get into the role of the protagonist equips with arms and his primary objective is to explore the land from the first-person perspective, interact with NPCs and effort to complete quests. The player earns experience points as completes the levels. There are a variety of weapons, and the player can choose from them during gameplay and can upgrade them using his experience points. The Pack enhances the level cap to sixty-one, includes new guns, shields, enemy types, and challenging missions. Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx offers prominent features such as different Modes, FPS elements, Melee Combat, Deadly Creatures, and more. With engaging gameplay, brilliant mechanics, and fabulous controls, Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx is the wonderful game for those who love playing FPS games with RPG element.
#46 Resident Evil: Revelations 2
Resident Evil: Revelations 2 is an Episodic Horror-Survival, Action-Adventure, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed and published by Capcom for multiple platforms. The game acts as the 10th massive entry in the franchise of Resident Evil and 22nd overall. The game marks the Claire Redfield’s return as the main protagonist, and the first time the player control Barry Burton as the playable character in the main series. The storyline of the game takes place between the events of Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 6. The plot starts when the protagonist named as Clair and her partners, including the playable protagonist and newcomer named as Moria Burton, are at the exciting party in the NGO’s headquarter, then they are attacked by unknown creatures. The player explores the land from a third-person perspective, use equipped flashlight to see in the dark environment and can use a huge arsenal of weaponry including melee weapons to attack foes. The game features the mini-map at the top of the screen to display the player’s location. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and stunning graphics, Resident Evil: Revelations 2 is the wonderful game to experience the Horror-Survival genre.
#47 Resident Evil 5: Untold Stories Bundle
Resident Evil 5: Untold Stories Bundle is a Downloadable Content Pack for Resident Evil 5, developed and published by Capcom. The DLC pack came with two new episodes such as Desperate Escape and Lost in Nightmares. The game deals with Action-Adventure, Third-person Shooter, Horror-Survival, and Co-op elements, and it takes place in the zombie apocalypse. In Lost in Nightmare, the player must unearth the mystery about Jill and Chris, who recently visited the infamous Spencer mansion. The game introduces versus mode, in which the player controls one of four characters from available and compete against up to four players for points by slaying the enemies or taking down other players. During the gameplay, the player navigates the world from a third-person viewpoint, pick up items, interact with the environment and object to collect information about the mission while fighting zombies to earn points and fulfil the requirement of each mission. Resident Evil 5: Untold Stories Bundle includes prominent features such as New Content (Desperate Escape, The Mercenaries Reunion, and Lost in Nightmares), Third-person Action, Open World, and more.
#48 Red Faction: Armageddon
Red Faction: Armageddon is a Third-person Shooter, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed by Volition and published by THQ for Multiple Platforms. The game serves as the 4th marvellous title in the series of Red Faction. Like the previous installment, the player assumes the role of the protagonist named Darius Mason, who is a descendant of Guerilla Alec Mason. The plot of the game takes place fifty years after the conclusion of Guerilla. Most of the game is set in an underground tunnel full of alien creatures. Landscape destruction is possible through the feature known GeoMod like the previous games, and the player can also use the device by the name Nano Forge, to repair structures like stairs, enabling the player to advance through the tunnels. There are many challenging levels available, and the player has to complete each one by accomplishing the objectives. The game increases the level of difficulty as the player advances, and further weapons will be unlocked to use in the game. Check it out, and have fun.
#49 Infamous: Festival of Blood
Infamous: Festival of Blood is an Action-Adventure and Single-player video game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by SCEA for PlayStation 3. The game serves as the part of the Infamous series, and it acts as the expansion pack based on the Infamous 2 but doesn’t need a copy of that game to play. The storyline takes place aside from a canon aspect of the previous title, told by the friend of the protagonist named Zeke Dunbar and revolves around the story of the gradual transformation of Cole into a vampire. It comes with a new playable character and offers new powers. Unlike the previous titles, the game doesn’t implement the choices matter featured in missions. The game starts with Zeke Dunbar who meets a woman at a bar and interacts with her when she notices a comic book that Zeke was reading. During the game, the woman is about to leave until Zeke mentions his relationship with Cole MacGrath, which persuaded the woman to stay and listen as he starts to tell her a tale involving Cole during the event of Pyre Night. Infamous: Festival of Blood has prominent features, and the game was released in 2001 for PS3.
#50 Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut
Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut is an Action-Adventure, Simulation, Horror-Survival, and Single-player video game developed by Access Games. Throughout the gameplay, the player serves as an FBI agent, and the main goal is to investigate the identity of the Raincoat Killer, who is responsible for a murder in the rural town of Greenvale.
In this open-world game, the player views the environment from the third-person perspective. The character receives in-game money for finishing the missions assigned by the game and for minor events, such as shaving or changing suits. The player must have to pay a fine for poor performance, such as wearing dirty clothes.
Like other simulating games, the player requires food and sleep at regular intervals to maintain hunger and rest. If the character’s gauge for sleepiness reaches zero, he will become hungry, and if his gauge for hunger depletes, he will begin to lose his health. Sleeping restores his health, while food and other items restore sleepiness.