Games Game Genres Action

Action

Action is a genre of video games in which the success of completing a task depends on the player's reaction speed and ability to make quick, correct decisions. The dynamics of such games are high, although some allow for a slower pace. Most often, this genre includes fighting games, shooters, platformers, and some sub-genres of real-time strategy. Action games may include elements of exploration, racing, puzzles, and more, but the foundation is always built on visual-motor coordination.

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2003

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Half-Life

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future)

November 19, 1998

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 92/100

Half-Life is a legendary adventure shooter with a first-person view. You have to try on the role of a silent researcher named Gordon Freeman. The game takes place...

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view

October 29, 2002

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 95/100

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is a legendary spin-off of Grand Theft Auto 3, developing the ideas and mechanics laid down in it, connected by common characters and...

Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Third-person view

August 27, 2002

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven is an action-adventure game with a third-person view in an open world. The events of the game take place in the 30s of the last...

Grand Theft Auto 3

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Top-down view

October 22, 2001

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 95/100

Grand Theft Auto 3 is a continuation of the dynamic action game with a third-person view in the open world. Working for the mafia sooner or later ends in trouble...

Postal 2

Action, Shooter, First-person view

April 13, 2003

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 50/100

Postal 2 is an open-world satirical action-adventure game with a first-person view. The main character in the game is a certain Dude, who is used to solving his...

Diablo 2

Role-playing game, Action, Hack and slash, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval

June 28, 2000

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 88/100

Diablo 2 is a continuation of the legendary action role-playing game with an isometric camera view in the fantasy world of Diablo. At the end of the first part, the...

Gothic 2

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval

November 29, 2002

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Gothic 2 is a continuation of the legendary action role-playing game with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. The action takes place shortly after the events...

Manhunt

Action, Horror, Stealth, Third-person view

November 18, 2003

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Manhunt is a third-person action game with a dash of horror and stealth from the developers at DMA Design Limited. The main publisher of the game is Rockstar Games...

Counter-Strike 1.6

Action, Shooter, First-person view

September 15, 2003

Players: 7.6/10

Counter-Strike 1.6 is the most popular and stable version of the competitive team shooter with a first-person view. The main ideology is a confrontation between two...

Resident Evil 2 (1998)

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle

January 21, 1998

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Call of Duty

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Historical

October 29, 2003

Players: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Resident Evil Code: Veronica

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle

February 3, 2000

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Resident Evil Code: Veronica is a dark action-horror game with a third-person view in the Resident Evil universe. The game will tell about the events taking place...

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, First-person view

November 19, 2001

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a legendary first-person shooter with elements of mysticism and horror. The game takes place in 1940 during World War II. As in the...

Resident Evil Zero

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle

November 12, 2002

Players: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Resident Evil Zero is an exciting action-horror game with a third-person view in the Resident Evil universe. One of the S.T.A.R.S. units sent to the vicinity of the...

Stronghold Crusader

Action, Strategy, DLC, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval

September 25, 2002

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval

October 28, 2003

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 88/100

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is an action-adventure game with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. Among the scorched sands of Persia, an ancient legend...

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle

September 22, 1999

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis is a continuation of the series of popular action-horror games with a third-person view. You will once again plunge into the chaos of the...

Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour

Action, Strategy, DLC, Isometric, Tactics

September 22, 2003

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Command & Conquer: Generals — Zero Hour — each of the 3 sides has its own advantages: the USA is technologically advanced, electricity is required for...

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

Action, Adventure, Stealth, Third-person view

November 17, 2002

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 88/100

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is a spy stealth action game with a third-person view. The game tells the story of a mysterious US national security agency called Third...

Deus Ex

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk

June 23, 2000

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Deus Ex is a legendary action role-playing game with a third-person view in a cyberpunk style. The game takes place in the fictional dystopian world of Earth in...

Delta Force: Black Hawk Down

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Historical

March 23, 2003

Players: 6.8/10

Metacritic: 65/100

Silent Hill 3

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural

May 23, 2003

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 79/100

The game is a direct continuation of the first Silent Hill and tells about the already matured Heather, who finds herself in a heap of incredible events. In an...

Grand Theft Auto

Action, Top-down view

December 14, 1997

Players: 8.1/10

Grand Theft Auto is a legendary top-down racing action game set in an open world. In the game you will try on the role of a criminal who will perform various tasks...

XIII (2003)

Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Comics

October 9, 2003

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 73/100

XIII (2003) — a cult adventure shooter with a first-person view. The game is a parody of old spy films. In the story, the main character wakes up on the beach...

Hitman: Codename 47

Action, Shooter, Stealth, Third-person view

November 19, 2000

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Hitman: Codename 47 is a third-person action game with a mixture of shooter and stealth games from developers from the studio IO Interactive A/S. The game is...

Enclave

Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

July 19, 2002

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Legacy of Kain: Defiance

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval

November 11, 2003

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Legacy of Kain: Defiance is a third-person action, horror, puzzle and fantasy game from the masters of Crystal Dynamics, Inc.. The main publisher of the game is...

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Adventure

October 14, 2003

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a continuation of the exciting action game with a third-person view, which continues the tragic story of police officer Max...

Alien Shooter

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Horror, Isometric, Futurism (Future)

October 13, 2003

Players: 8.1/10

Alien Shooter is a dynamic shooter with an isometric camera view in a sci-fi setting. Endless darkness and gloomy, long passages of a military complex that became...

Simpsons: Hit & Run

Action, Third-person view

September 16, 2003

Players: 8.4/10

Simpsons: Hit & Run is a third-person action game from the studio Radical Entertainment Inc.. The main publisher of the game is Vivendi Universal Games, Inc...

Arx Fatalis

Role-playing game, Action, First-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval

June 28, 2002

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Arx Fatalis is an action-adventure RPG with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. The game will take you to the wonderful world of Arx, where the main character...

Beyond Good & Evil

Action, Shooter, Fighting, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle

November 11, 2003

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Metal Slug 3

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Third-person view, Anime / Manga

June 1, 2000

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin

Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Third-person view

October 1, 2002

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Conflict: Desert Storm

Action, Shooter, In real time, Third-person view, Historical

September 13, 2002

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 61/100

Deadly Dozen

Action, Shooter, Strategy, First-person view, Third-person view

October 31, 2001

Metacritic: 56/100

Commandos 2: Men of Courage

Action, Strategy, Stealth, In real time, Isometric, Historical

September 20, 2001

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Red Faction

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future)

May 22, 2001

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Chrome

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox

June 16, 2003

Players: 6.7/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Chrome is a dynamic first-person shooter in a sci-fi setting. The game takes place in the distant future on colonized planets. You will take on the role of Bolt...

Zuma Deluxe

Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Puzzle, Logic, Match-3 (Three in a row)

December 8, 2003

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Zuma Deluxe is a fun logic puzzle game with match-3 elements and a top-down view. Simple and interesting gameplay awaits you. While controlling the frog, you need...

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