Action 2004 for PlayStation 2 — top best games in the Action genre

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - a game in the Action genre

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Third-person view, Open world

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 15 August 2009

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 91/100

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is a continuation of the popular series of games with endless possibilities of interaction in a large open world. Five years ago, Carl...

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Open world, Adventure

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 20 May 2004

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 95/100

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

Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude

Action, First-person view, Third-person view, Adult game

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 5 October 2004

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 60/100

This adult comedy follows college student Larry as he juggles classes, fraternity affairs and odd jobs with parties and dating. When a dating show arrives on...

Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Third-person view, Open world

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 27 January 2004

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 86/100

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...

Silent Hill 4: The Room

Action, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Logic, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural, Survival

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 8 October 2004

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Silent Hill 4: The Room is a mystical action-horror game with a third-person view and puzzle elements. The goal of the game is to help the character Henry Townsend...

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

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

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 12 December 2003

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 83/100

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...

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within

Action, Platformer, First-person view, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Parkour

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 13 October 2005

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within is a continuation of the dynamic action slasher with a third-person view. The story of the game takes place several years after the...

Metal Slug 3

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Arcade, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 5 November 2004

Players: 10/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A 2D arcade run-and-gun shooter in which a soldier fights through stages filled with enemies and giant bosses. Metal Slug 3 features five large stages with...

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

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

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 17 March 2005

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is a stealth action adventure game with first and third person views. The player-controlled Snake must sneak through enemy territory...

FlatOut (2004)

Action, Racing, First-person view, Third-person view, Sports game, Online

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 13 October 2005

Players: 9/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 71/100

FlatOut is a dynamic racing arcade game with a third-person view, the distinctive feature of which is the almost complete destructibility of objects (or interaction...

ObsCure

Role-playing game, Action, Horror, Third-person view, Survival horror, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 6 April 2005

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 65/100

After a friend disappears, five students are trapped inside Leafmore High School and set out to uncover the cause of the mysterious events there. ObsCure is a...

Resident Evil: Outbreak

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Survival

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 11 December 2003

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 71/100

A third-person action horror game about eight survivors amid a biological disaster in zombie-infested Raccoon City. In cooperative and competitive missions, they...

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow

Action, Stealth, Third-person view, Shooter

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 16 June 2004

Players: 10/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow — the gameplay is not much different from the 1st part of the series. The game's graphics have been slightly...

Burnout 3: Takedown

Action, Racing, First-person view, Third-person view

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 14 October 2004

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 94/100

Burnout 3: Takedown is a racing video game with arcade gameplay that emphasizes dangerous and fast-paced driving. The game features standard circuit racing that...

Legacy of Kain: Defiance

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

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 9 May 2005

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 73/100

This third-person fantasy action-adventure follows two vampires: Kain, an all-powerful demigod, and Raziel, a demonic angel of death. They travel through a world...

Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude (Uncut and Uncensored!)

Action, First-person view, Third-person view, Adult game

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 12 November 2004

Players: 7/10

Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude (Uncut and Uncensored!) is a first-person action game with adult game elements from High Voltage Software, Inc.. The main...

X-Men: Legends

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Comics, Cyberpunk

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 22 October 2004

Players: 6.3/10

Metacritic: 81/100

A team-based role-playing game about the X-Men, in which a squad sets out to rescue a young mutant and becomes involved in a story that could unite mutantkind or...

Final Fantasy XI

Role-playing game, Action, MMO, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 23 March 2004

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This fantasy MMORPG takes place in Vana'diel, where three powerful nations face the beastmen forces and the threat of another war. The player takes the role of an...

BloodRayne 2

Action, Shooter, Horror, Slasher, Third-person view

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 30 March 2006

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 69/100

BloodRayne 2 is a continuation of the vampire action game with a third-person view and horror elements. The game takes place 70 years after the story told in...

The Bard's Tale

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Comedy

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 30 March 2005

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 75/100

The Bard's Tale is a fun role-playing adventure with an isometric camera view in the fantasy universe of The Bard's Tale. In the game you will try on the role of an...

Red Dead Revolver

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Third-person view

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 26 May 2005

Players: 5.9/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Red Dead Revolver — the plot of the story begins in the 1870s. Nate Harlow and his partner "Griff" discover a large deposit of gold in an area called "Bear...

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Comics

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 28 June 2004

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 81/100

This action-platformer based on the film Spider-Man 2 follows Spider-Man’s conflict with Dr. Otto Octavius, who becomes Doctor Octopus after four mechanical arms...

Star Wars: Battlefront (2004)

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Star Wars, Online, Science fiction

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 27 June 2005

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This science-fiction action shooter is set in the Star Wars universe and features battles from Episodes I through VI. Players choose from several soldier types and...

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Logic

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 22 January 2004

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 62/100

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone — the gameplay of the game is presented in the form of an arcade with a third-person view, combining elements of an...

Driv3r

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

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 1 July 2004

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 51/100

Driv3r — The game offers you to complete 26 missions of varying difficulty in the role of police officer John Tanner, investigating a case of international...

Tales of Symphonia

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 22 September 2004

Players: 9/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 86/100

This third-person role-playing game follows a village on the dying world of Sylvarant, where a legend foretells the arrival of a Chosen One who can renew the land...

Suffering

Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view, Survival

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 14 May 2004

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Suffering is a third-person action horror game. As Torque kills enemies during gameplay, an on-screen meter called the insanity meter begins to fill. When it is...

Van Helsing

Action, Shooter, Horror, Fighting, In real time, Platformer, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 9 September 2004

Metacritic: 64/100

Van Helsing is an action-adventure game with a third-person view, based on the film of the same name starring Hugh Jackman. You have to try on the role of the...

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Slasher, Dungeons

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 6 February 2004

Players: 6/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2 is a top-down fantasy action RPG that will take gamers into the fantasy world of Forgotten Realms from the Dungeons & Dragons board...

Sonic Heroes

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

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 6 February 2004

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Sonic Heroes is a 3D platformer. It gives you the opportunity to manage a team of three characters. The player directly controls one of them, but if necessary, he...

Hitman: Contracts

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

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 13 May 2004

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This stealth action game follows Agent 47, a contract killer who is wounded and trapped in a dangerous situation in Paris. Through his memories, the story explores...

Commandos 2: Men of Courage

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

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 6 February 2004

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Commandos 2: Men of Courage is a real-time tactical action and strategy game about an elite commando unit operating behind enemy lines during World War II. The team...

Catwoman (2004)

Action, Platformer, Isometric, Comics

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 6 August 2004

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 49/100

Catwoman (2004) - The game is a third -person platform in which the player should use the cat’s cats and dexterity to travel along various locations and defeat...

Knights of the Temple: Infernal Crusade

Action, First-person view, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Slasher

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 3 June 2004

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 89/100

Knights of the Temple: Infernal Crusade is a first-person action game with a dash of fantasy from the masters at Starbreeze Studios AB. The main publisher of the...

Castlevania: Lament of Innocence

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

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 20 February 2004

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Castlevania: Lament of Innocence — The game's plot begins in 1094 and shows the beginning of the eternal conflict between vampire hunters from the Belmont...

Champions of Norrath

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 24 June 2004

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 85/100

This fantasy action RPG sends a player-created hero from the city of Faydwer into the wilds of Norrath to face an army of evil orcs and goblins. Character creation...

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 29 April 2005

Players: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 66/100

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is a continuation of the third-person shooter in the universe of the cybernetic anime Ghost in the Shell. In the role of the...

Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 16 April 2004

Metacritic: 65/100

Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel is an action role-playing game in the post-apocalyptic genre. The Brotherhood of Steel sends one of its recruits to find the missing...

Mega Man X: Command Mission

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 19 November 2004

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 68/100

This futuristic action role-playing game follows a conflict on Giga City, a massive artificial island, in the year 22XX. The discovery of Force Metal transformed...

XIII (2003)

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

Game released: PlayStation 2 → 5 August 2004

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 89/100

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...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2004 for PlayStation 2 (Game released)