Action 2008 for PSP — top best games in the Action genre

Spider-Man: Web of Shadows (2008)

Game released: PSP → 21 October 2008

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 65/100

Spider-Man: Web of Shadows is an action game with a third-person view. Spider-Man is looking for Mary Jane in New York, which is infested with people infected with...

God of War: Chains of Olympus

Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Adult game

Game released: PSP → 28 March 2008

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 91/100

God of War: Chains of Olympus is a bloody adventure of Kratos with a third-person view in the God of War series. You can expect crowds of enemies, blood and guts...

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (2008)

Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Star Wars

Game released: PSP → 16 September 2008

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 68/100

This third-person action game is set in the Star Wars universe between Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV: A New Hope. It follows Darth Vader’s Secret...

Warriors Orochi

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

Game released: PSP → 25 March 2008

Metacritic: 55/100

Warriors Orochi is a fast-paced third-person action RPG that combines characters from Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors into one game where they battle each...

Rayman 2: The Great Escape

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: PSP → 18 December 2008

Players: 9.9/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Rayman 2: The Great Escape is an action-adventure platformer with a third-person view. The game takes place on a world called the Glade of Dreams and revolves...

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back

Action, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: PSP → 10 January 2008

Players: 6.7/10

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back — Crash Bandicoot throws Dr. Neo Cortex from his airship into a cave filled with glowing crystals. Convinced that they...

Syndicate Wars

Action, Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Cyberpunk

Game released: PSP → 27 November 2008

Players: 8/10

An isometric real-time tactical strategy game set in a cyberpunk future, where the megacorporation EuroCorp tries to restore its control after a virus damages the...

Flow

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Top-down view

Game released: PSP → 24 April 2008

Players: 4.3/10

Steam: 53/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Flow is an atmospheric top-down adventure in which you can live the life of a microorganism. Making its way through the water surface in search of living creatures...

LEGO Batman: The Videogame (2009)

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Comics, Adventure, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PSP → 9 October 2008

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This action-adventure platformer set in the world of LEGO and Batman follows the escape of Arkham Asylum’s villains and the effort to save Gotham City. In LEGO...

Crash Bandicoot: Warped

Action, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: PSP → 7 February 2008

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 91/100

This action platformer features levels set across different periods of time and reaches of space. Their varied designs shape the experience as players progress...

Iron Man

Action, Shooter, Flight Simulator, Third-person view, Top-down view, Comics

Game released: PSP → 8 May 2008

Players: 5.2/10

Metacritic: 44/100

This third-person action shooter follows Iron Man in a story based on the film and incorporating elements from the original comics. The hero faces enemy forces...

Space Invaders Extreme

Arcade, Action, Shooter

Game released: PSP → 17 June 2008

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 82/100

An arcade shooter that reworks the classic Space Invaders with revamped graphics and background videos. New twists on the familiar gameplay keep the pace brisk...

Disney*Pixar WALL-E

Action

Game released: PSP → 24 June 2008

Metacritic: 57/100

This action-adventure game based on the Disney/Pixar film follows WALL-E, a waste-collecting robot who meets the search robot EVE after years of solitude and...

LocoRoco 2 (2008)

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Platformer, Music game, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox

Game released: PSP → 10 February 2009

Metacritic: 82/100

This arcade platformer follows the LocoRoco as they try to save their planet from the returning Moja, whose song drains the life from living things. The LocoRoco...

Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles

Action, Horror, Platformer, Collection, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PSP → 19 February 2008

Metacritic: 80/100

This action-platformer unfolds in a gothic fantasy world, where vampire hunter Richter Belmont battles Dracula. Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles reimagines...

Flashback (1992)

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view

Game released: PSP → 4 March 2008

Flashback is an arcade action game with platformer elements in a futuristic style. 2142 After escaping from a spaceship and suffering complete amnesia, young...

Rayman

Platformer, Side view, Action, Arcade

Game released: PSP → 29 May 2008

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Rayman is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer. In this game you have to find and save all the Electuns — unusual little creatures. After this, you can...

LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Adventure, Online

Game released: PSP → 3 June 2008

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 78/100

LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures is an arcade action adventure game with a third-person view, based on the Indiana Jones movies. The game is based on the...

Spider-Man: Web of Shadows - Amazing Allies Edition

Action, Fighting, Platformer, Third-person view, Comics

Game released: PSP → 21 October 2008

Players: 9/10

Spider-Man: Web of Shadows — Amazing Allies Edition is a third-person action game with fighting and platforming elements from developers from the studio Amaze...

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Collection, Futurism (Future), Turn-based

Game released: PSP → 20 June 2008

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII is a role-playing game and part of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, a series of works connected to Final Fantasy VII. The...

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus

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

Game released: PSP → 4 April 2008

Metacritic: 65/100

An add-on for Metal Gear Solid, combining stealth-action missions with multiplayer battles. The single-player Infinity Mission offers a new set of challenges, while...

Brain Challenge (2007)

Action, Educational game (Education), Puzzle, Anime / Manga

Game released: PSP → 3 December 2008

Metacritic: 61/100

Brain Challenge is a collection of puzzles designed to exercise logic, maths, focus and visual skills. Exercises are divided into categories and can be played at...

Dungeon Explorer: Warriors of Ancient Arts (2008)

Role-playing game, Action, In real time, Top-down view

Game released: PSP → 15 February 2008

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 58/100

This top-down action RPG with real-time combat is set in a world inspired by the Three Kingdoms, where heroes rise to oppose a looming evil. Dungeon Explorer...

Patapon

Action, Strategy, Music game, Third-person view

Game released: PSP → 4 June 2008

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 79/100

This rhythm-action game with strategy elements follows the Patapon tribe, driven from its homeland by the Zigoton army. As their deity, the player commands the...

Castlevania Chronicles

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PSP → 18 December 2008

Metacritic: 69/100

A fantasy platformer about Simon Belmont, a descendant of legendary vampire hunters, who ventures into Count Dracula’s estate. Dracula has been resurrected to...

Jet Moto 2

Arcade, Action, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Sports game, Motorcycle racing

Game released: PSP → 24 January 2008

This futuristic racing game sends all-terrain bikes across ten hazardous tracks. Racers navigate obstacles, catch air and perform...

Secret Agent Clank

Action, Shooter, Stealth, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Adventure

Game released: PSP → 11 July 2008

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 67/100

This action-adventure with stealth and puzzle-solving follows robot spy Clank as he investigates the theft of a valuable gem and tries to clear Ratchet’s name...

Everyday Shooter

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Casual game, Music game

Game released: PSP → 11 June 2009

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 76/100

An abstract arcade shooter combines shooting with musical and geometric imagery. Each level has its own visual presentation, sound, and gameplay style, while shots...

WipEout Pulse

Action, Racing, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: PSP → 12 February 2008

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 82/100

WipEout Pulse is a dynamic racing arcade game with a third-person view in the futuristic WipEout universe. You will be able to drive along amazing tracks in unique...

Einhänder

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PSP → 25 June 2008

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 89/100

A futuristic shooter about a pilot tasked with stopping Earth’s final assault. The combat craft pushes through enemy fighter formations and battles large foes. Its...

Boulder Dash Rocks!

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PSP → 28 March 2008

Players: 5.5/10

Boulder Dash Rocks! is a third-person arcade game with a mixture of action and puzzles from the masters of 10tacle Studios Mobile GmbH. The game is published by...

Hellboy: The Science of Evil (2008)

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

Game released: PSP → 22 August 2008

Metacritic: 44/100

This third-person action game, based on the Hellboy comics, follows the hero as a hunt for a crazed witch leads to a Nazi plot for world domination. Hellboy must...

Dissidia: Final Fantasy

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

Game released: PSP → 8 October 2009

Metacritic: 79/100

This fantasy action fighting game with role-playing character progression centers on a war between Cosmos, goddess of harmony, and Chaos, god of discord. Heroes and...

N+ (2008)

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Sandbox

Game released: PSP → 24 April 2009

Metacritic: 81/100

N+ is an arcade platformer set in a futuristic world where a ninja tries to survive among robots that inadvertently kill everything around them. Players run and...

Crash: Mind over Mutant

Action, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: PSP → 21 October 2008

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 62/100

A third-person action platformer about Crash Bandicoot, who must rescue his friends and stop the evil Neo Cortex from taking over the world. The story centers on...

Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams

Action, Fighting, Anime / Manga

Game released: PSP → 14 August 2008

Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams is an action game with a mixture of fighting and anime or manga games from the masters from the studio Capcom Co., Ltd...

King of Fighters Collection: Orochi Saga

Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Collection, Emulator, Arcade

Game released: PSP → 28 October 2008

Metacritic: 66/100

This collection features five complete games from the THE KING OF FIGHTERS series: KOF 94, KOF 95, KOF 96, KOF 97, and KOF 98. These fighting games center on...

Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice

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

Game released: PSP → 29 January 2008

Metacritic: 73/100

This action game combines shooting and racing in a campaign against criminal gangs in Capital City. Players take the role of the Pursuit Force commander and other...

Code Geass: Lost Colors

Action, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Visual novel

Game released: PSP → 27 March 2008

Players: 10/10

Code Geass: Lost Colors is an action game with elements of an anime or manga game, a fantasy game and a visual novel from the masters from the Bandai Namco Games...

Crash Bash

Action, Third-person view

Game released: PSP → 21 March 2008

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Crash and his friends compete in a series of arcade arena events. Players choose a character, including Crash, Coco, Dr. Neo Cortex and Rill Roo, then take part in...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2008 for PSP (Game released)