Action 2003 for PC — top best games in the Action genre

Counter-Strike 1.6 - a game in the Action genre

Game released: PC → 15 September 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...

Gothic 2

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

Game released: PC → 29 November 2005

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...

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

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

Game released: PC → 9 October 2009

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...

Half-Life

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

Game released: PC → 12 September 2003

Players: 8.6/10

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...

Deus Ex

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

Game released: PC → 28 February 2008

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...

Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour

Action, Strategy, DLC, Isometric, Tactics

Game released: PC → 26 September 2003

Players: 8.2/10

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...

Call of Duty

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Historical

Game released: PC → 29 October 2003

Players: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Diablo 2

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

Game released: PC → 8 April 2009

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...

Postal 2

Action, Shooter, First-person view

Game released: PC → 2 November 2012

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...

Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 30 May 2003

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...

I.G.I-2: Covert Strike

Action, Shooter, Fighting, In real time, First-person view

Game released: PC → 28 October 2008

Players: 6.9/10

I.G.I-2: Covert Strike is a first-person action game with a mixture of shooter and fighting game from Innerloop Studios. The game is published by the company 1C...

Final Fantasy XI

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

Game released: PC → 17 September 2004

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Adventure

Game released: PC → 4 January 2008

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...

Zuma Deluxe

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

Game released: PC → 8 December 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...

Hitman: Codename 47

Action, Shooter, Stealth, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 15 March 2007

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...

System Shock 2

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Cyberpunk

Game released: PC → 24 November 2003

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 92/100

Gothic 2: Night of the Raven

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

Game released: PC → 9 September 2005

Players: 9.7/10

Gothic 2: Night of the Raven is an action role-playing fantasy game with a third-person view. The expansion brings many significant changes to the gameplay. A major...

Bloodrayne

Action, Horror, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 12 July 2007

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Bloodrayne is a third-person action game with a touch of horror from the developers from the Terminal Reality studio. The game is published by Majesco...

Alien Shooter

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

Game released: PC → 13 October 2003

Players: 8.2/10

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...

Stronghold Crusader

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

Game released: PC → 25 September 2002

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Arx Fatalis

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

Game released: PC → 3 April 2007

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...

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

Action, Adventure, Stealth, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 22 April 2003

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...

Delta Force: Black Hawk Down

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

Game released: PC → 18 June 2009

Players: 6.8/10

Metacritic: 65/100

Silent Hill 3

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

Game released: PC → 8 February 2007

Players: 8.8/10

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...

Enclave

Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC → 11 May 2010

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Postal

Action, Shooter, Horror, Isometric

Game released: PC → 14 November 1997

Players: 6.8/10

Metacritic: 56/100

Postal is a hardcore isometric shooter with dark...

Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy

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

Game released: PC → 16 September 2009

Players: 9.8/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Star Wars: Jedi Knight — Jedi Academy — third-person action game in the Star Wars universe. The plot of the game begins ten years after the events of...

XIII (2003)

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

Game released: PC → 18 November 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...

Commandos 2: Men of Courage

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

Game released: PC → 30 August 2002

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Simpsons: Hit & Run

Action, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 21 November 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...

Thief: The Dark Project

Action, Stealth, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC → 1 October 2003

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 92/100

Thief: The Dark Project is a stealth action game with a first-person view in a medieval setting. The plot tells the story of the adventures of the urban...

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

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

Game released: PC → 26 March 2009

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...

Dino Crisis 2

Action, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 1 May 2005

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Dino Crisis 2 is an action game with a third-person view. The story follows the events of the first game, Regina is now sent on another mission, to a facility...

AquaNox 2: Revelation

Action, Shooter, Simulation, Warships / Submarines, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PC → 1 April 2010

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 59/100

Disney's Aladdin in Nasira's Revenge

Action, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 22 May 2003

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 61/100

Disney's Aladdin in Nasira's Revenge is an action game with a third-person view from developers from the studio Argonaut Games PLC. The game is published by Disney...

I-Ninja

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

Game released: PC → 14 January 2005

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 75/100

I-Ninja — The game begins with a ninja in training (whose name is simply Ninja) sneaking into the enemy camp to save his sensei (who is simply called Sensei...

Batman: Toxic Chill

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Comics

Game released: PC → 15 April 2005

Batman: Toxic Chill is a third-person arcade game with a mixture of action, adventure, platformer and puzzle from the developers of The Learning Company, Inc.. The...

Beyond Good & Evil

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

Game released: PC → 13 May 2008

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault - Breakthrough

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

Game released: PC → 16 November 2003

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault — Breakthrough is a first-person action game with a touch of shooter and historical game from developers from the TKO Software...

Conflict: Desert Storm

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

Game released: PC → 13 September 2002

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 61/100

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2003 for PC