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: 7.5/10

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...

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

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

Game released: PC → 9 October 2009

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...

Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour

Action, Strategy, DLC, Isometric, Tactics, Online, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 26 September 2003

Players: 8/10

Steam: 91/100

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...

Half-Life

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

Game released: PC → 12 September 2003

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 96/100

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, Stealth

Game released: PC → 28 February 2008

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 95/100

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...

Gothic 2

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

Game released: PC → 29 November 2005

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 87/100

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...

Silent Hill 3

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

Game released: PC → 8 February 2007

Players: 8.7/10

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...

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Adventure

Game released: PC → 4 January 2008

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 94/100

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...

Call of Duty

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

Game released: PC → 29 October 2003

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This first-person shooter depicts World War II through the perspectives of American, British, and Russian soldiers. Its interconnected campaigns follow fighters...

Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven

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

Game released: PC → 30 May 2003

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...

System Shock 2

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

Game released: PC → 24 November 2003

Players: 9/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 92/100

This science-fiction horror shooter with role-playing elements unfolds aboard the derelict starship Von Braun. The protagonist awakens from cryogenic sleep with...

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

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

Game released: PC → 26 March 2009

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...

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...

Command & Conquer: Generals

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Action, Online

Game released: PC → 14 February 2003

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Command & Conquer: Generals is a real-time strategy game with an isometric view. The plot takes place in 2020. Global Liberating Army (GLA) troops stage a terrorist...

Hitman: Codename 47

Action, Shooter, Stealth, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 15 March 2007

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 63/100

Metacritic: 73/100

This third-person stealth action game follows Hitman, a contract assassin investigating his past while carrying out assignments around the world. The story unfolds...

Grand Theft Auto

Action, Top-down view

Game released: PC → март 2003

Players: 7.8/10

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...

Stronghold Crusader

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

Game released: PC → 25 September 2002

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 78/100

A real-time strategy game with city-building elements, Stronghold Crusader focuses on battles and sieges during the Crusades. Players lead either the Crusaders or...

Alien Shooter

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Horror, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 October 2003

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 94/100

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...

Tomb Raider 4: The Last Revelation

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

Game released: PC → 24 August 2006

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 84/100

This action-adventure with platforming elements follows Lara Croft as she accidentally frees the god Set from a secret tomb in Egypt. To stop him and prevent the...

Tomb Raider: Chronicles

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

Game released: PC → 10 August 2006

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 60/100

An action-adventure with platforming and puzzle elements follows four previously untold adventures of Lara Croft in search of ancient artifacts. The settings...

Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness

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

Game released: PC → 16 February 2007

Players: 5.8/10

Steam: 60/100

An action-adventure with platforming and puzzle elements follows Lara Croft after she is accused of murdering her former mentor, Werner Von Croy, and forced to...

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...

Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy

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

Game released: PC → 16 September 2009

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 95/100

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...

Zuma Deluxe

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

Game released: PC → 8 December 2003

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 95/100

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...

Arx Fatalis

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

Game released: PC → 3 April 2007

Players: 9/10

Steam: 85/100

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...

Delta Force: Black Hawk Down

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

Game released: PC → 18 June 2009

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 65/100

A first-person tactical shooter set during U.S. military operations in Mogadishu in late 1993. Delta Force operatives and Army Rangers are sent to capture Somali...

Postal 2

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Open world, Comedy

Game released: PC → 2 November 2012

Players: 9/10

Steam: 97/100

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...

Dino Crisis 2

Action, Horror, First-person view, Third-person view, Survival horror, Adventure

Game released: PC → 1 May 2005

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 87/100

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...

Legacy of Kain: Defiance

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

Game released: PC → 19 July 2007

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...

Final Fantasy XI

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

Game released: PC → 17 September 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...

Star Wars: Jedi Knight 2 - Jedi Outcast

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

Game released: PC → 16 September 2009

Players: 4.5/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Star Wars: Jedi Knight 2 — Jedi Outcast is an action-adventure game with first and third person views in the Star Wars universe. As Kyle Katarn, an agent of...

Day of Defeat

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Historical

Game released: PC → 6 May 2003

Players: 9/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This team-based first-person shooter is set in the European theater of World War II in 1944. Players fight as Axis or Allied forces in battles based on key...

Thief: The Dark Project

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

Game released: PC → 1 October 2003

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 92/100

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...

Beyond Good & Evil

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

Game released: PC → 13 May 2008

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 86/100

This science-fiction action adventure takes place on Hyllis, a planet under siege by an alien race. Young reporter Jade becomes involved with the rebel organization...

Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams

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

Game released: PC → 17 April 2003

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams is an enhanced version of the game, first released on XBox and later ported back to PS2 and PC. Most of the gameplay consists of...

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

Action, Adventure, Stealth, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 22 April 2003

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 87/100

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...

Vietcong

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Historical

Game released: PC → 28 December 2003

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Vietcong is a tactical first-person shooter set during the Vietnam War. The player commands A-Team, a U.S. Special Forces unit, and leads up to six soldiers through...

Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi

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

Game released: PC → 14 May 2004

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi is an action-horror adventure game with a first-person view. Events take place in the 19th century. The aristocratic Crowe family...

Bloodrayne

Action, Horror, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 12 July 2007

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This third-person action horror game is set in the years between the World Wars. The dhampir BloodRayne serves as an agent of the Brimstone Society, a secret...

Journey to the Center of the Earth (2003)

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Logic, Casual game, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 13 November 2003

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 45/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This third-person adventure with puzzles follows Ariane, a photojournalist who is caught in a rockslide while working in Iceland and ends up in a world beneath the...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2003 for PC (Game released)