Action 2004 for PC — top best games in the Action genre / Page 3

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Isometric, Top-down view, Arkanoid

Game released: PC → 8 June 2004

Alpha Ball — another variation on the theme of the classic arkanoid, but this time, truly unusual. The fact is that in addition to the transition to a...

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

Action, Puzzle, Adventure, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 10 November 2004

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 66/100

This action-adventure game with puzzles follows Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, whose parents die in a fire. The orphans are sent to live with their sinister...

Fuck Quest 2: Romancing the Bone

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

Game released: PC → 6 December 2004

Steam: 100/100

Fuck Quest 2: Romancing the Bone is a first-person adventure with an adult twist. Fuck Quest 2: Romancing the Bone is also known as...

Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone

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

Game released: PC → 3 May 2011

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A third-person fantasy role-playing game in which a party of a fighter, sorcerer, and rogue battles enemies and overcomes obstacles. The player controls one...

Savage: The Battle for Newerth

Action, Shooter, Strategy, Fighting, In real time, First-person view, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Fantasy / Medieval, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PC → 16 July 2004

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 75/100

This multiplayer real-time strategy shooter is set in a fantasy world far in the future, where humans and the Beast Horde fight for survival. Players choose to side...

Spartan

Simulation, Strategy, Third-person view, Top-down view, Turn-based, Action, Indie, Platformer

Game released: PC → 2 October 2017

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 56/100

A 2D platformer about King Leo, who sets out to recover his city-state’s stolen goods and punish those responsible. Armed with a sword and shield, he traverses...

Medieval: Total War

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Historical, Turn-based, Action

Game released: PC → 24 March 2004

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Medieval: Total War is a legendary global historical strategy in a medieval setting. From the lush grasslands of Western Europe to the arid deserts of North Africa...

City of Heroes

Role-playing game, Online, Action, MMO, Third-person view, Comics

Game released: PC → 4 February 2005

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 85/100

City of Heroes is an exciting multiplayer action role-playing game with a third-person view. You have to play the role of a hero and go fight evil in the vastness...

RoboCop (2003)

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

Game released: PC → 23 July 2004

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 30/100

A first-person action game about the police cyborg RoboCop, who investigates a conspiracy involving OCP, local gangsters dealing a dangerous new synthetic drug, and...

Metal Slug 5

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Flight Simulator, Platformer, Anime / Manga, Tanks

Game released: PC → 17 September 2004

Metal Slug 5 is an arcade game with elements of action, shooter, flight simulator, platformer, anime or manga game and tank simulator from developers from the...

Shadow Ops: Red Mercury

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

Game released: PC → 22 October 2004

Players: 8/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 61/100

This first-person shooter follows a Delta Force operative across the hostile streets of the Middle East and into a major European city, where terrorists have...

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch

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

Game released: PC → 1 November 2004

Players: 10/10

Steam: 90/100

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch is a dynamic multiplayer action game with a first-person view in the Half-Life 2 universe. Epic battles with other players await you, built...

BreakQuest

Arcade, Action, Top-down view, Arkanoid, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 25 January 2007

Metacritic: 58/100

BreakQuest is an arcade game that builds on the BreakOut concept, adding new elements such as weapons. Players work through one hundred distinct scenes that combine...

Sonic Heroes

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

Game released: PC → 4 February 2005

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...

Tank-O-Box

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

Game released: PC → 21 July 2006

Players: 9.6/10

Tank-O-Box — you play as the commander of a tank battalion, who must break through divisions of enemy tanks, destroying everyone in his path. Tactics are no...

Desert Thunder

Action, Third-person view, Tanks

Game released: PC → 23 May 2007

Steam: 61/100

This arcade-style tank action game is set amid a military conflict in a Middle Eastern country seized by a terrorist faction. The player commands an experimental...

Full Spectrum Warrior

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

Game released: PC → 25 February 2005

Players: 10/10

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 79/100

A tactical action game about infantry operations in tense urban combat. Full Spectrum Warrior is based on a game commissioned by the U.S. Army to train light...

Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior

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

Game released: PC → 13 February 2004

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 56/100

A first-person shooter set in the grim universe of Warhammer 40,000, the game follows one day in the life of Kais, a young Tau warrior fighting the forces of the...

Postal 2: Share the Pain

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

Game released: PC → 20 May 2008

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 59/100

An expansion for Postal 2, combining the POSTAL 2 single-player game with the Share The Pain multiplayer mode. The game takes place in open 3D environments where...

Alias

Action, Stealth, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 2 July 2004

Metacritic: 61/100

This third-person action-adventure blends stealth with direct combat across a series of covert missions around the globe. The player uses spy equipment and...

Cube 2: Sauerbraten

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

Game released: PC → 6 May 2004

Players: 8.1/10

Cube 2: Sauerbraten is a first-person action game with shooter and sandbox elements from the Dot3 labs LLC studio. The main publisher of the game is Dot3 labs...

Bad Dreams

Arcade, Action, Top-down view, Arkanoid, Horror

Game released: PC → 17 May 2004

Players: 10/10

Bad Dreams is a horror action game in which a peaceful dream gives way to a dark underground complex that the protagonist must escape. An idyllic beach turns into a...

Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition

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

Game released: PC → 17 March 2008

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 96/100

Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition is a complete edition of a competitive first-person shooter in a sci-fi setting. In addition to the original Unreal...

Bejeweled 2

Action, Strategy, Puzzle, Logic, Casual game, Match-3 (Three in a row)

Game released: PC → 5 November 2004

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 69/100

This match-three puzzle game features four ways to play. Puzzle mode challenges players to solve handcrafted brain teasers against the clock, while Endless mode...

AquaNox 2: Revelation

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

Game released: PC → 1 April 2010

Players: 10/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 59/100

This science-fiction action game with shooter and simulation elements takes place in the underwater world of Aqua. In 2666, young freighter pilot William Drake sets...

Hidden & Dangerous 2

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

Game released: PC → 8 June 2005

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Hidden & Dangerous 2 — The player, controlling a team of 4 (or 1) British Special Air Service (SAS) soldiers during World War II, must conduct a series of...

Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising

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

Game released: PC → 15 June 2004

Metacritic: 82/100

This first- and third-person shooter is set in near-future Indonesia, where the country is on the verge of disintegration. Independence movements have acquired...

Wings of War

Arcade, Action, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view, Historical

Game released: PC → 1 December 2006

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 66/100

This arcade flight combat game is set amid the aerial battles of World War I. Players take the role of Benjamin, a rookie pilot facing the era’s famous flying aces...

Insaniquarium! Deluxe

Action, In real time, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Casual game, Simulation

Game released: PC → 20 November 2008

Steam: 97/100

This real-time aquarium simulation has players care for fish and defend them from invading aliens. Happy, well-fed fish reward the player with coins and jewels...

Final Fantasy XI: Chains of Promathia

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

Game released: PC → 16 September 2004

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Snail Mail

Action, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 15 November 2004

Players: 7.7/10

Snail Mail is a third-person action game from Alpha72 Games. The game is published by Sandlot...

Painkiller: Gold Edition

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

Game released: PC → 24 January 2007

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 89/100

Painkiller: Gold Edition is a complete edition of a dynamic first-person shooter with horror elements. The game contains all previously released additions and...

Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter

Action, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: PC → 7 January 2004

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 63/100

This science-fiction first-person action game with flight-simulation elements follows Mace Griffin, a Ranger who is framed and sentenced to ten years in prison...

Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna

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

Game released: PC → 26 April 2007

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna is a third-person role-playing game with action and fantasy elements from developers Gas Powered Games Corp., Mad Doc Software and...

Chicago 1930

Action, Strategy, Fighting, In real time, Third-person view, Isometric, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 16 June 2008

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 70/100

A real-time tactical game about a war between the Mafia and the police in 1930s Chicago. Don Falcone seeks control of the city’s districts, while a special task...

Asterix and Obelix: Kick Buttix

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

Game released: PC → 18 June 2004

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 59/100

This action-adventure with puzzles is set in 50 BC, when Rome has occupied nearly all of Gaul. While Asterix and Obelix are out hunting, Caesar’s troops capture the...

Looney Tunes: Sheep Raider

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

Game released: PC → 9 July 2004

Metacritic: 72/100

This 3D stealth platformer with puzzles, based on the Looney Tunes cartoons, follows Ralph Wolf as he tries to reach a flock of sheep without being caught by Sam...

Guilty Gear XX #Reload

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

Game released: PC → 7 April 2011

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 86/100

This anime fighting game features battles between more than twenty combatants, including hidden characters and EX variants. Each fighter has a range of moves and...

Void War

Arcade, Simulation, Action, Shooter, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: PC → 21 September 2004

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Void War is a space-combat game blending simulation, arcade action and elements of first-person shooters. Its single-player campaign follows a tongue-in-cheek...

Tribes: Vengeance

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

Game released: PC → 22 October 2004

Metacritic: 83/100

This futuristic first- and third-person shooter follows a war between the Empire and the Tribes, where struggles over resources intertwine with a desire for...

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