Action 2009 for PC — top best games in the Action genre

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat - a game in the Action genre

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Open world, Survival

Game released: PC → 2 February 2010

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 80/100

A continuation of the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, in which the player takes on the role of government agent Alexander Degtyarev. He infiltrates...

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

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

Game released: PC → 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: 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...

League of Legends

Role-playing game, Strategy, Online, In real time, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Action, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 30 October 2009

Players: 5.9/10

Metacritic: 78/100

League of Legends is an online real-time strategy role-playing game in a fantasy setting. Choose your character and engage in team-to-team battle. Use your...

Resident Evil 5

Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Zombies

Game released: PC → 18 September 2009

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Left 4 Dead 2

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Zombies, Cooperative (co-op), Online

Game released: PC → 20 November 2009

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 89/100

This cooperative first-person horror shooter is set during a zombie apocalypse in the southern United States. Across five campaigns, four survivors travel from...

Manhunt 2

Action, Horror, Stealth, Third-person view, Puzzle, Adult game

Game released: PC → 6 November 2009

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 66/100

Manhunt 2 is a continuation of the scandalous action game with a third-person view and horror elements. During secret laboratory tests, a fatal mistake occurred...

Point Blank

Action, Shooter, Online, First-person view

Game released: PC → 19 March 2008

VGTimes: 5.0/10

Players: 6.5/10

A multiplayer FPS from the South Korean studio Zepetto. The project largely resembles games from the Counter-Strike series and focuses on online battles (there is...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009)

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Online

Game released: PC → 11 November 2009

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 91/100

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is a first-person shooter. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 takes place five years after the end of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare...

ArmA 2

Simulation, Action, Shooter, Strategy, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view, Helicopters, Sandbox, Tanks, Online

Game released: PC → 31 July 2009

VGTimes: 8.0/10

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This first- and third-person military simulation is set in the fictional post-Soviet state of Chernarus, where U.S. Marines become caught in a conflict over control...

Far Cry

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Open world

Game released: PC → 2 April 2009

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Far Cry is an exciting first-person shooter. You are Jack Carver, the owner of a small charter company that rents boats in the tropical state of Micronesia. With...

Aion

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

Game released: PC → 28 December 2009

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Aion is a free-to-play multiplayer action role-playing game with a third-person view in a fantasy setting from the creators of Lineage 2. Atreya is a destroyed...

Prototype

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

Game released: PC → 9 June 2009

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This open-world action game follows Alex Mercer, a man with no memory and the ability to reshape his body, as he investigates the conspiracy behind his origins. His...

Risen

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

Game released: PC → 2 October 2009

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Risen is an atmospheric action role-playing game with a third-person view in a fantasy setting from the creators of the Gothic series. In the game you have to...

Borderlands

Action, Shooter, First-person view

Game released: PC → 15 February 2011

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Borderlands is a science-fiction first-person shooter that combines action with character customization and vehicular combat. Its content-generation system provides...

The Saboteur

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Open world

Game released: PC → 8 December 2009

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 74/100

The Saboteur is an action-adventure game with a third-person view. In this game you will have to avenge the death of your loved ones by tracking down their killers...

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...

Gothic 3

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

Game released: PC → 18 September 2009

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 63/100

This open-world fantasy role-playing game follows the Nameless Hero as he reaches the mainland of Myrtana, where orcs have conquered much of the human kingdom and...

Burnout Paradise

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

Game released: PC → 5 February 2009

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 87/100

Burnout Paradise is an arcade racing game made in three-dimensional graphics. The action takes place in the fictional city of Paradise City, which is divided into...

Condemned: Criminal Origins

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, Fighting, First-person view, Detective, Survival

Game released: PC → 23 April 2009

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 80/100

A dark psychological thriller in which the hunt for killers gradually turns into a hunt for one's own sanity. FBI agent Ethan Thomas investigates a series of brutal...

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3

Action, Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Online

Game released: PC → 1 April 2009

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 is a continuation of the popular real-time strategy game with an isometric camera view in a sci-fi setting, which tells the story of...

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...

The Godfather: The Game

Action, Third-person view, Adventure

Game released: PC → 6 October 2009

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 75/100

The Godfather: The Game is an open-world action-adventure game with a third-person view, based on the cult gangster films “The Godfather”. USA post-war years...

Overlord 2

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

Game released: PC → 24 September 2009

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Overlord 2 is a continuation of the exciting action game with a third-person view and elements of tactical strategy. The Dark Master returns to regain his former...

Zombie Driver

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Racing, Isometric, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Sports game

Game released: PC → 17 February 2010

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Zombie Driver is a whirlwind racing action game with a top-down view in the dangerous world of the zombie apocalypse. You have to travel around a city inhabited by...

Mass Effect

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Science fiction

Game released: PC → 19 December 2008

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 90/100

Mass Effect is a sci-fi action RPG with a third-person perspective. The events of the game will take you to XXII, when humanity mastered the technology of...

Star Wars: Republic Commando

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

Game released: PC → 8 July 2009

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Star Wars: Republic Commando is a fast-paced first-person shooter set in the Star Wars universe. You have to try on the role of captain of an elite Commando squad...

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

Action, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Survival horror

Game released: PC → 26 April 2006

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This first-person horror game combines action and adventure with exploration, investigation, and combat against supernatural evil. Its varied levels range from...

Battlefield Vietnam

Action, Shooter, Warships / Submarines, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view, Helicopters, Historical, Tanks

Game released: PC → 26 June 2008

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Battlefield Vietnam is a first-person shooter. The game takes place during the Vietnam War. There are two warring parties in the game: the US/South Vietnamese army...

Divine Divinity

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

Game released: PC → 29 October 2009

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 79/100

An isometric role-playing game set in a fantasy world torn apart by corruption and dark magic. During the journey, the player develops a character from one of six...

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Comics

Game released: PC → 1 May 2009

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 70/100

X-Men Origins: Wolverine - the plot of the game follows the plot of the film of the same name, although the events are not presented in chronological order, and...

Medal of Honor: Airborne

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Historical

Game released: PC → 12 October 2010

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Medal of Honor: Airborne is a continuation of the series of military first-person shooters. In the new part, the game will offer increased freedom of action. Now...

Mirror's Edge (2008)

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Parkour, First-person view, Exploration

Game released: PC → 12 January 2009

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This first-person action-adventure is set in a city where information is closely monitored and couriers known as Runners secretly carry sensitive data. Runner Faith...

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Action, Stealth, Third-person view, Comics

Game released: PC → 18 September 2009

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 91/100

This third-person action game follows Batman inside Arkham Asylum and across the surrounding island, where the Joker sets a trap after being taken into custody...

Project Freedom

Action, Simulation, Space

Game released: PC → 14 October 2009

Steam: 86/100

This space combat simulator follows a pilot who joins the corporation Project Freedom. Its campaign spans 21 missions, with sorties involving ship escorts, strikes...

Torchlight

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

Game released: PC → 9 April 2010

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Torchlight is an action RPG with an isometric camera view in a fantasy setting. The city of Torchlight sits on a mountain that is the source of a magical resource...

Driver: Parallel Lines

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

Game released: PC → 26 June 2007

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Driver: Parallel Lines is a racing action game with a third-person view. 1978 The main character, nicknamed "TK" (real name Terry Kiddams), comes from the provinces...

Wolfenstein

Action, Shooter, First-person view

Game released: PC → 18 August 2009

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Set in an alternate version of World War II, this first-person shooter follows OSA agent B.J. Blazkowicz as he battles Nazi troops, supernatural forces and weapons...

The Godfather 2

Action, Shooter, Strategy, Fighting, Third-person view, Adult game

Game released: PC → 15 June 2010

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 65/100

The Godfather 2 is a continuation of the open-world action-adventure game with a third-person view, based on the cult gangster films The Godfather. Michael Corleone...

Saints Row 2

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

Game released: PC → 5 February 2009

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Saints Row 2 is a third-person gangster action game set in a large open world. The story takes place in the fictional town of Stillwater. The main character escapes...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2009 for PC (Game released)