Action 2005 for Xbox — top best games in the Action genre

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - a game in the Action genre

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

Game released: Xbox → 10 June 2005

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...

Half-Life 2

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

Game released: Xbox → 17 November 2005

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 93/100

Half-Life 2 is a continuation of the legendary adventure shooter with a first-person view. You once again have to lift the crowbar of the scientist-researcher...

Far Cry

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Open world

Game released: Xbox → 27 September 2005

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...

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within

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

Game released: Xbox → 13 October 2005

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within is a continuation of the dynamic action slasher with a third-person view. The story of the game takes place several years after the...

Doom 3

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

Game released: Xbox → 3 April 2005

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 88/100

Doom 3 is a science fiction shooter with a first-person perspective and horror elements that was released in 2004 as a reboot of the original DOOM (1995). The game...

Sid Meier's Pirates!

Action, Strategy, Fighting, Warships / Submarines, In real time, Third-person view, Isometric, Sports game, Open world, Role-playing game, Adventure

Game released: Xbox → 11 July 2005

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 94/100

An adventurous pirate game that combines elements of strategy, role-playing, and sea travel simulation. In the age of great discoveries, the player becomes the...

Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath

Action, Third-person view, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Strategy

Game released: Xbox → 3 March 2005

Players: 10/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath is an action-adventure game with a third-person view in the fantasy universe of Oddworld. The game will take you into an adventure world...

Star Wars: Republic Commando

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

Game released: Xbox → 3 March 2005

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...

Zuma Deluxe

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

Game released: Xbox → 2 December 2005

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...

Fable: The Lost Chapters

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

Game released: Xbox → 18 October 2005

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Fable: The Lost Chapters is an action-adventure role-playing game with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. You have to create your own life story from...

FlatOut (2004)

Action, Racing, First-person view, Third-person view, Sports game, Online

Game released: Xbox → 12 July 2005

Players: 9/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 71/100

FlatOut is a dynamic racing arcade game with a third-person view, the distinctive feature of which is the almost complete destructibility of objects (or interaction...

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

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

Game released: Xbox → 4 November 2005

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...

Fahrenheit

Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Interactive movie

Game released: Xbox → 20 September 2005

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Fahrenheit is an interactive thriller set in New York City in January 2009, where ordinary people begin killing strangers in public according to the same ritual...

Evil Dead: Regeneration

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

Game released: Xbox → 13 September 2005

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 67/100

This third-person action horror game offers a “what if” continuation of Evil Dead 2. Ash, the sole survivor of an encounter with the Necronomicon, is confined to an...

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow

Action, Stealth, Third-person view, Shooter

Game released: Xbox → 7 April 2005

Players: 10/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow — the gameplay is not much different from the 1st part of the series. The game's graphics have been slightly...

Star Wars: Battlefront (2004)

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

Game released: Xbox → 15 September 2005

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This science-fiction action shooter is set in the Star Wars universe and features battles from Episodes I through VI. Players choose from several soldier types and...

True Crime: New York City

Action, Shooter, Fighting, Third-person view

Game released: Xbox → 25 November 2005

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 58/100

True Crime: New York City is an action game with a third-person view. Marcus Reed is an ordinary gang member who inherits his imprisoned father's criminal empire in...

Psychonauts

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Comedy, Adventure

Game released: Xbox → 3 February 2006

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Psychonauts is an action-adventure platformer with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. The plot follows a young special agent named Raz, who learns to use his...

The Punisher

Action, Shooter

Game released: Xbox → 17 January 2005

Players: 8.1/10

The game is replete with scenes of cruelty and obscene language. The interrogation scenes are especially brutal. Having caught a bandit, the Punisher can...

Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie (2005)

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

Game released: Xbox → 21 November 2005

Players: 9.6/10

Metacritic: 76/100

This action game based on the Universal Pictures film takes place in a world crawling with predators, where survival as Jack is interwoven with the legend of Kong...

Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico

Action, Shooter, Third-person view

Game released: Xbox → 27 September 2005

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico is an action game with a third-person view. 1989 Ruins of an Inca temple deep in the jungle. Ernesto Cruz has just...

Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30

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

Game released: Xbox → 15 September 2005

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 86/100

This tactical shooter about World War II follows the Allied landings in Normandy on D-Day. The player takes the role of Sergeant Matt Baker, a U.S. paratrooper...

Sniper Elite

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

Game released: Xbox → 18 October 2005

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 76/100

A tactical shooter set amid the covert battles of the closing days of World War II, it follows an American OSS sniper operating undercover in war-torn Berlin. He...

Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones

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

Game released: Xbox → 9 December 2005

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones is a continuation of the dynamic action slasher with a third-person view, which is the third part of The Sands of Time series...

007: From Russia with Love

Action, Shooter, Third-person view

Game released: Xbox → 18 November 2005

Players: 5.3/10

Metacritic: 68/100

007: From Russia with Love is a third-person shooter in which the player takes on the role of James Bond. The game consists of 14 main levels, but includes four...

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (2005)

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

Game released: Xbox → 18 November 2005

Players: 9/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This sci-fi action shooter set in the Star Wars universe follows the rise of Darth Vader’s 501st Legion of Stormtroopers. Its single-player campaign takes the...

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Action, Stealth, Third-person view

Game released: Xbox → 17 November 2005

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 76/100

A stealth-action game starring Sam Fisher, an elite operative of Third Echelon, who investigates a conspiracy and tries to prevent World War III. Missions take...

ObsCure

Role-playing game, Action, Horror, Third-person view, Survival horror, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Xbox → 6 April 2005

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 65/100

After a friend disappears, five students are trapped inside Leafmore High School and set out to uncover the cause of the mysterious events there. ObsCure is a...

Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse

Action, Horror, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Zombies

Game released: Xbox → 9 December 2005

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse is a third-person action-comedy horror game in which you take on the role of a real zombie who has risen from the depths...

Medal of Honor: European Assault

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Historical

Game released: Xbox → 16 June 2005

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 72/100

A first-person shooter about secret missions in World War II Europe. Players take the role of Lieutenant William Holt, selected by William “Wild Bill” Donovan to...

Delta Force: Black Hawk Down

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

Game released: Xbox → 26 July 2005

Players: 7.2/10

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...

X-Men: Legends

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Comics, Cyberpunk

Game released: Xbox → 27 January 2005

Players: 6.3/10

Metacritic: 81/100

A team-based role-playing game about the X-Men, in which a squad sets out to rescue a young mutant and becomes involved in a story that could unite mutantkind or...

Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green

Action, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Xbox → 18 October 2005

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 32/100

Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green — This game is a prequel to the film Land of the Dead, which takes place during the first outbreak of the zombie...

Cold Fear

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

Game released: Xbox → 15 March 2005

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 68/100

This action-horror game with survival elements follows Tom Hansen, a U.S. Coast Guard officer sent to board a drifting Russian whaling ship during a storm in the...

The Suffering: Ties That Bind

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

Game released: Xbox → 28 October 2005

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 75/100

This action-horror game unfolds in the streets and prisons of Baltimore, where Torque seeks revenge against Blackmore, a mysterious mastermind connected to the...

Spartan: Total Warrior

Action, Fighting, Third-person view

Game released: Xbox → 25 October 2005

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 73/100

This third-person action game follows a warrior fighting the Roman Empire across the battlefields of the ancient world, where clashes between armies also bring...

Shadow the Hedgehog

Action, Shooter, Fighting, Third-person view

Game released: Xbox → 15 December 2005

Players: 6.5/10

Metacritic: 48/100

Shadow the Hedgehog — is a three-dimensional platformer with elements of the action-adventure and third-person shooter genres. The main character of the game...

Project: Snowblind

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

Game released: Xbox → 11 March 2005

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Set in futuristic Hong Kong in 2065, this first-person shooter follows Nathan Frost, a second lieutenant fighting a regime that threatens the civilized world. After...

Jade Empire

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

Game released: Xbox → 18 October 2005

Players: 10/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Jade Empire is a Japanese-style third-person action RPG. The game takes place in China, where you will become a legendary warrior. You have two styles to choose...

Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil

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

Game released: Xbox → 21 October 2005

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil is an add-on for the legendary first-person shooter with horror elements Doom 3. 2147 2 years have passed since the events of Doom 3...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2005 for Xbox (Game released)