Action 2006 for Xbox 360 — top best games in the Action genre

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion - a game in the Action genre

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 20 March 2006

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 94/100

Set in Cyrodiil, Tamriel’s central province, this open-world role-playing game follows the search for a hidden heir after an unknown assassin kills the emperor...

DOOM (1993)

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Old school, Demons

Game released: Xbox 360 → 27 September 2006

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 82/100

F.E.A.R.

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view

Game released: Xbox 360 → 1 February 2007

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 82/100

F.E.A.R. — a dynamic shooter with a first-person view and horror elements. A mysterious paramilitary force has infiltrated a multibillion-dollar aerospace...

Gears of War

Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Xbox 360 → 29 December 2009

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 91/100

Gears of War is an action game with a third-person view in a fantastic post-apocalyptic setting. The game's plot revolves around Delta Force soldiers defending...

Tomb Raider: Legend

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 11 August 2009

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This third-person action-adventure follows Lara Croft as she travels the world in search of one of history’s greatest artifacts. The quest brings figures from her...

Tomb Raider: Anniversary

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 21 September 2010

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Tomb Raider: Anniversary is an anniversary edition of the adventure saga about the legendary tomb raider Lara Croft. The game is based on the very first part of the...

Condemned: Criminal Origins

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 9 March 2010

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...

Hitman: Blood Money

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 30 March 2010

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 82/100

A stealth action game about contract killer Agent 47, who travels to America after an unknown organization begins eliminating members of his agency, the ICA. When...

Just Cause

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 29 October 2018

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This open-world action game follows Rico Rodriguez, an operative sent to the island of San Esperito to overthrow its corrupt government. The South American state is...

Marvel Ultimate Alliance

Role-playing game, Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Comics, Adventure

Game released: Xbox 360 → 3 November 2006

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Marvel Ultimate Alliance is an exciting action role-playing game with an isometric camera view about Marvel superheroes. The game will allow you to create your own...

The Godfather: The Game

Action, Third-person view, Adventure

Game released: Xbox 360 → 25 January 2007

Players: 9.2/10

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...

Dead Rising

Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view, Zombies, Adventure

Game released: Xbox 360 → 8 August 2006

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Dead Rising is a dynamic zombie action game with a third-person view and horror elements. The main character of the game is journalist-photographer Frank West, who...

Final Fantasy XI

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 21 April 2006

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...

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 1 September 2009

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 34/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent is an adventure stealth action game with a third-person view in the Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell series. The events of the...

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3

Action, Fighting, Third-person view

Game released: Xbox 360 → 22 October 2006

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 63/100

Galaga

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Xbox 360 → 26 July 2006

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 66/100

This arcade space shooter and sequel to GALAXIAN pits a fighter craft against waves of invading aliens. The player moves the ship left and right, shoots down...

Pac-Man

Arcade, Action, Top-down view

Game released: Xbox 360 → 9 August 2006

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 58/100

Pac-Man is a top-down arcade action game. You have to guide Pac-Man through the maze and eat all the dots without being caught by the ghosts. You will find exciting...

Call of Duty 3

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Historical

Game released: Xbox 360 → 10 November 2006

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 77/100

A first-person shooter about the Allied offensive during World War II, connected to the Normandy Breakout and the liberation of Paris. Call of Duty 3 tells the...

Saints Row (2006)

Action, Shooter, Third-person view

Game released: Xbox 360 → 18 August 2009

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 81/100

This third-person action game with shooter elements is set in Stilwater, a city divided among rival gangs. The protagonist joins the 3rd Street Saints and fights to...

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 11 August 2009

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas — Rainbow operatives take to the chaotic streets of Las Vegas as an intensifying terrorist siege in Sin City threatens to take...

Frogger (2010)

Arcade, Action, Top-down view

Game released: Xbox 360 → 12 July 2006

Metacritic: 61/100

Frogger (2010) is a top-down arcade game with action elements from the developers of Konami Industry Co. Ltd.. The game's primary publisher is Misosys, Inc.. In...

Bionicle Heroes

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Xbox 360 → 24 November 2006

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 59/100

This third-person action-adventure follows a young hero who leaves the real world for the dangerous and mysterious universe of Bionicle. To overcome the challenges...

Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Casual game

Game released: Xbox 360 → 23 March 2006

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved is an arcade shooter in which a geometric ship is trapped in a grid world and faces waves of wanderers, snakes and repulsars. The goal...

Prey 2006

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 11 August 2009

Players: 8/10

Prey is an adventure shooter with a first-person view in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game will tell the story of a young mechanic, Tommy, from the Cherokee...

Contra

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Side view

Game released: Xbox 360 → 8 November 2006

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 63/100

This side-scrolling action platformer follows two commandos, Lance and Bill, as they infiltrate the base of the Red Falcon organization, which plans to conquer...

Defender (1981)

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Xbox 360 → 15 November 2006

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 58/100

A futuristic arcade shooter about defending humanity from alien forces invading the galaxy. The player controls a defender of the planet and destroys the invaders...

Robotron: 2084

Arcade, Action, Third-person view

Game released: Xbox 360 → 6 January 2006

Metacritic: 65/100

Robotron: 2084 is an arcade action game set in a future where humanity’s super-advanced cyborg creations, the Robotrons, have decided to exterminate their creators...

Ultimate DOOM

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 27 September 2006

Players: 8.4/10

Ultimate DOOM — the legendary bloody first-person shooter, now with the new fourth episode "Thy Flesh Consumed". The demons came and all the Marines died...

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 29 February 2008

Players: 10/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is an action-adventure game with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting. Brought to the brink of extinction on an icy wasteland...

Battlefield 2: Modern Combat

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 2 March 2007

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 79/100

This first- and third-person military shooter depicts modern conflicts between the United States, China and the newly formed Middle East Coalition. Players fight in...

Dig Dug

Arcade, Action, Third-person view

Game released: Xbox 360 → 11 October 2006

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 65/100

Dig Dug is an arcade action game set in underground tunnels, where the hero digs through the earth while hunting monsters. A harpoon pump inflates enemies until...

Astropop

Action, Strategy, Puzzle, Casual game

Game released: Xbox 360 → 22 March 2006

Players: 10/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 78/100

A space-themed puzzle game in which the player uses a powerful magnet to move blocks and match those of the same color. The blocks descend toward the spaceship and...

Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII

Action, Flight Simulator, Third-person view, Historical

Game released: Xbox 360 → 31 March 2006

Metacritic: 65/100

Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII — Dunkirk Angels — is the name of the player's squadron in the game. It consists of the player, Tom "Shield," Joe "Mechanic...

Far Cry: Instincts - Predator

Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Collection, Sandbox

Game released: Xbox 360 → 1 March 2011

Players: 6.6/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Far Cry: Instincts — Predator — an improved edition of the first-person shooter Far Cry: Instincts — Evolution. The game features improved...

Prey (Limited Collector's Edition)

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 11 July 2006

Metacritic: 81/100

This science-fiction first-person shooter with puzzles follows Tommy, a mechanic abducted with his loved ones aboard an alien mothership orbiting Earth. To save...

Feeding Frenzy

Action, Educational game (Education), Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Xbox 360 → 10 March 2006

Metacritic: 65/100

This arcade action game puts the player in control of a fish that hunts smaller sea creatures and evades larger ones. The more it eats, the bigger it grows...

Dead or Alive 4

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 10 November 2021

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Dead or Alive 4 — the game's plot focuses on the story of Elena, a young woman who takes the helm of power at DOATEC after the death of her father. The game...

LEGO Star Wars 2: The Original Trilogy (2006)

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 12 September 2006

Players: 6.4/10

Metacritic: 79/100

This action-platform adventure retells the events of Star Wars Episodes IV–VI with humor and LEGO-style characters and settings. Players battle through scenes from...

Jetpac Refuelled

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Emulator

Game released: Xbox 360 → 24 October 2006

Metacritic: 73/100

This arcade action game has players assembling and refuelling rockets while fending off hostile locals. More than 100 stages introduce new enemies and weapon...

Eragon

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

Game released: Xbox 360 → 25 November 2006

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 54/100

This third-person fantasy action game, based on the film, follows Eragon and his dragon Saphira on a journey to fulfill their destiny. Combat combines varied...

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Best Games in the Action genre of 2006 for Xbox 360 (Game released)