Thanks to its consistent quality across two full releases and a pair of additional DLC offerings, Bethesda's Dishonored series has earned its place among the top first -
person adventure games out there.
Not exact matches
It's essentially an open - world
adventure game aimed at
people who want to play
out their pirate fantasies.
I personally hope for a new Metroid (even more than Starfox) As great as a new Starfox would be, I think Metroid will do more favors for Wii U than an on - the - rails shooter, of course there's the chance they'll try a new style for Starfox but that doesn't always work
out so well — for example take Starfox
Adventures, or Metroid: other M, I really liked both
games, but the majority of
people tend to criticize them for being the black sheep of their respective franchises.
Nathan Drake's second
outing, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, is far from the most innovative
game to arrive during the current generation, but as soon as I played it I knew the third -
person action -
adventure had been perfected.
People say he won it in a poker
game, but her mother, Ida, remembers him paying cash, the money he made starring in The
Adventures of Don Juan («He had to take that money
out of America quick - quick before the first wife found
out about it; he wanted a house pink like the sunset,» Ida said).
Whatever you like about video
games — driving sims, fighting
games, action
adventures, first -
person shooters or something else entirely — it's good to stop and take a moment to check
out what
games there are to look forward to in January.
The
game plays
out as a choose your own
adventure, with each dialogue option impacting your journey and the
people you meet.
The fact that the
game stars a cute and charismatic mouse and also takes inspiration from the likes of the Zelda series was enough to peak many
people's interest, and it turns
out that Moss is one fine
adventure that also makes excellent use of the PlayStation VR headset.
First
Person Horror
Adventure - Puzzle
game Among the Sleep is currently available digitally on PC and PlayStation 4, with an Xbox One version supposedly coming
out at some point.
Players start
out exploring through several «
adventure» areas like the city, ancient ruins, etc., which act as the main hub of the
game, where you can run around, talk to
people, and perform actions to progress the story, as well as take part in action stages a.k.a. the «regular levels» which often have you burning across massive environments with blazing speed.
Some parts of the chapter are typical fare for an
adventure game; you need to search the area, find clues, and say the right things to get information
out of
people.
Sure, there are upgrades that alter your character's DNA with unnatural abilities, and the
game itself plays
out as a first
person adventure, but the similarities seem to end there... at first.
His fan base was small,
People treated him like dirt, and said he was inferior to Mario (Question of the day: would you rather play as a hero who hogs all the limelight, leaves his brother behind on
adventures and forced Donkey Kong to perform in a circus (until he broke
out and the Donkey Kong arcade
game took place.)
Features • Sci - Fi action /
adventure combines aerial and on - foot combat for a totally unique third -
person shooter experience • Will's jetpack delives total freedom of movement allowing players to race against UFOs in high - speed chases and rain death from above onto unsuspecting otherworldly foes • Speed and scale unmatched by any other action title: send Will zipping through tight corridors and then
out into immense canyons and futuristic geoscapes • Gravity - defying vertical combat system, where moving up is the only way to bring your enemies down • Seemless transition between jetpack flight, ship - to - ship dog fighting and third -
person shoot - «em - up action all exists within the same level — not broken up into different «areas» • Unique grip system that allows the players to scale walls by jumping from surface to surface and hijack UFO's while in mid-air • Huge bosses that require fast reflexes and aerial barnstorming manoeuvres to defeat • Developed by Airtight Studios, a new group featuring team members from the Crimson Skies series of video
games
Thanks to the developer Austin Schaeffer, we bring you an exclusive small look at his first
person puzzle
adventure Altered State in its current alpha stage of development, showcasing how the
game has come from the last time we spoke of it with earlier footage, and getting a better idea of how the
game will play
out.
While that may not seem
out of the ordinary for MMO veterans, the
game doesn't throw that many other
people in a session, so the few
people that you meet are still novelties and you're certainly tempted to join them in their action and craft your own
adventure.
A first
person fantasy
adventure game that plays like Punch -
Out!!
Game Informer's Brian Shea chronicles all the ways that Sonic went wrong from the canceled Saturn - exclusive Sonic X-Treme to Sonic
Adventure 2 being developed by a staff of just eleven
people to unrelenting holiday shopping dates to get 2006's disappointing Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360
out the door on time.
As I'm sure your aware the closing months of the year (September, October and November) host the releases of some of the biggest
games of the year; from ferocious first -
person shooters to epic open world
adventures, theres no denying this is when the big boys come
out to play.
The
game itself plays
out as a third -
person platforming
adventure, with players exploring linear, surreal landscapes that follow a specific theme.
Visitors will also have the chance to try
out A Story About My Uncle, a non-violent indie first -
person adventure game developed by Gone North Games that is being published by Coffee Stain Studios and released in Summer 2014.
You get kidnapped by Satan himself and taken straight to Hell, or at least according to Volition and High Voltage Software's Saints Row: Gat
Out of Hell, the latest standalone expansion for the campy, action - packed third -
person open world
adventure game.
While set
out as a 3rd
person adventure you are still in a
game routed in point - and - click mechanics.
Having missed
out on The Unfinished Swan when the
game made its debut on the PlayStation 3 in 2012, when Giant Sparrow announced that their paint - flinging, first -
person adventure game was coming to PlayStation Vita it left me with no excuses not to give it a go.
Affordable Space
Adventures stands
out as one of the coolest
games that very few
people played: an indie sci - fi exploration title that made the gamepad into a Space Team - style engine room.
Apparently, Sledgehammer threw its plans for a third -
person person adventure game out the window, if the first -
person view at 0:59 is any indication.
San Francisco - based studio Visceral is working on a new third -
person game to be
out in 2018, which looks cinematic and ambitious, and promises a narrative
adventure with a new set of characters.
The market is changing to where most
people does not want to take the time to learn to type, spell, or figure
out how to talk to a computer via an
adventure game.
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes is a third -
person, stealth action -
adventure game where players are encouraged to not engage with enemies at all (but can), sneaking past them by crawling in corridors, shooting
out cameras and creating diversions.
Described as a puzzle
game, Shadow of the Colossus is a minimalist, third -
person, action -
adventure with gameplay that consists of exploring the terrain and discovering giant colossi that players have to defeat by climbing on and figuring
out their weak points.
Grim Fandango quite genuinely sports some elegant writing and looks like no other
game out there; it features probably the worst
adventure game engine of all time; it is so bad and cripples the
game so much that I'm convinced that the only reason
people put it on their top - ten lists is because the trauma it caused led them to forget it entirely.
Guerrilla Games are branching
out well beyond what Playstation
gamers might know them for (Killzone) to take a chance with this open - world, third -
person action
adventure game.
I tried it
out with Overwatch, StarCraft II, Rise of the Tomb Raider and Marvel Heroes, to give it the full spectrum of first -
person shooter, real - time strategy, action /
adventure and massively multiplayer online
games.