RPGs For Action Gamers

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve come across an action-gaming buddy, who detests role playing games (RPGs). Most of them keep away from this awesome genre, due to the click-fest control system and the isometric view most games have. So if you’re one of those action-gamers that I speak of, here’s a list of RPGs that you should try out, and I’m sure that it'll at least change the way you look at the genre, if not make you an RPG addict like I am…

Deus Ex

If I made a list of my favorite FPS games, and another one of my favorite RPGs, you’d see this game on both. Deus Ex takes the best from both worlds, fusing the genres to a point where you can’t distinguish between them, and at the same time offering an experience that will leave you breathless. You start off as a nano-augmented super-agent for a United Nations anti-terrorism organization named 'UNATCO'. As you progress through the game you learn more about a twisted government conspiracy, which you’re bent on uncovering. You can complete your objectives in many ways – you can choose to enhance your stealth skills as you level up, so that you move around unnoticed, you can become an electronics expert and manipulate sentry guns to make them kill your foes, or you can become adept at using weapons and use a rocket launcher to blow up anything that gets in your way. You’ll come across nano-augment canisters every now and then, which you can use to enhance different parts of your body (before you get any wrong ideas, NO! you cannot enhance that part!). You can even modify your guns to become more stable, or attach a scope to help you pop some skulls from miles away. All in all, Deus Ex is an experience that will please anybody… an action fan too, since the RPG elements are so subtely placed that they become one with the action. So either play it now, or stab yourself in the head with the next sharp object you find for missing one of the greatest games ever.