Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

Title: Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor
Publisher: WB Games
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/19/2014
Overview: NOTE: This is a two disc game, but it only counts as one disc against your rental plan.

Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor is an action role-playing game set in an open-world version of Tolkien’s Middle-earth. You play as Talion, a ranger who develops wraith-like magical abilities after coming back from the dead. You’ll decide whether to develop Talion’s wraith skills or his ranger skills as you journey to familiar Tolkien locations on a quest to return to Mordor and pay Sauron back for that whole “killing you” thing. There are a ton of optional side quests, and the new Nemesis System makes Middle-earth more personal by remembering players’ interactions with specific types of NPCs and adjusting how those characters react later. That includes enemies, of course, some of whom will curse your name and seek you out for revenge! Fan-favorite Gollum even shows up as an NPC.

Assassin's Creed: Rogue

Title: Assassin's Creed: Rogue
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/10/2014
Overview: Set in North America during the bloody Seven Years War, this action-adventure game lets you play as Shay Patrick Cormac, an assassin whose life has history-wide implications. Cormac’s journey is from Assassin to Assassin-Hunter, so he’ll use all of his skills and training to take down his ex-brothers. The open-world setting and stealth gameplay mechanics from previous AC games are back, as are the naval battles from Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. This time your ship can navigate rivers. You’ll also have a new arsenal of weapons to choose from. New ship-based weapons include an oil slick, which can be ignited. Personal weaponry features the customizable air rifle, which allows you to silently strike down enemies from very far away.

Grand Theft Auto V

Title: Grand Theft Auto V
Publisher: Rockstar Games
Platform: Xbox One
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/17/2014
Overview: GTA V unleashes a saga so big you’ll need three main characters to experience it. Switch between the lives of three criminals chasing success in a city that was once great, but now finds itself awash in economic doubt and cheap reality TV. Explore the massive (even by GTA standards) city of Los Santos and the surrounding Blaine County, a world of fading celebrities, wannabe starlets, self-help gurus, fitness freaks, and other sun-soaked weirdos. Here, street crime will only get you so far. To score big, you need to create a blockbuster. Work together on epic heists, multi-part missions that require precision planning and execution, and risk it all in a city built on big dreams…and littered with spectacular failures. The Xbox One version features new weapons, vehicles, activities, and enhanced gameplay to make your experience more immersive than ever.

Murdered: Soul Suspect

Title: Murdered: Soul Suspect
Publisher: Square Enix
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 6/2/2014
Overview: You are Ronan O’Conner, a detective out to solve the most important case of your life. The only snag is the fact that you’re dead. And the murder you must solve is your very own. Murdered: Soul Suspect is a single-player, action-adventure game that takes you down the dark and twisty alleys inside the mysterious city of Salem. Stuck in a limbo world called Dusk, Ronan must explore the worlds of both the living and the dead to find out how he was brutally murdered. To do this, you’ll have to use your powers to read minds and speak to ghosts, all the while fending off demonic spirits who will try to devour Ronan’s soul. So put on that thinking cap and put your best supernatural detective skills to work!

Watch Dogs

Title: Watch Dogs
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Xbox One
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 5/24/2014
Overview: Watch Dogs is an ambitious, open-world action game that puts players in the middle of a technological police state. In near-future Chicago, a comprehensive and connected system of cameras, screens, and computers keeps the populace under constant watch. Aiden Pearce disrupts the oppressive operating system behind it all. As a supreme hacker, Pearce can infiltrate the system and hijack the technology around him. He can turn the system against itself by messing with traffic lights, eavesdropping on strangers’ cell-phone calls, and otherwise creating chaos. Watch Dogs pushes current-generation consoles to their limits and creates a fully immersive, living, breathing city where your actions can affect everything around you. It features innovative multiplayer modes, breathtaking visuals, deep AI, and an engrossing story.

Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag

Title: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: PS4
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/11/2013
Overview: NOTE: Rental of this title does not include the Uplay Passport required by Ubisoft for access to online features and game modes beyond level five. The single-use code is included with purchase. Code required to access bonus content is included with purchase, but not with rental of this title.

The latest Assassin’s Creed takes players deep into the world of pirates, privateers, and the salty dogs and scallywags of the open sea. Set in the exotic Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag boasts a huge open world ripe for plunder and exploration. Experience ship-to-ship combat, underwater investigation, and the kind of stealthy gameplay and exotic weapons that fans of the series crave. You’ll play as Edward Kenway, genetic relation of past AC protagonists Connor and Haytham Kenway, and delve deep into the history-wide conspiracy that defines the Assassin’s Creed experience. The PS4 version takes advantage of the DualShock 4’s touch pad and will feature over an hour of additional content starring Aveline, the lead female assassin from Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation, in three exclusive missions.

Knack

Title: Knack
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: PS4
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/13/2013
Overview: The unlikely hero of Knack stands only three feet tall, but harnesses the power of ancient relics to transform himself into a powerful brute or even a gigantic wrecking machine! Knack will need all the relic-based power-ups he can gather for his battle against a world-destroying army of goblins, tanks, and robots in this frantic action-adventure game from video game legend Mark Cerny. Knack allows for two-player drop-in/drop-out co-op play, and features easy-to-learn controls, a unique and vibrant world rendered with stunning PS4 graphics, challenging enemies, and a style Sony describes as “old-school meets next-gen.” In other words, Knack is the perfect mix of Old, New, and Goblins!

LEGO: Marvel Super Heroes

Title: LEGO: Marvel Super Heroes
Publisher: WB Games
Platform: PS4
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/13/2013
Overview: With great power comes great responsibility. So grab those powers by the horns as your favorite superhero and smash them LEGO style! With close to 150 characters to choose from, take control of the Marvel Universe using the likes of Spider-Man, Captain America, Wolverine, Iron Man, and many more. Band together to stop Doctor Doom, the trickster god Loki, and the rest of their villainous friends from destroying the world brick by brick. Explore LEGO Manhattan and geek out as you venture into famous Marvel locations like the X-Mansion and Stark Tower. Side missions are narrated by the mercenary antihero Deadpool. With LEGO: Marvel Super Heroes, the power to save the world is in your hands!

Dead Rising 3

Title: Dead Rising 3
Publisher: Microsoft
Platform: Xbox One
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/21/2013
Overview: The Dead Rising franchise returns with even more zombie horror to keep you up all night! Ten years after the Fortune City outbreak in Dead Rising 2, you play as a young mechanic named Nick Ramos. Help Nick escape the zombie-infested city of Los Perdidos, California before a military strike wipes him and other survivors off the grid. Dead Rising 3 immerses you in a massive open-world environment where zombies are smarter and deadlier with improved next-gen AI. Use Kinect to enhance the terror as zombies can hear and adapt to your reactions off-screen. The Xbox SmartGlass feature connects you to the Zombie Defense and Control network and can be used to obtain new weapons or to order military air strikes. With new vehicles and weapons to decapitate zombies with, Dead Rising 3 promises to be bloodier than ever.

Ryse: Son of Rome

Title: Ryse: Son of Rome
Publisher: Microsoft
Platform: Xbox One
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/21/2013
Overview: Ryse: Son of Rome is an action-adventure game that tells an epic tale of revenge spanning an entire lifetime. The story follows Marius Titus from his early childhood to his ascension to General in the Roman Army. Once you’ve seized power, you’ll work with the Roman infantry to enact your terrible vengeance, commanding your troops in ruthless battles and getting your hands dirty with quick-time-event finishing moves during combat. Fifteen heroic, fully motion-captured characters have the same level of detail as Marius, and Ryse takes advantage of Microsoft’s Kinect by allowing players to control Marius while simultaneously directing his legion through Kinect voice commands. There will also be a co-op multiplayer mode, where players fight each other in a gladiator arena setting.

LEGO: Marvel Super Heroes

Title: LEGO: Marvel Super Heroes
Publisher: WB Games
Platform: Xbox One
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/25/2013
Overview: With great power comes great responsibility. So grab those powers by the horns as your favorite superhero and smash them LEGO style! With close to 150 characters to choose from, take control of the Marvel Universe using the likes of Spider-Man, Captain America, Wolverine, Iron Man, and many more. Band together to stop Doctor Doom, the trickster god Loki, and the rest of their villainous friends from destroying the world brick by brick. Explore LEGO Manhattan and geek out as you venture into famous Marvel locations like the X-Mansion and Stark Tower. Side missions are narrated by the mercenary antihero Deadpool. With LEGO: Marvel Super Heroes, the power to save the world is in your hands!

Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate

Title: Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate
Publisher: WB Games
Platform: PS Vita
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/24/2013
Overview: Experience the origin of a legend on PS Vita as the Batman Arkham series makes its handheld debut. Batman: Arkham Origins follows the Caped Crusader’s rise from raw crime-fighter to unstoppable hero. This companion Blackgate storyline gives you a chance to dive even deeper into the Dark Knight’s beginnings. Set just after the events of the console saga, Blackgate begins with an explosion at Gotham’s highest-security prison. Blackgate Prison is home to Gotham’s most twisted, fiendish, criminal masterminds – many of them put there by Batman himself. With the inmates running wild, it’s up to the Bat to restore order. Experience an action-packed, crime-fighting brawler with stylized 2.5D visuals and voiced cut scenes that propel the story forward.

Beyond: Two Souls

Title: Beyond: Two Souls
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/7/2013
Overview: Motion-capture technology blends with Hollywood storytelling to create a revolutionary new experience from the makers of Heavy Rain. Beyond: Two Souls follows the life of Jodie Holmes, a young woman gifted with incredible powers through a psychic link to an invisible entity. Experience gut-wrenching decisions and life-altering events in a branching, evolving story that spans 15 years of Jodie’s life. Solve puzzles with innovative control sequences and survive cinematic action scenes as you control Jodie and the mysterious force to which she is bound. The game takes realistic visuals to a new level, using “performance capture” technology that allows Oscar-nominated actors Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe to bring the characters to life like never before.

Tomb Raider

Title: Tomb Raider
Publisher: Square Enix
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 3/5/2013
Overview: A legendary franchise reboots as Tomb Raider flashes back to the time before Lara Croft was a gun-wielding, butt-kicking, tomb-raiding hero. When the young researcher washes up on an uncharted island after a shipwreck, she believes she’s alone – until strange noises start coming from the shadows. Travel across the open island wilderness and through the tombs underground as ruthless predators stalk your every move. Adapt to your surroundings in a gritty battle to survive using your wits, brute strength, and whatever weapons you can find. Fight unflinching melee battles as the hunted becomes the hunter in a cinematic story tailor-made for Lara Croft.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Title: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Publisher: Konami
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 2/19/2013
Overview: Metal Gear returns with a new mission, one that trades the shadows of stealth for the white-hot blaze of over-the-top battle. Instead of covert ops and stealth infiltration, in Revengeance you’ll barrel into battle, where you’ll slice through cyborg enemies in furious stylized combat. Your character, Raiden, spent his early years as a legendary child soldier known as “Jack the Ripper.” Raiden has graduated to the combat big leagues and is now a full-on mercenary for hire, performing missions for PMSCs (Private Military and Security Companies) in a world recovering from a brutal Civil War. The fragile world is ripe for the taking, and Raiden and his blade will be the last line of defense against a coming cyborg invasion.

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time

Title: Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 2/4/2013
Overview: Sly Cooper and his gang of thieves are in for a job so big, they’ll have to travel through time to pull it off! The crafty raccoon is living a low-key life of leisure. His buddy Bentley has been trusted with guarding the Thievus Raccoonus, the volume that holds the marauding exploits and skills of the Cooper gang. When Bentley begins traveling through time, pages from the Thievus Raccoonus start disappearing, and Sly is called back into action to track them down. Go on a time-traveling stealth-action platform adventure with Sly and his band of merry misfits. Solve puzzles and wear new costumes that unlock new moves in battle in a hilarious story that’s cross-compatible with PSVita.

Hitman Trilogy HD

Title: Hitman Trilogy HD
Publisher: Square Enix
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 1/28/2013
Overview: Play the missions that made Agent 47 a legend as gaming’s most famous gun-for-hire gets a greatest hits package. The Hitman Trilogy HD combines three classic Hitman games, letting you experience 40 of the franchise’s most unforgettable missions. Play Hitman Contracts, Hitman 2 Silent Assassin, and Hitman: Blood Money, all remastered with full HD presentation and Trophy support. Choose the tactic you think will be the most effective way to eliminate your target in open-ended play that ranges from strategic stealth combat to explosive run-and-gun action. Hone your techniques as you become a master assassin in these three thrilling Hitman stories.

DMC: Devil May Cry

Title: DMC: Devil May Cry
Publisher: Capcom
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 1/14/2013
Overview: DMC: Devil May Cry reboots the stylish action franchise with a darker edge and raw storyline that cuts to the core of Dante’s struggle in the face of his demon-slaying powers. Haunted and hunted by demons his entire life, the son of an angel and demon has nothing left to lose, and that’s bad news for the creatures of the Underworld. Summon Dante’s angelic and demonic powers instantly to string together combos in stylized shootouts and swordplay that stay true to the franchise’s roots. You’ll send demons back where they came from in action sequences that unfold like ballet, if ballet was filled with bullets, blades, and explosions consuming everything in sight.

The Walking Dead

Title: The Walking Dead
Publisher: Telltale Games
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 12/10/2012
Overview: Enter the nightmarish world of the Walking Dead in this collection that brings together all five downloadable episodes of the award-winning Walking Dead episodic game. Experience a story based on the comic books and foreshadowing the events of the TV series. Play as Lee Everett, a convicted criminal trying to hang on in a world overrun by zombies and filled with desperate survivors. Every action has a consequence in play where your choices will shape the story. Encounter horrifying creatures and experience nightmarish scenarios, making hard choices in the blink of an eye as you do whatever it takes to live another day.

Anarchy Reigns

Title: Anarchy Reigns
Publisher: Sega
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 1/7/2013
Overview: This explosive mix of massive and mayhem throws together human and cyborg warriors, takes away all the rules, and challenges you to be the last one standing. Anarchy Reigns is close-quarters chaos in combat form, a furious fight for survival filled with over-the-top weapons and unforgettable finishing moves. Play as your choice of two characters in two single-player campaigns where you’ll fight to survive a post-apocalyptic world gone mad. Those who are most creative – and ruthless – have the best odds of surviving multiplayer co-op or every-man-for-himself battles. Real-time Action Trigger Events (think plane crashes and black holes) show up at random and push the action further over the edge.