Category: Action/Adventure

Title: LEGO Lord of the Rings
Publisher: WB Games
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/29/2012
Overview: Experience the incredible Lord of the Rings Trilogy as told by little LEGO figures in this saga that captures The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King in one epic journey. Join the fellowship and travel across Middle-earth with Frodo, Sam, Gandalf, Aragon, Merry, Pippin, Gimli, Legolas and other favorites, with 60 total playable characters in all! Use magical items, battle Orcs, and experience unforgettable scenes with dialog straight out of the films. Use the magic of the Seeing Stone to jump between multiple storylines in play where friends can drop in or out at any time.

Title: Transformers: Prime
Publisher: Activision
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/29/2012
Overview: The Decepticons have discovered a secret weapon in outer space, one with the power to destroy not just the Autobots, but the entire Earth! Play as your favorite Autobot characters as you lead the charge to stop Megatron and save the planet in this game based on the hit Transformers Prime animated series. Battle the Decepticons as Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Ratchet, Arcee, Bulkhead, and other heroic Autobots. The action spans the globe with explosive brawls when you’re in robot mode and high-speed chases when you’re in vehicle mode. Get help from the show’s human characters, including Jack, Miko, and Raf.

Title: Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward
Publisher: Aksys
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/25/2012
Overview: Virtue’s Last Reward sets out to create an experience so immersive, once you start playing, there is simply no escape. Picking up where the mesmerizing 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors left off, VLR challenges you to make a life-or-death decision to escape the grip of a deadly video game. Solve puzzles in a steadily-deepening mystery that unfolds like a visual novel. The story plays out in fully-voiced Novel sections, followed by Escape stages where you’ll solve dizzying puzzles. Pan rooms with a camera that rotates 360 degrees and manipulate objects in 3D environments. The twisting saga is designed to keep you constantly guessing, with 24 distinct endings waiting.

Title: Code of Princess
Publisher: Atlus
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/9/2012
Overview: This princess-powered saga is less about the fairy tale and all about the ending – or at least providing one for your evil monster enemies! There may be a princess in the title of this action-packed RPG, but the gameplay is anything but dainty. When a world is overrun by monsters, one princess vows to stand against them, by beating them to a monster pulp. Customize your choice of over 50 characters and go on over 100 quests filled with enemies to battle in a smooth combo of character build-up and enemy knock-downs. Join up to four friends locally or online for head-to-head or co-op play.

Title: Disney Princess: My Fairytale Adventure
Publisher: Disney Interactive
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 9/24/2012
Overview: The Fairy Godmother needs your help! Weave your own magical Fairytale Adventure in this game where you’ll help save your favorite Disney Princesses. Train as the Fairy Godmother’s apprentice and learn the magic you need to break a spell that’s fallen over kingdoms of Belle, Cinderella, Tiana, Ariel, and Rapunzel. Explore locations from the Princesses’ movies and interact with them and other favorite Disney characters. Customize your character and your room in the Fairy Godmother’s castle, then use your magic wand in fun and enchanted mini-games. You’ll earn gems that you can trade for special items to use as you explore the five magical fairytale worlds.

Title: NCIS
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 9/17/2012
Overview: As a member of NCIS, some of the world’s most advanced technology is at your disposal, but sometimes cracking the case comes down to following your gut. Join the high-profile crime-solving crew of the hit TV series in this game based on NCIS. Solve four interconnected cases created with the show’s writers. Play as all the agents from the show, including DiNozzo, David, Ducky, McGee, and Gibbs. Chase down leads, analyze crime-scene data, and drop the hammer on suspects. Experience a storyline with the humor and camaraderie of the show, collecting and analyzing evidence in a wide variety of mini-games, then piecing it all together to see where it leads.

Title: Finding Nemo: Escape to the Big Blue
Publisher: Disney Interactive
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 9/10/2012
Overview: Dive into this fun-filled, friendly Finding Nemo adventure that now unfolds in 3D! The deep blue sea has never looked deeper or bluer with a vibrant new presentation that’s been redone just for 3DS. Join Nemo, Marlin, and Dory as they help their Tank Gang friends make a new home in the coral reef. Play as Bubbles, Bloat, Peach, Jacque, Deb, Gurgle, Gill, Nemo, Dory, and Marlin as you encounter and reacquaint yourself with beloved characters from the film including Nigel, Pearl, Crush, Bruce, and many of Nemo’s other friends! Finding Nemo: Escape to the Big Blue also features wireless multiplayer and fun mini-games.

Title: New Super Mario Bros. 2
Publisher: Nintendo
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 8/18/2012
Overview: The Mushroom Kingdom is paved with gold in this blinged-out take on an all-time favorite. The New Super Mario Bros. 2 challenges you to rescue Princess Peach from Bowser and get rich while doing it. The game records every coin you rack up in side-scrolling levels designed to fill your pockets. Harness new powers (or use the returning Raccoon Mario) to access treasure-filled areas. Coins rain down from pipes, special enemies leave trails of coins behind, and new golden pipes send you to romp through coin-packed caves. Use StreetPass to see who can collect the most coins over three levels or play the whole game with Mario and Luigi side-by-side in local wireless two-player.

Title: Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
Publisher: Square Enix
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 7/30/2012
Overview: The Kingdom Hearts saga slips into a dream-like state in this journey that takes you to a mysterious new world! Join two of the franchise’s favorite characters, Sora and Riku, on a quest to complete the Mark of Mastery exam. To successfully compete the challenge, they’ll have to travel through a place shrouded in mystery: the Sleeping Worlds. Encounter new creatures, Dream Eaters, that come in two varieties: Spirits and Nightmares. Recruit over 50 types of Spirit allies to battle the dark forces of your Nightmare enemies. Visit new Disney worlds and meet beloved characters from the Magic Kingdom as you interact with environments and battle enemies in free-flowing acrobatic action.

Title: Rhythm Thief & the Emperor’s Treasure
Publisher: Sega
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 7/9/2012
Overview: Raphael isn’t so much a thief. He’s just a guy who likes to borrow great works of art! Steal the most famous treasures in Paris – then bring them back a couple days later – to solve a mystery in this rhythm-based adventure. Feel the rhythm and keep the beat by tapping the Touch Screen, tilting the 3DS, and swiping the Stylus to solve riddles and complete musical challenges. Explore the city, finding clues in vibrant Paris environments as you get closer to figuring out why your father disappeared. You can also challenge your friends in head-to-head rhythm showdowns.

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Publisher: Activision
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 6/25/2012
Overview: Wield the powers of the Amazing Spider-Man in this game that picks up where the hit film leaves off! Experience the rush of web-slinging across Manhattan in a story that takes you up to the heights above the city streets and into the darkness of the subway tunnels below. Battle to save Manhattan from classic and new Spider-Man villains, including Rhino and Iguana. Activate the new Web Rush feature to target end-points and get there by pulling off amazing acrobatic moves. You’ll go deeper into Peter Parker’s story and experience larger-than-life battles with enemies that push the Web Slinger’s powers to their limits.

Title: LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes
Publisher: WB Games
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 6/18/2012
Overview: When it’s sequel time, you’d expect the caped crusader to upgrade his gadgets. This time, he’s also upgraded his entourage! LEGO Batman invites some new friends to the party in this crime-fighting saga featuring some of the greatest heroes in the DC Universe. Notorious Super Villains Lex Luthor and the Joker have teamed up on an extra-evil plot to destroy Gotham City. Batman and Robin will join forces with legendary heroes like Superman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern to fight them. Explore new areas of Gotham in new bat vehicles, using some new bat gadgets and those handy powers of your superfriends to put the bad guys back behind bars.

Title: Madagascar 3
Publisher: D3P
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 6/4/2012
Overview: Go undercover under the big top in this Madagascar adventure where you’ll join the circus in a mad dash to stay out of animal jail! In Madagascar 3, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, and Gloria the Hippo are Europe’s most wanted. In this game, it’s up to you to help them escape! Play as all four of your favorite Madagascar characters as you try to outrun and outwit animal control Captain Chantal Dubois and make it back to New York. Visit locations around Europe, performing show-stopping stunts, completing missions, and wowing the crowd in circus performances that play out as mini-games.

Title: Crush 3D
Publisher: Sega
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 3/24/2012
Overview: To navigate this puzzling platformer, you won’t just shift your perspective – you’ll change dimensions! Shift between a 3D and a 2D view to solve challenges in this dimension-bending adventure. When Danny volunteers to test the C.R.U.S.H. Machine made by his inventor friend, the experiment goes wrong and he winds up trapped inside his own mind. Use the machine’s powers to solve puzzles and help him escape. Crush your world down to 2D and do things that weren’t possible when your world was in 3D. Fit into spaces, find ways around objects, and discover hidden items, then uncrush your world back to 3D and continue the adventure.

Title: Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D
Publisher: Konami
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 2/18/2012
Overview: Experience one of Snake’s most legendary missions in all-new ways – including 3D – as Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater comes to 3DS. Infiltrate the jungles of 1964 Russia alone on a critical mission to rescue a captured scientist. Use stealth to navigate a rich 3D environment. As you maneuver, you’ll have to maintain balance. Tip the Gyro Sensor too far in the wrong direction and you’ll send Snake tumbling out of a tree or worse, over the side of a bridge. Snap a photo of a real-world object and use it to camouflage Snake’s uniform in the game, swap weapons with Touch Screen controls, and more.

Title: Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights
Publisher: Konami
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 12/15/2011
Overview: Doctor Jean-Pierre Lautrec has a brilliant mind made for solving mysteries. When a woman brings him a gadget that holds a mysterious map, the Doctor finds just the adventure he’s looking for. Travel through 19th Century Europe with Lautrec and his sidekick Sophie, chasing clues to find a lost treasure of French King Louis XIV. Solve hundreds of puzzles to gain clues and delve deeper into the mystery. Stay one step ahead of the ancient and dangerous Knights of the Iron Mask, who don’t seem to like you snooping around. Follow the single-player story or link up with four friends to compete or work together in Treasure Hunt Mode.

Title: JAWS: Ultimate Predator
Publisher: Majesco
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 12/6/2011
Overview: Become one of Earth’s most feared predators in this game that turns you into an unstoppable eating machine! The legendary great white returns in JAWS: Ultimate Predator. Play as the giant shark and unleash terror from the deep, battling an army of shark hunters unlucky enough to think they can bring you in. Stalk your prey with instincts fine-tuned over thousands of years and strike with ferocious  shark-attack combos like the Feeding Frenzy and Corkscrew Shred. You’ll patrol the deep through the hunter’s eyes, using the Stylus to bite and ram whatever it is you’d like to sink your teeth into.

Title: The Adventures of Tintin: The Game
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 12/5/2011
Overview: The whimsical tale of a young reporter’s quest for a legendary treasure comes to life in this game meant to be a true companion to The Adventures of Tintin movie. Built with help from filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, the whole experience gets as close to the movie as possible. Solve an incredible mystery as you hunt for lost scrolls that lead to a bounty of sunken treasure, playing solo or with a friend in co-op. Play as Tintin, Captain Haddock, Snowy, and three unlockable characters as you fly planes, fight ancient knights, and more in a true adventure for the ages.

Title: Sonic Generations
Publisher: Sega
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/21/2011
Overview: Sonic Generations celebrates the franchise’s 20th birthday by gathering the best of Sonic’s past and wrapping it into an experience that’s part flashback and all fast-track. Sonic’s world has been punctured by time holes. Play as two versions of Sonic, one current, one classic. Race into the environments of Sonic’s past where you’ll encounter memorable Sonic characters. Free your old friends by completing levels and they’ll join you on the adventure. But your friends aren’t the only ones who are waiting for you. You’ll have to defeat some of the most powerful enemies Sonic has ever faced to plug the time holes and conquer the mysterious force that unleashed them.

Title: Ace Combat Assault Horizon Legacy
Publisher: Namco
Platform: 3DS
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/15/2011
Overview: Your next mission will send you somewhere you’ve never flown before – in 3D! The intense combat, frenzied dogfights, and envelope-pushing aerial acrobatics of Ace Combat have been optimized for and unleashed on Nintendo 3DS. Soar into supersonic white-knuckle action in the cockpit of some of the most advanced aircraft in the skies. Take on critical missions that push your flying skills to their limit. Target enemies, lock on, and fire when ready with a quick tap of the Touch Screen. You’ll pilot your aircraft using responsive controls that enable quick maneuvers and split-second decisions that could mean the difference between victory and defeat.