Parkour (also known as Free-running) is a type of video game where players aim to get from one point to another point in the challenging environment, without any equipment and in the most efficient and fastest way possible. Parkour element deals with vaulting, swimming, climbing, quadrupedal movement, rolling, and other exciting movements as deemed suitable for the environment and the situation. Assassin’s Creed, Mirror’s Edge, and InFamous video games are the best way to describe the Parkour element. In these games, players control the protagonist from either a first-person or a third-person perspective and explore the environment by performing exciting moves to reach their destination while climbing buildings, walking on walls, and superbly avoiding enemy attacks. Most of Parkour games take place in the open-world setting full of various structures that players can use to balance, jump, bounce, and more. Running toward a high wall, moving from the Position Hanging, Arm Jumps, Prevision Jumping, Vaulting over challenging Obstacles, etc. are prominent movements in Parkour video games.

12 Best Parkour Games for PS3

#1 Remember Me

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Remember Me is an Action and Adventure game developed by Dontnod Entertainment and published by CapCom. This cool game is offered on PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The story of the game revolves around the protagonist Nilin’s character who is a memory hunter working for an underground organization called Errorists. In the game Nilin struggles to recover her memories on her way on a great quest on which she will take down all her enemies by indulging herself in deadly combats and using her special powers against them. The marvelously written story of the game leads to exploration, ultimate action and adventure along with all the great features of game such as open world gaming environment, lustrous graphics and gameplay etc. This game is an amazing amalgamation of action, adventure and RPG elements. Do give it a try if you want to play Action and Adventure games with stealth elements.

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#2 Assassin’s Creed II

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Assassin’s Creed II is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Exploration, and Single-player video game created by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the 2nd marvelous title in the series of Assassin’s Creed video game and serves as the sequel to Assassin’s Creed, released in 2007. The game takes place in the fictional history-themed world and centers on the struggle between the Knights Templars, who want peace through control, and the Assassins, who battle for peace. You assume the role of the protagonist, an assassin named as Desmond Miles, as his effort to relive the memories of his ancestor Ezio Auditore da Firenze. The plot focuses on the fictional Italy and puts you on an epic adventure, where you navigate Venice, Florence, Forli, and Tuscany. You can move freely in open-world and can battle enemies using stealth elements. There are several challenging missions available, and each task needs a completion of individual goals. The game rewards the player with experience points that can be used to unlock additional content to progress. Assassin’s Creed II is the best game to play and enjoy.

#3 Infamous

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Infamous, Stylized as inFAMOUS is an Open World Action-Adventure video game by the Sucker Punch Productions. The game revolves around the character of the Protagonist named as Cole McGrath who works as a Bike Messenger. Cole gets caught up in a massive explosion in the center of the city that wipes off several City blocks. The Empire City plunges into Chaos and Cole finds himself in control of some impressive Electricity-based Super Powers. The game allows the players (Cole) to use the Powers for both Good and Evil purposes (Based on the player’s choices). The game’s Karma System decides what outcome the players gets by making decisions that affect character’s growth throughout the game. As the game is an Open World Action-Adventure marvel, it allows the players to interact with the environment, interact with the people, get into action filled combats against the enemies and use the powers to do some good. The game allows the players to have experience points by completing various types of missions or tasks, performing stunts, use the experience points to enhance the powers and enjoy the game even more. Because of electricity-based powers the players cannot use any vehicles or use weapons but it has loads of other advantages such as climbing the building with ease, getting zero damage on falling from higher places, etc. Infamous offers “Good and Evil” mission separately and allows the players to select any of them and enjoy exploring the world while on a mission. With a variety of elements, Infamous offers plenty of room for gameplay, character modification options, loads of fantastic upgrades, an addictive gameplay and all the other fun things to enjoy.

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#4 Mirror’s Edge

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Mirror’s Edge, developed by “EA Digital Illusions CE” is a super thrilling blend of Action-Adventure and Third-person Shooting elements and features the protagonist Faith Connors who can be seen running, jumping, sliding, rolling, fighting and killing the enemies in an imaginative and futuristic society. The game tasks you to complete different game objectives and missions by encountering your enemies, shooting and killing them, or sending them to hell by engaging in close combats with them. Mirror’s Edge is packed with extreme action and adventure and allows you to experience an amazingly exhilarating game-play, a great storyline, HD graphics and a lot of other exciting things. If you want to engage yourself in this real life like action-adventure piece of art, you must try it out. You’ll definitely be amazed at what this game has to offer.

#5 Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands

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Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is an Action-Adventure, Platform, Fantasy-based, and Third-person Perspective video game developed and published by Ubisoft. It takes place in the fantasy-based environment and puts you in the role of the protagonist named as The Prince, who must run, jump and fight enemies in his way through a series of levels to beat the antagonist named as Ratash, who threatened the environment. It offers a thrilling story, in which the protagonist leaves the kingdom of his father to prove his worth. The prince, who is an adventurer must lead a mysterious real, in which he can use his powers and abilities to not only survive but rescue the mysterious palace from an antagonist. It offers action-packed gameplay with co-op mode. Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands includes core features such as Massive Bosses and Ferocious Beasts, Create you Path, varied Environments, Solve Elaborate Puzzle and more. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant graphics, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is the excellent game to play and enjoy.

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#6 Assassin’s Creed

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Assassin’s Creed is a 2007 hit video game that offers a brilliant combination of Action, Adventure, Stealth, RPG and Shooting elements. Set in the Fictional Alternate history of real world and the events, the game tells the story of a centuries old struggle and battles of the Assassins and the Templars. Both of them are struggling for one goal but with the different ideologies and ways. The Assassins are fighting for peace with the help of their advanced skills and the Templars are struggling for peace by seizing control. The story of the game revolves around the character of the protagonist named as Desmond Miles who happens to be part of the Third Crusade in the Holy land in the year 1191. The protagonist relives the memories of his ancestors by the use of a machine named as Animus, goes on to the journey of past and acts as one of his ancestor named as Altair Ibn-La’Ahad, a key member of the Assassin’s Faction. This transcendence from one timeline to another takes the protagonist to the raging conflict between the Knight Templars and Assassins over an ancient Artifact known as the Piece of Eden, used to control the minds. Your task is to lead your faction, engage in epic battles with your enemies and defeat them to get to the Piece of Eden, confiscate the artifact and lets the league of Assassins control immense power. Assassin’s Creed is a brilliant Action, Adventure, Stealth and Shooting video game that literally takes you to the world of wonders and allows you to act as one true hero the world has ever seen.

#7 Brink

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Brink is a FPS (First Person Shooter), Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Splash Damage. The game takes place in the year 2045 and the story revolves around the ongoing conflict between two factions (The Resistance and Ark Security) over the possession of the floating and Utopian City The Ark. This thrilling FPS video game lets you choose a character from the four given classes (Soldiers, Engineers, Medics and Operatives) and put on show, your best shooting and parkour skills. Brink provides with a long single player campaign and allows you to use the most sophisticated and advanced weapons against your enemies, kill them in heavy combats and complete the game objectives. In Multiplayer mode, the game lets you play against the system AIs and other online players competitively or cooperatively according to your choice. With a super-fast-paced and thrilling game-play, Brink offers a truly well planned and written story, an open world gaming environment, great game mechanics and graphics. try it out and enjoy a great Action filled FPS gaming experience.

#8 Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag

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Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag is an Action and Adventure, Stealth and Thirdperson Shooter video game developed by Ubisoft. Just like all of the games in Assassin’s Creed series, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag is also set in a historical era. Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag is the 6th and most recent addition to the series and the story of the game revolves around the family of the Assassin’s Creed 3 protagonist. According to the storyline, The game focuses on centuries old struggle between the Assassins and Templars. The Assassins fight for peace with a free will and the Templars believe in peace through Control and that is what is the root cause of conflicts between the two most powerful factions of the time. Set in the 21st century’s Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag lets you be an Abstergo Agent and relive the events of 18th Century that dates back to the Golden Age of Piracy in the Caribbean, follow the footsteps of a notoriously dangerous and Heroic pirate Edward kenway, The Grand father to the Father and Grandfather to the Protagonists of Assassin’s Creed III, Haytham Kenway and Ratonhnhake:ton, who both were part of the massive conflicts between the Assassin’s and Templars. Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag offers a bit of different gameplay and mechanics as compared to the previous games in the series and allows you to focus on Ship-based Exploration in a widely Open World, experience wonderful Third-person land-based Exploration, hack and Slash and Shooting elements, Melee Combats, and fantastic Stealth elements as well. The Multiplayer mode of the game is back and offers more versatility in gameplay in land-based exploration on the game map consisting of three main locations such as Nassau, Kingston and Havana, a number of Islands, Forts, Sunken Ships, etc. With a very interesting and well-written storyline, superbly realistic visuals and a gameplay that forces you to get involved into it, Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag is one amazing inclusion to the Assassin’s Creed Series.

#9 Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones

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Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones is an Action-Adventure, Hack-and-Slash, and Single-player video game created by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. The game mixes the combat and exploration elements and both element made of the acrobatic agility and capability of the Prince. Throughout the game, you as the protagonist must struggle to travel the palace by running across the walls, descending or ascending chasms by jumping back, overcoming obstacles, avoiding traps, jumping from platform to platform, and climbing structures. You can explore the stunning environment from a third-person view where you have to solve mind-bending puzzles, find objects, and battle against foes to kill. In the sequel, the acrobatic skills of the character have been improved, and now the player can launch himself off walls at 45 degrees. The plot takes place after the Price of Persia: Warrior Within’s event, in which the player kills the antagonist named as Dahaka, rescues Kaileena and fend off the Sands of Time from being created. Two Distinct Characters, Choose your Path, Dominate Enemies, Dramatic Story, etc. are prominent features to play.

#10 Prototype

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Prototype is an Action-Adventure, RPG, Stealth and Third-person Shooter video game by Activision. The game offers an Open World Environment, and it is set in Manhattan, USA. Prototype follows the character of an Amnesic and powerful Shapeshifter named as Alex Mercer, who sets out to fight against the Blacklight, a deadly plague that consumes the humanity of Individuals and converts them into altered ferocious monsters. Alex keeps on fighting the monsters as well as finding the truth about his lost past. Struggling hard against the monsters, Alex also comes into massive conflict with the US military and the operatives of Blackwatch, a Black operation force. With the freedom to roam free, Alex keeps on getting farther into the enemy territory and finding the secrets while the player controls the character of Alex Mercer. Prototype offers plenty of room for gameplay along with sophisticated weaponry, fantastic graphics quality, and excellent combat mechanics. Prototype provides the ability to experience the game in Sandbox style while playing it and enjoy it even more. With its amazingly addictive nature, Prototype is one of the most played and liked Action-Adventure, Stealth, and Shooter video game. It also has a sequel named as Prototype 2 that expands the story to further distances and enhances the great experience. Do try it out.

#11 Assassin’s Creed: Revelations

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Assassin’s Creed: Revelations is an Action-Adventure, Exploration, Third-person Perspective, Single and Multiplayer video game by Ubisoft Montreal. It is the fourth major entry in the series of Assassin’s Creed and focuses on stealth, sword and melee combat. The game takes place in the fictional real world events and revolves around the efforts between Assassins, who fight for peace and the Templars who wants to control the peace. It lets the player take on the role of the series protagonist named Desmond Miles, who relives the memories of his elders to search the path to averting the apocalypse with the assist of a machine called the Animus. The story follows the journey of Ezio who is an assassin and his efforts to unlock the mysteries of Altair’s vault. The game offers the massive environment and lets the player explore from the third-person view. The ultimate task is to explore the open-ended environment, slaughter targets using stealth and melee abilities. It has a series of challenging levels, and the player must complete each one to unlock further content and earn experience points. Assassin’s Creed: Revelations offers a detailed environment, well-written story, brilliant mechanics, stunning visuals and superb controls. Try it out.

#12 Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

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Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is a Platform, Action-Adventure and Single-player video game developed by Ninja Theory and published by Namco Bandai Games. The game takes place in the destructive world, in which the war has left the land in ruins, only some humans can survive and nature tries to reclaim the land. The player can dive into the role of the protagonist and explore the game world from the third-person perspective and can use his combat moves and platforming abilities to navigate obstacles. The game world full of monsters, and their supporters and the player have to fight against them using a close-combat system and long-range weapons. It offers exciting open world environment and lets the player uses melee weapons and combat for fend off his enemies. Earn lots of points by completing objectives and use them to unlock advanced options. The player will gain experience as he explores the game world and completes a series of objectives. Stunning Environment, Dynamic Combat System, Melee Attacks, Engaging Storyline, etc. are the prominent features of the game. Try it out.