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 Xbox 360

#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 Crackdown

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Crackdown is an Action-Adventure, Open World, Single and Multiplayer video game created by Real-time Worlds and published by Microsoft Game Studios. The game takes place in the fictional City called Pacific and the story revolves around the protagonist who is an Agent. His main goal is to fight against three crime lords and defeat them and their crime syndicates. The game lets you assume the role of the protagonist and start your journey. You can enhance your powers, and abilities by defeating criminals and their supporters. Gain experience points by accomplishing optional activities such as scavenger hunts and street races. The game played from the third-person perspective and set in a sandbox environment. Crush the enemies, complete task and immerse yourself in shooting experience. Earn experience points and uses them to upgrade your weapons, vehicles, and more. You can explore the destructive environment either on foot or by vehicle. Crackdown includes core features such as Destructive Environment, Challenging Missions and Activities, Upgrades, Stunning Visuals, etc. Try it out and you’ll enjoy it.

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#4 Titanfall

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Titanfall is an online First Person Shooter (FPS) and Multiplayer video game developed by Respawn Entertainment. The game lets you play by controlling or piloting your Mech Styled Titan, a Big Robot. Your duty is to fight against the enemies in Six-on-Six battles in a war torn setting of an outer space colony. Titanfall lets you engage yourself in fast-paced action and allows you to use advanced tactics and skills like “Wall-Running, long jumping” etc. As the game is a multiplayer marvel, it lets almost 50 players engage into hardcore action at a time. NPCs (Non Player Characters) are also present in the game but are hosted at Microsoft’s Server so the game runs smoothly and provides with a fluent visual and graphics performance. Mech in the game plays a vital role, loaded with hi-tech weapons and ammunition, it lets you chase your enemies and kill them. Titanfall is all based up on online challenges, fights and victories. With a great story-line, lots of futuristic weapons, engaging and quite Action filled game-play, Ultra-realistic graphic details and an open world, this game is one of the best of Action and FPS genres.

#5 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.

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#6 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.

#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 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.

#10 Ninja Gaiden

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Ninja Gaiden is a Hack and Slash and Action-Adventure video game developed by Team Ninja for Xbox. The game has Single-player mode and centers on the fictional story of the protagonist named as Ryu Hayabusa, a master who set out on an epic quest to recover the stolen sword and take revenge for the murder of his clan. The player assumes the role of the protagonist and his ultimate task is to explore the environment from a third-person, fight against enemies and fulfill his tasks to complete the quest. The protagonist equipped with a sword that he can use to kill enemies and can perform ninja tricks during the gameplay. He can run, jump, and climb on walls to progress in the game. The player needs to solve puzzles, find keys, and fight against foes to become the master. There are multiple quests and each requires a completion of specific goals. Ninja Gaiden offers core features such as detailed Environment, Exploration, Low-level Abilities and more. Ninja Gaiden is the best game as compared to other hack and slash games.

#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.