Action Adventure Games are a level up of the genre of narrative games that we had looked at previously, combining the elements of an action game and an adventure game. These types of games have some more advanced navigation than your point and click or text based adventures we had explored previously, includes puzzles and adventure and we still have the dialogue and story from those types of games. They also include elements from action games like combat and player movement and skill sets to some degree.

One difference from the narrative games explored earlier is that there is still text-based story, but the input from the player is usually by pushing a button to make a choice rather than typing text to have something happen.

Games that fall into this category like Tomb Raider, Metroid, Castlevania and one of my favorites, the Legend of Zelda series. The storytelling, navigation, collection of clues and unlocking items to make your character stronger and action make these great games to play.

This genre of game has grown throughout the years and newer games include better graphics, voice acting and deeper stories, but still contain the basic elements of the action-adventure game.

The Tech Integrator