Really?  How does my sig imply that "shooter" is derogatory?  As I will reiterate, it's not.

Because every single description of the game says so?

I underlined my statement just in case you suffer from myopic problems!

So by your implied definition, is a "smart ass answer" an answer you refuse to hear that's reasonable and tells the truth?

Please Google "Gears of War" and "Halo" in conjuncton with "genre" and see what comes up.

What is your definition of an "action adventure game"?

I guess you just want to troll. Choose another person

...Just asking. Most people don't call Gears of War and Halo an action adventure game. I don't call Killzone, Call of Duty, Resistance, Counter Strike, Day of Defeat, SOCOM, etc. action adventure games. I call them FPS/TPS games.

In the long term, having kinect standardized will bring out whatever potential it has. I think Sony made a mistake dropping the camera for short-term goals, as it's clear they intended the camera to be standard. Who knows what potential is now missed on the instantly defunct controller light.

Subgenres of Action-Adventure games:

Subgenres

Although action-adventure games are diverse and difficult to classify, there are some distinct sub-genres. Popular sub-genres include:

• First-person action-adventure, which make use of first-person shooter gameplay, forgoing constant action in favor of important adventure game elements such as environmental problem-solving and a complex plot. These are sometimes called Real-Time Adventure games or RTAs for short. A notable example of this is Metroid Prime and System Shock.
• Third-person action-adventure, in which gameplay is in the third-person. Notable examples include games like Tomb Raider series, The Legend of Zelda series, Rune, Severance: Blade of Darkness, Grand Theft Auto series, and Hitman series.
• Isometric platform games, which feature freely explorable environments with three-dimensional gameplay and two-dimensional graphics using an isometric projection.
• Sandbox, which focus on nonlinear gameplay in an open world. Notable examples include Assassin's Creed and the Grand Theft Auto series.
• Platform-adventure games, which emphasize both exploration and puzzle solving, but also feature traditional platform game conventions. Examples of games of this type are Tomb Raider series, Banjo-Kazooie the Metroidvania games.
• Stealth games, which emphasize avoiding detection by enemies rather than engaging them in direct combat, leading to a greater emphasis on exploration and puzzle-solving than other types of action games.
• Survival horror games, which emphasize "inventory management" and making sure the player has enough ammunition and recovery items to "survive" the horror setting. Survival-horror is a thematic genre with diverse gameplay, however, so not all survival horror games share these features. The Resident Evil franchise popularized this sub-genre and stands to date as the most popular franchise of its kind.