Jaywood2010 on 21 April 2013
| Xxain said: Jaywood, 99% of people would not lump Sandbox with Action or action Adventure. Im really tempted to turn my computer on and rip your thread but make it more accurate. You got something going on, but your just lazy or not knowledgeable enough to pull it off. |
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 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 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.
