Xbox boss on Uncharted: I wish we had an action-adventure game like that, but we don’t

[DanneSandin]

Intrinsic said:

DanneSandin said:

Well lets call it an adventure shooter. ZELDA is an action adventure, ur taking cover way too often in UC for it to simply be an AA. And those platforming bits sucked.

Action adventure is action adventure. If there were guns in zelda I am sure you would have had to take cover too. 

And as for the platforming bits.. well, you can say they sucked but thats in your opinion. I personally think they were great cause Uncharted mixies the platforming with the action sometimes. Like jumping from moving truch to moving truck while also taking cover and lining up sight lines.

As long as action becomes necesary to the progression of an adevnture game then it becomes an action adventure. Doesn't matter if in one you use a sword and in another you use a gun, if that were the case I could say Zelda is an Action slasher because you use a sword way too often in it.

An example of a pure adventure game would be Ico or Journey as there is practically near zero combat in those games.

Good points! But I still consider UC more of a shooter adventure than anything else. The shooting was interupted by the occassional platforming and puzzling, and there wasn't any exploration (worth mentioning)