Though a CRPG, stategy wargame, or action adventure game can sometimes

Gradual development of a character or team of characters as major gameplay components. (Unfortunately, most also tend to lack elements of player choice or control, but this is a design flaw born of laziness, not a meaningful trait Īdventure games that have made exceptions to that tendency, like The Longest Journey and Grim Fandango, are among the best on the market.) UnlikeĬomputer role-playing games, adventure games do not emphasize tactical combat or the Overlap between genres, but adventure games in general strive to offer distilled puzzle-solving and plot-unfolding with no elements of chance or strategy Some other kind of game?' What, you think I have time to write a dissertation on this? (-:Ĭomputer games aren't exactly a well-defined art form, and there's a lot of 'All right,' I can hear some of you asking, 'so what makes a computer game an adventure game, as opposed to

Welcome to Adventure Game Reviews, the new spinoff of my Computer Game Reviews site