Betwixt the pure adventure and the furious shoot-em-up lies the Action Adventure genre. This is a vaguely defined genre but one with a number of popular games that dont fit comfortably into a box.
Drive vehicles across an archipelago in Hunter, visit an alien planet in Another World, defeat the Grand Vizier in Prince of Persia or fly a WW1 plane in Wings.
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