Best Action Adventure Game
Many games fall into the action adventure genre, making it one of the most crowded of all our categories. Games in this catch-all category typically attempt to combine elements from other game genres into a cohesive whole. Fans of action adventure games had a number of impressive games to choose from, including our five finalists for the 2004 Best Action Adventure Game award:
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"The Chronicles of Riddick deliberately approaches Hollywood-style levels of intensity, pacing, and sheer spectacle like few games ever have. Yet this is a truly great-playing game, too, so the production values aren't just superficial." - Greg Kasavin, from GameSpot's Full Review
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"Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas expands the series' concept to encompass three entire cities, as well as the countryside between them. The gameplay similarly expands, packing in some explosive set pieces and amazing action-movie-like thrills while maintaining that same remarkably fun, freefom GTA feel. In short, Rockstar has done it again." - Jeff Gerstmann, from GameSpot's Full Review
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"Metal Gear Solid has always aspired to be more than just an action adventure game. The series has pushed the envelope in terms of storytelling through the video game medium, and it's also concocted some downright postmodern plot twists that are about as thought-provoking as games get." - Greg Kasavin, from GameSpot's Full Review
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"Metroid Prime 2: Echoes takes the established framework of the previous game and builds on it with diverse new locales, innovative abilities, and inventive gameplay. As an adventure game with heavy action elements and an emphasis on complex puzzle-solving, Metroid Prime 2 is about as good as it gets, on the GameCube or on any platform." - Brad Shoemaker, from GameSpot's Full Review
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"This is one of the best, most challenging action adventure games ever made. Not only does Ninja Gaiden feature bleeding-edge graphics and sound, it boasts simply the best pure action ever seen in such a game. Obvious care and detail went into every single aspect of this game. More importantly, obvious and tremendous talent went into every aspect of its execution." - Greg Kasavin, from GameSpot's Full Review
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And the Winner is...
