Online adventure games are the games that you can find on the internet, in these games the players become an adventurer in an interactive fiction. The player in an adventure game is the hero who explore the situations by finishing puzzles and problem solving accompanied by some other attractive challenges. A big number of people are playing online adventure games, with these games the players discover a new world of excitement.
In adventure games mostly there is a form of story, the player in this story frequently in a dangerous situation and he/she needs to use his/her skills and logic. The adventure is constantly originated from other story based media such as book and films. In online games you can find fantasy, horror, mystery and humour. In traditional adventure games there is a problem about a situation that the players need to solve, action is quite little. Because of the story based structure and being dependent on character, the most adventure games are build up for single players instead of active interaction. The important thing is the improvement of the character and the story rather than the improvement of the game.
Nowadays combine action online games are more popular. In action games which have a pure action, the players reflex to take care of the situations that appears, it is the important thing. With action adventure games the player’s problem solving skills and reflexes are to be used. Action adventures are hybrid games and they require most of the same skills that action games required, but at the same time they offer a story, a few characters and some other features of adventure games. Tomb Raider and The Leged of Zelda are the some of the example of action adventure games. The Legend of Zelda is one of the Japanese game in action adventure sub genre, it also embrace puzzles and role playing. In this game the name of the hero is Link, he gets into a cave and he starts an adventure guided by merchants, town people and fairies who provide encoded clues. At the beginning he can only use a shield but soon he gets the use of a sword. He needs to find the entrances to 9 underground dungeons, to be able to do that he needs to get into a battle. In the dungeons there are rooms like a maze with secret passages which are protected by monsters,.
In Tomb Raider which is an action aventure game, there are two elements of action and adventure uniting in the same game. While Tomb Raider the heroine tries to get into powerful artifacts she needs to kill some of dangerous animals and some other creatures and also she collects objects and try to solve a puzzle. Besides Lara faces with a human enemy, she needs to solve puzzles and make tricky jumps to achieve in every level.
There are many conflicts about the nature of action and adventure games in media and the game community. There are some arguments about what an action game and an aventure game is made up from and where is the border between two. Some people thinks that if there is an enough action in a game it is called as an advanture game but the action wouldn’t be enough to call it as an action game. Either the online adventure games are hybrid or totally adventure, if an online adventure game has some action it is truelly fun to play.