William Golding gave the traditional adventure story an ironic, devastating twist.
This is the traditional adventure playground, where trained staff co-create with children themselves the environments where their imaginations can really soar.
Known for leading backpackers down paths less trodden for the past 25 years, the tour operator Explore last year launched a more upmarket alternative, which aims to marry elements of its traditional "adventure" travel with a degree of comfort found in the best hotels.
The game featured a lone protagonist against hordes of monsters, and made use of traditional adventure game challenges such as puzzle-solving and finding hidden keys to new areas.
The Times' Kenneth Turan says that "'Exodus' is a film determined to stubbornly go its own way whenever it can," although at its core it's "the kind of traditional adventure epic that we've come to expect" from Scott.
At its core, however, "Exodus" is the kind of traditional adventure epic that we've come to expect from director Scott, responsible at his best for "Blade Runner," "Alien," "Gladiator" and the underrated "Kingdom of Heaven".
These puzzles are traditional adventure game conundrums that require the player to use the environment, or items that have been found and stored inside the game's inventory, to accomplish goals.
When doing the puzzles in The Low Road, whether they are of the information sorting variety or the more traditional adventure game kind, I felt the very edges of what me might call immersion in a game like Skyrim.
Morgan Jeffery of Digital Spy wrote "following on from that game-changing two-part premiere, this week's Doctor Who provides us with a real change of pace, with a moody and atmospheric pre-titles sequence setting the scene for a far more traditional adventure".
You have traditional adventure games where you have to do X to get Y and you're told a story through the game, but they also have open-ended games like GTA V, which is literally a never-ending world where you just do whatever you want.
