Wikipedia: "Starting with the release of Resident Evil 4 in 2005, the [survival horror] genre began to incorporate more features from action games and more traditional first person and third-person shooter games. This has led game journalists to question whether long-standing survival horror franchises and more recent franchises have abandoned the genre and moved into a distinct genre often referred to as 'action horror.'[1][2][3][4] James Stephanie Sterling suggests that the genre lost its core gameplay when it improved the combat interface, thus shifting the gameplay away from hiding and running towards direct combat.[5] Leigh Alexander argues that this represents a shift towards more Western horror aesthetics, which emphasize action and gore rather than the psychological experience of Japanese horror.[6]"
In its marketing, Fort Solis is described as a "horror adventure" game, and I like this descriptor even more than "action horror" due to its capaciousness. Horror adventure covers the many modalities of horror post-Resident Evil 4, helping formalize the relationships between different franchises that often have quite divergent mechanical affordances and genre trappings.
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