I guess currently action-adventure would be my choice. Not sure where to cast the vote, so I'm putting it here. There's a comment in here about choice of gender when selecting your character. It reminded me a former co-worker that had this thing about playing games where he had to play as a female character. He didn't like that at all. It was as if it was some commentary on his masculinity. Perhaps he had some gender issues to sort out. Personally I don't really care what I play as. If I have a choice in a game, I may select dependent on their attributes (Ummm...maybe attributes is not the best choice of words.) How 'bout abilities?

In the original Mortal Kombat, I played as Sonya Blade frequently, because of her devastating Leg Grab ability, and not just her, well "attributes".