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There are people who say Infernal Machine (like Tomb Raider) doesn't belong to the 'true' adventure genre, because it contains too much action.  [> ]
--Erwin
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The question that I ask myself is, "should adventure mean action, or puzzles?". The term "adventure" has, for as long as the term has existed, meant Raiders-of-the-Lost-Ark kind of whipping, shooting, and running. Or Lara croft kind of running, jumping, shooting, etc. etc. Pointing and clicking is just not what adventure means, if you go by the usual use of the word.
And Lara Croft and Indiana Jones games have always included puzzles, at least in the the one's that I've played.
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You sure you didn't mean to write Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis?
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No, but in reality, all the IJ games, Fate of Atlantis included, should fit in the adventure category.
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Hey man - See, I'm still little confused Do you mean arcade style segments (which weren't ever really a standard part of point and click adventure games - more your Tomb Raider style games (arcade-adventure to old-fogies like me)).
I don't think you're wrong in what your saying, I'm just not too sure I understand what you mean by adventure is with regard to point and click games (as opposed to games like Dark Corners of the Earth, etc...)
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^^^ What I said above.