As mentioned briefly in Versus Series 1, there are four components to every game: 1) a goal; 2) a way to achieve the goal; 3) obstacles to the goal; and, 4) a way to bypass the obstacles. Readers of that post may have wondered which video games I felt were lacking in one or more of these areas. At this juncture, I won't fall into the trap of calling out specific titles--instead, I'm going to go after an entire genre: "action games."