Based off Jeff's whole talk about action games having too much murdering, I do recommend ya to check out the recently released Gemini Rue.

A pretty stellar adventure game in which you play as an ex assassin / PI in this Blade runner setting. There definitely are a few tense moments in which you have to do some quick thinking to prevent armed assailants from filling you up with lead.

And it's probably the only adventure game that has a 'kick' command that solves a fair bit of puzzles ;)

It is a pretty awesome "action" adventure game.