Slash game mod#

Warriors: Legends of Troy (based on The Trojan War).Warriors Orochi ( Crossover involving mainly Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors).Samurai Warriors (based on the Sengoku Period of Japanese history).

Dynasty Warriors - based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it would spawn multiple Spin Offs and a Crossover.

Dynasty Wars - not to be confused with Dynasty Wars below.

Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom and Shadow Over Mystara.

Diablo - the Trope Codifier for Action RPGs, before the term became used for a broader category of RPGs with real-time combat.

Devil's Third, it doubles as a Beat 'em Up and a Third-Person Shooter with first-person shooter aiming.

Devil May Cry - also codified the Stylish Action genre.

Slash game mod#

Demonsteele: A Doom mod that's been lovingly dubbed Hideki Kamiya's Doom.

Dead Meets Lead is a Top-Down View version.

Cyber Troopers Virtual-On MARZ is a Humongous Mecha Action-Adventure version.

Crossed Swords - in first-person, no less.

Chaos Legion, though the hero can't change weapons.

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Mirror of Fate.

BloodRayne ( 2 and Betrayal, though the first game has elements of it).

Berserk: Millennium Falcon Hen Seima Senki no Shō.

Battle Axe, a top-down retraux entry made in 2022.

American McGee's Alice (combined with Platform Game).

Not to be confused with the comic Hack/Slash, the Bumbling Henchmen Duo from ReBoot, crappy slash fic writers, Guns N' Roses, or the video game Hack 'N' Slash (which is actually not this type of game.) Also not to be confused with slasher films, which are sometimes referred to as 'hack-and-slash' horror. See also Action RPG for some more RPG-centric examples of the genre.

Meanwhile, Role-Playing Games with a Hack and Slash component have also been around since 1980s Action RPG titles, such as Dragon Slayer and Hydlide in 1984, and it is a mainstay of many Wide-Open Sandbox games.Īction-Adventure games can have levels that are purely Hack and Slash built into them to mix up the game play a little - and oftentimes, just to help the gameplayer relieve a bit of stress.Ī related genre can be found in the Beat 'em Up, where the action is more oriented towards punching, kicking, headbutting, and so forth. Hack-and-slash games have roots in 1980s weapon-based martial arts Arcade Games, such as Sega's Samurai (1980), Shinobi (1987) (1987) and Golden Axe (1989). The Stylish Action genre is more or less an offspring of the Hack and Slash genre born out of making the fights as cool and awesome as possible (not to say that regular hack and slash games can't look cool and awesome, they definitely can). They can also incorporate story modes which provide more of an Adventure Game feel. For example, the game may include a multi and single-player Fighting Game mode wherein players can pick characters from the game and have them square up against each other in a tournament setting.

Since randomly killing large groups of enemies can become boring, most Hack and Slash games will often incorporate other genre elements into their gameplay. Most of the enemies encountered on the field will be one-hit-and-they're-dead grunt soldiers, but occasionally, tougher bosses will show up, usually officers and generals. To increase the hero's casualty potential, the setting of the game may include large armies, and having the hero serving in one of them. This genre also resembles a third-person Adventure Game whereby the hero has a goal to accomplish, but the real goal of the mission level is just to kill as many enemies as possible. A Hack and Slash game is an Action Game that resembles a Beat 'em Up or Third-Person Shooter, but instead of beating up enemies with your fists or blasting them away with a gun, the main hero instead hacks and slashes away close-range melee weaponry.