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  • I dug the gothic style, but ultimately gave up on this hack-n-slash pretty early.

    Hating the Greatest Videogames pabba 2010

  • I dug the gothic style, but ultimately gave up on this hack-n-slash pretty early.

    Hating the Greatest Videogames semisuite 2010

  • I don't know whether this was caused by post-production hack-n-slash, or whether it was simply the byproduct of cramming an entire twenty-episode season into about 95 minutes of movie, but the film never feels like a whole motion picture, but rather the cliff-notes of a much larger story.

    Scott Mendelson: HuffPost Review: The Last Airbender (2010) 2010

  • From the brilliant mind of LucasArts legend Ron Gilbert and widely described as 'Monkey Island meets Diablo' this beautiful, funny, challenging hack-n-slash romp was released last week, and is an absolute bloody must – especially if you love the likes of Castle Crashers and The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai.

    Five great downloadable games to enjoy this summer 2010

  • Great artwork and moody, sombre stories that just weren't hack-n-slash.

    Sword & Sorcery comics gem I missed Dark Worlds Club 2009

  • Imagine a gaggle of modern hack-n-slash roleplayers who had somehow never been exposed to the original Tolkien mythos, and then imagine taking those players and trying to introduce them to Tolkien via a D&D campaign.

    October 26th, 2006 curufea 2006

  • I don't think Ren is treating it as a benchmark, but an interesting indicator, possibly of the importance of player skill and knowledge in what is inarguably the one thing more universal than hack-n-slash kill-everything: sex.

    cyber-sexdaq 2006

  • Sherwood is more of a medieval hack-n-slash style 3D chat room.

    Off the Beaten Path 2005

  • The plot has resumed with the same great combination of hack-n-slash and investigative work.

    July 6th, 2002 2002

  • : EA takes on God of War with an epic action PS3/360 hack-n-slash set in hell.

    GameVideos Latest 12 videos 2010

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