List of beat 'em ups
Beat 'em ups is a term which refers to video games which pit a fighter or group of fighters against many underpowered enemies. Gameplay usually spans many levels, with most levels ending in an enemy boss. If multiple players are involved, players generally fight cooperatively.
It is often useful to characterise gameplay as either 2D (largely characterised by the player walking only to the left or right) or 3D (characterised by full movement in the implied horizontal plane, sometimes also with a button for jump). Graphics can likewise be categorised as 2D (with sprites, sometimes with an isometric or parallax effect) or 3D (polygons), or hybrid (e.g. sprite characters in front of polygon backgrounds, or vice versa).
Beat 'em ups
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- Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu - Ubisoft Montreal
- Bayonetta - Platinum Games, Nex Entertainment
- Beat Down: Fists of Vengeance - Capcom
- Capoeira Legends - Donsoft Entertainment
- Crisis Beat - Bandai
- The Bouncer - DreamFactory, Square
- Death by Degrees - Namco
- Demolish Fist - Sammy, Dimps
- Devil May Cry series - Capcom, Ninja Theory
- Dynamite Deka series - AM1
- Dynasty Warriors series - Omega Force
- Fairy Bloom Freesia
- Fighting Force series - Core Design
- Final Fight: Streetwise - Capcom, Secret Level
- Gekido - Naps Team, Gremlin Interactive
- God Hand - Clover Studio
- God of War - SCE Santa Monica Studio
- Hulk - Radical Entertainment
- The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga - Attention To Detail
- The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction - Radical Entertainment
- The Wonderful 101 - Platinum Games / Nintendo
- Jackie Chan Stuntmaster - Radical Entertainment
- Jackie Chan Adventures - Atomic Planet Entertainment
- Jet Li: Rise to Honor - Sony
- Lego Batman: The Videogame - Traveller's Tales (Microsoft Windows, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360), TT Fusion (NDS), Feral Interactive (OS X)
- Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble - Atlus
- MadWorld - Sega
- Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks - Midway Games, Paradox Development
- Naruto: Uzumaki Cronicles series
- Perfect Weapon - Gray Matter
- The Rage - FluidGames
- Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked - Bandai, Grasshopper Manufacture
- Spikeout series - Sega
- State of Emergency - VIS Entertainment
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series - Konami
- Urban Reign - Namco
- The Warriors - Rockstar Toronto (PS2, Xbox), Rockstar Leeds (PSP)
- Watchmen: The End Is Nigh - Deadline Games
- X-Men: Mutant Wars (PS) - Matrix Software
- X2: Wolverine's Revenge - GenePool Software
- X-Men: The Official Game - Z-Axis
- Yakuza - Sega
- Zombie Revenge - Sega
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Games with beat 'em up sections
Hack 'n slash
See also