Crowd-combat

Action games where combat is based around fighting incredibly large amounts of enemies all at once. Attacks by characters are made to "clear" the mass of enemies around them, often hitting multiple enemies at once and even knocking them down. Game mechanics also tend to have high focus on massive attack combo-chains by hitting enemies over and over again without stopping. Dynasty Warriors 2 [真・三國無双] is generally attributed to introducing the crowd-combat style.