shoot-'em-up

Example Sentences

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It's very shoot 'em up and it's fun and the action's big and all that, but the movie in and of itself doesn't matter, matter to you, not anywhere in here.

From Salon • Aug. 21, 2021

As we talk, she’s sitting in her videogaming chair, where she spends a lot of time playing the shoot ’em up Overwatch.

From The Guardian • Nov. 16, 2020

Less than two minutes into this good-looking shoot ’em up, there is a sequence I can’t get past no matter how many times I rewind and try again.

From Slate • Oct. 16, 2020

In the Martin Scorsese-produced shoot ’em up “Free Fire,” South African actor Sharlto Copley plays Vern, a narcissistic gunrunner in a polyester suit who’s prone to a certain behavioral grandiloquence.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2017

In addition to using their robot friends to solve puzzles, players can change the color of their weapon’s bullets, a feature classic shoot 'em up Ikaruga used to excellent effect.

From The Verge • Aug. 31, 2016