The second of Michael Anderson's articles is a review of the low-profile hack'n'slasher, Greed:

As I said at the top, while I started late with the action-RPG genre, I have really fallen in love with many of the games. And while my personal preference is story and character driven games, I appreciate games that focus on the loot-grinding cycle, as well as strictly combat-centric games. Each sub-genre – when well done – provides dozens of hours of enjoyment. And that is the problem: Greed – Black Border doesn’t know what sort of game it really wants to be, so it tries a bunch of things halfheartedly, and ends up doing none of them well.

Hack'n'slasher lite Greed has been reviewed at Resolution magazine, scoring 5/10.  A bit on dialogue:

That said, while the dialogue begins badly delivered, with atrocious voice acting and ill-explained situations, by the end of chapter two it becomes apparent that the cheesy delivery may have been intentional, and after some in-game jokes regarding the situation and sci-fi convention as a whole your attitude towards the characters and the narrative shifts to a new perspective. Chapter two also sees dialogue between the characters increase in frequency in a natural way, and feels like the two bonding and becoming more confident as the story progresses.

In related news, there was a Steam update for Greed yesterday.

GameBanshee let us know they have a short review of the hack'n'slasher, Greed:

Greed has a relatively short campaign.  I finished it after 15-20 hours, and I was surprised when it ended.  I thought I had just completed the first act of the game, and then suddenly the credits started rolling.  However, while I was surprised I wasn’t sad.  The game had been so repetitive and dull up to that point that I was thrilled to be done with it.

Clockstone's action/RPG lite Greed: Black Border is now available on Steam.  The demo doesn't seem to be on Steam but see our old news post if you'd like to check that out first.

Along with several more screens and the usual general description, Worthplaying  posts the information that a demo is now available for the futuristic sci-fi hack-n-slash title from ClockStone Software, Greed: Black Border. The actual demo can be downloaded here.

Four screens from ClockStone's scifi hack'n'slash Greed at Worthplaying.