Do you like guns? How do you feel about chainsaws? Dual stabby blades do anything for you? How about the Venture Brothers cartoon? Still with me? Now roll all that up and slap that into a 2D Double Dragon style side scroll fighter, and you’ve got Shank, the latest offering from Klei Entertainment.
Wait, did he just say Double Dragon?
Yes. I did, and it wasn’t me that used it; Jamie Cheng, the founder of Klei Entertainment, actually used that game to compare it to.
While I was playing the demo, the thing that I noticed the most was that there were literally a dozen dudes standing around me watching, and several of them were laughing out loud at the sheer level of diabolical ultraviolence the game has in it. Stuff a grenade in a boss’ mouth, do an acrobatic vault, then shoot the grenade from a safe distance? Check. The game looks like it’s going to have a wicked dark sense of humor, and sporting such a unique graphical feel to the whole thing, and it looks like it’s going to be a hella good time.
Well, don’t take my word for it: take it away, Jamie.
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really? Shank? Please tell me this is a PSN/XBL download as otherwise i can’t see this getting anywhere near england. Bebo only had to mention the fricken word and the daily mail did a whole articule on the site on how it was so horriable and distastefull.