Shank is an upcoming side-scrolling action beat-em up for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and PC.
The game features a very interesting, beautiful, almost Sunday-morning action-cartoon art-style to it that makes it literally look as good as an animated series. The action however is fast and violent, with lots of blood and mature content.
The game features both extensive melee combat as well as gun combat, and the gun stuff almost looks like Gun-Kata, Equilibrium-style.
The plot in the game is written by Marianne Krawczyk, the co-creator of God of War.
This storyline trailer reveals more of what is going on in Shank.
And here is ten straight minutes of actual gameplay taken straight from the E3 2010 show floor!