Shank

After some longer games, I am now bouncing between games that I can play in smaller chunks. First up is Shank, a side-scrolling fighting game. It has decent 2D graphics with a comic book art style. As befits a console inspired video game, Shank has gamepad support. It worked flawlessly with my Logitech RumblePad 2. I played the single-player campaign, which follows the story of the titular character on a quest for revenge. Shank has a variety of light and heavy melee weapons, guns, and grenades. With so many options, the controls used the d-pad, the analog stick, and eight buttons on the gamepad. It didn't take too long to get the hand of it. As is typical in these fighting games, there are waves of enemies and bosses to defeat. It was fun for a while but the repetitive combat and thumb-soreness eventually caused me to move on. Still, it is a quality title that I would recommend to fans of the genre.