PAX 09: downloadable title Shank looks cool, has blood

Don’t sleep on Klei Entertainment’s Shank. It’s a 2D downloadable action title — the platform hasn’t been announced, but it seems to be at least Xbox LIVE Arcade-bound — with an artistic flair and a decent amount of violence. The game is being shown on the PAX floor through this weekend; so naturally, the studio has released a teaser.

Like most teasers — more so than Comic Jumper, talk about foot in mouth — this video doesn’t reveal much detail about the title. The studio’s Web site describes it as, simply, as an “action slash adventure” game built with “amazing control, great animation, immersive environment, and everything else that we feel like, and none of the stuff we don’t.”

Sounds great, but it only does as long as Klei doesn’t include camels in the title. Those humped monsters can spit and it’s straight disgusting when they do. No camels, please. (Substitute them with helicopters, if possible.)