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Quick Look: Shank (Again!)

Ryan and Vinny stab, saw, and grenade their way through the retail release of Shank.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Aug. 25 2010

Cast: Ryan, Vinny

Posted by: Drew

In This Episode:

Shank

Shank

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Edited By Anomareh

Sweet.

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Edited By metalsnakezero

Its shanking time!

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Edited By Hitchenson

I've seen surprisingly little of this game up to this point.

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Edited By Garadon

I wanted to get this but I heard it's 3 hours long...

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Edited By alternate

SO do all quicklooks auto-post at 6 a.m. now?

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Edited By hockeymask27

once step closer to my NHL 2k11 quicklook!

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Edited By xseedx

SO looking forward to this!

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Edited By mementomori

what time in US

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@eldiax:
The combat looks amazing. The transitions really make me want to buy this gay. 
Oops, I meant to say game.... 
I feel kinda terrible....
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@xseedx:  Its out now.
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Edited By Lassegp

QUICK LOOOOOK!

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@stevemanu:  just realized it myse... *runstoPS3*
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@jorbear: Where do you buy gays? I've found them at a few places but they've been pretty expensive any suggestions on where I can get a good deal?
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Edited By Djeffers03

Another one? Oh well I won't complain.

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@Garadon said:
" I wanted to get this but I heard it's 3 hours long... "
Going to the theater to see an average movie will cost you almost the same and is only 2 hours long...
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@Sanious said:
" @jorbear: Where do you buy gays? I've found them at a few places but they've been pretty expensive any suggestions on where I can get a good deal? "
I think you might need a prescription for them.
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A 2GB download for a 2D brawler is ridiculous.

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I don't like fighting dogs in games either. The hurt sound always makes me uncomfortable.
Slaughtering hordes of people is cool because you know they are malicious jerks but hurting the poor cute doggies makes me sad.

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looks cool but screw buying at least 1500-2000 ms points to cover the 1200 cost.

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I suggest a Quick Look of AGAIN (Again!)

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Edited By brocool

love the beat-em-up comeback!

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Damn awesome.

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I want to go shank someone now.

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Looks good, ill definately get it. Getting a bit bored of farming Dracula in Castlevania HD.
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Though dogs look like huge douches to me though

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@ImBigInJapan said:
" I don't like fighting dogs in games either. The hurt sound always makes me uncomfortable.Slaughtering hordes of people is cool because you know they are malicious jerks but hurting the poor cute doggies makes me sad. "
Try calling them "poor cute doggies" when one is trying to chew your face off.
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Shanking? Shiving?
 
SHIVANS! It's the Shivans, Ryan!

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This game will probably get repetitive and boring after 30-50 min. No thank you. I will save my $15 for Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light when it comes out on the PC.

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How's the ps2 camera man game quick look coming along?
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Edited By Explosivo

This game looks crazy fun

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Hello Ryan, is it true what Tom from GS says, that comboing makes the game much more difficult than if you just mash the knife?
 
It looks fun though, if a little shallow on the gameplay side.

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Man, I'd love to see a fighting game animated like this.  Downloaded this game yesterday, can't wait to try it out.

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@ImBigInJapan said:
" I don't like fighting dogs in games either. The hurt sound always makes me uncomfortable.Slaughtering hordes of people is cool because you know they are malicious jerks but hurting the poor cute doggies makes me sad. "
You have got to be joking. Killing dogs is fucking awesome. It made the two modern warfare games. Dogs are horrible creatures, its so satisfying to shoot them.
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I was thinking, "Man, that box breaking animation looks good!" literally seconds before Ryan also commented on it.

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They didn't make the Shivilization 5 joke I was expecting D:<

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@ImBigInJapan said:
" I don't like fighting dogs in games either. The hurt sound always makes me uncomfortable.Slaughtering hordes of people is cool because you know they are malicious jerks but hurting the poor cute doggies makes me sad. "
Totally, hate killing animals in games in general but doggies are the worst. Pyjacks though... I'll kill all of you.
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@phrosnite said:
" This game will probably get repetitive and boring after 30-50 min. No thank you. I will save my $15 for Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light when it comes out on the PC. "
The critics doesnt seem to have that problem. The issue expressed by many people though is that the game only last 3 hours, which is not very long for a 15 doller game-
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the perfect storm of awesome my 360 faceplate with a shank sketch signed by Jeff at PAX east this year.  

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That first death was Brad-worthy.

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Edited By Icemael

I really, really don't like this game's visual style. It's got that cheap Flash game look.

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Bought this last night and played about an hour or so of it.  So far, I really liked it but I think the shooting needs a little more range of movement.  Hopefully I can finish first play-through soon so I can through a Proper review up.

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DOGtor Dre. Thank you.

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I heard it was coming out on PC, but I haven't heard anything about when.
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Let me see some more, Ryan

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They chose PS3 for a multi platform release. That's different! 

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They should just go all the way with the enemy name thing and have pictures of their families under their lifebars.

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Damn, my PS3 would die on the day this came out.  Woe is me.

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The animation is top notch.

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@almeida: You can now buy points in 400 pt increments online in the marketplace.  So you can get exactly 1200 if you just want 1200.
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Why does the music seem more suited to a sedate Tomb Raider level?