GamerNode | Shank 2 Review

Shank 2 streamlines the mechanical processes of its comic-style murder origins, then shanks cooperative storytelling by replacing its predecessor’s successful two-player campaign with waves of goons. And in an effort to homogenize single-player, the ear-stabbing difficulty from Shank has been downgraded to chin-tapping challenges, infrequent and sometimes voluntary. To call it a step backward, though, would ignore the feral pleasure of scorching, decapitating, and otherwise disrespecting hordes of sub-human guns-for-hire.