I'm pretty sure many jingoistic Americans picture the U.S.-Mexico border to be a little something like the world of Shank.
Video Blips:
• Shank looks like a mix of the Samurai Jack cartoon and a Mexican soap opera with the violence cranked up to 11. Actually, the violence is more around a 9 -- I didn't really see any guts or dismemberment.
Continue after the break for a look at Super Gran Turismo 5 Kart, the seedy underbelly of Mafia 2, and a Brink developer diary supposedly on "The End of Genre As We Know It," but I don't believe it.
• Go-kart racing in Gran Turismo 5 looks like fun, but it's hard to tell what's going on without turtle shells and banana peels flying every which way. It's just too unrealistic to me.
• Mafia 2 takes a novel approach to the gangster-game genre: The protagonist goes from rags to riches via a life of crime. Why isn't it ever the other way around? You know, where they start at the top and then end up in prison trading cigarettes for -- well, you know the rest.
• The Brink developers say their game blurs the line between a story-driven campaign mode and a multiplayer experience. That's cool, but they're a bit off in naming this video "The End of Genre As We Know It." No matter how you spin it, I'm pretty sure this is still a shooter.
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