Treachery in Beatdown City - Old School style Beat Em Up

Game Genre : Beat Em Up
Developer(s) : Shaun Alexander Allen,  Manuel Marcano
Game Info : Treachery in Beatdown City is an episodic game following the kidnapping of the US president by a group calling themselves the NinjaDragon Terrorists and the subsequent fight to rescue him by three fighters based out of East Fulton City, Lisa Santiago, Bruce Maxwell and Brad “The Bull Killer” Steele. Beat Down City will feature just what made the classic games of old such as Double Dragon so great. With the side scrolling beat em up action in a retro graphical style. The ability to punch and kick your way past a host of different enemies and being able to smash objects to reveal items including weapons. A game I'm looking forward to, hopefully us gamers get more info as we head through this year for a final release.
Systems : PlayStation Mobile - with other platforms to come afterwards.
Release : Fall 2013

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