<p>Naps Team is bringing its cult brawler series Gekido to the "touch generation".</p><p>The team reckons it could be with us as soon as early 2015, but that's not confirmed yet.</p><p>All that we do know is it'll have us playing as Travis and, seemingly, fighting zombies (among other enemies, presumably).</p><p>As you can see in the single screenshot that Naps has released (below), this Gekido game has a hand-drawn 2D art style.</p><p>That differs greatly from the original Gekido: Urban Fighters, with its large 3D polygons, and which was released for the PlayStation 1 back in 2000.</p><p>If you're not familiar with the series (and let's be fair, you're probably not), it plays quite a bit like classic Streets of Rage.The first game involved fighting through thugs to rescue a kidnapped girl from crime boss Kintaro. You played as Travis, who we presume is the guy you also play as in this upcoming Gekido game.</p><p>There was also a spin-off game made for the Game Boy Advance called Gekido Advance: Kintaro's Revenge.</p><p>Plus, a sequel to Gekido: Urban Wars was announced back in 2005 called Gekido: The Dark Angel. As you can see with that link, we covered it, but the game never actually showed up.</p><p>Another Gekido spin-off game, this time for the Game Boy Color and developed by Infogrames, shared the same fate as The Dark Angel.</p><p>However, Naps did share with us a couple of screenshots of that forgotten, unreleased game. You can see those above.</p><p>Hopefully, this new Gekido game won't go the same way, and will be released for mobile some time next year.</p><p>We'll let you know more about the game when we get more details.</p> … Read more
