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Le Cartel are working on a new beat ’em up that is steeped in both nostalgia fused visuals and unrelenting combat in their upcoming PC title, Mother Russia Bleeds. The game is currently in pre-alpha, and it is set to arrive on PC, Mac, and Linux in 2015.

In Mother Russia Bleeds, you play as Sergei, a formerly imprisoned anti-hero that harbors a crippling drug addiction, as he begins his quest for vengeance and blood. The story is set within Cold War era USSR, an promises an unrelenting, ultra violent beat ’em up.

The game will support up to four players via co-op play, you can fight for freedom as either Sergei or one of his cell mates in their struggle to bust out of prison and “barrel down a hazy journey of rage and hate-filled, psychotic vengeance.”

In a blog post on the Mother Russia Bleeds’ official website, the game is described as an homage to the “golden age of brawlers,” only with a modern touch. The blog post details the game’s origins, and how everyone on the team are huge fans of old school brawlers:

“Looking back on the Golden Age of this genre, we all remember how mind-blowingly bad-ass it felt to beat the living crap out of enemies in the believable (yet slightly exaggerated) game worlds. We could almost smell the sweat and blood coming off of our enemies as we pummeled them with our fists, weapons and random picked up items. Games like Streets of Rage and Final Fight were not cartoonish worlds to play in; they were serious business, the real deal, the holy grail of that time period.

Lately, we haven’t quite been able to scratch the same itch. We don’t mean to say that recent brawlers haven’t been good, but rather, the ones in recent memory don’t seem to have the same spirit as the ones that occupied so much of our time during our personal Golden Ages of gaming.”

So what do you guys think? Does Mother Russia Bleeds have enough of a modern twist to make it unique?