SIFU

There’s a hallway fight in the Sifutrailer that two PC Gamer staffers separately reacted to by saying, “Ah, Oldboy.” It’s a kung-fu brawler with obvious inspirations: The Raid, John Wick, the prop combat of Jackie Chan, the power of Bruce Lee. Sifuis meant to be a martial arts movie you can play.

You’ve got to be a little skeptical of a game that sets out to emulate movie legends like that, but what’s exciting about Sifuis that the developers behind it might actually have the chops (and punches, kicks, etc) to pull it off. Its creator is Paris-based studio Sloclap, whose first game was the fantastic online fighter Absolver, one of the best martial arts games out there.

I could go on and on about Absolver and how it deserved much more love than it got, but I’ll just point out the bits relevant