You open the door and immediately throw an empty bottle at a goon SMASH before turning your attention to another running around the corner. With a flurry of punches and a final kick BAM BAM POW you send him hurtling to a fighting pit below. More punches THWACK SMACK and the enemies are downed, the screen splashes a sudden scarlet and you move on in your relentless pursuit.
Sifu, out next year on PlayStation and PC, is an incredibly stylish take on kung-fu. Developer Sloclap experimented with hand-to-hand combat with its previous game Absolver, so a kung-fu game seems like a natural progression.
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