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Remember the Jean-Claude Van Damme movie Kickboxer? They're making a videogame of it now

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Maybe you're too young to remember Kickboxer, the 1989 martial arts movie where Jean-Claude Van Damme learns Muay Thai in a training montage, kicks down a banana tree, and dances in a way that suggests his ballet training was all for naught.

Even as someone who wasted a good chunk of my life watching martial arts movies, I only just learned that Kickboxer, er, kicked off a series that led to four sequels, a reboot, and a sequel to said reboot.

And next: a videogame. Force Multiplier Studios has the rights to games based on the Kickboxer cinematic universe, and is making a game it says «will combine the rich narrative of Kickboxer with kinetic martial arts action to deliver an intense, high-octane brawler, and feature iconic characters and locations from the franchise».

The founders of Force Multiplier Studios have Tales from the Borderlands and multiple Call of Duty games among their credits, but I can't imagine a brawler based on Kickboxer being much like either of those things.

Though I do hope there's room in it for a dancing rhythm game. In a press release, CEO of Force Multiplier Studios Jeremy Breslau said, «we can't wait to innovate the fighting genre with incredibly visceral combat and an emphasis on the environment and what you can do in it.

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