Why Have The Previous Tekken Adaptations Failed?

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Everyone knows that trying to make a decent film out of a hit video game is a losing battle, the ones that are good just bring further shame onto all the other ones. Among the stunning history of this cynical exercise, some games just don't know when to stay in their lane.

Fighting game movies are perhaps uniquely primed to make it to the big screen. Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat each have a pile of adaptations to their name in both live-action and animation. Some are good, most aren't, some have nothing to do with the game they were incidentally named after. While almost all of those adaptations have some level of renown or infamy, another hit fighting game franchise has put up some lesser-known entries in the unfortunate subgenre.

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Tekken holds a resolute fourth place amongst fighting games in terms of all-time sales but is routinely the best-received of the genre. Ten games have been released in the franchise, each of which has been popular, and a couple of which are considered groundbreaking landmarks in the genre. Since 1994, the series has defined 3D combat gameplay.

The story, as with most fighting games, concerns a tournament attended by a diverse group of warriors who compete to win a massive fortune. The questionably ethical mega-corporation known as the Mishima Zaibatsu holds the King of Iron Fist Tournament, offering control of the company and its assets as a prize. The primary narrative follows the Mishima family, a multigenerational line of fighters cursed with a mysterious gene that grants tremendous superhuman powers. Each new Mishima slides into the main character role, fighting to gain control of their family business and defeat their inevitably evil