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PlayStation 3 News by Robert Purchese
SEGA, a day after announcing Yakuza 3 for the West, has revealed a Japanese date for Yakuza 4.
This second PS3 instalment will arrive there on 18th March 2010, according to regional magazine Famitsu (spotted by Kotaku). We're unlikely to hear of a Western Yakuza 4 release for a while, so importing - for those familiar enough with the Japanese language - may be an option.
Coinciding with Yakuza 4's date are a batch of 40 new screenshots for the game on Gamikaze (spotted by VG247). Man in oil drum: check, man hanging upside from wire in underpants: check, lunging headbutt: check, knee-slam on face of prone target: check.
Catch-up with our Yakuza 3 import review to see what the series is all about.
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Without enraging the wrath of the PS elite can I ask do the Yakuza games improve? I finally got around to trying the first recently and it seems like a really poor Shenmue. After all the praise they get I was expecting something better TBH. Is 2 better or should I not bother if I didn't like the first one?
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Bad09: I don't think you'll incur any Wrath as it's a perfectly sensible question. I've not played any of the previous games but I've heard a lot of good things, I might check out the 3rd one when it comes out over here but there are so many other games demanding my attention next year I don't know if I'll get the chance.
I guess I'll see the reviews and whatnot closer to Western release day and see what the big deal is, it's supposedly a heavily story-driven experience so it has that going for it at the very least. |
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I've played the Japanese demo a while ago and it was really fun (although I couldn't understand $H!7). But I wasn't too pleased with the graphics. It looks really dated. What is it with the Japanese developers? Why do most of them have such a hard time shifting from last generation to this generation graphics wise?
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Just make sure you all buy Yakuza 3 next March, rather than doing what I suspect a lot of people will and waiting for it to come down in price (given that Final Fantasy XIII and loads of other stuff is out at the same time). I suspect it'll need to do well for this to have any chance of being translated.
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@eddiep: I imagined that they might have made a smoother fighting experience, by now...Is that not the case? That, and the regularly awful vo, took a lot of 1's appeal away for me, to the point that I put it down, and got caught up with other games that weren't as afflicted - If I were to return to Yakuza, it would be now, but I guess I'll just have to wait and see until review time, to find out how the pieces have fallen, this time. At least the game will be released, at all.
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@machetazo: "by now" - well, I only played Yakuza 1 and 2, which are both rather old (Yakuza 2 was released in 2006 in Japan). Yakuza 3 was released in 2009.
Here's a video review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc5jCvFOS64 lots of trailers: http://www.gametrailers.com/game/yakuza-... and some text reviews: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%AB_ga... http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/yakuza... http://www.nowgamer.com/reviews/ps3/8821... |
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