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SEGA delivering in March 2010.

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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bad09 #1 2 years ago

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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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Machetazo #2 2 years ago

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/facepalm.
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Beano #3 2 years ago

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Translated: Buy Y3 if you want Y4!
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freakzilla #4 2 years ago

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Oh snap!
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Murton #5 2 years ago

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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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Skire #6 2 years ago

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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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eddiep #7 2 years ago

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Gameplay-wise, 2 is marginally better than 1. The production values are better, IMHO, but the main issue is whether you can or not stomach the same (slightly clunky) fighting system. I personally like it, and I enjoyed both games.
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Aretak #8 2 years ago

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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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varsas #9 2 years ago

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@bad09: Poor Shenmue? Why do you day that? I think it's a pretty alternative with an engaging story, fun combat system and a more 'alive' virtual world.
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Machetazo #10 2 years ago

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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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Carroceiro #11 2 years ago

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So, I guess that Yakuza 4 will come out in Europe in, what, 2012?
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eddiep #12 2 years ago

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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: [link url=http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=Tc5jCvFOS64
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lots of trailers: [link url=http:/ /www.gametrailers.com/game/yakuza-3/9234
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and some text reviews:
[link url=htt p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%AB_ga_Gotoku_3
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[link url=htt p://www.eurogamer.net/articles/yakuza-3-review
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[link url=htt p://www.nowgamer.com/reviews/ps3/8821/yakuza-3
]http://ww w.nowgamer.com/reviews/ps3/8821...[/link]
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