The word
"yakuza" refers to a Japanese criminal organization or gang. It is often involved in illegal activities like gambling, extortion, and smuggling.
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Huge amount of people anticipate Shenmue 3 as well the continuation of
Yakuza series in west in current gen and the next.
11 years since the original was released on the PS2, this will be a complete HD rebuilt - from - scratch remake
of Yakuza Kiwami on the PS4.
Amazon Japan has updated the product pages for
Yakuza Kiwami with boxart for both PS3 and PS4 versions.
In
Yakuza games you walk, and fight using your fists, and melee weapons like knives, bats, and other items in your environment.
The new trailer shows off some of the fun activities players can indulge in to pass the time
in Yakuza Kiwami.
Ideally, what we should also be seeing is greater Western presence
for Yakuza games too!
Thanks to a series of translated interviews
with Yakuza series directors and producers, specifically one with Masayoshi Yokoyama, we learned that in Yokoyama's personal opinion the series protagonist Kazuma Kiryu is probably a virgin.
SEGA's long running
Yakuza franchise is finally giving its previous PlayStation 2 exclusive title a much needed remake on the PlayStation 4.
Check out this walkthrough footage of a pre-alpha build of Binary Domain, the new game
from Yakuza series director Toshihiro Nagoshi:
Several well - received games are available, and purchasing the bundle also yields a couple of discount codes for recent titles such
as Yakuza Zero.
The games heroes are plunged deep into 1980's Japan and at the core of
Yakuza Zero is an affecting story that will grab you by the heartstrings and never let you go.
It is similar to that of other
Yakuza titles with exploration mixed with arcade style...
That said, our teams also understand that many of you guys love games
like Yakuza because of that experience, and rest assured that we'll continue fighting on your behalf to make sure that going forward, we can provide as close to the full experience as possible — no matter how foreign.
The mandatory pilgrimage for
Yakuza fans, Kabukicho, was also worth a visit.
There's also added distractions (Pocket Circuit car racing, MesuKing: Battle Bug Beauties, new hostesses, and more), side quests, combat updates, re-recorded Japanese dialogue, and more to bring the
original Yakuza game into the latest console generation.
Indeed, seeing all three in quick succession can make it tricky to tell the films apart — a fact which made the relief of witnessing the lurid violence of Takashi Miike's vampire - gangster film
Yakuza Apocalypse in the Quinzaine all the more welcome (Miike's work being the generic flipside to the national cinema developed by his compatriots).
Shiibashi is the creator of Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, a series
about Yakuza yokai and ran for 25 volumes.
SEGA has announced it will forming a
new Yakuza Studio that will be lead by Toshihiro Nagoshi.
Publisher Comment: «I quite enjoyed reading it and thank you for your hard work:)» Binary Domain is developed by
Yakuza Studio and published by SEGA for the PS3, Xbox 360 & PC.
Headed
by Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi, the game is set in the year 2080 in a futuristic Tokyo where robots and humans are at each others throats.
We once again pick back up with protagonist Lo Wang, who's been brought into the employ of
Yakuza boss Mamushi Heika.
As the
first Yakuza release to find its ways to Western shores, SEGA took the misguided approach to marketing the game as a sort of Japanese Grand Theft Auto.
I wish
Yakuza Team as a studio would fix this for future titles, it would do quite a bit to make the experience better.
These enemies consist of anything from common street thugs to other
Yakuza members hunting your head.
You'll be happy to know that this tradition continues forth
into Yakuza Kiwami.
Nishki has gained his own
Yakuza family in that time, and Yumi has gone missing.
While I couldn't fault this omission in HD
remake Yakuza Kiwami, it feels like a backwards step to strip this layer of strategy away in a newly developed subsequent entry.
This close ranged combat
makes Yakuza Kiwami feel much more like sleeping dogs, but with a lot more complexity, and style.
Sega has
announced Yakuza Zero: The Place of Oath for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 where details...
It is similar to that of
other Yakuza titles with exploration mixed with arcade style...
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There's a lot of Sega today, but throw in a bit of Bandai Namco and a sprinkling of Arcsys, and you've
got Yakuza battling, fighter jet dogfighting, tactical warfare and more!
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Sega held off on
bringing Yakuza 3 stateside, even after the game saw great sales in Japan.
I
love Yakuza series and Binary Domain but they always feel very tank like or unpolished when it comes to animation.
On top of that, you have to have a half - decent knowledge of how
Yakuza clans work to really know what's going on.
Players are introduced to the «Dragon of Dojima,» Kazuma Kiryu, an up - and - coming
Yakuza who takes the fall for the murder of a crime boss, only to emerge from prison ten years later to a changed world.
While Yakuza Kiwami captures Kamurocho in all its seedy glory, there is a marked difference between character models in the main cast.
Sega is preparing for a «surprise announcement» at the upcoming
Yakuza Character General Election event in Japan; fans speculate possible reveal of PS3, PS4, or Vita games.
Back in May
when Yakuza Apocalypse premiered at Cannes, it sounded like Takashi Miike was back in full - force.
Michael Caine narrates My Generation, an archive documentary about the actor's recollections of the 1960s and closing this year's festival meanwhile is Outrage Coda, a drama about the
Japanese Yakuza from director Takeshi Kitano.
Though enjoyable, the original
Yakuza story is a fairly straight - forward rivalry with a few twists.
This is the
best Yakuza game to date — the result of 10 years spent not just perfecting a formula, but adding to it.
Hopefully that's something that changes as the years go on, both with
more Yakuza titles arriving and with Western game developers taking some cues from the adventures of Kiryu Kazma and his band of do - gooders.
Aside from
Yakuza Ishin, it really doesn't have any games that appeal to the Japanese market.
While the fighting isn't as interactive or refined as the recently
reviewed Yakuza for example, it is complimented by some really entertaining combos and pretty big moves.
Their works have
included Yakuza 2, Elvandia Story, Commando 3, Metal Gear Solid 4, Ninja Blade, and the anime Ninja Blade.