Abstract: For the most part, videogames are guilty of playing safe when it comes to genre categorisation, constrained by staunch alignment to popular or recognised styles of gameplay - whether it be in the guise of a first-person shooter, an action platformer, o...
Published: 2010-03-28, Author: Simon Hutchinson , review by: tweaktown.com
Finally. After many months and almost a year of badgering from the fan base, SEGA has decided to release Yakuza 3 in the west. The game originally released in Japan in late 2008, but SEGA took a heck of a lot of convincing that it still had a market...
Abstract: Yakuza 3 takes us all back to Japan to deal with the problems of being a high-level Yakuza. Unfortunately, SEGA didn’t upgrade much in the game except the graphics. You can’t fast-forward through cut scenes, there’s loads and loads of reading and some ...
Abstract: While Sega’s Yakuza franchise has been wildly popular in its native Japan, it has always had more of a cult following here in the States. Though it has taken its sweet time getting here, the first next-gen title in the series, Yakuza 3, finally hit wes...
Abstract: Being a huge fan of Yakuza 1 and 2 on PS2, I went into Yakuza 3 with some pretty lofty expectations, even after hearing about some of the cuts that were made to the game by Sega of America due to the thought that we wouldn't "get" some of the reference...
Abstract: Legend has it that the term "yakuza" derives from the classic Japanese card game hanafuda. Of the many combinations of cards you can draw as a hand, the worst is eight-nine-three -- pronounced, in an old dialect of Japanese, "ya-ku-za." In order to win...
