Bang-hard & pitying lot: SEGA publishes Japan hit Yakuza this summer in Europe! Dip into the mysterious world of of Japan notorious underground organization!
Munich, 23 February 2006: SEGA Europe Ltd. becomes the PS2-exklusiven Far East best-seller Yakuza (Japanese original title: Ryu Ga Gotoku) also in this country publish. The Action Adventure of SE gas producer Toshihiro Nagoshi and star book author Seishu hare, renowned distinguished several times by the press, kidnaps the player into the dangerous and pityless world of the Japanese underground organization. In a country such as Japan, whose social structure justifies itself traditionally on values such as respect and honour, exists a power, which requires still more reverence and following SAMNESS: the Yakuza!
The main character of the play, Kiryu Kazuma, was once on the way to the point of the Yakuza, until a plot brought it for 10 years behind lattices. Now it is not back in liberty, and turns out on the search for its traitors into a fascinatingly verworrene history around the mysterioese beauty Haruka and 10 billion disappeared Yen. Kazuma may anybody trust, and must all its instinct - and its fists - use, in order on the search for the secret from lies and betrayal by the killers of the Yakuza to be eliminated. "those outstanding mixture from Kampfaction, a dramatic story LINE and, the terribly complex characters sketched by star author Seishu hare, also the European players to inspire", commentates Fabian Doehla, PR manager with SEGA. "universe these aspects on the point to bring, succeeds to developers only rarely, but the team of Yakuza carried really whole work out. Particularly in things authenticity and style look for Yakuza its-same ".
The Combat engine developed particularly for Yakauza permits to arrange the player individual Combos, in order to switch thereby whole gangs off at the same time. In the fights practically all articles can e.g. tables, cabinets and even the aggressors themselves as weapons be used. And the collects more combat experience Kazuma, extends the more its Skill and its striking power. The night life of Tokyo and its criminal shade sides are completely in Yakuza integrate and extend original purchase quarters shared by lively nightclub districts paved with neon advertisement including night clubs, up to. Kazumas abilities can be trained also during these excursions further, and to be developed by extra missions as for instance the bribery of informants or illegal gambling additionally. Yakuza is a tension-loaded Action Adventure, which makes an entrance possible due to its enormously high reality degree into the underground world of the Yakuza otherwise locked - bang-hard dictates from its traditional values: Honour, respect and unconditional loyalty!
Yakuza appears summer 2006 exclusively for PlayStation 2.