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| Yakuza 3 review by Budding journalist 12/09/2009, 12:31pm PST | ||||
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| Yakuza 3 starts off well enough where you pick which car you want to drive. Like in the previous three Yakuza games (Yakuza, Yakuza 2 and Yakuza 0) you cannot yet pick the fastest car and you cannot yet floor it in the beginning of the game. Instead you have to settle for a mixed bag of medium paced Japanese cars, and the pedal can only be applied 70% to the floor. Still, what a rush to speed down the streets of Neo-Edo, going 70% slower than the fastest car, but still fast enough to feel like a true Yakuza (immersion). Using an overworld map, you pick which dungeons to race next, and buy car potions from crazy shop merchants. Random encounter races slow your progress, but raise your skill numbers higher, which become important later, so that part of the design is a wash. Finally the end game involves jumping your car over and on top of various enemies while shooting enemies (but never shooting the enemies you're jumping on) and exploring a rich cut scene to find out the location of the next enemy. To race!
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Yakuza 3 due in March. by 12/09/2009, 7:19am PST  isn't that a driving game? by 12/09/2009, 7:54am PST wreckless: the tiger woods story NT by 12/09/2009, 11:14am PST Yakuza 3 review by 12/09/2009, 12:31pm PST This sounds like a lot more driving than your average sandbox by 12/09/2009, 9:01pm PST |
