NEED TO KNOW
WHAT IS IT? Pummeling open world prequel set before Japan’s economic bubble burst
EXPECT TO PAY £15
DEVELOPER SEGA
PUBLISHER In-house
REVIEWED ON Intel Core i7-7700 CUP @ 3.60GHz, 16 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070, Windows 10
MULTIPLAYER No
LINK yakuza.sega.com
Plenty has happened to the Yakuza series since this prequel arrived on PC. There’s been a new game engine, which refined the experience but diminished the crunchy combat of previous titles. We’ve had spin-offs and remasters. And, somewhat bizarrely, a new, turn-based sequel is coming straight to Steam when it’s released in the West. After years of begging for the series to come to PC, we suddenly have more choice than the bento selection at Poppo.
This story is from the November 2020 edition of PC Gamer.
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