Read the full review: www.gamespot.co... A great cast of playable characters invigorates this latest chapter in the outrageous, wildly varied crime saga.
I know it’s been 4 years but if you somehow haven’t played any yakuza games then you really should get one the the games. I would recommend yakuza 0 for sure if you don’t really know the story that well as it serves as a prequel of sorts and was only made in 2015 I think.
Yakuza is probably one of the best series I have ever played. Everyone should give it a try. If you are a fan of Japan's culture (like me), you'll have a blast travelling through the streets of Kamurocho.
free on ps+ , along with Thief . Both fantastic games. easily worth buying ps+ just for this month alone. Warning its fucking huge download tho.. think around 22gb
Been resisting playing most of this cause I played the first few minutes and almost instantly ordered Yakuza 3, I'm hoping Yakuza 3 arrives today cause its getting hard to resist this one jus sat on my shelf :)
I've never tried a Yakuza game before and this review seems to make me interested in this more. The part about the extra side-quests of variation got me intrigued. Is this somewhat of a free-roaming game or what?
This review was way better than the IGN one; rating this game a 6.5 is a disgrace to all gamers! This is the review to listen to, not IGNs. That is unless Classic Game Room HD reviews this game too, then that would be the review to listen to.
Finally a decent review that actually goes in depth instead of bashing the game because of its flaws! I have really enjoyed playing through the game! Shun Akiyama is definitely my favorite new character! Anyone that loves the yakuza franchise or Japanese culture on a whole won't be disappointed by this game!
@SirSpirituousXD The only site that has awesome video reviews is Gametrailers.They even gave Yakuza 4 an impressive 8.3/10 and they made me buy the game.When is saw IGN's review on that game i didn't want to buy it but after GT's review i bought it without second thought
l love these games,being a big shemue fan i feel these are like the spiritual successors,so much fun,plenty of game for your money and very japanese,i enjoy playing games made solely for a certain market.
@Palmar3s i just beat yakuza 3 its very similar to shenmue but honestly i think this series is alot better and im really lookin forward to playing this game. You should give it a chance theres so much to do in these games and the story is amazing u will fall in love with it if u liked shenmue.
@BigLebowski2000 yes those could sometimes get boring but Yakuza is also a RPG so you'll get random battles in Y4 too. But you could equip a shoe in Y3 that reduced the noise of you're footsteps and it increased those random battles A LOT :)
alright i got 1 last locker key, e-3 , it said on ign's website that it is inside the NEW SERENA but when i go there, it says i need a membership, how the hell do get this one
Yakuza is one of the few japanese game series that I like. It actually tries something new and different which is a rarity in japanese gaming now days.
@Iceking137 Yakuza 3 is a Japanese game, so not everyone is into it. I don't mind the random battles (which you can reduce by wearing a special shoe), reading text and stuff like that. If you are a fan of the first two you'll love 3. I think Y3 is one of the best games on the PS3 and the best thing about Yakuza is its GREAT GREAT story.
@TheCommentGuy8 YES HE DID. He reviewed Y3 last year and said it was great and all and gave it an 8. Now that Y4 has all the original Japanese stuff in it, better story, more characters and fighting styles; he gives it a 6.5?? Makes no sense dude
@Prygst I agree COD is the same every release. I think its very hard these days to come up with a completely new idea , but i was expecting more from yakazua because their idea is brilliant just not perfected.
Square-Enix and many other Japanese game developers should be taking a few notes from this game: If they want the Western audience attention, the first thing they should do is implement Japanese voice acting.
3 is the most pure yakuza game but this is the best one i think,the 4 characters make it slightly more fun and the fighting seems slightly faster,either way they're both cheap to buy now and both brilliant.
@WackoGun Believe or not they're are allot of people who actually like these games so you shouldn't generalize by saying WE'RE. If YOU don't like them then don't play them, hell I'm not that big on myself but there is a reason they keep making them, because their are people out who love the franchise as a whole.
Gamespot seem like much better gamers than IGN. Plus as has been said before their reviews are much better and that's not because of the score or anything like that. They just put much more effort into them and go into a lot more depth.
I just bought this game for 17 bucks and waiting for it to install. I can't wait to play looks like one of those games where you get sucked into the story
Two reasons. First you have the people shout "fuck ign I'm not watching their reviews anymore or "I'm unsubscribing". Yet they still go to the channel anyway giving ign more views. The second is ign usually reviews games early and people want to see some sort of review before buying certain games and they will get their views that way instead of taking their time and doing a well thought out review.
I saw this obscure gem on a GameStop shelf for $17. I was contemplating on buying it, but I wasn't so sure. After watching this review, I'm positive that it will be well worth the $17.
I love Yakuza. But goddammit I'd be lying if I said it wasn't irritating every time those stupid 'text box' conversations pop up after just watching an awesome scene play out. It can REALLY throw you out of a great scene that just happened. I wish they would completely drop the text box conversations.
awww I came here half expecting Sophia Tong shitting all over this game because of that one daily demo they did. O well I guess this is good too since I kinda like the game.
@pedi007 It wasnt because its japanese. Its because for me it broke up the game. I was doing side missions not related to the main gameplay or the story and it feels out of place. yes i like how u get to know the kids more and actually make a connection with them, but these side quests just dont fit as u go looking foir a dog while u need to fight a enemy, just so one of the girls is happy. And the story itself is good, almost great. Its just cluttered with unreleted events.
@vespers119 and reviews that aren't complete junk and nit pick at everything and giving even the poorest of games an average score. Gamespot seem to be a lot more balanced with their reviews in terms of opinions.
Wayyy better review than IGN
thats because you can;t spell ignorant without IGN...
R U CRAZY?! Wei Shen could NEVER kick Kazuma Kiryu's ass! Not in a million years!
damn this game is 21GB on PS3 I had to delete all my games on ps3 memory in order to download this
but w/e its Yakuza so
Me too.. Deleted Rainbow six vegas 2, Mirrors edge, dead or alive 5 and Driver san francisco....
Me too. I deleted Mass Effect,Battlefield 4 and splinter cell blacklist
Upgrade your hard drive to at least 500 gb like I did recently.
And i will delete everything just for yakuza 5❤️
I have 500 gb hard drive because it's 2015
Damn, just looked in to these games.. Looks fun as hell, love the environment and tone.
I know it’s been 4 years but if you somehow haven’t played any yakuza games then you really should get one the the games. I would recommend yakuza 0 for sure if you don’t really know the story that well as it serves as a prequel of sorts and was only made in 2015 I think.
Yakuza is probably one of the best series I have ever played. Everyone should give it a try. If you are a fan of Japan's culture (like me), you'll have a blast travelling through the streets of Kamurocho.
i love this review
this is the first review that ive seen that gave this amazeing game the justice it diserved
One of the few sites that did great reviews of the Ps3 Yakuza games...
free on ps+ , along with Thief . Both fantastic games. easily worth buying ps+ just for this month alone. Warning its fucking huge download tho.. think around 22gb
Thief doesn't even come close to the greatness of Yakuza 4 or any Yakuza game for that matter.
+satellite964 right u are this is a PlayStation exclusive that's a must play
rub ber That was a good month for PSPlus :,)
+rub ber remember when we thought 22gb was a huge download? Good times.
@@babyboytheking4080 LMAO that's a Cyberpunk patch these days
Been resisting playing most of this cause I played the first few minutes and almost instantly ordered Yakuza 3, I'm hoping Yakuza 3 arrives today cause its getting hard to resist this one jus sat on my shelf :)
I've never tried a Yakuza game before and this review seems to make me interested in this more. The part about the extra side-quests of variation got me intrigued. Is this somewhat of a free-roaming game or what?
This review was way better than the IGN one; rating this game a 6.5 is a disgrace to all gamers! This is the review to listen to, not IGNs. That is unless Classic Game Room HD reviews this game too, then that would be the review to listen to.
Does any1 know a good rpg for the PS3? :)
Bloodbourne
Now this is a more rounded review, I'm glad to see that the Revelations are back.
Great review Carolyn! One of the best additions to Gamespot after Gerstmann-gate.
Very well spoken reviewer. Good ol' Gamespot review quality!
Finally a decent review that actually goes in depth instead of bashing the game because of its flaws! I have really enjoyed playing through the game! Shun Akiyama is definitely my favorite new character! Anyone that loves the yakuza franchise or Japanese culture on a whole won't be disappointed by this game!
@SirSpirituousXD The only site that has awesome video reviews is Gametrailers.They even gave Yakuza 4 an impressive 8.3/10 and they made me buy the game.When is saw IGN's review on that game i didn't want to buy it but after GT's review i bought it without second thought
@neotokyomedia I actually had no idea there was more then one Larry game, I only ever played the first one on PS2 I think. Thanks for heads up
I'm never watching another IGN review again
Gamespot really should give us more video reviews, they are pretty good.
l love these games,being a big shemue fan i feel these are like the spiritual successors,so much fun,plenty of game for your money and very japanese,i enjoy playing games made solely for a certain market.
Akiyama's kicks are beast.
@Palmar3s i just beat yakuza 3 its very similar to shenmue but honestly i think this series is alot better and im really lookin forward to playing this game. You should give it a chance theres so much to do in these games and the story is amazing u will fall in love with it if u liked shenmue.
@BigLebowski2000 yes those could sometimes get boring but Yakuza is also a RPG so you'll get random battles in Y4 too. But you could equip a shoe in Y3 that reduced the noise of you're footsteps and it increased those random battles A LOT :)
The Batman games dumbed down combat in these open world games. Thankfully this one doesn't.
thankfully kazuma don't jump around like a ballerina to.batman combat feel like dancing yakuza like every kung fun movie ever
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GAMESPOT IS THE ONLY FAIR REVIEW SITE IN THE DAMN WORLD.... YAYYYYYY GAMESPOT FOR SHOWING MASTERPIECES FOR WHAT THEY ARE
Now THIS is a review of YAKUZA 4.
Flawless! As the game is, too!
I have never played any Yakuza games, but it looks like the new Shenmue huh? or not?
@pedi007 Yep you hit it on the mark. The sad thing is they praised Yakuza 3 when it came out. It got a 8.5
@lloydy187 the first time ive heard of it was when they first annouced the NGP and they showed a demo of it on it
after all this criticism about IGN why don't they just stop reviewing so people don't miss out absolute masterpieces!
gamespot always has more in depth reviews than ign.
alright i got 1 last locker key, e-3 , it said on ign's website that it is inside the NEW SERENA but when i go there, it says i need a membership, how the hell do get this one
Yakuza is one of the few japanese game series that I like. It actually tries something new and different which is a rarity in japanese gaming now days.
@TheKluesey Actually, 204mastermind was first. Now you've made 2 incorrect comments.
can you get killed by tsunamis in this game?
Thank you for not rushing through a review to meet a deadline and paying the game the respect it deserves.
Kazuma is a beast...
Incredible and endless game. Finished the main campaign in 29 hours with only 5% of the game explored and completed. EPIC!!!
@Iceking137 Yakuza 3 is a Japanese game, so not everyone is into it. I don't mind the random battles (which you can reduce by wearing a special shoe), reading text and stuff like that. If you are a fan of the first two you'll love 3. I think Y3 is one of the best games on the PS3 and the best thing about Yakuza is its GREAT GREAT story.
@TheCommentGuy8 YES HE DID. He reviewed Y3 last year and said it was great and all and gave it an 8. Now that Y4 has all the original Japanese stuff in it, better story, more characters and fighting styles; he gives it a 6.5?? Makes no sense dude
@Prygst I agree COD is the same every release. I think its very hard these days to come up with a completely new idea , but i was expecting more from yakazua because their idea is brilliant just not perfected.
@pedi007 I don't see this guy give this game any score in this video?
So in 2011 sexy minigames were "silly" but now a days it's misogyny. yeah...
that guy sounds like michael cera and jessie eisenberg
@ChriswithMatt Thank God you didn't say first :)
@mateomilano FORGET ABOUT LINEAR CORRIDOR XIII. I played it and it's one of the gaming decisions I have regretted the most.
If Tekken 6's Scenario Campaign mode was as deep as Yakuza 4 it would have been a better game.
is it all in subtitles
Who else during Tanimuras Police Scanner Suicide Jumper call likes to throw them off the roof during battle?
Square-Enix and many other Japanese game developers should be taking a few notes from this game: If they want the Western audience attention, the first thing they should do is implement Japanese voice acting.
The cops voice actor is enough to make me buy this. That and minus the orphan crap; y3 was damned good!
3 is the most pure yakuza game but this is the best one i think,the 4 characters make it slightly more fun and the fighting seems slightly faster,either way they're both cheap to buy now and both brilliant.
@RanMatFri In a sense yes.
@TheCommentGuy8 oops sorry I was talking about IGN. My bad... This review was really good actually
@WackoGun
Believe or not they're are allot of people who actually like these games so you shouldn't generalize by saying WE'RE. If YOU don't like them then don't play them, hell I'm not that big on myself but there is a reason they keep making them, because their are people out who love the franchise as a whole.
Gamespot seem like much better gamers than IGN. Plus as has been said before their reviews are much better and that's not because of the score or anything like that. They just put much more effort into them and go into a lot more depth.
thats 8 out of 10 ladies and gentlemen
at 2:55 i thought he was beating up Beetlejuice
whats the name of the song from 5:32?
My all time favourite game
@TheGreenMissile what are you talking about
I liked Yakuza 3, but I hated the forced random battles. Are they present in part 4 too?
@TheCheesecakeofdoom
that's the fifth game.
cant wait to see gamespot's review of Crysis 2
i think their revews are better than ign cus in the VIDEO reviews they dont give scores
@GameXplorer7191 thats the point of the game its an action rpg, if you want gunplay buy Dead Souls.
@megamanEXE502 yup. This is a SEGA game so.... yeah
it took me 40 hours just the main game
I just bought this game for 17 bucks and waiting for it to install. I can't wait to play looks like one of those games where you get sucked into the story
Two reasons. First you have the people shout "fuck ign I'm not watching their reviews anymore or "I'm unsubscribing". Yet they still go to the channel anyway giving ign more views. The second is ign usually reviews games early and people want to see some sort of review before buying certain games and they will get their views that way instead of taking their time and doing a well thought out review.
watta bout the Crysis 2 review???? it coming out tomorrrrrrow
WOW... watching this makes IGN Fail
So this is what Zero from San Andreas is doing now. Reviewing video games.
@nklshaz I'm sorry, I just can't type fast enough:P
youtube won't load. does anyone else have this problem?
It's funny how when they were fighting their face seems casual
Compared with this, how can Mortal Kombat be banned in Australia...
yakuza 3 is fucking great, i hope the best of the yakuza 4.
@limitsora69 I would say that wanting to be a he-she would be a valid point to judge someone's characteristics on.
I saw this obscure gem on a GameStop shelf for $17. I was contemplating on buying it, but I wasn't so sure. After watching this review, I'm positive that it will be well worth the $17.
Another reason I wish I had a PS3.
I like my 360 a lot, but some games like this one make me wish I had a ps3 too...
If it was more realistic,this game would be perfect!
I love Yakuza. But goddammit I'd be lying if I said it wasn't irritating every time those stupid 'text box' conversations pop up after just watching an awesome scene play out. It can REALLY throw you out of a great scene that just happened. I wish they would completely drop the text box conversations.
awww I came here half expecting Sophia Tong shitting all over this game because of that one daily demo they did.
O well I guess this is good too since I kinda like the game.
I could never figure out why the first game was with English voice actors but the rest used Japanese voice actors. Sega couldn't afford to hire them?
This is the one game I'm really jealous of playstation users for.
And after all this years, we finally have it on pc and xbox.
very nice,any game out there for PS3 better than this? (in the same category)
well... technically he is a corrupt cop, but not in the same way as the others who you fight at the end of the game.
Is that a manly woman's voice or a womanly man's voice?
@pedi007 It wasnt because its japanese. Its because for me it broke up the game. I was doing side missions not related to the main gameplay or the story and it feels out of place. yes i like how u get to know the kids more and actually make a connection with them, but these side quests just dont fit as u go looking foir a dog while u need to fight a enemy, just so one of the girls is happy. And the story itself is good, almost great. Its just cluttered with unreleted events.
This Game ROCKS!!!!
@vespers119 and reviews that aren't complete junk and nit pick at everything and giving even the poorest of games an average score.
Gamespot seem to be a lot more balanced with their reviews in terms of opinions.
dont wanna see them fight each other, want to see them fight together against others. that would be epic
@TheGreenMissile he's asian, you mean he was taking a closer look to see if he really has anything there lol
just kidding Akiyama is a BEAST
@MrJohnHo
Don't wish... just do. Get the ps3 then??? you got a long wait for Gears of War 3... so I mean why be bored until then?
@MJHaylett it kinda part of the game so he is reviewing it
@TheGravitationist
Oh, my mistake then.
@GameXplorer7191 You really hate Yakuza that much? Is it that bad?
@PlaystationCrusader that would suck, a lot.