Yakuza 5

As playgrounds for the adults, the wealthy, and the risk takers, they are full of excitement and a little bit of danger, and so filled with exotic sights and sounds that I could almost smell the food vendors or rain on the asphalt after a storm; that’s how effective this game is at bringing me back to Japan for just a little while.

It’s incredibly easy to plug multiple hours at a time into Yakuza 5, partly because it’s very easy-to-follow mission structure, and partly because the cut-scenes can take so long telling the story.

Yakuza 5 is a response to the complacency of Western development. While previous Yakuza games dabbled through extraneous minigames, divergent player-controlled characters, and eccentric sidequests, none sewed its threads together with the consequence and commitment of Yakuza 5. Bloat is the inevitable negative, and Yakuza 5 shows some superfluous heft, but it's such a mountain of effort and arrangement that it's tough not to stand in awe of its accomplishments.

Yakuza 5 looks fantastic... Delivers one of the best stories in the franchise.

Yakuza games have always been very generous when it comes to content. With five playable characters and as many cities to explore, Yakuza 5 pushes the concept even further. Too bad we had to wait for so long to get it.

Yakuza 5 offers a different kind of open-world experience, giving you more of an immersive game than you may be expecting, even if it does suffer from repetitive combat and long cut scenes.

Still gaming’s most realistic crime drama, as well as being the natural heir to both Shenmue and Streets Of Rage – even if this entry shows little real innovation.

the perfect game to enjoy and in this game it is greatly improved from the previous series, there are many new features that are unique and interesting and worth playing for a long time, plus this release on the PS 3 shows that the PS 3 still has good games

Obviously it's all the same but exciting. I dont the fighting in this game, locking onto an enemy is very difficult.

My less favorite Yakuza game. It has a great gameplay and great soundtrack, but the history feels weird and having a lot of characters doesn't help too much like in 4, you got plenty of cities, but some of them almost nothing to do, the history lost sight of what created and the end didn't explained very well. Still, a very fun game to play.

No just no do not get me wrong I’m probably one of the biggest RGG fan boys out there but this game well it just **** and it makes me sick to see this is one of the highest rated yakuza games on the site yakuza on ps2 is better than this game ok first off everything feels like a chore and the game is too long I was on the brink of skipping this game and playing yakuza 6 next we have the encounters there are too many I can’t get to a way point without at least 5 encounters with enemies and also making us play as haruka it just **** the only thing good about this game is the ost oh and the combat ****

Game is 10/10, but Sega is so bad company not translating their games even after remastering them