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Yakuza: Dead Souls hands-on preview (PSLS)

PlayStation LifeStyle's Heath Hindman has been playing the latest PS3 Yakuza and says, "Unlike previous Yakuza games which focused 90 per cent of their combat on the hand-to-hand aspect of things, fighting in this one is all about firearms. The cover has each character holding what will probably turn out to be a favorite gun of his. So far, Akiyama’s primary tool of death (“undeath?”) has been a 9mm handgun. Holding R2 brings up crosshairs, helping the player pull off head shots, which are one-hit kills despite the aforementioned inconsistency. When Akiyama’s heat gauge fills up, he can try 'Heat Sniping,' which will trigger a Quick-Time Event zooming in on an item that, if shot, can cause some beautiful destruction. An early example of this is shooting the gas tank of a car, causing it to explode and take out the crew of zombies huddling around it probably talking about how they wish it had brains so that they could eat them and then listen to The Cure."

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Lifewish4584d ago

I love the Yakuza series and this looks like it will be fun!

BigWoopMagazine4584d ago

Heh, inconsistent indeed. Sort of like how Nathan Drake can take a couple bullets and in a mere 30 seconds be fully healed, but in a cutscene he takes a bullet to the gut and suddenly it really effects him! Oh well, as long as it's fun, that's all that really matters.

joinsideke4584d ago

Maybe it's a silver bullet?

uh oh, let the fan fiction commence.

Cloudberry4584d ago (Edited 4584d ago )

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This game will be mine.

insertcoin4584d ago

Is this payback for Kazuma bumping into every person in Kamurocho?

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Should RGG Studio Port Yakuza: Dead Souls, Ishin and Kenzan?

RGG Studio, the developers behind Yakuza and Judgment, have blown up recently, but should their older, obscure games be given a second chance?

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Majin-vegeta930d ago

Yes.Also the PSP games should be ported

Iltapalanyymi929d ago

Absolutely, especially ishin and kenzan. I also played the kurohyou psp game that was translated recently and had a blast. Now i want more of it but sadly the 2nd one isnt translated. Maybe RGG studio could port it to some kind of HD collection? Would be cool

Iltapalanyymi929d ago

The kurohyou 2 fan translation is coming january 7th!!
https://n4g.com/news/244715...

Vits929d ago

Yakuza Ishin and Kenzan should totally get a remaster/port for modern consoles with a western localization. Dead Souls I'm more on the fence. I had fun with that game. But it's undoubtedly far below the franchise standard.

GhostofHorizon929d ago

There was an interview where they mentioned they are giving it a second thought just because Ghost of Tsushima did so well, previously they were not convinced those games would find an audience in the west.

Personally I would love it if they ported these over.

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Do Not Sleep On Yakuza: Dead Souls

Yeah, Yakuza: Dead Souls is very loud and very dumb, but sometimes that's exactly what you really need.

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neutralgamer19921461d ago (Edited 1461d ago )

It's the best zombie game I played with a very mutual serious tone story that does not take itself to a serious if that makes sense

I highly recommend you play this game I just wish they would update the controls because the controls are just kind of weird. But you get used to it after a few hours

REALAS1461d ago

Very fun game. I would love a sequel. The first person controls were hard at first, but once you learn the trick to quick aim, its cake. Another overlooked classic.

DxTrixterz1461d ago (Edited 1461d ago )

Get to the Top sang by Majima is alone a reason to play this hidden gem.

AK911461d ago

This game was garbage, no I’m not talking about the story or whatever I mean the core gameplay it was absolute rubbish.

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Gran Turismo HD Concept and Yakuza: Dead Souls running on the PC thanks to the PS3 emulator, RPCS3

YouTube’s ‘reznoire’ has shared two videos, showing Gran Turismo HD Concept and Yakuza: Dead Souls running on the PC thanks to the best PS3 emulator, RPCS3. While emulation is not perfect yet, these two titles can be described as a bit playable at this point.

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kevnb2152d ago

Good to know, when my ps3 eventually dies I can still play my games.

neocores80552152d ago

Goodluck with that 90% of the games dont even boot on it yet

snake-OO2152d ago

In time....I remember back in mid 2000's the ps2 emulator hardly ran anything, and now it runs 90% of the games.