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Info

» System: PC, Xbox One, PS4, PS3

» Year: 2015

» Publisher: Sega

» Developer: Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio

» Key People: Masayoshi Yokoyama (producer, writer), Mitsuhiro Shimano (producer), Kazuki Hosokawa (director)

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» With 1.8 million Japanese characters in the original script, as well as unfamiliar board games, localising Yakuza 0 was a mammoth task that took over 18 months.

» Since Yakuza 0 was built on the same engine as Yakuza 5, a PlayStation 3 version of the game was created. However, this version was only released in Asian countries.

[PC] Multi-man brawls are a staple of the Yakuza series, and you’ll enjoy plenty of them in this prequel.

YAKUZA 0

THE BACKGROUND

With the Yakuza series achieving consistently excellent sales in Japan across five main games and an equal number of spin-offs, there was practically no question that a mainline instalment would be made for the PlayStation 4. When it was finally revealed in 2014, players learnt that it would be set in the late Eighties, focusing on the series’ long‐term protagonist Kazuma Kiryu and perennial fan favourite Goro Majima. This was a first for the series – while there had been two spin-offs set in ancient Japan, this look back to the ‘bubble era’ was the first proper Yakuza prequel.