Yakuza 3
Yakuza 3 is the third chapter in the Yakuza series, renowned for its authentic, gritty, and often violent look at modern Japan. Making its first appearance exclusively on the PlayStation 3 computer…
Yakuza 3 is an adventure developed by CS1 Team, released 26 February 2009 on PlayStation 3. The main story takes about 20 hrs to finish.
What Yakuza 3 is
Yakuza 3 is an adventure game developed by CS1 Team and released in 2009. It was published by Sega. It is available on PlayStation 3 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Yakuza wars are spreading over to the tropical paradise of Okinawa. After leaving his last base in Kamimuro Chou, Kiryuu Kazuma went to Okinawa and opened an orphanage named Asagao with Haruka. Together with the children, they have taken in, the two slowly let go of the violent lives they have led prior to their arrival. However, the happy days are short-lived for the Yakuza are tightly connected with the Japanese government. A shady deal that involves the land on which Asagao is built spurs Kiryuu and Haruka back to their old hometown and fights with oppositional Yakuza groups. Fights and political intrigue come hand in hand, become the rising dragon and protect the sanctuary you have…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, drama and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series
Yakuza 3 is the fourth of 91 entries we hold in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series. It arrived 12 months after Ryuu ga Gotoku Kenzan!. The next entry was Yakuza 4 in 2010. Its critic score of 80 is almost exactly the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Yakuza 0: Director's Cut at 88.
How it was received
Yakuza 3 holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 80, across 76 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 20 hrs.
What it launched against
Yakuza 3 launched on 26 February 2009, within three weeks of Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Resident Evil 5 and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Yakuza 3 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Characters
All 30
Dlc
Remasters
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