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Genre: Adventure
System(s): PS2
ESRB: Unknown
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Yakuza is an action/adventure video game developed and published by Sega in 2005 for the Sony PlayStation 2. Sega has announced that the budget for the game was 2.4 billion yen (21 million US dollars), making it one of the more costly video games created.
Sega of America has opened an official website for the game in preparation for E3. The site announces that the game will be released in the U.S. sometime in September 2006 (source: 1).
The game follows the story of Kazuma Kiryu (桐生 一馬 Kiryū Kazuma), a former yakuza whose release from prison after a ten-year sentence sparks the setup of the game's plot. The game was heavily acclaimed in Japan for being the first game to explore yakuza culture with such depth and—as it is claimed—authenticity to the nature of Japan's criminal underground.
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