Yakuza aka Ryuga Gotoku

**Yoshi** · 24 Aug 2005, 11:18 AM

Originally titled "Project J" in its early development, Sega's Ryuga Gotoku is being produced for PlayStation 2 by Toshihiro Nagoshi, who also worked on F-Zero GX and Super Monkey Ball. Magic Box compares the look of the game to a combination of Grand Theft Auto and Shenmue. GameSpot shined some light on the talent involved:

Originally Posted by GameSpot

Sega says that Ryu no Gotoku is targeted toward more-mature audiences. Ryu no Gotoku's storyline has been supervised by award-winning novelist Hase Seishu, who's best known for Fuyajou and other novels that take place in the underground society. The heavy drama is aided by voice acting from a number of famous celebrities in Japan. Lending their voices to the game are seasoned actor Tetsuya Watari, actress Junko Mihara, DJ Kei Grant, and martial artist Yoshiaki Fujiwara.

http://the-magicbox.com/0508/game050823a.shtml

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/08...s_6131768.html

**NeoZeedeater** · 24 Aug 2005, 12:04 PM

I would have preferred they saved it for next gen hardware but it does look cool.

**StriderKyo** · 24 Aug 2005, 12:15 PM

Wow. If it weren't for the resolution and slightly lower poly count, that would look better than Frame City Killer. Sammy cash has been a very good thing for Sega, it seems. That beats the crap out of Blood Will Tell.

**MarsKitten** · 24 Aug 2005, 12:19 PM

Looks good. Color me interested.

**Diff-chan** · 24 Aug 2005, 12:34 PM

It looks like Dead to Rights with more Asian people.

Pass.

**g0zen** · 24 Aug 2005, 01:52 PM

Originally Posted by diffusionx

It looks like Dead to Rights with more Asian people.

Pass.

Does that mean instead of sicing the dog on people you eat it like a power-up?

Ba-zing.

**Jeremy** · 24 Aug 2005, 02:09 PM

Hot damn, GTA meets Shenmue sounds good to me, and this looks impressive. It's a shame it'll be PS2-only, but I'm sure they'll release a port of it on another system.

**Yoshi** · 24 Aug 2005, 02:21 PM

Originally Posted by Jeremy

Hot damn, GTA meets Shenmue sounds good to me, and this looks impressive. It's a shame it'll be PS2-only, but I'm sure they'll release a port of it on another system.

Yeah. They should have put it somewhere it has no chance of selling like they did with Shenmue II.

**Jeremy** · 24 Aug 2005, 03:28 PM

Shenmue II probably wouldn't have sold well anyway. The DC original got a ton of hype and still sold poorly, while Shenmue II got little hype in mags by the time the Xbox version came out. I'm referring more to the visuals suffering due to it being PS2-only than anything else.