I’ll be struggling with my Japanese translation dictionary later this month when the Yakuza 3 demo is apparently going to be released on the Japanese PS3 Network.

I picked up a cheap copy of the original Yakuza just as my PS2 was grinding itself to dust, and I was really impressed with it’s sense of style, something that made my subsequent plays of games like Red Steel seem like a poor parody of the Japanese gangster theme.

Yakuza 3 is due out later this year (no idea what Yakuza 2 was like …did it even exist?) and apparently it goes back to the time of the katana, rather than the gun.

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