From Zombies back to the life of an ordinary on-again off-again Yakuz…. oh wait, the zombie outbreak never occurred… Details have been announced in the most recent Famitsu about the currently in development title Yakuza 5. I would like to post a summary of what information has currently been unveiled:
- The game will be release on the Playstation 3, which is sort of obvious considering it would be pointless releasing game 6 in a series on any other console.
- Alongside the normal Kamurocho that has been in the game since the first instalment, the game will also include Sapporo, Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka and Fukuoka (Surprisingly it seems they haven’t decided to bring back Okinawa – perhaps they are finally giving up on the orphanage plotline)
- It is still undetermined if it will be Kazuma alone or if he will bring in some other characters like the previous two installments.
- The game will be freaking huge! Toshihiro Nagoshi has compared it to a new house being built (The house being a game) rather than simply adding an extension to it.
- The cities will be AT LEAST as big as the previous Dotonbori and Ryukyu locations.
- The game will have presentation improvements, including shorter load times, improved camera work and character expressions. Apparently this will be based on what they have learned from Binary Domain.
- Seemless conversations and battles!
- As mentioned above, Yakuza: Dead Souls will have nothing to do with this game and continue on from Yakuza 4.
- Development is only in early phases. Masayoshi Yokoyama is now a producer as well.
[Source: Andriasang]
