This article's does not adequately key points of its contents. Please consider expanding the lead to of all important aspects of the article. Please discuss this issue on the article's. (February 2014) Yakuza 3 Sega Director(s) Daisuke Sato Masayoshi Kikuchi Kazuki Hosokawa Tetsuya Kaku Kazuki Hosokawa Masayoshi Yokoyama Series Release.: February 26, 2009.: March 9, 2010.: March 11, 2010.: March 12, 2010 Mode(s) Yakuza 3 (: 龍が如く3,: Ryū ga Gotoku 3, 'Like a Dragon 3') is the third main entry in the, released for the in. It is developed by 's and published by Sega. It was released in Japan and South East Asia on February 26, 2009 and in North America and Europe on March 9, 2010 and March 12, 2010, respectively.

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The sequel, was released on March 18, 2010 in Japan. Main article: Yakuza 3's main characters are and. Additional castings total three hundred and sixty characters, who appear in the main adventure and sub-scenarios. Story Unlike the previous episodes the story is not written by but by Masayoshi Yokoyama. Yakuza 3 takes a departure from the first two games with its choice of setting: instead of focusing on the gritty cityscape of and, it switches gears and sends to the, where he runs the Sunshine Orphanage (Morning Glory ( アサガオ, Asagao) in Japanese) with his adoptive daughter (she calls him 'Uncle Kaz') who accompanied him in the previous episodes and the. Sunshine Orphanage is on a land that is owned by, the boss of a local yakuza clan or, known as the 琉道一家 ( Ryūdō Ikka). Nakahara is under pressure from the country's government to sell the land, which is planned to become a.

When his friend, Chairman of the, is shot, Kiryu must deal with the three gang bosses who arranged the attempted murder. The game ends with Kiryu succeeding in his mission, and he and Haruka meet to explore the town. Kazuma is confronted by a mysterious man, who is revealed to be Goh Hamazaki, having survived the offscreen attempt on his life. In anger, Hamazaki stabs Kiryu in the stomach, and is subdued afterwards, leaving a critically wounded Kazuma to give dying words to his adopted daughter. In an after credits scene, the orphanage's children gather to play. As Haruka stands near a man, who, as the camera turns, is revealed to be a bandaged Kiryu, having survived the stabbing, and he goes to continue running Sunshine Orphanage with Haruka helping him. Development The game's default video output is rendering at a resolution of 1024x768 without but it supports mode.

Daisuke Tomodavisual artist and character design team leader of the Yakuza series since the original episode, partially unveiled Yakuza 3`s development at the 2009 Game Tools & Middleware Forum seminar held in Tokyo on June 15. Yakuza 3 character designing began shortly after the completion of in 2008 with a three-week project phase followed by an eight months production. In the end 110 high polygon characters, for they appear in cinematics, plus 250 minor characters were created by 60 teams producing a dozen characters each. Thus 360 characters were produced following a 'one person one body' philosophy and a three-day-per-body target schedule. As a comparison, the production of on took 10 months and had no more volume. The series' production pace is one game per year since the original in 2005. CS1 used a slogan to describe the game's graphics: ' Not Reality but Real ( リアリティではなくリアル, Riariti de wa naku riaru).

Magical V-Engine. See also: and As with the previous PlayStation 3 Ryū ga Gotoku game, main characters have their face scanned through 's head & face color 3D scanner (model PS). As detailed at the GTMF 2009, Event Scene cinematics are real-time and render highly detailed 2.5MB data size characters using 18,00020,000 polygons each; 3D model bones are made of 107 meshes with 64 used for the body and the remaining 43 used for the face. In addition, the PlayStation 3 employs advanced graphics technologies without, texture size 512×512 with 512×512, diffuse map and normal map, multi map (, specular mask, 8-bit specular power RGB) within cutscene.

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These Event Scene cinematics fully exploit Sega's in-house facial expressions engine called Magical V-Engine. This engine is based on a unique 'wrinkle shader' technology 皺シェーダー ( Shiwa shēdā) that allows for advanced facial animation from voice recordings alone. By animating based upon not only the phonetic lip syncing but tone, the software can emulate the basic human emotions in full facial expression. Audio Yakuza 3 outputs uncompressed or compressed audio, respectively ( or ) and surround. Cast The game's main characters have their face modeled in 3D after their voice actors, who are Japanese celebrities. 3D data is obtained by with 's latest scanner.

These include returning voice actors (as ), (as ), as, and TV actor Satoshi Tokushige (as ). New faces are film actors (as ) known overseas for his role in 's and, (as ) who featured in 's and 's, actor (as ) famous for his yakuza roles in 's, Kinji Fukasaku's and 's, singers and (as ) and George Takahashi (as ), voice actor (as ), tarento Daisuke Miyakawa (as Mikio Aragaki) and Hiroyuki Miyasako (as ). Soundtrack The Ryū ga Gotoku 3 Original Soundtrack (HCV-452) was published by in Japan on February 26, 2009. It was bundled as a bonus enhanced CD in the Yakuza 3 PAL version's standard deluxe edition called the. The music was composed by, Kentaro Koyama, Takahiro Kai, Hiroyoshi Kato, Yoshio Tsuru and, and includes a track by Love Sound System (DJ Giuliano, Ayako, Yoshiji Kobayashi). Performers are Minako Obata (a.k.a. Mooki), Chihiro Aoki (chorus) and Mitsuharu Fukuyama (trumpet).

Two songs are also included, performed by voice actors and. The track list for Yakuza 3 has 31 titles (details are available below). Main article: North American video distributor set the release date and cover art of its licensed DVD version for in order to match the local marketing for Yakuza 3.

The English subtitled version for 's 2007 live-action film adaptation of the first Yakuza game was originally planned for a March 2010 release date; the release schedule was eventually changed to February 23, 2010. Release A free demo version was released on the Japanese on February 19, 2009. The same demo was released on the European on February 18, 2010. Due to their commercial success all Asian versions had bargain re-releases, a edition in Asia on November 30, 2009, then in Japan on December 3, 2009 and a PlayStation 3 BigHit Series edition on December 11, 2009 in Korea. Reception Reception Aggregate scores Aggregator Score 79.92% 79 of 100 Review scores Publication Score A- 9 / 10 8 / 10 38/40 A- 90% 8 / 10 8 / 10 8.5 / 10 9 / 10 8 / 10 80% 90% 9 / 10 37.5 / 40 9 / 10 Thunderbolt 9 / 10 Awards Publication Award 2009: Award for excellence (Games of the Year Division) 2009 SCEJ PlayStation Awards: Gold Prize The Japanese industry gave it the 'Award for excellence' in the 2009's 'Games of the Year Division' for its 'Dramatic story development, freedom of the story and the graphics elaborated up to the details of the work. In addition, amusement found in every portion of the game including the vast number of sub-stories and mini games. This work was awarded the prize for the high quality of entertainment.'

Yakuza 3 also earned 's PlayStation Award 2009 Gold prize for achieving more than 500,000 sales in the Japanese market. Other Gold Prizes were and. It was also well received in the west, with the UK's Official PlayStation Magazine awarding it 9/10; however, it was criticised for the removal of content during localization. Yakuza 3 is the second best selling 2009 PlayStation 3 game in Japan, following 's million-selling but outselling 's blockbuster, and is part of 2009's best-selling titles in this market with 499,436 copies sold as of December 7, 2009 according to. By March 27, 2010 Yakuza 3 had sold more than 683,905 copies.

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