Arbitrary resolution support is included and each of the games can be cranked up to 8K (assuming your hardware and display can accommodate this setup). The new PC version is nearly a straight port, though many of the options PC players come to expect as standard have made the cut. The PS4 release of this collection offers Yakuza 3, 4, and 5 with a 1080p presentation that stays fairly close to a steady 60 frames per second. The advanced graphical options menu from Yakuza 4. What’s new is the port to PC and what, if any, enhancement is brought to the experience by the additional hardware power provided by the platform. Their content, gameplay, and idiosyncrasies have been covered at length. It all plays a bit like a campy soap opera, though there are some legitimately serious moments for those that buy in whole-hog.Īll that being said, these three games have seen several releases, including this exact collection just under a year ago on PS4. Yakuza attempts to spin an epic yarn about the lives of men and women wrapped up in organized crime and the consequences the lifestyle bestows upon them. The big attraction here is the narrative. Yakuza 4 sprinkles in a few extra characters, though the basic mechanics and minute-to-minute gameplay are largely identical. For the majority of the proceedings, players will be in charge of piloting Kazuma Kiryu, the main protagonist of the franchise. The mean streets of Kamurocho (and Nagasugai, Tsukimino, Kin'eicho…) The street views in Yakuza 5 do see some benefit from the increased resolution available in the PC port.Īs with the other titles in the Yakuza series, the games in this remastered trilogy follow the exploits of organized crime members doing organized crime things, either in service of moving up the ranks or escaping the lifestyle altogether. It bundles the enhanced versions of Yakuza 3, Yakuza 4, and Yakuza 5 with some alterations to include bonus content and remove content that is considered offensive for modern audiences. This prompted Sega to dress up the remaining PS3-era Yakuza titles for a bundle known as the Yakuza Collection Remastered and released it for PS4 last February.įast forward another year and the Yakuza Remaster Collection is now ready for consumption on PC (along with Xbox One). On the heels of that success, lavish remakes of the first two games in the series, sold as Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza Kiwami 2, were greenlit and performed well with western audiences. It began to pick up lots of mainstream momentum on North American shores around the time Sega released Yakuza 0 for PS4 in 2017.
For the early part of its existence, the Yakuza series enjoyed success and notoriety that was mostly contained to Japan.
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