Yakuza Dead Souls

When I first heard about Yakuza Dead Souls I was a little worried. The best part about the Yakuza series is the story, and I feared that they were jumping on the zombie bandwagon (albeit late). However, I should have reminded myself about the multitude of games I have that has the Sega logo on the box, as there was nothing to fear with this iteration in the Yakuza series.First, supposedly the game is not part of the official Yakuza canon. The way it's wrapped up (don't worry, the ending isn't cheap) it could be, but it's probably better that it's not.Unlike the other games in the series the combat is focused on guns, instead of hand to hand combat / picking up weapons from the environment. However, after a short time (excluding targetting hiccups), the combat felt fairly natural.Perhaps because of the change in combat focus, this game was also the easiest of the last three in the series. Recovery items are fairly plentiful, and I rarely found myself in a bad situation, and never died, during my 24 hours on normal (default) difficulty.Like Yakuza 4 you play as one of four characters as the story progresses, but unlike 4 you're only able to switch between the four at will in the premium adventure. There's nothing really wrong with that, but I would have liked to finish up a couple items before I got the trophy for completing the game. However, premium adventure allows you to continue where you're at, so I can finish the items I started. Once the game is completed two additional difficulty levels are unlocked, one of which is supposedly extremely difficult, so there's plenty of replayability.I'm quite honestly a huge fan of the series, so without a doubt the game gets 5 of 5 stars. There is an issue with inconsistent targetting, however, once you realize the issue you'll find it impacting your game very rarely, and you'll be able to recover from it fairly quickly.If you enjoyed Yakuza 3 and/or 4, and/or like the sound of a third-person zombie killing game, pick up Yakuza Dead Souls!

Yakuza Dead Souls (YDS) is an action RPG that has a ton of zombies, minigames, substories and cutscenes. You could easily sink more than 100 hours into this game before finally beating it, so you will definitely get your money's worth. YDS is not a part of the main Yakuza series. You can play and enjoy this game just fine without having played the other games in the series before, but you might not understand several of the in-game references and inside jokes. Most of the inside jokes and references seem to come from Yakuza 4.YDS is divided into five chapters. The first four chapters focus on one particular character (Akiyama, Majima, Goda and Kiryu). The final chapter involves Kiryu with Goda fighting as a sidekick. If you fail to complete all the substories for a particular character during his chapter, you have to beat the game and then switch characters during the Premium Adventure mode. During each chapter, you will encounter several characters who are willing to fight alongside you. These characters can be trained at "Gary's Boot Camp," where they can learn special abilities and augments.The main reason why this game is different from other Yakuza titles is the combat. Almost all combat in this game involves shooting zombies, blowing up zombies, burning zombies, impaling zombies, or blasting zombies with water. I literally killed more than 30,000 zombies in my first playthrough (on hard mode). Zombies are everywhere and often overwhelm your characters. It's fun finding new ways to kill them, but after killing the first 5000 zombies, it doesn't seem as much fun as beating up waves of actual Yakuza thugs like in Yakuza 3 and 4. But it's still fun.You'll be able to use a ton of weapons in this game, including Gatling guns, sniper rifles, sub-machine guns, assault rifles, shotguns, pistols, small handguns and grenade launchers. Kamiyama, the stuttering equipment modder, is back. Unlike in earlier Yakuza games, you'll really want to take advantage of his upgrades here. You need all the firepower you can get in YDS. Part of the fun is switching weapons to take out zombies at long range and switching again to mow down large groups of zombies in close combat.YDS also has the hostess substories. Once you successfully romance a hostess, you can fight with her. Be advised that you need to download add-on packs from the PlayStation Store (it's free) in order for them to have access to the best weapons. Each main character also has about 15 substories to complete--some of which are quite hilarious.Again, this game is a lot of fun to play. But you need to consider these downsides:1. There can be considerable slowdown if too many zombies get on the screen at once.2. Some of the stories are repetitious. Several, for example, involve rescuing people and leading them out of the zombie area.3. The zombies and mutants appear in the same places almost every time, thus making the game too predictable.4. It can be a little too difficult to use the snipe gauge because the timer expires so quickly.5. The subterranea manholes are very long and repetitious. Kiryu's mission has 30 floors, for example.6. It can be very difficult training your partners at Gary's Boot Camp because the AI is a little too good.7. The storyline is okay, but it's a bit of a letdown from Yakuza 3 and 4.8. You will often find yourself dropping items to pick up fallen loot because your inventory fills up too fast.9. The hostess missions can get a bit aggravating, especially since you have to do A LOT of hiking to get to one of the two clubs.10. Several of your sidekicks will not pull their own weight, thus making it harder to develop them.11. Loading times are a bit more conspicuous in this game, particularly when entering and exiting areas in the quarantine/zombie area.12. The chase sequences can be quite difficult. Also, the controls do not seem as responsive during these sequences.This game has enough alcohol, cigarettes, guns, ammo, blood, and violence to satisfy anyone's need for a hack-and-slack thriller. It's a lot of fun and will definitely keep you occupied. It's quite different from other Yakuza games, but it is still a lot of fun. And at about $15, you will definitely get your money's worth. Just remember, this is NOT a game for children.

Absolutely perfect. Came in beautiful darn near perfect used condition. Disc is immaculate. Seller promised the world and I got it. A+++

Yakuza voice acting, check. Japanese city simulator, check. Crazy fist-fighting...no.Yakuza: Dead Souls has all of the graphic and voice-acting charm of previous Yakuza games, but the controls are downright awful for a shooter. Half the fun of the Yakuza series is the exploration and story and the other half is the fighting. This has exploration, but repeated maps. This has none of the fist fighting that previous installments did, although it does have similar character, weapon and inventory systems. The story is your standard zombie outbreak scenario. This might have been a great mediocre to middle of the road zombie shooter if they improved the shooting controls, but a Yakuza game it isn't. I'd prefer to pretend this didn't exist.

I love the Yakuza series, despite the droll dating sections. This game takes thee series in a different direction - one I did not like. The shooting game play was mediocre at best and not even the story would make up for it. If you like the series the best thing to do is avoid this game.That being said, the delivery was quick and service was good.

The game is fun to play right up until you get to the last boss fight for each character's chapter, then it becomes an annoying pain in the arse, as it FORCES YOU to go through a quick-time event with each one that, if you fail it, regenerates the boss's health a bit and you have to wear it down again and repeat the quick time event again. For what I'm assuming is the final boss, it gives you less than half a second to respond. By the time you're seeing what you need to press, it's already too late to hit it. You just have to waste time, healing items, and your, as the one playing it, Good Mood. I still haven't beat it because of that. Oh yeah, and the buttons are completely random, so unless you're lucky, you could waste half an hour or more mashing one button and praying to God that the one it picks just so happens to be the one you're pressing.But other than that it's a barrel of fun. If you're a veteran at both Zombie and Shooter games, be sure to jump in on the max difficulty though, or else it will have almost Zero challenge.

I usually don't like shooting games but I have always been a fan of the yakuza series and it was very cheap so I had to try it out. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the shooting actually felt like it enhanced the game play and it's an all around good game. SEGA HAS SAID that they might bring yakuza 5 over if people bought a number of this and the other latest yakuza game 4 so support them. If your going to get any of them get 4 And this

This may be biased coming from me as a yakuza fan but I love this game. I have the other ones and of you are playing this game expecting the same gameplay thus is not the one your looking for. It's a nice little what-if scenario filled with your favorite characters. I got this game and binge played it the shooting dynamic are a switch-up from the usual hand to hand.ProsFun step away from the usual yakuza gameplayStill has your mini games from the others.ZombiesGuns!!ConsPeople expecting the same gameplay from the others may not likeCan be a bit repetitiveNo hand to hand

A kind of GTA rip-off but fun to kill zombies.

Bellesha de los dioses antiguos

The game isn't that good but I got it for the Yakuza series fanservice. I knew what I was getting into and had fun.

Good

Very good shipping times and got it for a good price. A+