Yakuza 3

**Yakuza 3** (в оригинале *Like a Dragon 3*, 龍が如く3, "Ryū ga Gotoku 3") - третья часть серии игр Yakuza и прямое продолжение видеоигры Yakuza 2. Игра вышла в августе 2009 года для PS3, а 9 августа 2018 года стала доступна для PS4. Только в Японии было продано более 500 тыс. копий игры, за что в 2009 году игра получила специальный приз SCEJ’s PlayStation Award.

## Сюжет

Кадзума Кирю оставил в прошлом бандитские разборки и перебрался на Окинаву, где основал детский дом. Здесь он пытается помочь детям и растить свою приёмную дочь Харуку. Однако не всё так просто в его жизни. Земля, на которой построен детский дом, принадлежит местной якудзе, клану Рюдо во главе с Сигэру Накахара. Он готов продать землю правительству, которое хочет построить на острове курортную зону, и Кадзуме приходится вновь вспомнить, что такое якудза.

## Геймплей

### Битвы

**Brawls & Heat Actions**

Combat is still much the same as the previous two entries, with most objects on the streets usable as weapons in brawls. Heat actions and other upgrades are purchaseable with experience points gained as Kiryu levels up.
#### Chase Battle

A chase is initiated when an enemy makes a run for it. The "Chase Gauge" on the lower right charts both characters' endurance, and whichever gauge is depleted first loses. In most chase battles, Kiryu is able to tackle his opponent in order to tire them out. This, along with running into objects, depletes the chase gauge faster to ensure Kiryu's victory.
#### Training and Mentors

Training with a mentor allows Kiryu to develop new abilities and hone his skills in battle. The following characters are available for Kiryu to train with:
* Mack Shinozuka: A talented photographer who travels the world searching for unique Revelations. He teaches Kiryu about these revelations, as well as offering useful advice regarding "Chase Battles".
* Sotaro Komaki: An old martial arts master who has a dojo in Kamurocho. By passing his trials, Kiryu can obtain a secret Komaki Style ability.
* Shoji Yonashiro: A self-proclaimed 'Weapon Master' in the midst of his travels around the world. He has a personally-made sparring ring on the beach in front of Morning Glory Orphanage. He teaches various weapon handling techniques.

#### Revelations

Kiryu is able to learn new Heat Actions by observing and photographing inspiring events around Okinawa and Kamurocho and blogging about it from his cell phone.
#### Weapons and Armor

Kamiyama runs a weapon & defense armor tune-up shop called Kamiyama Works located in downtown Ryukyu. By finding "recipies" for him to work from, Kiryu is able to obtain a plethora of different weapons and armor, as well as have them repaired and improved.
## Remaster

A remaster of the original *Yakuza 3* was released on August 9th, 2018 in Japan, with the western version released digitally just over a year later on August 20th, 2019. It is available as part of the *"The Yakuza Remastered Collection"* pack, containing remasters of *Yakuza 3,* *4*, and *5*, with the latter two scheduled to be released in October 2019 and February 2020 respectively. The trilogy has also been available as a limited-edition physical box-set, released on February 11, 2020, and for PC via Steam and Xbox One, released on January 28th, 2021.
The remastered version has a number of differences compared to the original:

* Gameplay is now in 1080p at 60 frames per second, although the standard PS4 crops the window to 1850x1040 pixels as with the Dragon Engine games. Additionally, while most full-motion video sequences have been remastered, some scenes continue to have noticeable lossy compression artefacts, due to being pre-rendered at 720p.
	+ The PC version of the remaster has more resolution options, and can run at either 30 or 60 frames per second. An auto option is also available.
	+ Quicksteps were not properly adjusted to fit the new framerate. As such, quickstep distance on PS4 is doubled compared to the original PS3 version, while the Xbox and PC ports have halved quickstep distances compared to the PS3 version.
* The quiz minigame, which had been previously cut from the PS3 western release and relied on trivia relevant to '00s Japan, has been excised entirely from all territorial versions.
* A substory that was deemed to be transphobic has also been excised.
* Some of the hostesses were replaced due to the likeness deals with their real-life counterparts having expired.
	+ Additionally, the licensing agreements with PepsiCo and Unilever were not renewed, leading to the replacement of products such as AXE and Gatorade with generic items. Pepsi NEX bottles are still visible in vending machines however.
* Substory locations are now marked on the map, as they are in more recent games.
* Requirements for earning PlayStation trophies for activities such as defeating X enemies in certain fashions have been eased to make them less time-consuming.
* Kiryu no longer has to be armed with a copy of Tokyo Ishukan to order the "special" meals from eateries.
* The optional "reminiscence" scenes at the beginning of the original *Yakuza 3*, which contained video from the original PS2 games, were removed.
* Bonuses are awarded when starting a new game if save files for any of the previously released PS4*Yakuza* titles, *Judgment*, and *Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise* are detected on the console.
* The PC and Xbox One version of the remaster add cutscene pausing and requires confirmation to skip when cutscene skip is enabled.

The western version also features specific enhancements compared to its original counterpart. Namely:

* Aside from the content cut from *all* versions of the *Yakuza 3* remaster, content originally cut from the western version of *Yakuza 3*, such as hostesses and 21 substories have been reinstated, giving it content parity with the Japanese remaster release.
* The English localization has been updated and brought in line with newer releases.
	+ Kazuma Kiryu's name on his dialogue boxes now read "Kiryu" as opposed to "Kazuma", and characters refer to him by his family name followed by the appropriate honorific.
	+ Improper names have been corrected; "Sunshine Orphanage" is now Morning Glory Orphanage, and both "Shintaro Fuma" and "Joji Fuma" are now Shintaro Kazama and Joji Kazama.
	+ The New Serena Mama is now referred to as Mama by all characters. The name "Mariko" created for the PS3 English localization has been discarded.
	+ Terminology such as "aniki" has been kept intact; as such, Rikiya Shimabukuro no longer addresses Kiryu incorrectly with the term "boss".
	+ Almost all of the dialogue has been retranslated, with an entirely more faithful localization than the original.
* The appearance of graphic text overlays in the English release is now in line with the localized system used in other titles. Rather than having the pre-rendered Japanese text overlays with English subtitles, the remastered western version adopts the system of the first two *Yakuza* games, as well as that of *Yakuza 0* onwards, where the Japanese is displayed first, with an English text overlay coming afterwards.
* Text introducing new characters, objectives, and enemies is now displayed fully in English.

## Trivia

* The artwork for the original German release of *Yakuza 3* on PlayStation 3 shifted Kazuma Kiryu's face to the right so that it would not be obscured by the USK rating symbol, which is considerably larger than the PEGI, CERO, and ESRB equivalents.
* In *Yakuza 3*, Kiryu's second fight with Goro Majima is the final chronological fight between them. In the chronologically later boss fights against Majima, different playable characters fight him.

## DLC

В Европе и Северной Америке доступно для загрузки 4 DLC:

* Борьба за выживание — все боссы игры против Кадзумы .
* All-Star Tournament. Всего 7 видов турниров.
* All Star Tag Tournament. Всего 8 турниров.
* Желание Харуки — серия миссий для Кадзумы Кирю, в которой надо играть в мини-игры.