If you get to fight a bear I might just buy a PS3 and play it anyway.

Put it this way, if you were ever waiting for Shenmue 3... you should put off the dream for awhile and play Yakuza ^_^

How you mod it?

http://nebula.emulatronia.com/

with that emulator you can change the textures. in that video you can see I changed some texture and put a message hehe.

great news! the guy who did this emulator ( ElSemi) was hired by SEGA!. I guess theres a good chance this port might just be a good one!

thanks, ic, i got that emulator but where's the instructions on how to mod the textures like you did, is it easy to do etc?

^This. Yakuza is basically Shenmue if Shenmue had power meter supermoves, environment items as weapons, and Random encounters. In Yakuza 1, you got stopped by so many random encounters challenging you to a fight, you couldnt get down the block without having five brawls. It got really bad during the final stages of the game, you are trying to get to objectives, and these Gangster goons keep impeding your process, and thus draining your stock of health items.

Yakuza one is really worth the price of admission for having Mark Hamill (he plays Mad Dog Majima) scream "motherfucker" at the top of his lungs repeatedly. Michael Masden,Eliza Dusku and Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luther from Smallville) also voice acted in that game.

The quality has just gone through the roof on this game since it hit PS3, as the only thing that sucked about Yakuza 1 and 2 was the graphics. Storywise, the game gets less and less believable, as Kazuma Kiryu obstensibly quit the Yakuza at the end of Yakuza 1. It is hard to swallow and accept that he keeps getting involved in the affairs of an organization he quit.

Anyway,ChanChai hit the nail right on the head, as we lament that we never got Shenmue 3, we have plenty of Yakuza games to enjoy. So much so that I would like to see Ryo Hazuki as a hidden character in the next Yakuza.

One last thing, in Yakuza 4, there was a casino slot machine that displayed never before seen Story Cinemas to Virtua Fighter 4 (it chronicled Jacky rescuing Sarah from J6 and Pai vs Lei Fei to save Lau). It's on youtube, here is link.