Yakuza: Dead Souls
- June 9, 2011
- Sega Corporation
Yakuza: Dead Souls doesn't reinvent the zombie shooter with its simple combat scheme, but mowing down the walking dead in their hundreds and executing some neat special moves provides some frantically-paced arcade-styled thrills.
Yakuza: Dead Souls is an action-adventure/survival horror video game, developed and published by Sega exclusively for the PlayStation 3. The game is the sixth installment in the Yakuza series. The game's concept and keyword is "destruction"; a promotional image for the game showed the series' main locale, Kamurocho, in ruins. Leaked scans of the Famitsu issue released on September 16, the first da…
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Critic Reviews
Yakuza: Dead Souls Review
A fresh direction for the Yakuza series, Dead Souls sadly seems to take one step forward and two steps back. The new shooting mechanics are robust if lacking in depth, but the new narrative structure unfortunately gets in the way of the series' awesome open world elements
60%Yakuza: Dead Souls Review
Yakuza: Dead Souls doesn't reinvent the zombie shooter with its simple combat scheme, but mowing down the walking dead in their hundreds and executing some neat special moves provides some frantically-paced arcade-styled thrills.
75%Yakuza: Dead Souls Review
A fresh direction for the Yakuza series, Dead Souls sadly seems to take one step forward and two steps back. The new shooting mechanics are robust if lacking in depth, but the new narrative structure unfortunately gets in the way of the series' awesome open world elements
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