Difficulty:

Just Right

Time Spent:

20 to 40 Hours

The Bottom Line:

"Just plain fun"

Yakuza 3 is actually a fun game. It is fun beating people up and a good "stress ball." Basically you go through a crime-mystery storyline and to get to the end you need to beat people up along the way. You can gain levels for your skills and all that jazz similar to an rpg. The story is awesome. I found myself getting pissed off at the antagonists.

There were 2 things in the game that annoyed me. You deal with kids a lot and a lot of the main story sends you on doing these annoying quests for the little kids. It does build up the story for each character though.

The other annoying thing is the repetetiveness. All the time some punk on the street will come up to you and fight you and you dont really have an option to get away besides beating them up. When you are trying to do other stuff in the story, this gets annoying. People do not really change in their fighting styles that much to make it interesting.

All in all this is a good game and I agree with the 8.0 that gamespot gives it.