2021-10-08 11:25 UTC · Eurogamer
We've known for a while that One Punch Man director Chikara Sakurai and producer Yu Suzuki were working together to bring us a Shenmue anime, and now we've got our first look at the Cruncyroll/Adult Swim production in action - and it looks pretty decent! With an understandable focus on the action of the series rather than its more ponderous moments where star Ryo Hazuki feeds a kitten or goes for a long walk at night across town so he can play Hang-On, it's a high energy look at the world of Shenmue as established in the first three games. Indeed, there are several memorable moments such as Ry
2021-01-12 15:04 UTC · Community Announcements · Koch Media
Dear Shenmue family, we've collected your feedback on various issues that were occurring in the Steam version of Shenmue III. Please see below the fixes that have been implemented. An issue with achievements not unlocking in the following three DLCs has been fixed. "Battle Rally" "Story Quest Pack" "Big Merry Cruise" The achievements will now unlock by restarting with a saved game. Due to game save specifications, some achievements cannot be determined by the saved game data even if the achievement conditions have been met. In these cases, it will be necessary to replay the relevant DLC again
2020-12-22 14:00 UTC · Community Announcements · m.jackiewicz
We are working on the following two changes for Shenmue III on Steam: 1) Achievements not unlocking for the "Battle Rally", "Story Quest Pack" & "Big Merry Cruise" DLCs. 2) Keyboard UI display: Keyboard UI will properly display when playing using a keyboard. The update is planned for January 2021. We ask for your patience until we can get these issues resolved.
2020-11-19 16:24 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Imogen Beckhelling)
Today, I invite you to go back in time and visit China to search for a little bit of vengeance. Specifically, back to spring 1987, to help a young Ryu Hazuki hunt for his father’s killer. Of course, you could partake in a spot of tortoise-racing or chicken-chasing while you’re it. That’s right, I’m talking about the weird and wonderful world of Shenmue 3, which sheds its Epic exclusivity and arrives on Steam today. (more…)
2020-11-09 23:45 UTC · Eurogamer
Following a year of Epic Games Store exclusivity on PC, Shenmue 3 will be making its way to Steam on 19th November. Shenmue 3 initially launched at the tail-end of 2019 - a mere 19 years after the previous instalment in Yu Suzuki's legendary series - finally giving extremely patient fans the very long-awaited next chapter in the ongoing saga of Ryo Hazuki and his quest to avenge the murder of his father, one that began on Sega's Dreamcast all the way back in 1999. Epic's move to snaffle up Shenmue 3 as an exclusive for its PC store, with a bit of help from publisher Deep Silver, proved even mo
2020-11-06 15:06 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
The road to Shenmue 3's PC release was, if we're being honest, a little unusual. Fans were ecstatic when the game was first unveiled and its Kickstarter went live, pledging over $6 million to bring the long-awaited sequel to life. Then came news that it would be a timed Epic Games Store exclusive, which naturally upset some of those who'd shelled out for a Steam key at launch. Epic later confirmed that it would refund anyone who backed Shenmue 3 and either didn't want an EGS key or couldn't grin and bear the 12-month wait for the Steam version. Almost a year after its grand debut on PC, Shenmu
2020-06-12 11:00 UTC · Eurogamer
Five of the Best is a weekly series about the small details we rush past when we're playing but which shape a game in our memory for years to come. Details like the way a character jumps or the title screen you load into, or the potions you use and maps you refer back to. We've talked about so many in our Five of the Best series so far. But there are always more. Five of the Best works like this. Various Eurogamer writers will share their memories in the article and then you - probably outraged we didn't include the thing you're thinking of - can share the thing you're thinking of in the comme
2020-05-19 11:08 UTC · Eurogamer
Hello and welcome to the second of our Clash of Fans write-ups. This week we'll be getting together in pairs (virtually) and forcing each other to play a beloved game. Then we'll chat about what we made of it all. Next up is Old School RuneScape and Shenmue! Matt: I have to admit, a good portion of my time allocated to this feature was spent signing up to RuneScape. It was frequently baffling - I somehow had an account already associated with Jagex which needed resetting several times, my usual handle (and my back up, and the back up to that) were already taken, and upon trying to buy membersh
2020-01-17 11:05 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Imogen Beckhelling)
Koch Media have announced the very first DLC for Shenmue 3, Battle Rally, will be released on Tuesday 21st January. By the looks of things it’s inviting players to take part in a race (on foot I think?), and you’ll even be able to play as different characters for the first time. Sorry Ryo. “Battle Rally offers fresh gaming activities in a race unlike any other, as contestants engage in head-to-head battles whilst racing their way through the course,” they tweeted. (more…)
2020-01-15 14:37 UTC · Eurogamer
Shenmue 3's first DLC has just been announced - and it's called Battle Rally. Releasing 21st January, the DLC will offer "fresh gaming activities in a race unlike any other, as contestants engage in head to head battles whilst racing their way through the course." For the first time in the series, players will be able to take on the role of a different protagonist - including Wuying Ren, and Ryo's sparring partner Wei Zhen. And Ryo himself, of course. Should this tickle your fancy, you'll be able to pick it up for 6.49 through the Sony Store or Epic Game Store - unless you bought the Complete
2019-12-12 08:00 UTC · Eurogamer
Editor's note: Shenmue's a game that can do funny things to people. First time round I was obsessed with AM2's detail-rich world, and its take on a place that seemed oh-so-real - Japan in the mid-80s, specifically life in the unremarkable town of Yokosuka. So obsessed was I that when I first made it over to Japan some years later, the first thing I did was drag my partner to the location that inspired it all - a short hour's ride from Tokyo itself - and was impressed how Shenmue had captured the place. The sequel went to Hong Kong, while the third game finds itself in rural China, out in Guil
2019-11-26 12:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Matthew Castle)
Developer: Ys Studio Publisher: Deep Silver Release: Out now On: Windows From: Epic Game Store Price: 45/ 50/$50 Nothing better captures the magic of Shenmue III than its save files. On one line, the current date and time; above it, the date and time this particular save will whisk you back to. Because that s what Shenmue is: time travel. The opportunity to visit a very specific moment in history. In the case of Shenmue III, China in the spring of 1987. Of course, it s time travel that doesn t fret about the butterfly effect – you spend most of your trip kicking in groins in a way that w
2019-11-24 15:00 UTC · Eurogamer
At Digital Foundry we've talked about 'impossible ports' before - games like Doom 2016 and The Witcher 3 on Switch that seem to deny technological limitations and still bring the essence of the original experiences to a new audience. Shenmue 3 is something very different, but equally as unlikely. It's an impossible sequel, a game that shouldn't really exist owing to a whole host of reasons, but somehow here it is. It's a miracle that I'm now playing a modern sequel to a game that came out 18 years ago, a game that was - by all financial criteria - a major flop. Its sheer being is something to
2019-11-20 11:00 UTC · Eurogamer
Against all odds, here it is. 18 years on from the last episode, and well after most had given up hope that Ryo Hazuki would ever find his way out of the Guilin cave where Shenmue 2 so abruptly ended, perhaps the most remarkable thing about Shenmue 3 is that it exists at all. Even more remarkable, then, that director Yu Suzuki - himself an absentee from the frontlines of games development for almost two decades - has delivered a worthy successor to what many consider an all-time great. Shenmue 3 takes the template of those age-old Dreamcast games and refines it in small, numerous ways - delive
2019-11-19 18:04 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Natalie Clayton)
It’s only gone and come out, hasn’t it? Four years after its controversial, record-breaking $6 million Kickstarter campaign, Shenmue 3 is finally a game you can pick up and play. Blimey, it’s only been 18 years since the last one. Shenmue’s had a rough road to release, full of publisher scandals and delay after delay after delay. But it’s finally time to pick up where Shenmue 2 left off in 2001, with teen martial artist Ryo Hazuki traipsing around rural China looking for the folks who killed his dear old dad. (more…)
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