Yakuza 3
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North American cover art
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| Developer(s) | Sega |
| Publisher(s) | Sega |
| Director(s) | Daisuke Sato |
| Producer(s) |
Toshihiro Nagoshi Masayoshi Kikuchi |
| Designer(s) | Takeshi Tanaka Jun Orihara |
| Programmer(s) | Tetsuya Kaku |
| Artist(s) | Kazuki Hosokawa |
| Writer(s) | Masayoshi Yokoyama |
| Composer(s) | See Soundtrack |
| Series | Yakuza |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 3 |
| Release date(s) | |
| Genre(s) | Action-adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, Two-player (through minigames update) |
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 79.92% |
| Metacritic | 79 of 100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| 1UP.com | A- |
| CVG | 9 / 10 |
| Eurogamer | 8 / 10 |
| Famitsu | 38/40 |
| G4 |   |
| GamePro |  |
| Game Revolution | A- |
| GamesMaster | 90% |
| GameSpot | 8 / 10 |
| GameTrailers | 8 / 10 |
| IGN | 8.5 / 10 |
| OPM (UK) | 9 / 10 |
| PALGN | 8 / 10 |
| Play | 80% |
| PSM3 | 90% |
| VideoGamer.com | 9 / 10 |
| Dengeki PlayStation | 37.5 / 40 |
| The Daily Telegraph | 9 / 10 |
| Thunderbolt | 9 / 10 |
| Awards | |
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| Publication | Award |
| 2009 Japan Game Awards: Award for excellence (Games of the Year Division) |
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| 2009 SCEJ PlayStation Awards: Gold Prize | |
Yakuza 3 (Japanese: 龍が如く3 Hepburn: Ryū ga Gotoku 3?, lit. "Like a Dragon 3") is the third mainline installment in the Yakuza series, released for the PlayStation 3 in 2009. It is developed by Sega's CS1 Team and published by Sega. It was released in Japan and South East Asia on February 26, 2009 and in North America and Europe on March 9, 2010 and March 12, 2010, respectively. The sequel, Yakuza 4, was released on March 18, 2010 in Japan.
Yakuza 3 introduces PlayStation Network Trophies to the series with 45 trophies (50 in the Eastern releases). It also adds four new gameplay elements as listed below:
The main story spans over twelve chapters plus a prologue. As with the earlier games, each chapter is preceded by a cinematic, called an "event scene", which later becomes available in the Gallery mode. Skipping these scenes using the Start button can only be done after enabling the scene-skipping option in the menu, which is switched off by default. The western version of Yakuza 3 features 295 minutes of cutscenes according to the BBFC.
Six sub-scenarios (Date's Pride, Two Fathers, Hometown Girl, The Finishing Touch, Silver Screen Dragon and Murder at Café Alps) are special missions featuring "event scene" cinematics. Holding R1 and pressing the X button will activate an automatic mode that skips the cutscene dialogue.
In the eastern releases, the main story is completed with 103 unique side stories called "sub-scenarios" ("substory" in the original version, サブストーリー sabustori). These sub-scenarios are divided into two classes: Mission and Hitman. There are 103 standard missions, some of which are made up of different episodes, and 20 hitman sub-scenarios. Fifteen of these bounty hunter sidestories are located in Kamurocho, the remaining five in Ryukyu.
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