Yakuza 3 coming to North America in March, 2010

Many people were worrying that Sega wasn’t going to bring Yakuza 3, the first PS3 entry in the series, to North America or Europe due to the lackluster response to Yakuza and Yazuka 2. Thankfully, there’s no need to worry about that anymore. An announcement on the PlayStation.Blog by Sega of America’s Assistant Community Manager Aaron Webber has confirmed the game is getting an English release. It’ll be out in March, 2010 with English subtitles.

Yakuza 3 once again stars Kazuma “Dragon of Dojima” Kiryu. He and his adopted daughter Haruka Sawamura now live in Okinawa, where he runs the Asagao Orphanage. Unfortunately, there is trouble within he Tojo clan, one of Kazuma’s friends has been murdered and a local clan wants to sell the property the orphanage is on. Kazuma will once again have to get involved in affairs in Tokyo and Okinawa, if he wants any hope of a quiet and peaceful life for him and his daughter.

Yazuka 3 was a notable release due to the fact that there was a cast of around 100 characters and 29 free downloadable content packs and additions to the game. It is currently unknown if all, or any, of the 29 DLC packs will be released in North America as well.

PS3 owners are very, very lucky. For a long time, it looked like there was no chance Yakuza 3 would get an English release. Both the PlayStation.Blog announcement and Sega’s press release mention that the only reason it happened was because fans were so adamant about stating their desire for a release.

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