Yakuza 5 Launch Trailer

After two full years of waiting, non-Japanese fans of Sega's epic crimeworld series Yakuza can now play the 5th installment. The game was originally released in December 2013 for the PS3 and it remains a PS3 exclusive for western shores. The title, in the elite club of games scoring a perfect 40/40 in Famitsu, has been translated and is available on the PSN store for download right now.

The legendary dragon returns to the criminal underworld of Yakuza. Kazuma Kiryu, once known as the Dragon of Dojima, was living a quiet life as a taxi driver in Hakata after severing all his ties with the underworld. However, at the dawn of the bloody war between the Tojo Clan and the Omi Alliance, Kazuma is forced to accept his inescapable fate and returns to a life filled with crime and violence to protect his loved ones. Yakuza 5 continues the epic story of Kazuma Kiryu and four other protagonists, Haruka Sawamura, Taiga Saejima, Tatsuo Shinada and Shun Akiyama.