VG247: Sega's posted the Yakuza 3 demo on the Japanese PSN. It'll cost you 1,256Mb of hard drive space.
Yakuza 3 was recently reviewed by the popular Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu and it scored a 38/40. Though the magazine has come under fire as of late for some of it's more eyebrow raising reviews, a 38 is still a very good score.
First impressions of Sega's open world mobster title, Yakuza 3, are in. The title has scored 10, 10, 9 and 9 from Famitsu's panel of critics, for a combined score of 38/40. This is along the lines of how the previous titles have done. Yakuza 2 got a 38/40 as well, and last year's Yakuza Kenzan! scored a 37/40.
Dofuss says: "Famitsu recently ran an article about a recent Sega event for the release of Yakuza 3. For those who don't know about the series it's basically a gang land fighter, set in Japan, with RPG elements. In the West it received limited commercial success, but critics enjoyed them and their faithful reconstructions of the Tokyo environments.
The Yakuza 3 promotions keep on coming. Sega shared details today on a new collaboration that will pair the game up with a suntan salon.
Kazuma Kiryu returns to clean out Japan's criminal underground in Yakuza 3, but not before a lengthy 5GB install.
Sega of Japan has just announced a massive marketing campaign to promote it's upcoming title, Yakuza 3.
After the break you can see two new excellent new Ryu ga Gotoku 3 (Yakuza 3) trailers and a handful of high res images from Sega Japan.
Sega has been slowly sharing details on its collaborative plans for Ryu ga Gotoku 3 (the third installment in the series that's known as Yakuza in the west), starting with a tie-up with fashion magazine Koakuma Ageha and continuing recently through tie-ups with discount retailer Don Quijote and food maker Ace Cook. Today, the company opened the flood gates, unveiling a number of additional tie-ups.