About This GameOriginally released for the Dreamcast in 2000 and 2001, Shenmue I & II is an open world action adventure combining jujitsu combat, investigative sleuthing, RPG elements, and memorable mini-games. It pioneered many aspects of modern gaming, including open world city exploration, and was the game that coined the Quick Time Event (QTE). It was one of the first games with a persistent open world, where day cycles to night, weather changes, shops open and close and NPCs go about their business all on their own schedules. Its engrossing epic story and living world created a generation of passionate fans, and the game consistently makes the list of “greatest games of all time”. StoryA tale of revenge.In 1986, teenage jujitsu artist Ryo Hazuki returns to the dojo of his father, Iwao Hazuki, only to witness his murder by a Chinese man, Lan Di. Lan Di steals a mysterious artifact known as the Dragon Mirror. Ryo vows to avenge his father’s death and sets out tracing Lan Di’s path.The first game in the series, Shenmue begins the tale as Ryo travels around Yokosuka, Japan, gathering clues about his father’s murder and dealing with nefarious gangsters along the way.The sequel Shenmue II continues Ryo’s quest, this time crossing the sea to Hong Kong, China.
Buy Shenmue I & II by Sega of America for PlayStation 4 at GameStop. Find release dates, customer reviews, previews, and more. The first two Shenmue games are coming to PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One later this year, Sega announced today. The re-release, Shenmue 1 & 2, will be released sometime in 2018.
Ryo ventures deeper into the criminal underworld, meeting martial arts masters who aid him on his journey and offer insight into his father’s death, and unravels the mysteries of the Dragon Mirror that his father kept hidden.
Shenmue 1 & 2, a bundle containing modern ports of the first two games, will be released Aug. 21 on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One.The re-release will cost $29.99. Pre-orders are now available on and the, but not the U.S. PlayStation Store. Sega previously announced that it is also releasing physical copies of Shenmue 1 & 2 on PS4 and Xbox One.Shenmue 1 & 2 is part of an impressive lineup of PC ports on the way from Sega. During E3 2018 last month, the company announced that it is bringing, and to Steam.
Yakuza 0 will arrive on PC just a few weeks before Shenmue 1 & 2, on Aug. 1.In Sega’s, it sounded like the PC version of the package would be the way to go, offering “fully scalable screen resolution” and “PC graphics options.” Features in all versions include modern and classic control schemes, Japanese and English voice-overs, and an updated interface.The original debuted in 1999 on the Dreamcast, and Sega followed it up with a sequel, in 2001 on the Dreamcast and original Xbox. Series creator Yu Suzuki is now working on a new entry in the franchise, for which he raised more than $6.3 million on Kickstarter in 2015.
At that time, developer Ys Net planned to release the game by the end of 2017; it has since been delayed multiple times and is. For more on Shenmue 1 & 2, check out the new trailer above.Update: Sega has published an with additional details.The ports are being handled by British studio d3t, and Sega described the porting process as a “herculean effort.” The re-release of Shenmue 2 will be based on the Xbox version, not the Dreamcast version, because of “technical reasons” and because it offered additional features including texture mipmaps for improved antialiasing, a snapshot system and filters.