Shenmue III
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| Studio | Neilo Ys Net |
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| Publisher | Deep Silver | ||||
| Senior Developer | Yū Suzuki | ||||
| composer | Ryuji Iuchi | ||||
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19th November 2019 | ||||
| platform | PlayStation 4 , Windows | ||||
| Game engine | Unreal Engine 4 | ||||
| genre | Action adventure | ||||
| Game mode | Single player | ||||
| medium | Download | ||||
| language | English | ||||
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Shenmue III is an action-adventure game released on November 19, 2019 by the studios Neilo and Ys Net for Windows and PlayStation 4 .
action
After the events of Shenmue II , the youthful martial artist Ryo Hazuki traveled from Yokosuka , Japan , to the mountains of Guilin , China, in 1987 to look for the murderer of his father, Lan Di. There he meets Ling Shenhua, a mysterious girl who previously appeared in his dreams. After Ryo and Shenhua get to know the legend of their village, which foretells a common path for the two, they embark on a journey together.
Shenmue III begins in Bailu Village, Guilin. According to the developer, the second area, Choubu, is "a river village with many shops, souvenir shops, hotels and temples" and the third area, Baisha , is intended to commemorate the seven powerful principalities of the Warring States' era .
Game principle and technology
Shenmue III , like its predecessors, is an open world game . The parts of the game world in which the story is currently playing are freely accessible to the player without having to follow the storyline. The game world is in 3D. The player can examine details of the game world and have automatic conversations with NPCs in order to obtain clues for solving the game. Other game elements embedded in the plot include battles, quick-time events and mini-games .
Production notes
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Director Yū Suzuki conceived Shenmue as a saga that includes several games. The first two games were developed by Sega AM2 and published by Sega for Dreamcast in 1999 and 2001 , respectively. The first part, Shenmue , was the most expensive video game to be developed to date, with an estimated production and marketing cost of over $ 47 million. However, this also covered part of Shenmue II and the foundations for future Shenmue games. Although the games gained a cult following and appearances on several "Greatest Video Game of All Time" lists, they were commercial failures and Shenmue III spent over a decade in developing hell .
Fans have petitioned Shenmue III , and in 2005 the BBC series VideoGaiden launched a campaign for its release. In 2008, Simon Jeffery, President of Sega of America stated that it was one of the studio's most sought-after games. That same year, Suzuki started his own development company, Ys Net, while staying with Sega. In 2010, he said that "the concept for Shenmue III already exists" and that the focus is on the relationship between Ryo and Shenhua.
At the E3 conference in 2015, after years of speculation on the Kickstarter platform, Suzuki started a crowdfunding campaign for Shenmue III , with Sega licensing Shenmue to Suzuki's company Ys Net. It brought in $ 2 million in seven hours, making it one of the platform's most successful campaigns. By the end of the following month, over $ 6 million was raised, making it the highest-grossing video game and sixth-highest-grossing campaign in Kickstarter history. Crowdfunding on other platforms ended in 2018 after raising a total of over $ 7.1 million. Suzuki, who described Shenmue as "an epic of revenge in the tradition of Chinese cinema," indicated that the game series would end after four or five episodes.
reception
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Shenmue III received mediocre ratings. The Metacritic review database aggregates 78 reviews of the PlayStation version with an average of 67 and 14 reviews of the PC version with an average of 69.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shenmue III Kickstarter . Kickstarter. Archived from the original on June 17, 2015. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
- ↑ Shenmue 3 . Ys Net. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
- ↑ Nick Gillett: E3 2015 round-up . Archived from the original on November 12, 2015. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ↑ videoGaiden returns with Shenmue 3 appeal - VideoGamer.com . Archived from the original on November 12, 2015. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
- ↑ Yu Suzuki At A Time Of Transition . June 17, 2011. Archived from the original on November 12, 2016.
- ↑ a b The Disappearance of Yu Suzuki: Part 2 from 1UP.com . Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ↑ Owen S. Good: Shenmue creator: Story has 11 chapters, ideally '4 or 5 games' in the series . June 17, 2015. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016.
- ↑ a b Metacritic.com: Shenmue III (PlayStation 4). Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Metacritic.com: Shenmue III (PC). Retrieved May 24, 2020 .