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Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions

Welcome to Hong Kong, where mystery and intrigue, money and power, and East and West intermingle. As the Yakuza terrorizes citizens, you arrive on the scene to answer the call of the city. You'll command an…

64 4 February 2002

Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions is an arcade developed by Bunkasha, released 4 February 2002 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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What Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions is

Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions is an arcade game developed by Bunkasha and released in 2002. It was published by Activision. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Welcome to Hong Kong, where mystery and intrigue, money and power, and East and West intermingle. As the Yakuza terrorizes citizens, you arrive on the scene to answer the call of the city. You'll command an elite police unit called the Dragons, or you can play as a couple of spies hired to defeat Tiger Takagi--the head of the Hong Kong Yakuza. In 40 wild missions, you'll fire at moving targets with car-mounted rocket launchers, maneuver through the destructive environments, and experience real-time crashes and vehicle deformation.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions holds a critic score of 64 out of 100. That places it above 25% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 4 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions launched on 4 February 2002, within three weeks of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, Jet Set Radio Future and Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, Jet Set Radio Future, Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure.

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When did Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions come out?
Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions was released on 4 February 2002 for Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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