Yakuza: Dead Souls (2011) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Yakuza: Dead Souls

Yakuza: Dead Souls is an action-adventure/survival horror video game, developed and published by Sega exclusively for the PlayStation 3. The game is the sixth installment in the Yakuza series. The game is set…

67 9 June 2011

What Yakuza: Dead Souls is

Yakuza: Dead Souls is an adventure game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and released in 2011. It was published by Sega. It is available on PlayStation 3 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Dead Souls is a non-canonical side story set during April 2011, one year after the events of Yakuza 4. A sudden zombie outbreak spreads throughout Kamurocho, and is slowly quarantined as the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force is called in to contain the infection. In the wake of the outbreak, four men seek to help the people of Kamurocho and find the source of the disease: Shun Akiyama, a moneylender attempting to rescue his secretary Hana; Goro Majima, a feared yakuza and construction boss trying to stave off his own infection; Ryuji Goda, who has survived his wounds at the end of Yakuza 2 and is working as a takoyaki chef; and Kazuma Kiryu, an orphanage caretaker and former yakuza forced to…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series

Yakuza: Dead Souls is the eighth of 91 entries we hold in the Yakuza: Like a Dragon series. The next entry was Kurohyou 2: Ryuu ga Gotoku Ashura-hen in 2012. Its critic score of 67 is 15 points below the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Yakuza 0: Director's Cut at 88.

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How it was received

Yakuza: Dead Souls holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored about average for its year.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 10 hrs.

What it launched against

Yakuza: Dead Souls launched on 9 June 2011, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, Infamous 2, Dirt 3 and Alice: Madness Returns. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, Infamous 2, Dirt 3, Alice: Madness Returns.

Cheats and codes

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