Reception
| Reception | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Aggregator | Score |
| GameStats | 7.9 / 10 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| 1UP.com | 8.5 / 10 |
| Electronic Gaming Monthly | 23 / 30 |
| Eurogamer | 8 /10 |
| Famitsu | 37 / 40 |
| Game Informer | 6.25 / 10 |
| GamePro | |
| Game Revolution | C- |
| GameSpot | 7.4 / 10 |
| GameTrailers | 8 / 10 |
| GameZone | 8.5 / 10 |
| IGN | 8.2 / 10 |
| Official PlayStation Magazine (US) | |
| Play Magazine | 9.5 / 10 |
| PSM | 8.5 / 10 |
| Dengeki PlayStation | 33.5 / 40 |
| Game Over Online | 94% |
| GameBrink | 94% |
| Gamezilla | 3 / 3 |
| Gaming Age | A- |
| PSX Extreme | 8.1 / 10 |
| UnderGround Online | A- |
The game was heavily acclaimed in Japan for combining innovative gameplay with cinema-like story telling and character development on the back of Japan's criminal underground.
Yakuza received generally positive reviews among Western critics. IGN praised its combat system and sense of style but criticized its tedious gameplay.
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)