Shenmue II (DC) Reviews

If there's one Dreamcast game that's absolutely like goldust to track down, it's Shenmue 2. Copies on E-Bay start at about £25, and you can look to pay up to £40-50 for a mint condition copy of the game. This caused many to buy the Xbox version, which includes a dub, whereas the Dreamcast version is simply subtitled (which is strange, considering ...  Read the complete review

The Shenmue series has to be the most exciting and brilliant series of games I have ever played. I spent the whole of the summer of 2003 playing the games. The fact that you could wander around and talk to anyone and open and close things is amazing to me. Also you can get a job and talk to anyone at all. Everyone has something to ...  Read the complete review

Developed by Yu Suzuki, Shenmue II is the follow up to one of the most engrossing video games in recent memory, Shenmue. While a lot of people tend to dismiss the game as boring, or uneventful, they typically do not play past the first hour, which is when the action really picks up. Picking up where the first game left off, Ryo Hazuki ...  Read the complete review

Shenmue- not a game it's an experience - Advantages: engrossing, involving - Disadvantages: slow

You dont play a game such as Shenmue 2. You experience it. Firstly, I would like to say that I am extremely grateful that this game exists. I love it, but I am very dissapointed that it came out only on Dreamacst. I wish that everyone could experience this. But you and I should be grateful, at least it was released in Europe. We hear ...  Read the complete review

It was with some trepidation that I returned home on the train with my newly aquired copy of Shenmue 2. Until that point in time, my quests into deepest Glasgow in search of this most elusive of all Dreamcast games had been in vain. So, imagine my surprise (and laughter) when the "fools" at G-Force, Union Street, decided to let me swop, ...  Read the complete review

Sorry about the title, but seriously, what CAN'T this game do? Shenmue 2 is the long-awaited sequel to Shenmue (predictably), a game that was released to much critical acclaim a few years ago on the Dreamcast. In those days, Yu Suzuki, creator, had grand plans for the series, 16 episodes, all huge, to be released on the wondrous ...  Read the complete review

Shenmue II. Yu Suzuki's continuation of the much anticipated Shenmue series. Developed by those boys over in AM2, this game fully carries on the great ideas in the first game, but develops on them further. The basics The basics of the game for all of you who haven't played the first is this: You're Ryo Hazuki, your ...  Read the complete review

Most hardcore DC fans own a copy of Shenmue and have completed it one or more times. At the end of Shenmue you are left with a cliff hanger where Ryo is forced to go to Hong Kong in order to continue his quest which is to get revenge on Lan Di, the man who killed his father The game begins in Hong Kong and the first thing that you notice ...  Read the complete review

I can't believe how Sega do it... This is one of the deepest games I?ve ever played, for one, its one of the biggest games I?ve ever played, with graphics scarily good, even down to the intricate Facial Details! So what if the Speech in the game is in Japanese! Who cares, if anything it gives more of a feeling of Aboard-ness, than if ...  Read the complete review

Well I just completed it and felt the need to share my opinions. Basically if you haven't already bought it you must. In my opinion Shenmue was an average game but Shenmue II left me saying "thats the greatest game I've ever played". 3 chapters, 3 different locations, each one bigger than that in chapter 1. The right ...  Read the complete review

Can I just say that even though i have played Shenmue through many times, I haven't played Shenmue 2 yet. This is just a preview and anyone outside of Sega who says they have played Shenmue 2, at least before Christmas, is telling porkies. ------ "He shall appear from a far off land, where he has ...  Read the complete review