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Shenmue (DC) |
| Date: |
06/03/02 (27 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: Highly-Detailed Graphics, Amazing Plot, Relistic Time and Seasons
Disadvantages: Challenging in some places, Running around Huge Towns, Hard To Learn all of the places
The RPG Shenmue has been a complete success in Japan, America and it has blasted it's way to the top of the Dreamcast charts in the UK when it came out in December 2000.
It looks real and the game is almost perfect. The towns and villages are full of highly graphical detail and everything happens just as if it's actually real life.
What has the production of this game achieved? First of all, almost every real DC gamer has this game and secondly the makers spent so much money on creating this game that it has actually reached the Guiness Book of Records for it's production being so expensive.
I didn't really like the sound of a japanese game but when i finally got it, i didn't regret it.
The game starts with Ryo Hazuki as the main character and his father Iowa is killed by a man who goes by the name of Lan Di. Lan Di takes a mysterious mirror and then he is gone.
The thing I like most about this game is not the detail, but the plot.
The realistic time is also amazing. You wake up and go on with your quest. As it gets darker, people start leaving the street and when it gets dark, gangs of thugs come out. The realistic city has shops which can be accesed and every corner of the street is highly detailed.
You can do almost anything, buy toys, beat up thugs, talk to people, enter shops and you can even meet Ryo's girlfriend. That's how realistic the game is.
For DC gamers this is a 'must buy.'
There are additional Online features when your Dreamcast can go online for the user to experience more of Shenmue after the completion of the game.
When i first started playing this game, i started over three times because i wanted to see the introduction to the whole game when Lan Di kills Iowa.
I absolutely love this game and Shenmue II should be just as exciting as Ryo Hazuki continues his quest in Hong Kong to look for Lan Di and uncover the truth between the Pheonix Mirror.
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