You may already know it or not, but I'm a very big fan of the Shenmue games series. Microsoft today added Shenmue 2 to the now quite long list of backward compatible games on the 360, so I HAD to do a video. Enjoy.
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All comments (62)
its a shame shenmue 1 didnt come over to the xbox. it was much better than this one. i wouldnt mind this so much, but all three of my dreamcasts are broken. no wonder sega got out of the business.
Yes, the voice overs go from bad, to horrible, to funny, to cheesy, to ridiculous and to levels you can't imagine. One of the few good voices is Ryo's. Thankfully, that's not the game's strong point. There's something to these series that makes me want to play the game, maybe it's the nicely set up story, SOMETHING!
The graphics still hold up, not always, but they are still acceptable, and with the added AA, shenmue has never looked so good.
Needless to say, SEGA MUST finish up the damn story!!! Come on!
But the great advantage PS2, and the recent Yakuza Shenmue Type of Games have, are the improved animation, they still have quite simple textures, but quite good animation...
Shenmue has a Butt-Ugly Stiff animation.
Also, Yakuza doesn't have great animation. The control feels very loose. Shenmue is robotic, but the animation is smoother and just plain better than Yakuza. Maybe Tekken has better animation, but Yakuza felt really dated to me. The PS2 analog control might be partly to blame.
I'm a happy owner of the DC vers anyhow so ^^ I don't really care, what I hate thought is.... no Shenmue 3 *sob*
And prodygee, why is your signature now PS3? In Xbox forum of all places...
Backward compatibility update was great this time. Shenmue 2, Conker, FarCry, Fahrenheit etc. It feels like getting presents when they update that list.
On 360 of course, but Yu Suzuki is still finishing that damn Shenmue Online