Shenmue 2
- Picking up where the first Shenmue left off, you’ll take upon yourself the role of Ryo Hazuki, a young man tracking down his member of the clergy’s murderer — and trying to unlock the secrets of the Phoenix Mirror
- Travel to Hong Kong and explore an engrossing virtual world with thousands of characters
- Incredible 3D battles await you as you use the advanced fighting system for tons of punches, kicks, holds, and combos
- Track down the assassin Lan Di, and learn the secret of why he murdered your member of the clergy — and avenge his death in this thrilling action/adevnture!
Product Description
Shenmue II is an epic adventure with all the elements of a splendid movie–drama, mystery, suspense, and action–-and offers a unique gameplay experience that seamlessly blends elements of action, adventure, fighting, and role-playing sports meeting. In Shenmue II, players take upon yourself the role of Ryo Hazuki, a young man dedicated to the task of tracking his member of the clergy’s murderer and unlocking the mysteries of the Phoenix Mirror. Shenmue II continues where Shenmue left off and brings Ryo to Hong Kong with many questions still unanswered as he follows the trail of Lan Di, the man who killed his member of the clergy.
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Shenmue and its sequel are like having a real job…but even less fun. If tedious wandering and horrible dialogue are your forte, you might dig it. Everyone else: Save your cash. Not even worth renting.
Rating: 1 / 5
As the comic book dude from “The Simpsons” would say, “This is the worst game ever!” and that includes E.T. I was extremely disappointed with this game. Across online game review sites I had seen not anything but splendid reviews for this game so I had high expectations.
Let’s start with the excellent stuff. It had very excellent graphics, although body movement was a small blocky, as well as lighting and weather effects, unrestrained environments which did look a small bit dated for the Xbox, especially the buildings, and I guess a excellent tale line. Ok that was it for the excellent stuff.
Now the terrible stuff:
1. Dull, especially the copious cutscenes, and what makes it worse is that the game throws in QTE’s (quick time events where you have to press buttons as they appear on the screen) so that you can’t use the cutscenes for that they are normally used for – bathroom breaks.
2. Effective for cash was dull, there was no way to get cash by performing a task other than moving crates, which was dull and repetitive. Most of the time the D pad didn’t respond well to the double and triple taps to the left and right, which made it extremly frustrating.
3. Linear storyline and playing.
4. Way too many load screens, and trivial cutscenes.
5. Only 1 of the 3 sections of game was halfway fun and entertaining and that was the middle section when Ryo was in Kowloon. There was plenty of action and not too many bathroom breaks … uh I mean cutscenes. The HK and Guilin secions were a bore, especially Guilin. I kept expecting to get to Bailu village and being able to do more of what was done in Kowloon, let’s just say that it was a major disappointment.
6. Fixed camera angle, unable to adjust 3rd person camera location to a different fixed position. Ryo took up too much of the screen and in the beginning I got sick watching the screen when Ryo ran.
7. Terrible control layout and responsiveness.
8. Command QTE’s. Sometimes I was unable to see the order in which the buttons were pressed even when I wasn’t even trying to hit the buttons just watch them in order.
9. Ryo’s bandaid on his face, it was there throughout the game.
10. Not enough fighting. I’m not a fighting game fan but thats what was the most fun in the game, I found the “free roaming” to be extremely linear and restrictive
… and many more, but the above mentioned were my largest disappointments. I kept playing because I thought I would this storyline fighting game a chance and I kept expecting the game to suddenly get better, but it didn’t. Is there any way I can sue Sega to get that part of my life back that I wasted on this game?
DON’T BUY THIS GAME!!! … well buy my copy but nobody else buy this game!
Rating: 1 / 5
Please don’t be fooled by the reviews before me like I was. The graphics are okay, excellent for the PS2 but not more than average for the Xbox. The storyline is flat, the dubbing is horrendous! (and you can’t skip the VErY normal and LENGTHY scenes) Half of the game is doing menial tasks (effective at a dock and lifting boxes for minimal cash at length so that you can afford your hotel, and carrying stacks of books outside for a temple library for hlaf of the “day” quite a few times) The fighting is infrequent and subpar and many moves only give you one shot to learn or you will never have another chance. There are certain figures you can collect that will taek you some time to get but they don’t unlock any secrets, they just give you the satisfaction of having them I guess. The only excellent part about this game was the button reflex sequences (can’t remember the official name) because it was fun to test your reflexes and see what you did if you got it right. But, those BRS’s didn’t make u for the… MOVEMENT! OMFG! It was like trying to fire and egg on a block of ice in -20 degree temperatures. It became a game (a very horrible game) in itself just trying to get in doors. If you walked to far you would have to turn, but no, you can’t just turn left or right, you have to turn full around. Then you have to try and make a exact arch into the doorway or you’ll be their for another 5 minutes dancing in circles. After playing this game I hoped that the free movie that came with it would be excellent and would make me less mad. Let me tell you something. This movie was not anime, it was not even what I would consider 3D graphics. It was like playing FF7 with slightly better graphics, a much worse storyline, and their was no gameplay. Not anything made up for the small effort place into everything about this game. I give this game a 1. Please, save your cash for Fable if you really need a excellent RPG/Fighter, I’m sure waiting for Fable to be released will be more fun than in fact playing this game.
Rating: 1 / 5
First of, yes, Yu Suzuki is a genius and I admire what he’s attempted to do here. Very bold effort on this series that may just be ahead of its time.
I just got this the other day and have been trying to MAKE myself play it. That should tell you something right there.
EGM and Gamespot’s reviews of this game are dead-on: It certainly feels and looks like a DC port.
Read both of those reviews.
This nearly can’t even be called a game, and if you go into this thinking you have another Morrowind type game on your hands, than you will be very disappointed.
Morrowind blows this thing away for epic scope, freedom, and variety. It’s fake advertising if anyone tries to sell this to you under that pretense.
The game is mostly you talking people and getting from point to point. It’s a detective novel that you kind of cooperate with, for all intents and purposes.
Yes, you can sight see, buy knick knacks, find the Sega arcade sports meeting, and other side jaunts, but GTA:VC and Morrowind both FAR AND AWAY have a much greater sense of freedom and variety of gameplay than this does. It’s not honest to compare such different genres, but that’s what some people have been doing, and I am setting the record straight.
I reflect this is a niche title that fans of the first game should chew up.
For people like me, who didn’t play the first one, you might be asking yourself, “Yeah, so?”
I reflect that this game needed more time on the shelf.
MAKE it Xbox worthy on all levels. As it stands, it reeks of Dreamcast port all the way.
The controls leave something to be desired. They nearly go down to Resident Evil level, which is disgraceful. The controls are tolerable, but that’s about it.
The game does boast a nice music score, and the transition between the game modes is pretty seamless.
This is a very slow paced experience. VERY SLOW. I recommend that you proceed with caution; consider a rental first. I view this game as an interactive book.
Rating: 3 / 5
This is a splendid game, you should buy it but since Microsoft is evil and Bill Gates ran off with one of the dead or alive girls its not a excellent thought to get this for X-Box. Insted you should import it from europe for the Dreamcast which is a MUCH more powerful system and uh… it looks better too. Beware of puple cows and Brian (if you don’t know who Brian is, you are extremly lucky)
PS: I am an insane, drunken fool so you had better pay close attention to this reveiw.
Rating: 5 / 5