The first game featured an incredibly detailed, 3D recreation of the Japanese city of Yokosuka, and it’s about as close as you can get to exploring an actual Japanese suburb without ever actually visiting the country. Instead Shenmue focuses all around exploration and atmosphere, trying to replicate the intricacies of the real world and putting them in digital form. In fact, most of what you do revolves around little more than fetch questing. And while there’s some fighting, it’s most definitely not at the forefront of action gaming either. But unlike adventure games, there are rarely any real puzzles to solve.
If you were to put Shenmue into a genre, it would cross somewhere between PC-style adventure games and Japanese RPGs.
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It’s a great series with some fantastic ideas, but some of them work better in theory than they do in practice. Shenmue – named after a tree found in the second game – is the brainchild of Yu Suzuki and his Sega AM2 team, which was previously known for arcade hits like Virtua Fighter and OutRun. Unfortunately, some things just prove to be way too ambitious. More than a mere video game, it was meant to create a virtual world that adhered closer to reality than anything that had come before, while presenting itself as an epic, interactive kung fu movie. But Shenmue was to be the game that should really convince people to move beyond their Playstations and Nintendo 64s. Sure, the console heralded Sonic’s move into 3D with Sonic Adventure and delivered superior fighting game action with Soul Calibur. Sega’s Shenmue was meant to be the killer-app of the Dreamcast.
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