Yakuza 3 (USA IMPORT) (DELETED TITLE) PS3

Yakuza 3 is a violent, urban action-adventure of organized crime and gang warfare, bringing Sega's PS2 series to high-def on PlayStation 3 for the first time. From a third-person perspective, the game offers open-world exploration and a player-directed mission structure, as in a Japanese version of the latter-day Grand Theft Auto games. The player's character moves and fights through detailed re-creations of real-world cities. Hand-to-hand combat is central to the play of the game, and characters gain skills and new weapons by facing and defeating opponents.

The hero can also engage in many day-to-day activities as he travels through the city, such as shopping for clothes and goods, playing billiards, and even singing karaoke, through specialized mini-games. The third Yakuza game begins in modern-day Okinawa, where the series' protagonist Kazuma Kiryu and his adopted daughter, Haruka, have settled down to run an orphanage, away from the bloodshed and hate they knew in the big city underworld. In his earlier adventures, however, Kazuma became a man of great influence in Tokyo's criminal underground, making many powerful allies and enemies, and so before long, the outlaw hero is pulled back into the violent life he sought to leave behind.