



Like previous games in the series, the gameplay is a mixture of open-world exploration with lots of diversionary mini-games and side-quests, RPG style dialogue and random battles, and 3D brawler-style combat with RPG stat-leveling elements, like a real-time action RPG. Announced on July 24th, 2009 and released on March 18th, 2010, just a week after the western release of its predecessor Yakuza 3, Yakuza 4 is the latest entry in Nagoshi Toshihiro's wildly popular (in Japan, at the least) series following the lives and exploits of a 'family' of Yakuza mobsters in a semi-fictional version of Kabukicho, Tokyo's red-light district in Shinjuku (called " Kamurocho" in the games).
