Shenmue II

Description

Shenmue 2 is the sequel to the innovative free-roaming RPG Shenmue. Continuing on exactly from where the original left off, Shenmue 2 furthers the story of Ryo Hazuki and his search for his fathers murderer, Lan-Di, as well as the events surrounding the murder.

Taking place in China, Shenmue 2 contains a real world gameplay system first seen in the original Shenmue. This puts you in a world where hundreds of people live out their daily lives around you, day turns to evening and on into night. It rains and snows, you can get part time jobs to earn extra money for rent or even gamble or play real classic arcade games like Outrun at the local video arcade all within a living breathing city. There is also a battle mode for those occasions when Ryo gets himself into fights as well as quick time events that require you to act quickly in the heat of some tense situations.

The Xbox version of the game came with an additional DVD called Shenmue: The Movie, which contained a summation of the first Shenmue game made into a feature length movie. This was to help people who didn't own a Dreamcast understand the plot from the previous game, since it was never released for the Xbox.

Alternate Titles

• "莎木二" -- Chinese title (traditional)
• " シェンムーＩＩ" -- Japanese title

Part of the Following Groups

• Chinese setting
• Games with hidden/unlockable full games
• Middleware: CRI
• Shenmue series

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User Reviews

Same great stuff, but more of it. Much more!	Dreamcast	Unicorn B. Lynx (63297)
A milestone.	Dreamcast	Eurythmic (2657)
The most beautiful game I've ever played.	Dreamcast	Sycada (177)
A beautiful, inspirational game with good story, characters, graphics, and detail	Xbox	J J (3)

The Press Says

Gaming Age	Dreamcast	Oct 29, 2001	A	100
Power Unlimited	Dreamcast	Feb, 2002	90 out of 100	90
Gaming Target	Dreamcast	Jan 22, 2002	9 out of 10	90
Kingdom of Desire	Dreamcast	May 11, 2008	9 out of 10	90
GamePro	Xbox	Nov 21, 2002	4.5 out of 5	90
Planet Dreamcast	Dreamcast	Oct 31, 2002	9 out of 10	90
GameSpot	Dreamcast	Dec 04, 2001	8.7 out of 10	87
Game Revolution	Xbox	Nov, 2002	B+	83
GameSpot	Xbox	Oct 30, 2002	7.3 out of 10	73
Games TM	Xbox	Feb, 2003	7 out of 10	70

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
How To Play On NTSC Dreamcast?	7	mobiusclimber (223) Jan 28, 2008

Trivia

An early layout picture shows Ren riding a horse. This seems unusual given that the game takes places in the mid 80s.