Yakuza

Following the runaway success of GTA3, the PS2 era saw just about every developer muscling in on the mature crime market – The Getaway, True Crime: Streets Of LA, even The Godfather himself – though few passed the test of time. So how of all of them did Yakuza, a plucky upstart from Japan, end up spawning a decade-long saga? Character.

Yakuza enforcer Kazuma Kiryu isn’t someone you’d want to cross when you owe his boss 200 million yen, but