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°°°The Game°°°
Shenmue Chapter One is called FREE (Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment), it's like a p.i.-film on your dreamcast. You play the character through days, you have a realistic change from day to night and there's always a little watch in the left corner at the bottom of your screen ... Read review
With an epic story line, luscious graphics and gameplay to match,Shenmueis everything than ... more
the Dreamcast can produce and more.Ever since the launch of the Dreamcast, Sega have been looking for a decent RPG to bolster the range of titles available and t...
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°°°The Game°°°
Shenmue Chapter One is called FREE (Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment), it's like a p.i.-film on your dreamcast. You play the character through days, you have a realistic change from day to night and there's always a little watch in the left corner at the bottom of your screen so you can always see how much time it is. A day takes ca. one hour normal time.
First you can act in Yamanose, Sakuragaoka and Dobuita ... ...a great graphics-engine like in Shenmue Chapter One. Magic Time and Weather Control make the game even more realistic than The Sims. You really feel stuck in a Japanese township. What you want to know about the modern Japan you can't look up in a book. Look up in this game and learn about the culture and the way of life.
The sound is great, too. After a hard day at school or work you can relax and hear the relaxing sounds of this game. Great!!! more
°°°°The story°°°° Ryo Hazuki's father has been murdered. The 17-years old pupil living in a Japanese town called Yamanose has to avenge his father's death. He knows the name of his killer, Lan Di. Because Ryo's Paps has been murdered right in front o'him, he dunno what to do else but avenge his unfair death. He doesn't know anything about the murderers, not even their position so he asks around his neighbourhood and his circle of friends to find out who they've been and what they're doin' and what the kill was all about.
°°°°You°°°° Play the character Ryo Hazuki. Hazuki-San is a strong and brave guy but he doesn't know about his potential. His will can either help or destroy him. It's up to you now! You have to find out everything that could help you, and it's difficult.
°°°The Game°°° Shenmue Chapter One is called FREE (Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment), it's like a p.i.-film on your dreamcast. You play the character through days, you have a realistic change from day to night and there's always a little watch in the left corner at the bottom of your screen so you can always see how much time it is. A day takes ca. one hour normal time. First you can act in Yamanose, Sakuragaoka and Dobuita JUST HOW YOU WANT TO. That's the coolest aspect of this game. If you want to buy some food for a little kitty in Yamanose, go to a shop and search for it. If you want to play darts, go to the You-Arcade and play darts. There are many little games hidden in this game so you always are able to do what you want to.
°°°The graphics, the sound°°° I've never seen such a great graphics-engine like in Shenmue Chapter One. Magic Time and Weather Control make the game even more realistic than The Sims. You really feel stuck in a Japanese township. What you want to know about the modern Japan you can't look up in a book. Look up in this game and learn about the culture and the way of life. The sound is great, too. After a hard day at school or work you can relax and hear the relaxing sounds of this game. Great!!!
°°°Pro and contra°°°
+Great graphics +Great sound +Wide range of activities +Do what you want to do +Great story and storyline and script +Great speakers, dialect +3 GDs and 1 Passport
-Uncool handling -Even during fights -After getting used to work at the harbor, you have to wait till the story goes on, the fate comes to you
°°°Summary°°°
GREAT GAME WITH SOME LITTLE CONTRAS!!! BUT THE BEST ACTION-ADVENTURE GAME I'VE EVER SEEN!
Advantages: Beautiful, adictive story, gameplay etc Disadvantages: Waiting around
Shenmue is an RPG or role playing game, and for those of you who haven't already encountered the genre I’ll tell you what this involves. In an RPG you are the hero, through some sort of coincidence most probably very spurious you have a task, either to enact revenge, save a woman in distress or stop an evil dictator. At the beginning you will have very few resources, all the research, finding items, and puzzle solving is left up to you. The ... ...is the backdrop against which Shenmue is set.
Story
In the opening cut scene we meet our Japanese hero Ryo Hazuki. He is hearing a ruckus and runs out to find his mate beaten on the ground clutching his chest. He whispers that he’s OK but that Ryo’s father is still in danger. Ryo runs to the dojo (hut for fighting in don’t you know) and finds his father Iwao fighting with an evil martial arts genius and getting his ass kicked ...
incubus 06.05.2002
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Shenmue (Dreamcast)
Advantages: Lots of interactiveness with everything, ever. Disadvantages: Too much talking, too litte fighting.
...big and risky statement.
Shenmue is shall we say a steady game for a number of reasons, steady because that’s how the game’s pace goes, there’s a little action here and a little puzzle solving there and never at any point do you ever feel overwhelmed with things to do.
A problem that surfaces within the first half hour of playing is how linear the game is, it’s a simple go here talk to him then go there and talk to her affair, ... ...people especially when the game promises so much. From the opening cutscene you see a dojo and some martial arts which leads you to believe you’ll be partaking in some great fighting scenerios but alas fighting is too little and too far inbetween but don’t worry there’s always someone to chat to about it.
The nice feature in the game is the time, everything is played out according to the time, shops opening at ten, bars opening ...
Snowdrift 30.05.2002
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Advantages: Everything stated Disadvantages: Can't think of any.
...think I first knew of Shenmue in about 2004, that was when I got a dreamcast. I had bought the old console from a local pawnshop, really cheap, with a few games like Quake III Arena and Virtua Fighter, decent games in their own right(especially Q3A) however I felt I needed something deeper. Iv'e alwasy been a fan of the action adventure genre, good storylines but with good gameplay, and that's what I wanted. So after looking around on internet review ... ...that for any adventure game, Shenmue has my favorite graphics of all. Everything is tweaked to perfection, there are no bad graphics here what-so-ever. The way the cutscenes and realtime gameplay are totally conjoined, the way they flow seamlessly into eachother is just one of the many ways Suzuki's team has creating one of the most engrossing gaming experiences ever. The musical score is a beautiful classic of video game music, epic beyond all known ...
jovialduke 26.05.2007
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...with a 4th Disc, the Shenmue Passport. The basis of the game is that you play Ryo Hazuki, son of a martial arts master, who one day comes home to find his dad being murdered by a group of gangsters who steal a mirror from your fathers dojo. From then on you make it your duty to try and locate these gangsters and get revenge. Although this sounds quite tedious at the beggining, it gets more interesting as you go on.
The game is sprayed over numerous ... ...also teach you moves, generally later on in the game.
Occasionally you get fun special stages, such as the "Daily Races" on Disc 3!!
Overall, Shenmue is a damn great game. I'd highly reccomend that you get yourself a copy of it. 2nd hand is good remember, kids. ...
bigbtommy 13.10.2002
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Shenmue (Dreamcast)
Advantages: Great graphics, storyline, exploration system, characters, freedom given Disadvantages: Slightly clumsy or robotic controls
...they felt would pay off. Shenmue is now widely regarded as one of the Dreamcast’s best titles and a sequel was released for the console and for the Microsoft Xbox. Now its eight years later but is the game still worth a look or has it lost its charm? Shenmue starts off in November 1986, when Ryo runs home to find some strange men at his house. Before he can do anything to stop them, his father is murdered right in front of him. Swearing revenge on ... ...his revenge!
For 1999, Shenmue actually looks brilliant: The characters are well detailed and the environments are constructed very well, as it is essentially the area it’s portraying: Yokosuka, Japan. Character design is, in itself, not an important part of the game as you can’t control it but the clothes that the younger and older people wear do show the cultural differences going on in the late 80s. The music for Shenmue is authentic for the ...
consolecharlie 20.05.2007
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Advantages: Excellent compelling storyline, believable characters and an epic adventure Disadvantages: No English audio, but that doesn't bother me
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Advantages: An astounding game overall Disadvantages: It doesn't seem to have an ending!
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. Was it worth the $110 we each paid? Scroll down.
Shenmue II is set in Hong Kong, and is a true sequel. Yu Suzuki (genius) had the story mapped out, so Shenmue II isn't a cash in, it was planned this way (like Lord of the Rings and the Matrix are, and how Jurassic Park isn't). We follow Ryo Hazuki on his quest in to find the man who murdered his father.
Quite brilliantly, if you finished the original Shenmue and saved the end file, you can use that to continue in Shenmue II. Nearly all of your items remain, so does the date and so does your money.
The amount of improvement over Shenmue is large, and adds to the whole atmosphere. Graphics have been improved, but the fade in/out of some characters is still a bit much, and there is some slowdown. But that's to be expected, as this game is huge. Enormous. Excessive, almost. At a guess ...
