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Shenmue returns as Yu Suzuki brings long awaited sequel to Kickstarter

Fans of Sega’s ground breaking early open world RPG game Shenmue from Yu Suzuki have been waiting over a decade for any news of a third game after the release of Shenmue II in 2001. Now they’ve finally got it as Shenmue III has just appeared on Kickstarter with Suzuki finallly answering the question he’s been getting for years. The initial target of $2,000,000 was smashed in just over 9 hours with the total at the time of writing sitting at $2,341,899 and rising steadily with 31 days left and over 29,000 backers. The campaign has proven so popular that Kickstarter were struggling to cope with the traffic.

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The campaign has several stretch goals based around adding extra environments to the game world.

The game is set to appear on PC and PS4, for more info check out the Kickstarter Campaign.

Andy Haigh
Andy Haigh
Andy Haigh started writing to counteract the brain atrophying effects of Retail Hell, now it's an addiction. Andy is an unrepentant sequential art absorbist and comics are one of his passions. Other interests include Film, Music, Science Fiction and Horror novels and quality TV like Game of Thrones. He can talk about these at great length if only someone would listen. He lives a somewhat hermit like life in The Shire, spends too much time on social media and is still waiting to go on an adventure.

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