Kasavin gives Yakuza a disappointing score

Well the hype bubble starts to burst as gamespot gives a mediocre 7.4 to Yakuza. I'm not super surprised as he listed some of my fears I had begun to have for it after seeing the gameplay footage, it's a small environment and the beat-em up gameplay get's old.

Even though the comparasons to Shenmue have been downplayed, I still think that Yakuza is a spiritual successor so I wish he would have weighed in on how the two games stack up, besides on the scorecards.