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Yakuza: Kiwami 2 Officially Announced for PlayStation 4, Coming This December

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Sega has announced an upcoming remake of the original Yakuza 2 as Yakuza: Kiwami 2 for PlayStation 4, scheduled for launch in Japan on December 7.

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The remake will utilize the Dragon Engine, used in Yakuza 6: The Song of Life, and it’ll come with an additional Truth of Goro Majima scenario where you’ll be able to take up the mantle of the unhinged Goro Majima. There’s a whole wealth of new content as well, in addition to new voice actors and the Japanese metal band SiM taking on the theme song.

There’s also a limited edition bundle in Japan, which will come with a 3-disc “Kiwami” CD set, business cards, DLC, and the game of course, as well as special packaging. Even cooler is the special Yakuza: Kiwami 2 Edition PlayStation 4, which is available atlaunch in both Jet Black and Glacier White colors. Both systems will be available when Yakuza: Kiwami 2 launches this year.

Right now there’s no official word on an English localization, but hopefully it comes to pass with the success of the Yakuza series. In a perfect world, we’d have remakes of each one. Maybe that’s going to happen. You never know!

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Brittany Vincent is the former News Editor at Twinfinite who covered all the video games industry's goings on between June 2017 and August 2018. She's been covering video games, anime and tech for over a decade for publications like Otaku USA, G4, Maxim, Engadget, Playboy and more. Fueled by horror, rainbow-sugar-pixel-rushes, and video games, she’s a freelancer who survives on surrealism and ultraviolence. When she’s not writing, watching anime or gaming, she’s searching for the perfect successor to visual novel Saya no Uta.

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