
Players can access any of 3 hostess clubs at any point in the game (excluding Saejima).


Receive combat training from any of 5 mastersīattles in Yakuza 4 are similar to that of a JRPG, whereas you come across random encounters with enemies and gain loot and EXP once you defeat them.23 minigames to play and master, including billiards, karaoke, and bowling.There is much to do in Kamurocho, such as:

As any of the 4 characters, you can freely explore the world at any point in the game.

Yakuza 4 stays true to its roots and provides a similar experience to that seen in the previous titles. Compared to Grand Theft Auto's exaggerated Hollywood movie pastiche, however, Yakuza 4 instead aims for realism and authenticity, based on the activities and operations of real Yakuza gangs. It also features a multiple protagonists system, in a similar manner to the later 2013 title Grand Theft Auto V. Like previous games in the series, the gameplay is a mixture of open-world exploration with lots of diversionary mini-games and side-quests, RPG style dialogue and random battles, and 3D brawler-style combat with RPG stat-leveling elements, like a real-time action RPG. Announced on July 24th, 2009 and released on March 18th, 2010, just a week after the western release of its predecessor Yakuza 3, Yakuza 4 is the latest entry in Nagoshi Toshihiro's wildly popular (in Japan, at the least) series following the lives and exploits of a 'family' of Yakuza mobsters in a semi-fictional version of Kabukicho, Tokyo's red-light district in Shinjuku (called " Kamurocho" in the games).
