Yakuza (The Dragon of Dojima)

[Seige]

I know this is an old game but my friend picked up two copies and gave me one, and we began to play.
It compelled me to play more and it eventually absorbed me, into the game untill I realized, I've been playing for 34 hours and still, on chapter 4. I just wanted to bring attention to the needle in the hay stack.

Gameplay
the game play is very mixed in a sense where it has flaws which are visible when you first play the game, such as locking onto an enemy, sometimes you just swing to the left of him, and fall flat on your bum. But this flaw is easily adjusted to once you have progressed through the game. (I found myself hitting everything on cue around the end of chapter 3) Overall this is really the one thing that people talk about. (I haven't noticed anything else.) (also Yakuza 2 improves on everything apparently, waiting for it to come out.) Other then explaining the bads, their is so much to do and building your mob slugging Dragon of the Dojima. You can see and date a hostess and other things that can amuse you.

Music des
The music in the game gives the right atmosphere if your in a bar, your hideout, walking the street (no music while exploring the city unless you go near a store with music ect.)

Storylineka?
The storyline is about the Yakuza and about a man named Kazuma, the Dragon of the Dojima Family(you control him.) and the run down is you talk the fall for your best friend and end up in jail, and while your there lots of things change, and rival families are trying to kill one another. To end it the Yakuza storyline is rather Deep and properly done.

Overall
The Game Yakuza in my opinion is, its a real mobster game with a real story, I could almost believe that these characters are real at some point. This is how GTA should have been. In the Sega Team they said this game is to Rival the GTA game, and they wanted to make it about the real Yakuza and the problems they might come across and how things are handled. I'm not saying GTA is good nor bad, but it is an average adventure game that could work on a better storyline, and extremely solve thier programing problems and major glitches that people expose within a day of retrieving the game.
My word to anyone, pick it up and give it a try, and if you do write back and tell me about your opinion about the game. And its only 15$ Canadian in Toronto.