Yakuza: Like a Dragon announced for Xbox One, Xbox Series X and PC

During today's Inside Xbox, focused on third-party gameplay, it has been confirmed that Yakuza: Like a Dragon also come to Xbox One, Xbox Series X and PC, in addition to PS4, where it was already confirmed. This new installment – which has no release date yet – is proposed as a new gateway to the saga Yakuza and will post to the Xbox family of consoles with Smart Delivery, the technology that allows you to use Xbox One games on Xbox Series X by improving their performance and graphics.

Although it does not have a release date, we know that Yakuza: Like a Dragon

be available on Xbox Series X from day one. Under these lines you can see the kinematic trailer with which it has been presented on the Inside Xbox today.

A new twist to the saga

In Yakuza: Like a Dragon we will put ourselves in the shoes of Ichiban Kasuga, a member of the Arakawa clan who enters prison for protecting one of the leaders of his criminal gang. The protagonist will be released from prison 18 years later, in 2019, and will have to return to his life in Yokohama city, a map that, incidentally, will be three times larger than Kamurocho. The timeline of Yakuza: Like a Dragon It will show both the events that occurred before the protagonist enters the prison and those that occur afterwards.

One of the peculiarities of this new installment of the saga is its change of tone in the main mechanics, which they leave aside the traditional action of the franchise to bet on a tactical combat system in turns

, where each character waits for his moment to attack the rival. This new creative vision has been called Dramatic RPG and it proposes a more dynamic version than the classic turn-based combat system.

East Inside Xbox It has focused on showing new generation video game gameplays for Xbox Series X, one of the most demanded requests by the community of gamers who wanted to see the console in motion. However, in this first summer event

Of the many that Microsoft will have, the company has decided to focus exclusively on third-party video games, that is, from external studies, leaving announcements related to its own developments for other events that will take place later, during the month of July.