There was plenty to cheer for in the 2011 crop of games.
1_YAKUZA 4 | PlayStation 3 | It's an open-world, role-playing, beat-'em-up, dating sim, gangster drama — and even that does not begin to describe the breadth of Yakuza 4. With four playable characters equally adept at beating up thugs and delivering tearful monologues, the game is earnest and silly in equal measure, and sometimes at the same time. In 2011, there was nothing else like it.
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