| Yakuza Kiwami 2 | |
|---|---|
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| Developer(s) | Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio[a] |
| Publisher(s) | Sega |
| Director(s) | Hiroyuki Sakamoto |
| Producer(s) | Daisuke Sato Mitsuhiro Shimano |
| Designer(s) | Takeshi Tanaka |
| Programmer(s) |
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| Artist(s) | Nobuaki Mitake |
| Writer(s) | Masayoshi Yokoyama |
| Composer(s) | Hidenori Shoji Yuri Fukuda Chihiro Aoki Saori Yoshida |
| Series | Like a Dragon |
| Platform(s) | |
| Release | PlayStation 4
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| Genre(s) | Action-adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Yakuza Kiwami 2[b] is an action-adventure video game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by Sega. It is a remake of the 2006 video game Yakuza 2 for the PlayStation 2, and is the Like a Dragon series' second remake title following 2016's Yakuza Kiwami. It was developed using the Dragon game engine from Yakuza 6. The game was released for PlayStation 4 on December 7, 2017 in Japan, and worldwide on August 28, 2018.[1] It was released for Windows worldwide on Steam on May 9, 2019[2] and released for Xbox One on July 30, 2020.[3] A version for cloud-based platform Amazon Luna was released on January 19, 2023.[4]
Yakuza Kiwami 2 was followed up by the spinoff titles Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise and Judgment in 2018, and the next mainline installment Yakuza: Like a Dragon in 2020.
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- ^ Good, Owen S. (2018-03-17). "Yakuza Kiwami 2 launches in the West this August". Polygon. Vox Media. Archived from the original on 2018-03-18. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
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- ^ "Yakuza is coming to Xbox for the first time". Polygon. 14 November 2019.
- ^ New on Luna+: Yakuza Kiwami 2, 19 January 2023, retrieved 2023-01-21