Shenmue III
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Promotional Kickstarter image for Shenmue III
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| Developer(s) | Neilo Ys Net |
| Publisher(s) | Ys Net |
| Director(s) |
Yu Suzuki Keiji Okayasu |
| Producer(s) | Yu Suzuki Cedric Biscay |
| Artist(s) | Kenji Miyawaki Manabu Takimoto |
| Writer(s) | Yu Suzuki Masahiro Yoshimoto |
| Composer(s) | Ryuji Iuchi |
| Series | Shenmue |
| Engine | Unreal Engine 4 |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows PlayStation 4 |
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| Genre(s) | Action-adventure, role-playing, life simulation |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Shenmue III (Japanese: シェンムー3 Hepburn: Shenmū 3?) is an upcoming action-adventure role-playing video game developed by Neilo and Ys Net, scheduled for release in December 2017 for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 4. It is directed, written and produced by Yu Suzuki. Shenmue III follows teenage martial artist Ryo Hazuki in his quest to find his father's killer in 1980s China.
Suzuki conceived Shenmue as a saga spanning multiple games. The first two games were developed by Sega AM2 and published by Sega for the Dreamcast in 1999 and 2001 respectively. The original Shenmue was the most expensive video game ever developed at the time, with an estimated production and marketing cost of over $47 million USD, though this also covered some of Shenmue II and groundwork for future Shenmue games. Despite attracting a cult following and appearances in several "greatest video games of all time" lists, the games were commercial failures and Shenmue III spent over a decade in development hell.
At the June 2015 E3 conference, following years of speculation, Suzuki launched a Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund Shenmue III, with Sega having licensed Shenmue to Suzuki's company Ys Net. The campaign met its initial target of $2 million USD in under eight hours, making it the fastest Kickstarter campaign to reach that amount. It ended in July 2015 having raised over $6 million, making it the highest-funded video game and the sixth highest-funded campaign in Kickstarter history. Crowdfunding resumed via the online payment system PayPal and the Chinese crowdfunding platform Alipay.
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