I’m currently playing Yakuza 6 for our review, so I figured now would be a good time to go back to take a look at Yakuza 5 on PlayStation 3.

 

Here is an excerpt from my review:

My journey into the world of Yakuza 5 started just like it will probably start for most of you: by freeing up some space on my PS3 HDD to make room for this massive download. Yakuza 5 is a download-only release in North America, and that means you’ll need 50 GB of free space to be able to download and install the game. Oh, but before that you’ll need to update your PS3 firmware AND the PSN store before you can even get to download Yakuza 5. It had been a while since I turned on my PlayStation 3 since I’ve been busy with a ton of Wii U, 3DS, PS4 and Vita games, so I had to do all of the above before leaving my PS3 on overnight to download the huge file since, as expected, PSN was acting up and the download was taking forever.

You can check out the original review right here.