10 Major Video Games Coming In 2019 You Need To Play

4. Shenmue III

shenmue 3
Sega

Release date: August 27

Not in this world or the next, will Yu Suzuki and Ys Net be able to deliver a satisfying conclusion to Ryo Hazuki's quest for revenge. It's an impossible task that requires the developer to not only pander to fond rememberers of the original games but new audiences that will have no idea who or what a Lan Di is.

Not to mention that Suzuki hasn't directed a game of this calibre since 2001's Shenmue II - a lifetime as far as the fast-advancing games industry is concerned - a revelation that should be fostering quiet doubt that Shenmue III will be stuck in the antiquated age of tank controls and quick-time events.

With questionable early tech demos and multiple delays piled on top, Shenmue III exhibits all the qualities of a potentially catastrophic disaster but look around and you'll find not fear, but faith and excitement.

Shenmue III and 'release date' being used concurrently in the same sentence is a marvel in itself, so even if the third part in Ryo's journey fails to make an impression on modern audiences, so what?

Ryo's journey will have an end in 2019 and, really, two decades later, that's all that matters.

 
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