YARRKUZA

There's fun to be had with LIKE A DRAGON: PIRATE YAKUZA IN HAWAII

- By Abbie Stone

My pirate ship is sailing through the Hawaiian seas, pursuing a speedboat. I successfully chase it into a Bond-villain style base, whereupon I continue the pursuit on foot, jumping over laser traps, fleeing a giant cannonball that rolls towards me Indiana Jones-style, and then finish up with a sword fight against a giant robot.

How can I possibly give a game that contains all that any less than PC Gamer's first ever 100% score? Well... the 'boat chase' is just a cutscene, the lasers have to be jumped over with sticky platforming controls, that cannonball sequence is a quick-time event, and that giant robot also requires that crap jumping to reach its weak point.

You play as series favorite Goro Majima, suffering from gaming's billionth case of amnesia. Majima has barely regained consciousness before several pirates pick a fight with him. Fortunately, Majima has remembered that he's deadly with a knife, fast as hell, and great fun to brawl with. There's blocking, dodging and parrying, but you won't have to worry about any of that for hours—just focus on kicking the crap out of these pirates as magnificently as possible.