Yu Suzuki watched Team America: World Police and this happened.

They could do better with the character models, yes. To be fair, we asian do look like teenagers during our mid 20s... ha ha

Actually, it kind of was. It’s obviously dated now, but at the time, Shenmue had some of the best graphics on the market, and its attention to detail is still impressive compared to a lot of modern games. Compare the Dreamcast games to something like Deus Ex 1 or even some early PS2 titles and it’s like night and day.

Totally agree, I think the game looks great. I think the models look updated, while still keeping the feel of the first two. Feels like best of both worlds to me.

What were people expecting? Shenmue wasn’t great because of it’s amazing lifelike graphical appeal originally so why should this one be any different. It was the refreshingly hard but satisfying gameplay that we all want to see return. Glad to see the didn’t take the Dead Rising approach from first glance, it doesn’t…

I think it looks excellent. How could you more succesfully bring Shenmue into the current generation without abandoning its much loved art style and character design? It looks like a Dreamcast game done with today’s technology — which it is. I’m sure my nostalgia goggles are skewing my opinion, but that trailer really…

I’m trying to find where the “ass” is in that trailer. This is what our expectations have become?

Dull Surprise: The Video Game