Yakuza Kiwami 2
| Yakuza Kiwami 2 | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio |
| Publisher(s) | Sega |
| Director(s) | Hiroyuki Sakamoto |
| Producer(s) | Masayoshi Yokoyama Daisuke Sato Mitsuhiro Shimano |
| Designer(s) | Takeshi Tanaka |
| Programmer(s) |
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| Artist(s) | Nobuaki Mitake |
| Writer(s) | Masayoshi Yokoyama |
| Composer(s) | Hidenori Shoji Yuri Fukuda Chihiro Aoki Saori Yoshida |
| Series | Yakuza |
| Platform(s) | |
| Release | PlayStation 4
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| Genre(s) | Action-adventure, beat 'em up |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Yakuza Kiwami 2 is a 2017 action-adventure game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by Sega. It is a remake of the 2006 video game Yakuza 2 for the PlayStation 2, the second remake in the Yakuza series following 2016's Yakuza Kiwami. It was developed using the Dragon Engine, previously used for Yakuza 6. The game was released for PlayStation 4 on December 7, 2017 in Japan, and worldwide on August 28, 2018. It was released for Windows worldwide on Steam on May 9, 2019 and released for Xbox One on July 30, 2020. A version for cloud-based platform Amazon Luna was released on January 19, 2023.
Yakuza Kiwami 2 was followed up by the spinoff titles Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise and Judgment in 2018, and the next mainline installment Yakuza: Like a Dragon in 2020.