Maker - Sega / CRI   Catalogue No. - HDR-0156

Type - FREE

A really stupid idea from Sega this was.  Why the hell did they release a fully English language version of Shenmue in Japan (which has the worst percentage of English speakers in Asia) without the ability to change ALL of the text in to Japanese or have Japanese voices.  And why the hell is it called US Shenmue ????  What has the bloody US got to do with Shenmue ???  Is it because it's in English ?  Well if that's the case why not call it Shenmue International like they did with Sonic Adventure 1?  Anyway, this is just the God awful American dubbed version of Shenmue with it's grinding American voices (sorry to any Americans reading this but it really does sound awful, the Japanese version is a million times nicer to the ears)  So if you have played the Japanese version of Shenmue then stay clear from this.  I'd rather they had released the European version of Shenmue 2 with it's Japanese voices and English text instead of this trash.  Oh and this flopped like hell in Japan.  Looks like I'm not the only one who thought it was a stupid idea.