Shenmue III
Shenmue III isn’t going to be at the top of every player’s wishlist for 2018, but fans of the older series will be clamoring to help out Ryo on his quest to find his father’s killer in 1980’s China. Currently slated for a Q3/Q4 2018 release, Ys Net still has time to polish things up and finish the game ahead of this release window. We’re not convinced they’ll make it, though.
Shenmue III shares something in common with a bunch of games that all got delayed, too. Yooka-Laylee? Delayed. Mighty No. 9? Delayed (and terrible). Star Citizen? Delayed so many times we’ve lost count. That’s right, Shenmue III was successfully Kickstarted following its reveal at Sony’s 2015 E3 conference. Huzzah for fans, I guess!
Unfortunately, though, Shenmue III has already been delayed out of its 2017 release window into that late 2018 release window we mentioned earlier. As the most-funded Kickstarter video game project of all time, Ys Net has some serious expectations to live up to, especially with this being the Shenmue series. Taking all of this into account, we wouldn’t be surprised to sadly see Shenmue III slip out of 2018 and fall back even further into the start of 2019. Here’s hoping we’re wrong, though.
