The PS4 exclusive Yakuza 6 get a new trailer (Shenmue 3, please take notes)

Those cut-scenes were probably in engine, and probably running in real time too. I agree the actual gameplay didn't look nearly as impressive, but all they showed was the guys back and the environment was what appeared to be a rooftop. We'd have to see gameplay in a similar environment to the cuts cene to get a good idea of how close it comes to matching the cut-scene in graphics quality.

And even if the cutscenes were CGI, he'd still need an eyeball transplant.

I love yakuza but the gameplay barely changed since part 3.

They did mix it up with the different characters in 4. I personally much prefered fighting as Akiyama rather than Kazuma.

For the people expressing that there doesn't appear to be any progression or don't understand what fans are impressed by, have you guys actually played the older Yakuza games? Because you have loads of invisible walls (or obvious physical barriers) and your feet a bolted to the floor. Heck you can't even climb ladders or anything or interact with the environment in any way at all (if there is a ladder to climb to exit an area there's no animation. Just fade to black). They are very PS2-era style games in that regard.

What this trailer shows is a similar progression to the way Resident Evil 4 introduced a load of context sensitive environmental interactions allowing the players to climb, jump, clamber, shimmey, roll, crawl around their environment all without leaving the gameworld or relinquishing control over to a long cutscene/loading animation.

In a world where the influences of Assassin's Creed and Mirror's Edge have seeped into every game that might not be impressive, but this is the first time Yakuza has done it. It would be like if a Mario game introduced advanced physics-based destructible cover or something.