This game is rated PEGI 18 which restricts availability to ADULTS ONLY and is not suitable for anyone below this age. This rating has been given due to depictions of gross violence to humans, violence towards defenceless humans, depictions of sexual threat, use of sexual expletives, and moving images that encourage/teach games of chance. Not suitable for persons under 18 years of age.
Yakuza 4 picks up the story of Yakuza 3 one year later and takes the player back to Tokyo. The story starts when a man is shot to death in the ruling territory of the Tojo Clan, the organisation that has featured in all games in the series to date.