Fans of Yakuza could soon have another avenue in which to sate their desire for crime-hued soap opera and sudden-onset absurdity, thanks to a new effort to adapt Sega's long-running video game series for the movie screen.

That's according to Variety, which reports that Sega has teamed up with US companies 1212 Entertainment and Wild Sheep Content in order to create a new live-action Yakuza film.

Few details have been shared about Yakuza's big screen effort, but 1212 say the series "offers us a new playground in which to set compelling stories with complex characters in a unique environment that audiences have rarely seen before".

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A surprise - but a genuinely good one! As a series debut for the franchise on PC, I went into Yakuza 0 not really knowing what to expect, especially considering the dubious history of many late-arriving PC ports - but Sega has delivered here. As you might expect, the port doesn't deliver a massive improvement over the existing PlayStation 4 game, but what it does offer up is scalabilty in both resolution and frame-rate and some small but welcome extras. Whether you're looking to game at 120Hz or on 4K or ultrawide displays, Yakuza 0 has you covered.

Right off the bat, the game makes itself known that it is not messing around. 'Real Yakuza use a gamepad,' thunders an early intro screen. Thankfully that is not a warning - it's just the developers having a little fun. Mouse and keyboard controls are there and whether it's in-game response or menu navigation, it's more than serviceable - though the rhythm action sub-games can be challenging without a pad. Beyond that, the only complaint is that using the mouse occasionally causes a pointer to appear on-screen - somewhat annoying, but not disastrous.

In terms of graphics options, there is a nice amount of customisation available - and more than I expected, to be honest. Beyond resolution options - which do query Windows for supported modes - arbitrary refresh rates up to 240Hz are supported, though a meaty CPU is required if you want to really get the most out of a high frequency display. Running this title at 60fps on a decent gaming PC is no problem, but even a top-end Ryzen 7 can't lock to 120fps in all scenes.

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