'But we can always mod existing games to fullfill our deepest dreams.' 'Have you ever wanted a Shenmue fighting game? You already know it won't happen, EVER!' Esppiral wrote in a post on.
It's pretty impressive work, as the screenshots, below, show. So, Jacky becomes Ryo, Akira is Lan Di and the Dojo stage is Shenmue's Dojo. The Dead or Alive Shenmue Edition mod was created by tinkerer Esppiral, who retextured a couple of the characters in the PC version of Koei Tecmo fighting game Dead or Alive 5 Last Round to look like characters from Shenmue.
The likelihood of Sega investing the millions of pounds it would take to create the Shenmue sequel the series' fans want gets less and less with each day.