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Julian McKenzie

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13 September 2002:
The redesign is up!
Woohoo, lots of hard work was put into this, so I hope you enjoy it. There are some slight updates as well:

There is a new poll as well now. The question is "What are you most excited about the Xbox release?". Check it out on the right column.

Another Shenmue I guide book has been added.
There are probably some more small updates I made whilst changing the site as well, but never mind.
I have more updates planned, so when I get time, look out for more. You will notice that there is a new Artwork section, but it is empty. This is under construction and will hopefully be the most complete archive of Shenmue artwork, both handdrawn and computer generated, on the web.

1 September 2002:
The Niao Sun page has been updated, although maybe she should be called Chonghua now. The credits pic featuring her from Shenmue II has been added as has an image of her for Japanese mobile phones.
Regarding the site redesign, well, I haven't progressed. The site will be split into more sections to make navigation easier, there is far too much under "General" right now. When the redesign is up, there will be a new poll as well. I'm also working on compiling the biggest collection of official Shenmue artwork to display on this site as well which I will start putting up once it has been compiled. A few other new pages will be added after the site is redesigned.

30 August 2002:
Well, there's updates and big site news. I'll guess I'll do the site news first. I'm redesigning the site, so it looks much nicer. A test page is up now, click here to see the test. Tell me what you think of the design of the test page by emailing me or by signing the guestbook. Now onto the updates:

Firstly, two plot analysis of the Shenmue series are up on the Fan Creation page. Go check them out, they are very interesting, if very long, reads.

Secondly, there is a new review of Shenmue II up. The old one contained lots of spoilers so this should solve that issue. Click here to read the review.

28 August 2002:
I've updated the Shenmue II notebook with more notes from disc 1 and at the end.

27 August 2002:
The Music section has been updated as follows.

First of, following the exclusive sheet music we have for the Shenmue theme, we now have the sheet music for the other main song, the Sha Hua theme. So if you can play piano or read music be sure to check these out. They are both available by clicking here.

Secondly, a new midi has been added to the selection already avaliable. It is a remix of the Shenmue theme made by myself. I actually made it months ago but forgot to upload it. You can hear the new midi and the old by loading the midi player by clicking on the button to your right. You can also now download the midis in a zip file by going to the Fan Creation page.

If you have any stories/music/artwork or anything else that you have made yourself, please feel free to contribute to our Fan Creation section by emailing me your creation.

20 August 2002:
It has been confirmed by Microsoft that Shenmue II will be released on the 6th November for the Xbox.
Also, Microsoft has said that the game will include the Shenmue: The Movie DVD, which is the same as the current Japanese DVD, with both English and Japanese voices.
The Xbox site has the press release and new movies promos for the game and the movie

10 August 2002:
NEWS, news and news, oh, it's about the Xbox version.

Shenmue II on the Xbox has now been confirmed for release in both Europe and Japan as well as America. The European release date is currently set at 6th December 2002.

No American release date has been announced, but several large retailers state a 5th November date. No word on the Japanese date yet though.

The Prima strategy guide for Shenmue II will come out on the 1st November, just before the game is set to hit stores. Here is the front cover.

Microsoft recently held an event in New York called X02. Shenmue II was featured and there was a playable demo of some bits from the start of Shenmue II, with cut-scenes, a QTE and a free battle. More information has been released about the "snapshots" feature of the game. You can take pictures in-game whenever you want which will be saved to the hard-drive. Various filters such as black and white and sepia can be used for these snapshots, or apparantely for the whole game itself. Also, the game is set to only feature the English voices, not the Japanese ones as well. The game is set to be contained only on a single Xbox DVD-rom. Click here to view Gamespots hands on coverage of the game, including hands-on coverage from the X02 event, new movies of the playable demo from the event and many new screenshots.

6 August 2002:
First update in weeks. I've got loads to add and lots of design changes here and there. If I get my act together it will get done soon. Onto the updates.

The Trivia page has been added to.

The CD Cards in the merchandise page have been added to and they have turned out to be screensavers. If anyone out there has any Shenmue merchandise and can tell us more info about it, then please email me.

There is also a new poll on the right, the question is "If the Shenmue games ended, how would you like the series to continue?". Last time, most of you said you would prefer a pre-Shenmue FREE style game.

23 July 2002:
This site finally has a poll! It can be viewed in the right column, under the Midi Player and random quotes. The poll will be changed every week or so. The first question is, "what Shenmue spin-off game would you like to see?"

22 July 2002:
Ever since this site was launched, there have been people asking me for the piano music for the Shenmue theme. Finally, the Shenmue Legend can bring you the sheet music. It contains only the tune and the chords, not the actual piano part played in any of the versions of the song. It was simply worked out and written down by me. Click here to view the music for the Shenmue theme.

20 July 2002:
The merchandise page has had a long awaited huge update. A quick list of what's been added: telephone cards, pens, straps, CD cases, stamps/clocks, postcards, clear files, CD cards, and mouse pads.

19 July 2002:
The first of the promised updates! Hurrah. Well, this page has been mostly completed for almost 6 weeks now, so I finally got around to finishing it. You may remember that I made, a couple of months ago, a page displaying all the covers for the games. This has been scrapped and in its place is a Shenmue Releases page. This page has a quick gallery of the cover of every single official Shenmue release on disc so far. Unbelievably, there are 17 items featured from all 3 regions and ranging from games to soundtracks to DVDs. The page gives information about the release date and contents for the products as well as a few images of the products themselves. Even if you think you are a Shenmue fan, there may be one or two products in there which you might not of heard about. Enjoy.

19 July 2002:
It's been awhile, so I thought a quick news update wouldn't go amiss. I have updates planned, hopefully I'll get enough time to be able to make them.

The Official Xbox Shenmue site now has a preview movie available for streaming for high and low bandwidth users. The site also contains some new information and screenshots. According to the site, Shenmue II will contain chapters 2 through 6, although I don't know how accurate this is. Click here to go to the site.

Shenmue.com has had a small feature showing game screenshots that were cut out of Shenmue II, they seem quite interesting, although they are only in Japanese. Click here to go to it.

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Copyright 2001, 2002 Julian McKenzie

Copyright 2001, 2002
Julian McKenzie