I played Hokuto Ga Gotoku it's good if you like Yakuza games. The bigger difference is that there is weight in Kens walking you have to press x so he runs and it was kinda cool, the combat is alright and I found it to be fun but simple it is more complex then soy of war/nu-god of war.
The few mini games are fun except for the racing which is kinda OK, not the best but could've been better since you are actually driving in to certain sections on the map to progress the story.
The story is alright, I kinda wish that the ratingsboard of Japan would've not fucked so much with the bloody scenes which there is allot of in the game where it's black and turns to red or red but turns to black.
But don't get the hopes up for it to be bloody and gory like the anime series, it's almost bloody but less bloody then the Yakuza games.
It might come to the west I don't think they are going to hire VO's, It's probably going to be a standard localization like they've done with the Yakuza games up until now. I've only played the localization of Yakuza 3 and 4 and the rest I've just played the Japanese version off.