

You have to balance being a cop and a gangster. You are an undercover cop with the Sun On Yee triad gang. The main draw for me is the story it tells. Normally it's just cover shooting and lock on to enemies until they're dead. It doesn't feel 100% as smooth as it should, but it suffices for the missions you need it. The shooting combat is probably the weakest. This one is more strategic as some enemies you can only counter before damaging, or ones you can only grapple or land heavy attacks. The flow of the combat isn't as graceful as Batman as you're not really able to connect counter after counter together. But it goes deeper as you can almost do fighting game combos to fight enemies. There are counters that can be done when an enemy lights up and is about to hit. The combat is essentially a version of Arkham Asylum. The main focus of the action is fighting like you're in a Hong Kong action movie. There are a decent amount of missions with guns, but since it is Hong Kong, they're hard to come by in the open world. It focuses on fighting combat more than guns. I took some time away from it and started it up last week and I loved it! This isn't your typical open world city game. The combat was frustrating and I never felt like I was doing it right. When I first tried to play Sleeping Dogs, I did not like it. This is a very fun game with some good if not the most original story, cool open world and some dragon kicks moments that never got old. Overall, i finished "Sleeping Dogs" and had much more fun then i thought i would. But there isn't really what to do with the money itself in this game unfortunately - you can buy clothes, cars and some decorations for your room o flat. I liked the collectibles in game simply because they add to the game health, money. Although there isn't big car variety, its enough get make for some fun driving. Driving is much more fun then it was even in GTA 5 - and i loved GTA 5 totally. But what "Sleeping Dogs" in my opinion did much, much better then GTA is driving mechanics. Shooting mechanics were also solid, but i didn't get it what was wrong with weapons - one moment you have a gun, next time after you get in a car load a game - you don't. Fighting is a fun thing, i liked the whole kung fu" and that stuff.

City itself is a big enough but not to big - i liked it because you don't need to drive like 10 minutes from point A to point B. I liked many things in it - story, fighting, driving, voice acting, city. That said if you do not compare it with GTA series, "Sleeping Dogs" is a pure fun game. Given the reportedly 250 million $ budget of GTA5, "Sleeping Dogs" simply couldn't be better.

"Sleeping Dogs" (2012) is a game that can not be not mentioned in one sentence with GTA. I'm not done with this game yet! Graphics A Sound A Gameplay A+ Lasting Appeal A+ The game is liberal with trophies, and features loads of DLC on the PlayStation Network, including two new missions sets. The radio stations are not as humorous as GTA, but there are some nice tunes on there. Also there never any cars to hijack when you need them, meaning you'll have to run up the street hoping to block the way of a passing vehicle. I do have some complaints, like not being able to hail taxis and missing them every time you dash for them. Believe me, the game justifies the age restriction without ever seeming forced. There are a variety of missions including gunfights, fist fights, foot chases, car chases, boat chases, espionage, as well as multiple side missions and upgrades.
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It's full of clichés but is highly entertaining and never once boring. The game stars Wei Shen as an undercover cop raised in California who returns to Hong Kong to infiltrate the mob. So this really is the 'spiritual second sequel' to True Crime that we never got, and I have been accidentally referring to it as such. I later learned that it was actually planned as True Crime: Hong Kong, before Activision cancelled it and passed it over to Square Enix who continued to develop it as a new title. As I began to play I felt that the game was very similar to the True Crime games. It may lack the complete freedom of GTA IV (no flying vehicles available), which I guess is still considered the benchmark for open world video games even 5 years on, but Sleeping Dogs is far, far more refined with superior graphics and details, as well as featuring a much more likable protagonist. Sleeping Dogs is a lot of fun, and seriously addictive. In many ways GTA has been dethroned by this game.
