The designers are keenly – and wisely – aware that skill-based brawling is one of their game’s key differentiators. Gunplay grows in frequency as the game progresses, but projectile weapons aren’t the focus. Thugs crowd around Shen, forcing players to expertly time blocks, grapples, and combination attacks that include cinematic roundhouse kicks and creative use of the environment as Shen rams enemies’ heads into speakers and brings store shutters crashing down onto their backs. However, unlike other games in the category, combat is centred largely on kung fu-style fisticuffs. Like other action games of its ilk, the player’s time is divided between driving through crowded city streets in a variety of cars, vans, and motorcycles, and exploring the world on foot, where you can find all sorts of side mischief to get into, such as hacking security networks, shopping for new duds, and buying “massages” from shady women (sadly, exploitative sexual shenanigans of one form or another seem requisite in these sorts of games).
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Hong Kong’s distinctively distinctive Asian flair – decidedly unlike the American settings found in the Grand Theft Auto and Saints Row series (just driving on the left side of the road will feel a bit exotic to most Canadians) – helps give Sleeping Dogs its own rich personality. Players are thrust into the role of undercover cop Wei Shen, a hard man tasked to infiltrate the thoroughly seedy morass of the Hong Kong underworld a collection of dragon-tattooed musclemen who fancy themselves something akin to Bruce Lee.Īmong the game’s primary draws is the city in which it’s set. In the event you skipped this one when it originally arrived back in 2012, what you missed was a Hong Kong action film in the guise of an open-world crime game.
The expression “warts and all” leaps to mind. It collects all of the game’s considerable post-release content – including a trio of story-driven add-ons – in one convenient place, which is laudable. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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