What Sleeping Dogs does best is recreate the excitement – and yes, over-the-top destruction – of good action movies. … firing from a car (rail shooting has never been this much fun!)… In between missions, there are other diversions available – special mention goes to a hilarious karaoke minigame (watch Wei during guitar solos, but make sure you don’t have anything in your mouth) – but speed and violence generally dominate the side quests, too.
The typical mission will involve pretty much every variation on these themes: Wei might drive to a target’s lair, disembark to beat up a first wave of guards, grab a gun to deal with a second wave of guards, jump into a car to pursue his escaping quarry, and finally jump from car to car in mid-chase to reach his foe. You chase them on foot (think the opening parkour sequence of Casino Royale) and in cars you fight with fists, feet, and occasionally, firearms. Specifically, Sleeping Dogs’ gameplay revolves around two activities: chasing rival mobsters, and pulverising them once you catch up. … firing from behind cover (NOTE: shooting without aiming works better with a shotgun)… However, the key to Sleeping Dogs is that it’s not a homage to thrillers – it’s a homage to action flicks. This premise has been mined many times before for its dramatic potential, with the most obvious parallel being 2002 Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs.
Enter Sleeping Dogs, United Front Games’ open-world extravaganza, which casts the player as undercover cop Wei Shen, tasked to infiltrate the most powerful crime syndicate in Hong Kong.
None had premises that appealed to me – until now. I must be one of the few gamers out there not to have played Grand Theft Auto, or any of the other modern-day, open-world, crime-themed games that it spawned.
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