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Sleeping Dogs – The road that the Sleeping Dogs game had to go through before it was officially “on shelves” is full of troubles.
First announced by Activision under the name True Crime: Hong Kong, the game is seen as a follow-up to the True Crime series, used to rival the famous Grand Theft Auto franchise from Rockstar.
Sadly, the game was quickly abandoned by the publisher while it was still “pregnant” and then gradually fell into oblivion.
It was only until Square Enix officially acquired the title that the Sleeping Dogs title came into being.
Going through a full road, finally, on August 17, 2012, Square Enix officially released Sleeping Dogs.
Coming to Sleeping Dogs, we will experience a completely new Hong Kong!
In Sleeping Dogs, you will play Wei Shen – an Asian American undercover cop.
Returning to Hong Kong after living in the US for many years, Wei Shen was assigned by the Hong Kong police to infiltrate the Sun On Yee – a notorious Triangular Association in Hong Kong.
Wei Shen has worked hard to gain attention and gradually climb to higher positions in the guild, and at the same time gather important information to provide police without revealing his identity.
However, through many days working in Sun On Yee, a conflict arose in the heart of Wei Shen between being a real policeman and being a brother in the Three Huangs Association.
He questioned himself about loyalty, his earlier conception of justice and goodness.
Like other open-world action games, Sleeping Dogs allows the player to participate in a variety of missions.
Due to the nature of Wei Shen’s work, missions in the game are divided into two main types, duties of the Three Huangs Association and missions from the Hong Kong police.
Players can choose to do the missions to collect witnesses against the Three Huangs of the underground police or participate in Sun On Yee’s activities to increase their reputation.
The plot of Sleeping Dogs is linear, so the order in which you perform quests will not affect the story.
Besides the main missions, Sleeping Dogs also offers a variety of other side quests.
Wei Shen can help the police arrest drug exchanges, help people arrest and robbers, or simply… take a photo for a pedestrian.
All of these tasks intertwine with the main task, creating a daily life for Wei Shen.
Not only that, but Sleeping Dogs also provides players with a lot of stores scattered throughout the island.
Players can buy cars, clothes or stop at a corner just to… eat a dumpling, drink a can of energy drinks.
All of these services can increase stats such as strength, healing speed, and experience gained for Wei Shen over a while.
Besides, Wei Shen can … go to karaoke at bars or participate in street racing.
Each side quest is like a mini-game for the player.
However, the challenge of those missions is not small.
The unique feature of Sleeping Dogs lies in the experience points calculation.
Through quests, Wei Shen will increase his own experience.
In Sleeping Dogs, experiences are divided into three categories: Triad, Cop, and Face.
Triad and Cop will be received when you perform main missions, depending on the type of quest, the experience amount of Triad and Cop will vary.
Also, during quests, dueling enemies can increase the amount of Triad gained, while avoiding collisions with pedestrians and facilities will increase the number of Cops earned.
If the player tends to be violent, breaking the rules, Wei Shen will receive more Triad points.
Increasing the level of Triad and Cop will help Wei Shen open up more martial arts, as well as tricks.
Besides, Wei Shen will receive Face points when participating in side quests, from car theft to help the brothers in Sun On Yee.
Increasing the level of Face allows players to “unlock” more genuine clothes and cars.
Mini-games scattered throughout the city like racing, betting, karaoke, martial arts, and many more will also help Wei Shen gain Face and money.
With a huge number of side quests, Sleeping Dogs requires players a large amount of time to be able to complete the entire game.
It can be said that Sleeping Dogs is like a typical martial arts action film typically seen in Hong Kong.
In the game, players will have many opportunities to fight martial arts while on missions.
Wei Shen’s way of controlling the main character as well as counter-attacks are familiar to fans of Warner Bros. ‘Batman: Arkham series. That we have known through the versions: Batman: Arkham Asylum, Batman: Arkham City, Batman: Arkham Origins, Batman: Arkham Knight.
Not only punching and kicking, but players can also “teach” Wei Shen to use combos through leveling up Triad and Cop.
Another unique feature of Sleeping Dogs is the “bullet-time” mode for Wei Shen whenever he jumps over from cover.
At that time, every action around Wei Shen seemed to slow down, allowing him to be able to handle his surroundings more gently and neatly.
The graphics of Sleeping Dogs are quite well designed. Hong Kong in Sleeping Dogs has been faithfully recreated.
A Hong Kong in the early 21st century was vividly reconstructed with every row of houses, street corners, stalls as well as traffic on the road designed elaborately and meticulously.
In terms of sound, Hong Kong-inspired music plays every time you start on a mission or sit in a car and listen to the radio.
The number of tracks is also very diverse and suitable for the task Wei Shen is performing.
The voice cast is also carefully selected with the participation of many famous stars through action movies such as James Hong, Lucy Liu, Kelly Hu, etc., and especially the presence of “trouble guy” – Edison Chen.
With their skillful acting skills, have done a great job in the game, expressing the characters’ emotions through typical Hong Kong-mixed English-Cantonese dialogues.
Besides the splendid images of Hong Kong in the early 21st century, Sleeping Dogs still has some defects in the graphics.
The characters’ overly rough expressions in all situations somewhat reduced the interest of the player.
Although the “bullet-time” mode introduced into Sleeping Dogs makes Wei Shen’s gunshots unique, it is a pity that the game does not take advantage of this.
The number of times of using guns is quite small is a limitation that the player has not really “already” and reduces the choice of Wei Shen to fight.
Apparently, Sleeping Dogs wanted to “encourage” players to practice barehanded martial arts rather than using guns to take the lives of enemies.
where can you get a Sleeping Dogs online
Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition- PlayStation 4: Buy it now
Sleeping Dogs – Playstation 3: Buy it now
Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition /ps4: Buy it now
Sleeping Dogs – Platinum Hits (Xbox 360): Buy it now
