You can also just whip out a gun once you gain access to them and go to town, though third person shooting controls feel a bit clunky, and seemingly on purpose. If you’ve never experienced Arkham style combat before, you will have a steep learning curve, but it does become incredibly satisfying once you start getting the hang of it. Wei has no block, so he has to rely on dodging and a counter move for defense, which ends up changing combat from being a battle of attrition to a highly offensive dance where you figure out the patterns and moves of your enemies before they pulverize you. Unsurprisingly, the game takes a lot of notes from the Grand Theft Auto series, what with car theft, wanted meters, and a sandbox world to explore and screw around in, but there’s a lot more there in the details.įor one, it was clear the devs were inspired by Batman: Arkham Asylum, creating a similar fist to fist combat system based around rhythm. Square Enix then popped up and saved the project, turning it into a new IP. Sleeping Dogs has an interesting history to it, starting life as a new installment in the ambitious GTA-clone True Crime series, before it was canceled by Activision. He finds himself being pulled between a welcoming triad life and his duties as an agent of the law, and before things are done, there’s going to be a lot of bodies in the wake of his violent identity crisis.
The problem is that Wei is a man without a home, a cop who wants to do the right thing, yet has no real roots and a whole lot of rage over various past tragedies. However, he’s actually a cop, using his past connections to go undercover and help take down the organization. He joins back up with some of the old gang he ran with, now members of the Sun On Yee triad (a thinly veiled stand in for the actual Sun Yee On), aiming to climb the ranks and make a name for himself. You play as Wei Shen, a man originally from Hong Kong who moved to the states and has just now come back home. It’s odd that United Front Games, the people who brought you *checks notes* ModNation Racers managed to do that in 2012 with Square Enix’s “sleeper” hit (heh) Sleeping Dogs.
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