Developer: United Front Games , Square Enix London Studios
Publisher: Square Enix , Namco Bandai Games (AUS)
Platform: Microsoft Windows , PlayStation 3 , Xbox 360
Release date: NA August 14, 2012 , AUS August 16, 2012 , EU August 17, 2012 , JP TBA 2012
Genre: Action, Open world
Mode: Single-player
Gameplay:
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The core gameplay of Sleeping Dogs consists of giving the player a open world environment in which to move around freely. Sleeping Dogs is played as an over-the-shoulder, third-person perspective action-adventure game. The player controls police officer Wei Shen as he goes undercover and infiltrate the Triad organization called Sun On Yee. On foot, the player character has the additional ability to walk, run, jump, climb over obstacles and swim, as well as use weapons and perform basic hand to hand combat. Players are also capable of driving a variety of vehicles, including automobiles, boats and motorcycles.
The combat system heavily revolves around hand-to-hand fighting with strong influences from Batman: Arkham Asylum/City's "Freeflow" combat system. The driving segments have been inspired by the Need for Speed series, with several developers having worked on previous Need for Speed titles. If the player is riding a motorcycle, Wei has the ability to jump onto a moving vehicle.
Although storyline missions are necessary to progress through the game and unlock certain content and parts of the city, they are not required, as players can complete them at their own leisure. When not attempting a storyline mission, players can free-roam, giving them the ability to do activities. Side missions such as participating in street races can keep the player occupied for hours. There are also stores within the game that Wei Shen can purchase new clothing from, which give him various bonuses. As suits will increase Face, gang attire adds Triad Xp, the same applies to police uniforms: increasing Police Xp.
Sleeping Dogs will feature three different XP stats, Triad XP, Face XP, and Police XP. The more Triad XP a player has, the more brutal equipment and abilities he can access and unlock throughout the game. With more Face XP, the player has more respect, and is granted access to more important people. The more Police XP the player earn, the better police equipment and abilities you can access and unlock throughout the game.
Sleeping Dogs features online stats and leaderboards to compare scores with friends, however, there will be no multiplayer component to the game.
Has potential but the combat smacks of (which may not be a bad thing tbh)
the unique thing about that game was that you used the right analog stick for 360° fighting, the other game i know of that did this was the nina williams tekken spin off.
both games were deeply flawed but this combat system made them unique and fun to play imo, it just made you feel like a badass being surrounded by enemies and parrying/countering their attacks from all sides by simply flicking the right analog stick in that direction.
I dont understand why people aren't more hyped about this game. It looks great!
I'll buy one game at the end of this month and this will be Darksiders II. Don't get me wrong, Sleeping Dogs looks good and all, but i'm kinda bored from these open world games.
Yep i prefer to be able to use XBL always and didn't have flashed console anymore. So cannot try everything.
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