But the open world feels like Batman: Arkham City, the combat feels as good as a fighting game, the driving is as good as a Need for Speed, and the story is every bit as rich as compelling as a Mass Effect. You play an undercover cop who starts to feel mixed loyalties. There’s clearly a lot of inspiration from The Departed and Infernal Affairs. The acting, the story, the characters are very deep. “The scale and scope of the game really encompasses all of everything you’d want to do in Hong Kong. “This game is just fantastic,” Fischer said. That enables you to unlock new privileges. Sleeping Dogs allows the player to earn different kinds of experience points: Triad XP, Face XP, and Police XP. Wei Shen can buy clothing in stores, and if the duds are good, he gets more respect, or “Face XP,” points that help him rise up in the gang. You can also get Wei Shen to date women in the game, though I didn’t have time for this. You can brawl all you want, but if your health sinks low enough, you’re dead. You can go into karaoke clubs, gambling dens and bet on cockfights. You can fulfill the missions or just explore. Then you can smash the window, toss out the driver, and get behind the wheel. You can ride a motorcycle and then jump onto another moving vehicle.

The variety of game play is an attraction.

The shooting game works pretty well, but you can’t just stand out in the open and hope to survive. Finally, I had to get out and fight the cops on foot. My car lost its hood and had its tires shot out. Then I hopped in a car and went driving the wrong way down a street, crashing into multiple bystanders and hitting cars. Then I had to take on two guys, then three, then four and so on. At first, I took on one guy, punching and kicking him until he went down. You play in third-person mode, looking over the shoulder of Shen as you perform flying kicks. In the level I played, I had to drive to the local Fight Club and learn how to take down enemies with martial artistry. Six months later, Square Enix picked up the publishing rights and renamed it Sleeping Dogs. But because of delays and cost overruns, the company canceled it in 2011. He gets sucked all the way in,Īctivision announced the game as True Crime: Hong Kong in 2009. In the story, Shen has to question his own sense of ethics and self as he has to engage in crimes in order to win the respect of the Son On Yee triad’s leadership. It’s like a Chinese version of Grand Theft Auto, where you can shoot anything that moves if you like. The game combines the open world of a realistically depicted Hong Kong with the cinematic action story about Wei Shen, an undercover cop who has to pretend he’s a criminal in order to take down a Hong Kong triad (crime family) from the inside. Three top investment pros open up about what it takes to get your video game funded.

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