[United Front Games] Sleeping Dogs

I heard this was the sequel to True Crime series?

 

More or less a True Crime game. Started as original IP, then Activision changed it into a True Crime game because who wants a new IP? While in development, Activision cancelled the game because it wasn't CoD/WoW/etc. (i.e., didn't have as good of a profit margin). Square-Enix picked it up, but didn't have rights to the True Crime name, so it became Sleeping Dogs.

Does seem like a really nice game. Impressed by what little I've seen of the PC version.

 

Movie looks awesome.

 

http://www.nowgamer.com/news/2109857/sleeping_dogs_2_in_the_works.html

 

I bought it at launch for all of the cool TF2 items that came bundled with it. Ended up loving it. It is like a GTA set in China. If you can pick it up for cheap on Steam, I highly recommend it!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/202170/‎

 

It's free to download on Xbox until the 15th BTW. Haven't played it yet though.

 

TRUE! Here's the link to download it. If you have Xbox Live Gold, just choose the "Buy for $19.99" and confirm on the next page, where it will show as "free."

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Sleeping-Dogs/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80253510811

 

I can actually play this more then GTA 5

 

Loved the game, a tad too short though. Would love a sequel.
Always bumped my head when this song came on:

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I'm going to play this again.
This game was fun, but I stopped playing because my system sucked ass.
Now that I dropped some cash on a new build I'm going to play the **** out of this game.

 

Funny this thread popped up. I've been playing this lately after picking it up on Steam during the holidays for $5.

It's a really great game. As mentioned is basically GTA in Hong Kong. And the combat system is basically from the Batman series. It definitely achieves it's goal of playing like a Hong Kong mob movie. I'm actually pretty eager to see how the story ends, I'm probably 2/3 through so far.

It reminds me of the Young and Dangerous movies of anyone is familiar.

 

Good call on this one. I lost interest in it after the change from True Crime to Sleeping Dogs. Read some pretty bad previews about the gameplay. Downloaded the demo a few months back and promptly deleted it.
I actually saw it was free a few hours ago and still didn't have any interest. Reading some of your comments peaked my interest. Needless to say, I downloaded it an hour ago and I'm pretty impressed. Like someone said it's like GTA set in China.

Sidenote: Games like this always make me wish Sega finally comes through with Shenmue 3 lol

Shen-mue 2 was definitely a classic....a lot of walking, cheesy character dialogue, and button mashing but still a classic lol

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Tsk, tsk.... I got it for free from Xbox live...

It's quite an addictive game, with engaging characters to boot...

Spoiler

I should've seen that conversational drive with the "soon to be bride" as an emotional setup - though I did suspect something terrible might happen when "the wedding" became an integral checkpoint... She was such a sweet young woman, I still held out hope that it'd result as no more than a momentary reprieve in an otherwise intense sequence of events... Up till the very end, I assumed her screaming was due to her soon-to-be groom dying in her arms, not the other way around...