Easily one of the best 2012 releases I've played, if not the best. Meele Combat is where this game shines!!! <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/paQr8QmQyV4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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.
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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/
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
Loved the game, a tad too short though. Would love a sequel. Always bumped my head when this song came on: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/kOaSkMq1fEs?list=FLdjhdZAhO0vI348s5-g56gg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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 <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/guoJ82bJUEY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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...
