Sleeping Dogs is an exceptional Action/Adventure that raises the bar for the genre.
90
Verdict
94%
Steam
82
IGDB
Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Very Positive on Steam (94% positive from 17K reviews)
Critically acclaimed (82/100 critic average)
Compelling narrative and story
Rich open world to explore
No significant drawbacks reported
Sleeping Dogs is a 2012 action-adventure game developed by United Front Games and published by Square Enix. The game was released for PlayStation 3, Windows, and Xbox 360 in August 2012. Set in contemporary Hong Kong, the story follows Wei Shen, a Hong Kong-American police officer and martial artist who goes undercover and infiltrates the Sun On Yee Triad organization. Gameplay focuses on Shen's martial arts moves, fighting, shooting and parkour abilities, and on gadgets that can be used for combat and exploration. The player must complete missions to unlock content and continue the story, but they may instead freely roam the game's open world environment and engage in both legal and criminal activities. The latter may incite a police response, the intensity of which is controlled by a "heat" system. Actions such as fighting, driving and racing grant Shen statistical rewards and earn the player achievements.
Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 2d ago
Think this was the first PC game I remember playing and actually finishing years ago. Might be my favourite game of this style (GTA Style open world etc) The world is so compact and alive in comparison to other games and is exactly why you prioritise quality over quantity. Also the combat system is fantastic and guns are rare.
Fantastic game! Loved the setting, story, gameplay and vibes. Brings you in with enough familiarity but definitely does its own thing and does it all very well.
gta set in hk with better melee combat i remember wet surfaces in this game looking weirdly realistic for its time and the potato i was running this on
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