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As Wei Shen, an undercover cop trying to take down the Triads, you'll have to fight your way up the organization without blowing your cover.
Sleeping Dogs is a open world, action and martial arts game
developed by United Front Games
and published by Square Enix.
It's available only on Windows
in 7 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Russian and Polish.
It has received 17,084 reviews of which 16,134 were positive and 950 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍
The game is not available on Steam.
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- OS *: Windows Vista Service Pack 2
- Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Althon X2 2.7 GHz
- Memory: 2GB
- Hard Disk Space: 15GB
- Video Card: DirectX 10 or 11 compatible Nvidia or AMD ATI card, ATI Radeon 3870 or higher, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or higher
- DirectX®: 10
- Sound: DirectX compatible sound card
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Story The story for this game might be what pulls me more, among many open world gta like games, this game takes the concept of it and puts an undercover cop in the situation of a criminal, this creates a lot of conflict in your character that makes the game that much more interesting. The main story is really compelling, and the side missions are mostly good with some repetitive ones in the middle. Gameplay This game plays like any other GTA like game, giving you freedom to roam around hong kong, although it focuses much less in weapon combat and much more in physical combat, and at any point in the game you either find yourself -- driving somewhere / Being chased / racing This isn't too bad as the driving in this game is surprisingly fun, the controls are a bit too fast on the turns and sometimes there are turns you really think you could make but can't for some reason. But the fun part comes from trying to not hit anything (the game rewards this), and drifting to try and achieve this. Also the mechanism of the hijacking moving vehicles is a fun take. -- Fighting thugs The combat system in this game is not something out of this world and although it has some stiffness at times, it is mostly fluid allowing you to move from one combo to another pretty good, the main issue I see here is the enemy variety, although you get tougher enemies towards the end of the game, they play almost exactly the same as the beggining of the game. The main good point here is that there are many creative ways of killing your enemies with the environment and that brings the needed variety into the combat. The weapon combat is also surprisingly good, I like the cover mechanics and the slow motion after a vault makes you feel really good, but it is quite unbalanced as the weapon combat is very easy and you really feel like a god compared to your enemies. -- Minigames Across the game there are collectibles or other tasks that require you to play a minigame ( Hacking and such) these are present throughout the whole playthrough and although they seem good at first, these minigames get very repetitive, the one good thing is that none of them take that long to complete so it isn't as big of a pain as it could be. -- Cutscenes Again as I have said before the story is what pulled me more into the game, and I find that the cutscenes are very well constructed and pull you into the game with them, immersing you into the story Personal Notes -- Collectibles I never really like when a game has a lot of collectibles to catch, I think the statues collectibles are a good kind of example where they are in kind of unmissable spots around the world and provide you with a good way to feel your character evolve, be it in the moves your character gains with them, or just the new location you've just visited to get that statue. But the other collectibles I feel don't add that much except just a need to get them all, and because they show up on the mini map they make me be glued to the mini map checking if any of them appear. -- Break of Immersion There were two main things that broke my immersion into this game, one them was bugs, for a game this old it is expected to have some, but the fact that people stop talking when I hit my car and then don't continue where they left off took me alway a little bit out, and even more so when I was interested in what they were saying, and another thing is the voice acting, for most of the game the voice acting is mid/good but there are some instances where it really messes with you, these can make for funny interactions or for more immersion breaking interactions. -- Achievements This is really a personal one, as I want to have 100% achievements in all games I play, so when a game makes me buy the DLC to get the 100% achievements it always leaves me a little bit mad -- Humor The game has a great sense of humor and I found myself laughing quite often TLDR OVerall the game is good, so I recommend it, don't expect any master piece, but it is a good experience with some good stroy and some good mechanics, although it also has its flaws
Don't let the hours fool you. I played the whole game on my PS4 a few years back. I was a massive fan of the True Crime series before Square Enix picked up the rights and changed it to the game we know and love today. The games story was solid overall. I mainly enjoyed the hand to hand combat and try to do as much as possible. The Hong Kong setting was sweet too. It's a shame we never got a sequel to this. If you never played this, I highly suggest you do so.
I ain´t gonna sugarcoat it... open worlds games from the early 2010s era have not aged quite good in my opinion. Sadly I feel the same about the open world of Sleeping Dogs. Even after saying this, It is so sad that this franchise never got the chance to flourish. It was never meant to be a GTA killer, but I do think that with only this game, they showed this franchise could have been the closest any saga has ever been to attract similar audiences as GTA. Saldy, this is the one and only game. The whole story and narrative surrounding this game is not only awesome, but has so much more potential for telling new stories... an undercover cop, familiar with organised crime, who has to balance his loyalties and discover treasons, betrayals, loyalties, unexpected aliances and even friendships along his job. In this specific title I think is what shines the most, and coudl in 2026 be the one reason to remember this game. The combat on itself is servicable in terms of 3D person shooters, and not a batman arkham in melee combat, but still really satisfactory and vibrant throughout the entirety of the game. Driving on itself feels nice too, and like I said, these have their flaws for modern eyes, but it was quite solid for its release date. I think this game could have opened to an actual fully functional IP, similar to the Mafia series. Old fashioned stories, buy one-time product, and a solid experience overall if you like the concept and this kind of games. Its just so sad that it never got a sequel, because in all the things that it did right there was so much more potential for future games to improve in minor ways to make it something INCREDIBLE. But this is a piece of history, a gem of its time that went underapriciated and could have been so much more.
I played this game 13 years after its original release. Taking that into account the game is pretty good. Story is what really stands out. The gameplay is pretty generic for today's standards, but for 2012 i am sure they were at the top of their game. Even saying that it did not stop me from enjoying the game.
Great game, goes by the western interpration of "rule of cool" so the over-the-top sequences are still very satisfying but grounded in reality. The larger-than-life interpretation from eastern games and media is not nearly as enticing to me, so this is such a breath of fresh air to me. The gameplay is fun with optional depth. Combat isn't very hard or punishing but it feels really good to do the environmental executions. Technically speaking, it looks VERY good even today. It looks amazing for the time, too. That being said, it's unstable as hell. From mid-game and onward I had a lot of crashes and quite a few soft-locks. Thankfully the game saves frequently and after major events so there's very little data lost; only annoyance. !!! PARTIAL SPOILER !!!! And much like Tekken 8 Season 2, the game was clearly rushed at the end of its development. You can easily tell from how the story develops at the end; character and relationship dynamics change so abruptly and suddenly to neatly wrap things up. That was the one disappointing thing about it because I thought the story was going to end differently but it just completely dropped an entire aspect that made the story so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ interesting in the last handful missions. The most disappointing thing about this game is that it's the only and final successor to True Crime. But oh well, these things happen.
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Frequently Asked Questions
No, Sleeping Dogs is not available on Steam.
Sleeping Dogs is not available on Steam yet.
Yes, Sleeping Dogs received 16,134 positive votes out of a total of 17,084 achieving an impressive rating of 9.21.
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Sleeping Dogs was developed by United Front Games and published by Square Enix.
Yes, Sleeping Dogs is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Sleeping Dogs is not playable on MacOS.
No, Sleeping Dogs is not playable on Linux.
Sleeping Dogs is a single-player game.
Yes, there are 25 DLCs available for Sleeping Dogs. Explore additional content available for Sleeping Dogs on Steam.
No, Sleeping Dogs does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Sleeping Dogs does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Sleeping Dogs is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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