Sleeping Dogs that is. This title was originally True Crime : Hong Kong and I'm really glad Activition dropped it, so that some other more talented developer/publish combo could do something with it.
First and foremost I have to stress this is not a Grand Theft Auto clone at all, it honestly doesn't even feel that sand boxy either. While GTA focuses more on the weapons SD focuses more on hand to hand combat, yeah theres tire irons and guns, but its more batman arkham then Nico liberty city.
One little hidden extra AWESOME bonus? If you have a Just Cause 2 savegame on your hard drive, you get to wear Rico's outfit, which lets you stunt hijack from further away and looks baller as fuck.
The game is not much of a challenge, you'll die more from getting stuck or your car losing control far more often then from enemies. Out side of the main story its still a grind fest and an item hunt. One thing this game does right for the item hunt is give you ways to unlock all the locations on your map. The only bad part about that is the found (light grey) and not found (dark white) icons look almost exactly the same. Even after beating the game I still lacked the money to buy all the cars and clothes and enough "triad" experience to get that achievement, which is why Im prety much going to be locked at 770 cheevie points instead of 1000.
Theres also "real world" events that you just happen to come across, unfortunately I didnt find them all and I cant really be bothered to walk around an entire city and hope I meet the unknown magical conditions for triggering them. A neat idea but the execution is just a bit off.
All in all its still a good game, was worth the $40 I spent on it, its like a GTA with less guns, less walking, less humor, but more quick time button mashing.
~Malenko
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