Sleeping Dogs Looks Like the Shiny, Vulgar Hong Kong Gangster Video Game I've Been Waiting For
By Dr. Eleanor Vance | Published on January 01, 0001
I got to play a video game that came back from the dead and feel pretty hopeful about its resurrection. That’s because Sleeping Dogs might just fulfill a very specific desire of mine, which is to play through a video game that takes its cues from the movies of, say, Johnnie To or Chan-Wook Park. Desperation, vengeance and duty all come together in hypnotic fashion u31.com เข้าสู่ระบบ when you watch a crime thriller from countries like Hong Kong or Korea and the recipe for crazy action is one that’s ripe for translation into video games. For all its stylized gunplay, the buggy Stranglehold didn’t scratch that itch for me, no matter if John Woo worked on it. So I’ve been waiting, patiently, for something that will. Sleeping Dogs started life as True Crime Hong Kong—developed by Vancouver-based United Front—and was unveiled to the world in a splashy fashion during the 2010 Spike Video Game Awards. Despite that high-profile reveal, Activision unceremoniously scuttled that game. Square Enix acquired the title last year and has been hyping it with gritty mini-movies meant to evoke the Asian crime cinema oeuvre up that the game’s drawing on. https://kotaku.com/true-crime-gets-a-new-name-lets-sleeping-dogs-lie-5883288 The two levels I recently played definitely could’ve been outtakes from an Infernal Affairs movie. One starts in the kitchen of a bustling restaurant as lead character Wei’s getting orders to pound on some fool who’s run afoul of the mob boss he’s working for. As I steered the undercover cop through a frantic foot-chase in Hong Kong’s chaotic crowded streets, I hurtled food stands, scrambled up neon signs and jumped across rooftops. This city felt alive in a different way. Catching up to my target, I then had to face waves of thugs from his rival gang. The fighting felt responsive and came across with a brutality that surprised me. Another sequence I played had Wei street-racing against another Hong Kong wise guy with two girls along for the ride. It’s here that I need to say that Sleeping Dogs isn’t going to be a revolutionary game. The fighting recalls the one-button fisticuffs of Rocksteady’s Batman games, explained by the fact that members of the Square Enix London dev team worked on Batman: Arkham Asylum. And the driving
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