Other important characters are Police Superintendent Thomas Pendrew ( Tom Wilkinson), Wei's police handler Raymond Mak ( Byron Mann), Wei's childhood friend and low-level Triad member Jackie Ma ( Edison Chen), and Triad boss "red pole" Winston Chu ( Parry Shen).įurther characters include David Wai-Lin "Uncle" Po ( James Hong), Amanda Cartwright ( Emma Stone), Conroy Wu ( Robin Shou), Vivienne Lu ( Lucy Liu), Henry "Big Smile" Lee ( Tzi Ma), Inspector Jane Teng ( Kelly Hu), Jiang ( Elizabeth Sung), Sammy "Dogeyes" Lin (Ron Yuan), Peggy Li ( Lindsay Price), Sonny Wo ( Chin Han), Sandra ( Steph Song), Tiffany Kim ( Yunjin Kim), Not Ping ( Celina Jade), Ilyana (Megan Goldsmith) and Ming ( Terence Yin). The player character is Detective Wei Shen ( Will Yun Lee), an officer sent deep undercover in a feared Triad gang. When Wei is armed, an icon of his weapon and ammo count are represented on the top-right corner of the screen.
Wei's health is shown by a semicircular meter on the left side of the mini-map, while another one on the right represents his face, which allows Wei to regenerate life during fighting when its full, then empties after a short time. The interface of the game features a circular mini-map on the bottom-left corner of the screen that displays a small map of the city and key locations (safe houses and contact points) or targets. Īlthough there is no multiplayer component, the game features online stats and leaderboards so players can compare scores. Sleeping Dogs tracks acquired skills in areas such as hand-to-hand combat, which improve through use in the game. Clothing, accessories and vehicles are available for purchase by Wei, and have an effect on non-player characters' reactions. Triad XP and Police XP measure Wei's devotion to the triad and police, respectively, while Face XP is a measure of his general reputation. Sleeping Dogs features role-playing elements with three different experience point values: Triad XP, Face XP, and Police XP. Successful completion of side missions offers the player rewards. There are several potential girlfriends for Wei Shen to date. When not attempting a storyline mission, players can free-roam, giving them the ability to participate in activities such as car-jacking, joining a fight club, singing karaoke, visiting gambling dens betting on cockfights and participating in street races. Īlthough storyline missions are necessary to progress through the game and unlock certain content and parts of the city, players can complete them at their leisure. While driving, Wei can get out and jump onto other moving vehicles. Regarding the driving segments, several developers had worked on previous Need for Speed titles. Individual body parts can also be targeted. The cover system allows the player to move between cover, fire blindly, aim freely, and target a specific enemy. The combat system revolves around hand-to-hand fighting, similar to Batman: Arkham Asylum "Freeflow" combat system. Players can drive a variety of vehicles including cars, boats, and motorcycles. The player character has the ability to walk, run, jump, climb over obstacles and swim, as well as use weapons and martial arts in combat. The player controls Wei Shen, a Chinese-American police officer, as he goes undercover to infiltrate the Sun On Yee Triad organization - named for the real life Sun Yee On. Sleeping Dogs is played as an over-the-shoulder, third-person perspective action-adventure game with role-playing elements. The core gameplay of Sleeping Dogs consists of giving the player an open world environment in which to move around freely. In this screenshot Wei is using the environment to defeat enemies. The combat is a key feature in Sleeping Dogs. Six months later, it was announced that Square Enix had picked up the publishing rights to the game, renamed Sleeping Dogs, without a relation to True Crime. As a result of the game's high development budget and delays, it was canceled by Activision Blizzard in 2011. The game started development as an original title, but was announced in 2009 as True Crime: Hong Kong, the third installment and a reboot of the True Crime series. Sleeping Dogs takes place in Hong Kong and focuses on an undercover operation to infiltrate the Triads. Sleeping Dogs is a 2012 open world action-adventure video game developed by United Front Games in conjunction with Square Enix London Studios and published by Square Enix, released on August 14, 2012, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.
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