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Channel: PlatanoGames · 2012 · Gaming

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Sleeping Dogs (titled Sleeping Dogs Hong Kong Secret Police in Hong Kong, China) is an open world crime drama video game, developed by United Front Games in conjunction with Square Enix London Studios and published by Square Enix (Namco Bandai Games for Australia), to be released on August 14, 2012 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Sleeping Dogs will take place in Hong Kong and focuses on an undercover operation to infiltrate the Triads.

The game was originally in development as Black Lotus but was announced during 2009 as True Crime: Hong Kong, the third installment and a reboot of the True Crime series. As a result of the game's high development budget and delays, it was cancelled by Activision in 2011. Six months later, it was announced that Square Enix had picked up the publishing rights to the game, but the game was re-announced as Sleeping Dogs in 2012, as Square Enix did not purchase the True Crime name rights.

The core gameplay of Sleeping Dogs consists of giving the player an open world environment in which to move around freely. Sleeping Dogs is played as an over-the-shoulder, third-person perspective action-adventure game with role-playing elements. The player controls Wei Shen, a Chinese-American police officer as he goes undercover to infiltrate the Triad organization called Sun On Yee (A reference to real-life triad gang Sun Yee On). On foot, the player character has the additional ability to walk, run, jump, climb over obstacles and swim, as well as use weapons and martial arts skills in combat. Players are also capable of driving a variety of vehicles, including automobiles, boats and motorcycles.

The combat system heavily revolves around hand-to-hand fighting with strong influences from Batman: Arkham Asylum/City's "Freeflow" combat system. A competent cover system allows the player to deftly move between cover, to fire blindly, aim freely, and target a specific enemy. Individual body parts can also be targeted. The driving segments have been inspired by the Need for Speed series, with several developers having worked on previous Need for Speed titles. If the player is riding a motorcycle, Wei has the ability to jump onto a moving vehicle.

Although storyline missions are necessary to progress through the game and unlock certain content and parts of the city, they are not required, as players can complete them at their own leisure. When not attempting a storyline mission, players can free-roam, giving them the ability to participate in activities such as stealing cars, join a fight club, karaoke, gambling dens and bet on cockfights. There are also several potential girlfriends for Wei Shen to date in the game. Side missions such as participating in street races can keep the player occupied for hours, and successful completion of such activities offer great rewards to the player. There are also stores within the game that Wei Shen can purchase new clothing from, which give him various bonuses. As suits will increase Face XP, gang attire adds Triad XP, and police uniforms increase Police XP.

Sleeping Dogs features role-playing elements with three different XP stats (Triad XP, Face XP, and Police XP), which emphasized the personalization of the main protagonist. Clothing, accessories and vehicles are available for purchase by Wei, and have more of an effect on non-player characters' reactions. Sleeping Dogs tracks acquired skills in areas such as hand-to-hand combat, which improve through use in the game.

Sleeping Dogs features online stats and leaderboards to compare scores with friends, however, there will be no multiplayer component to the game.

The interface of the game features a mini-map that displays a map of the city and key locations (safe houses and contact points) or targets. Wei's health is shown by a red semicircle on the left side of the mini-map, while a green semicircle on the right represents armour.

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