This comparison is tough for me. I felt Sleeping Dogs was the Game of the year of last year. Game was soo damn fun to play. lets run down the line
Gameplay:
Combat i feel SD was better. The batman style melee worked and both gun combats were comparable with SD getting a more of a nod cause of the slow down you get when jumping over cover which made the combat look cool. Even slowing down when shooting in the car and you can hijack cars while you were in another car!
But the type of missions you had were better in GTA, the heist missions were top notch and being able to fly a plane is awesome.
Verdict: Sleeping Dogs/GTAV
Graphics:
SD Hong Kong looks absolutely amazing at night with a great PC card. But GTAV is a technical marvel. I grew up in LA so when i saw certain details of LA in the game that was just amazing.
Verdict: GTAV
Story:
SD story is engaging but pretty typical. GTAV story is way more interesting especially with the fact of having 3 characters.
Verdict: GTAV
Music:
I'm a hip hop head so the music is a real toss up for me. GTAV had good music but it was pretty typical. You got your old school west coast music with expected dre, snoop, ice, too short songs all great. The new hip hop station is great cause they have big boy from the real LA hip hop station dj. FlyLo was cool but i really enjoyed non-stop pop, lot of great songs on that station.
But open world games are usually where i like to find out about new songs and holy crap does SD have new songs which are awesome, the ninja tune, warp and Daptones radio stations all have amazing music.
Verdict: Sleeping Dogs
One thing Sleeping dogs did was fix small issues that moved the genre forward. It took the Saints row on road GPS and the toggle different missions by pressing the left stick. Those were absolutely amazing features. When GTA didn't have these i was annoyed a lot. I kept looking at that small map to see if i was going in the right direction. I would open up the menu every time. I was soo surprised GTA didn't pull these features in. I guess they don't want to acknowledge a good idea from another company unless it was theirs.
So yea both have their ups and downs. I personally like SD more than GTA but both have their own style of play and i enjoy them both.
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