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    Sleeping Dogs

    Game » consists of 18 releases. Released Aug 14, 2012

    Recreating the thrill of Hong Kong action movies, Sleeping Dogs is an open-world crime adventure that tells the story of undercover officer Wei Shen as he infiltrates a notorious Triad organization in the streets of a fictional Hong Kong.

    Hey remember the first True Crime game?

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    #1  Edited By ShalashaskaUK666

    That was one BADASS game!! Kickin up uzi's Mission Impossible 2 style, slo-mo'in dudes through tables with roudhouse kicks.....and then there was that shit with a giant flying dragon in the underground mines or something!!

    WTF was up with that!? Hope they don't have anything similar in this one!

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    #2  Edited By falserelic

    @ShalashaskaUK666 said:

    That was one BADASS game!! Kickin up uzi's Mission Impossible 2 style, slo-mo'in dudes through tables with roudhouse kicks.....and then there was that shit with a giant flying dragon in the underground mines or something!!

    WTF was up with that!? Hope they don't have anything similar in this one!

    Yeah I remember the dragon and zombies. It was random as fuck.

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    #3  Edited By bed

    that underground dragon shit was amazing. fighting kung-fu ladies that were on fire and stuff.

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    #4  Edited By falserelic

    @AjayRaz said:

    that underground dragon shit was amazing. fighting kung-fu ladies that were on fire and stuff.

    It was like dragon's dogma true crime style.

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    #5  Edited By CrossTheAtlantic

    I totally forgot about all that shit. Whoa.

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    #6  Edited By ShaneDev

    I remember seeing videos of Snoop Dogg being a character model and that's about it.

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    #7  Edited By eroticfishcake

    Also Snoop Dog. Now that I think about it, I actually really liked that game with all the cop stuff and whooping people's asses in slo-mo.

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    #8  Edited By Ramone

    That game was the video game equivalent of a straight to DVD Steven Seagal film, that's why I loved it.

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    #9  Edited By falserelic

    I remember I used cheats and had a character skin where I look like a swat officer. I had that ski mask, blue vest, gloves and 2 deserts eagles with lasers. I felt like a badass action hero.

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    #10  Edited By sockemjetpack

    I remember Christopher Walken being a desk sergeant/narrator. "The city... of Angels... it's funny cause I aint never seen... no angels... in this city"

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    #11  Edited By MariachiMacabre

    That game had some serious voice talent too. Christopher Walken, Michael Madsen, Gary Oldman all in one game. Crazy stuff.

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    #12  Edited By SomeDeliCook

    I remember the multiplayer on PC and how stupid fun some of it was. There was a mode where one player was trying to outrun the other players and you could literally choose any spot in the whole map to start in and the players giving chase automatically spawned right behind that player. So what you would do is choose a spot right in front of a fence so the other plays were stuck behind unbreakable objects and you would win.

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    #13  Edited By GS_Dan

    All I can picture is Streets of L.A., and I am so very confused.

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    #14  Edited By VierasTalo

    Fuck yeah! That game still kicks ass. Snoop Dogg shooting dual uzis at criminals... ain't never getting better. Also, as said prior, the voice talent was awesome. And the storylines branched according to your performance too! The final boss of the longest storyline, the fist fight at the airport, was insanely difficult. I remember taking about 30 tries to get through him, he just countered everything you could do.

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    #15  Edited By Simplexity

    Most random story line in a game ever? It has to be up there with the weird chinese hell dungeon in the middle of the game.

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    Never cared for the true crime games felt generic compared to GTA but I have higher hopes for Sleeping Dogs and really hope it will be a good game but I'm not 100 percent confident about the game.

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    #17  Edited By NegativeCero

    I never got far in it, but I was young enough that GTA clones still got to me (I bought Driv3r, ugh), but at least this one was alright. All I remember about that game was they made a big deal about them recreating LA, Snoop Dogg, weird in-car aiming and this stupid tackle move I would do to every NPC I came across.

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    #18  Edited By Tsoglani

    I loved that game; was cool with the branching story-lines and different endings too. One of the best soundtracks ever to grace a video game as well. And I totally forgot about that dragon fight until reading this! That was pretty far-out, but it makes me wonder if there are dragons underneath Chinatowns all around the world...

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    #19  Edited By DocHaus

    It had branching paths and a main character who dual-wielded revolvers while he kicked ass. In spite of all the bugs and the campy plot I loved it. The New York sequel somehow got worse in comparison.

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    #20  Edited By lmenzol

    @ShalashaskaUK666: alot of people hated it but i thought the main character was cool and the middle of the game reminded me of Big Trouble in Little China. Loved that game

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    #21  Edited By Vonocourt

    Man that game was weird, and kind of shitty.

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    #22  Edited By probablytuna

    I remember playing this game at an Internet cafe I frequently visit. It was fun for a while... Until I heard about the weird dragon bullshit that happens later in the game.

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    #23  Edited By Deusoma
    @GS_Dan said:

    All I can picture is Streets of L.A., and I am so very confused.

    Me too. Maybe they're thinking of some other series called True Crime. :P
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    #24  Edited By Svenzon

    I didn't play all that much, so I mostly remember that the game had some really damn corny (in a bad way) one-liners. Didn't the protagonist scream "KUNG POW!" when you kicked people?

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    #25  Edited By Dimsey

    I liked the game a whole lot,  even though it did kind of lose me a bit with the dragons and the zombies and whatnot. 
    At the time I was just stoked to play a GTA-esque game in which you played a character on the right side of the law for a change. 

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    #26  Edited By TheDudeOfGaming

    Unfortunately I do, now if you'll excuse me I have to find my monocle, top hat and go play fez or some such shit. On a serious note when I played it as a kid I really liked the soundtrack.

    Not no more though. God help me...I kind of want to replay it now, God damn you nostalgia!

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    #27  Edited By buzz_killington

    Haha I played through it in one day. Best feature of the hole game: shoot the gas tank for car to explode in one shot.

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    #28  Edited By Sploder

    I remember the driving being so bad that I just walked everywhere, fun game though.

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    Terrible gameplay, but the story (and its randomness) was cool.
     
    Also:   

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    #30  Edited By Ramone

    @TaliciaDragonsong said:

    Terrible gameplay, but the story (and its randomness) was cool.

    Also:

    So good, I might buy Sleeping Dogs in the vain hope that some of that b-movie shittiness transferred over from True Crime.

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    #31  Edited By scalpel

    Streets of L.A. was fun.

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    #32  Edited By tallTuck94

    Wasn't Snoop Dogg in New York CIty? I never played that one but I have great memories of Streets of L.A.

    Also I wanted to replay Streets of L.A before Sleeping Dogs but would it be worth playing New York instead seeing as I've never played that.

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    #33  Edited By Yummylee

    @TaliciaDragonsong said:

    Terrible gameplay, but the story (and its randomness) was cool.

    Also:

    Burnout Paradise got dat beat!

    Anywhoo I remember playing this. I also remember not particularly liking it all that much, though playing as Snoop Dog (complete with his own unique ad-libs) was kinda funny. Also hearing Christopher Walken call you a ''schmuck'' I still find hilarious for no apparent reason.

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    #34  Edited By supermonkey122

    Is this the game that True Crime Hong Kong became?

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    #35  Edited By chilibean_3

    I really enjoyed the first True Crime game. It went real weird though.

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    #36  Edited By napalm

    @AjayRaz said:

    that underground dragon shit was amazing. fighting kung-fu ladies that were on fire and stuff.

    That entire game was martial arts comedic goodness. And the dragon boss was awesome. I remember spending upwards of thirty minutes to beat that scene just because it was so fucking long.

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    #37  Edited By MistaSparkle

    I must have not played as much of this game as I thought. O.o

    I remember it being a pretty straightforward cop game, but CLEARLY I was wrong after youtubing true crime dragon fight.

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    #38  Edited By pompouspizza

    @ShalashaskaUK666: I loved the first one...the second one is a pile of shit though, I remember rushing to buy it with money I got for Christmas and being deeply disappointed when I got home and started playing :(

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    #39  Edited By Vextroid

    It s a pret neat game, shame the shooting controls were dog shit though.

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    #40  Edited By ItBeStefYo

    Yup, one of my favourite games

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    #41  Edited By Driadon

    I never did end up playing it at the time, but I really wanted play it simply to find out how many people I could randomly frisk and find dope.

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    #42  Edited By Bloodgraiv3

    I loved it but never finished it.

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    #43  Edited By ColdPhone

    I really loved the original True Crime. Fond memories of going in slo-mo whilst driving and shooting the gas tank of the car in front of me. So satisfying. Also, LOTS OF FRISKING, haha. Remember that? You could just go up to any NPC on the street and frisk them. If they had contraband you handcuffed them and got something for it.

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    #44  Edited By kmg90

    The True Crime series to be one of my favorite series as a teenager, the first one was a good effort at trying to take the free-roam open world GTA-style genre and add some interesting hooks into the mix such as trying to recreate the city of LA to the branching storylines to the small celeb role of Christopher Walken to Snoop Lion Dogg

    The sequel was more of the same as the first but new city with more Walken and more bugs with a somewhat better combat system... the one redeem quality the game had was that the debug menu was accessible (on all platforms) without any modifications or "game enhancers", probably would be on my top 10 list of best cheats of all time

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    #45  Edited By iamjohn

    Yeah, that first one started off kind of lame, and should've been amazing when the Dragon and zombies shit happened because it was just so balls-out fucking crazy and completely out of left field. But it wasn't. It just continued to be kind of lame. :\

    The crazy car shit you could pull off was pretty neat, though. Kind of a bummer that no other game except for Wheelman has messed around with that.

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    #46  Edited By serpentenema

    I remember hearing "Awww shit! Its dim sum time!" happened a lot, and you fought some dude named general kim, and I thought it was just fist fighting Kim Jong Ill surrounded by flaming airplanes.

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    #47  Edited By illmatic19

    Unpopular opinion, True Crime New York is better than Los Angeles.

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    @illmatic19: I don't mean to attack your opinion but TC New York is a broken mess of a game in addition to being incomplete.

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