United Front Games Walks You Through a Full Mission In Sleeping Dogs

I have a feeling this game is going to be great.

Oh, hell yeah! This game looks like great over the top fun, I don't think I'd pay 60 dollars for it, but I'll definitely pick it up when the price drops. The only thing I really like from this is the way the driving looks, it looks... I just don't like it.

Probably sell a ton of copies of this in the store I work in just cause its a game where you can "rally around". I don't think any of the kids or teenagers I get into my shop have actually made progress in the story of games like this (GTA IV and Saints Row spring to mind). All they do is hop in the first car they find and run over anything smaller than them.

You may be thinking "You don't give kids these day enough credit". To which I answer "You've obviously never been to a Dublin suburb".

Well... it's very derivative. Animations and assets look, let's say, low budget. Ditto voice acting. Ditto writing.

But! Every now and then you get a game like this that turns out to be a lot of fun to play. So we'll see.

This went from being something I was only vaguely aware of to something I'm actually looking forward to now. Looks like a lot of fun.

I can't help but think they should have gotten advice from someone with more fight choreography experience to look into the melee stuff if the Hong Hong action flick aesthetic is what they're going for, though. Oh well, may not have even been possible if they're working on a tight budget.

I think it's mostly just the animation that looks like shit.

Game itself looks hella fun though!

This looks OK, but I dunno if it's gonna scratch my Stranglehold/WET itch like I thought it was, which is sad :(

I am looking forward to this. Always a fan of open world games that give me a ton of options to fight/shoot/drive around like an asshole. I mean, Just Cause 2's story was a big pile of shit, but I had more fun with that game than I did with GTA4 and it's "deep story".

I was watching the Gamespot interview with this at Comic Con, and there was an in gameplay scene where the player character barreled right into a restroom, grabbed the first guy he could, ran with him, and smashed his face into a toilet.

Just the kind of brazen randomness/stupidity of that logic has sold this game to me. I mean, imagine you're just chilling in the men's room, and some dude runs in without a word and slams your buddy's face into the porcelain commode, completely unprovoked.

Amazing.

Looks different, in a good way.

Womp womppp... looks like GTA.. :/

hahah Cantonese cussing creates curiosity in me :)

Gfx look very mediocre but the voice acting and theme may make it fun. Some interesting twists too like the tracking may be annoying or great. Not sure yet

"Cover is something you can vault over to take out as many bad guys as possible."

Goddamn, Spec Ops has ruined shooters for me for a bit. I'm gonna go play Civ

i like it. will play.

Little things like the bike helmet are nice touches. I wonder if that phone-hacking minigame will be perpetuated throughout the entire game every chance they get or if they have other unique minigames in there.

Dialogue and story stuff seem really rough. Presentation looks iffy. The driving was kinda generic looking too.

But man, when he started to fight, it looked like they incorporated some of the best elements of the Batman system, and just made even more brutal to watch.

I'm kinda excited, this game looks like it could be more than the sum of it's parts, but it could also still be a disjointed mess. I think I'll buy it to find out either way.

Almost every aspect of this video felt about as rigid and stiff as a generically Chinese dead guy. The driving, the narration, the in-game dialogue, the running animations, the seemingly arbitrary slomo bonus for vaulting over cover (??), the single-use knife (????), the way the player only ever shoots out tires during the chase scene because it's clearly the critical strategy...

The hand-to-hand combat looked pretty slick, though.

While some of the animations are wonky and the whole game seems a bit too loose, this looks like it's ridiculously fun. I think the whole seamless merging of gameplay styles really make it look like an action movie.

It's even more exciting that I actually got back from Hong Kong 2 a few weeks ago and I want to see how they portray the city. So glad Square revived Sleeping Dogs.

It does kind of look like Hong Kong. If only they narrowed the roads more, it shouldn't sacrifice gameplay since traffic doesn't look too congested for mobility. Anyways, looks like fun!

@Elwoodan: You can have a Stanglehold/Wet itch?

looks good

sucks how it looks nothing like hong kong. only the road signs and taxis are legit.

and that is how mongolian lamb is made.

Edit: epic fail, got the wrong game.

"The combat is as authentic as possible" he says, as 6 guys circle you while you drop an engine on one of their mates.

yep! still really excited for this. its an open world crime game with a gameplay mentality like the old SNES and Genesis beat'em ups like Final Fight where weapons and guns are temporary power-ups instead of the core combat mechanic. im being optimistic, but i hope this can inspire more devs to take a crack at modern open world crime games where everyone isnt packing an arsenal.

Seems like a buy to me.

I don't get how people can say that this looks like shit. The gunplay looks fast and frantic, the CQC looks like its basically ripped out of Batman:AA which is totally fine by me, and the driving seems to be arcade-y and fast. Sure, the graphics don't look amazing, but that's fine if the gameplay is good. And judging from the voice acting trailer they released about a week ago, the voice acting should be good too.

@toastface said:

"The combat is as authentic as possible" he says, as 6 guys circle you while you drop an engine on one of their mates.

I believe he is talking about the combat moves and animations in combat. In Batman and Assassins Creed the same thing happens. Multiple dudes just standing around waiting for Batman/Ezio to finish off one of their buddies.

Its a game, its supposed to be fun. It isn't supposed to be you walking into a fight with 6 guys and having them beat the shit out of you.

This is one for me,

Welp I'm sold enough to drop full price money on it though only because the summer has been pretty dead so far.

love the tyres exploding

Sold

Open world game with decent combat and driving. Count me in!

Well that sure changed. I remember the E3 demo where the focus was on IT war and hacking but now its just straight up an action game. Kinda dissapointed since it looked like something different.

Some of that voice acting really bends my ear the wrong way. At a certain point, I'd rather hear the Chinese guy from South Park than forced broken English.

Minigames and GTA'ish phone nonsense... hmm...

Also, "We worked with GSP" - Shows Tony Jaa nonsense and a Kung Lao move.

That first exploding car was floating all along. The tires were gone/invisible, but the engine seemed to think they still were there.

I was actually rather interested in this, but the video has me worried.

mm, I'd rather the entire thing be subbed cantonese.

the gameplay didn't seem like anything innovative, but it did look very fun.

I'm still on the fence about this game. It looks like it could be fun, but it's just so hard to say, even with this video, which I think looks pretty good. I am just worried the controls won't be smooth, or the missions won't be varied, or something like that. So, I'll wait for the reviews.

This is the game for me. I wish it wasn't coming out a week after Persona 4 Arena, I was hoping I could grind that game for at least a month nonstop.

This is an old video of early preview code. You can go to gamespot's website and see walkthroughs by the developer or http://www.youtube.com/user/SleepingDogsFrance to see a bunch of other gameplay with the producer. IMO it looks pretty sweet, much more fluid than a GTA game and I will definitely be picking it up day one.

I'm getting a little bit of a Just Cause 2 vibe from this, which is awesome

@Assirra: Wrong game.

I hope you can play the game in Chinese only, its a bit daft if its half and half

What I also like is that Wei has physical damage when playing through the game, head wound, gashes on his arm. Cannot wait.

@Assirra said:

Well that sure changed. I remember the E3 demo where the focus was on IT war and hacking but now its just straight up an action game. Kinda dissapointed since it looked like something different.

1. You have the wrong game.

2. There was action shoot-outs in the Watchdogs trailer too. A game with just hacking mechanics would be boring as shit. You're kidding yourself if you think the majority of the game won't be action-oriented.

This is gonna be cool. Still, I never liked the way many games treat weapons, for example:

Dead Rising has them break off after some use

Def Jam: Fight For New York has them break off after like 2 succsessful hits

Jet Li: Rise to Honor forces the player to throw them away after a fight.

etc...

I know they have to do such things to keep the game balanced but I always wanted to have my virtual crobars and wrenches not break in my games.

About the bilingual conversations, In my experience with my friend from Hong Kong, who speaks English, Cantonese and Mandarin, conversations like this aren't that strange, when he ws on the phone to his mom for instance, he was speaking English mainly and his mom was speaking cantonese.

The only thing that didn't really sit well with me here is the vehicles' freaking c4 lined tires which launch the car, and passengers, into the air when they are shot. I've been playing Forza for quite a bit, and its not easy even to roll the car, even burnout paradise physics are better and that's a more arcade type style, so when I see things like this it's not cool, but I'll still but the game anyway if thats the only problem and who knows, maybe they'll tweak/fix it before final release.

@BrianP said:

I'm getting a little bit of a Just Cause 2 vibe from this, which is awesome

Yeah. It looks like a half-step between GTA and Just Cause 2 on the realism-to-ridiculous scale. I'm liking it.