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Have I got a game to tell you about.
If you like Jackie Chan/Donnie Yen style movies, or Hong Kong gangster movies, you've got to check out Sleeping Dogs.
( I love Chinese cinema so I loved every minute of this game)
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbGs8AJyT_Y]Sleeping Dogs Official Trailer - YouTube[/ame]
It's a cheap game ($20.) and it's flying under the radar because at it's heart, it's a GTA clone. And GTA is the top dog, being the inventor or perfecter of the Sandbox style of gaming.
However even though it's not an official Rockstar GTA game, it's a really fun one if you enjoy Hong Kong movies, which this very much feels like.
You play as Wei Shen, a Chinese-American police officer who goes undercover to infiltrate the Sun On Yee Triad organization.
Throughout the game you're constantly wrestling with whether or not to be a cop or be a gangster, because it turns out for being a moral hero cop,...you're really good at being a bad guy who piles bodies up like cord wood.
Unlike the GTA games which take place in LA/NY type American settings, Sleeping Dogs takes place in Hong Kong. Which for me was 100% of the appeal,..I just wanted to virtually walk around Hong Kong and explore it like a virtual tourist.
Turned out it was actually a really fun game though and one I enjoyed playing.
The driving mechanics are a bit too arcade style and not quite up to snuff like the GTA games (especially GTA 5) but it's not bad and easy enough to control. But where the game really shines is in it's hand to hand fighting and the fact that you feel like you're controlling a modern HK kung fu movie.
I guess guns aren't as prevalent in HK as they are in the states, because there were many missions where it was all hand to hand.
However it's really fun hand to hand, easy to pick up and with the addition of leveling up branches your Kung Fu just gets stronger and better able to combo and counter. Some of the moves are brutal (like leg and arm breaks), and there's also environmental finishing moves. Like grabbing someone and shoving their face into a running fan,..or at one point slamming a guy into the engine compartment of a car that's being worked on,..and then dropping the engine onto him that's suspended above the car.
Like I said,..some brutal finishing moves.
There's a bunch of stuff to level up and there's some side missions like in a GTA game. Some of the controls are the same (like triangle to get in/out of a car.)
So kind of the whole time you do feel like you're playing a GTA clone, it's an unavoidable comparison.
However it was a really fun game. Chasing people through yards, up walls, over rooftops,...really felt like I was controlling a Jackie Chan movie. Which I've never felt while gaming, so that experience alone was worth the cost of the game.
So if you're a Kung Fu fan, Hong Kong cinema fan, Jackie Chan/Donnie Yen fan, and also a fan of GTA style games,....I seriously urge you to check this game out.
It's not a huge expansive game that will take 50 hours to beat, it's just a lot of fun if you're a fan of that stuff.
And yeah, walking around Hong Kong virtually is pretty awesome.
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If you get the game, the last couple missions/levels are intense and make up for the lack of guns in the rest of the game. It's a full blown "Final Act" for the film and bodies are flying, many are dying, sh*t's blowing up left and right. Total righteous chaos.
and when doing a driving mission,...shoot out the tires of anyone chasing you (Cops or Gangsters) it's much easier then trying to shoot them and totally makes their car crash 100% of the time.
If you like Jackie Chan/Donnie Yen style movies, or Hong Kong gangster movies, you've got to check out Sleeping Dogs.
( I love Chinese cinema so I loved every minute of this game)
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbGs8AJyT_Y]Sleeping Dogs Official Trailer - YouTube[/ame]
It's a cheap game ($20.) and it's flying under the radar because at it's heart, it's a GTA clone. And GTA is the top dog, being the inventor or perfecter of the Sandbox style of gaming.
However even though it's not an official Rockstar GTA game, it's a really fun one if you enjoy Hong Kong movies, which this very much feels like.
You play as Wei Shen, a Chinese-American police officer who goes undercover to infiltrate the Sun On Yee Triad organization.
Throughout the game you're constantly wrestling with whether or not to be a cop or be a gangster, because it turns out for being a moral hero cop,...you're really good at being a bad guy who piles bodies up like cord wood.
Unlike the GTA games which take place in LA/NY type American settings, Sleeping Dogs takes place in Hong Kong. Which for me was 100% of the appeal,..I just wanted to virtually walk around Hong Kong and explore it like a virtual tourist.
Turned out it was actually a really fun game though and one I enjoyed playing.
The driving mechanics are a bit too arcade style and not quite up to snuff like the GTA games (especially GTA 5) but it's not bad and easy enough to control. But where the game really shines is in it's hand to hand fighting and the fact that you feel like you're controlling a modern HK kung fu movie.
I guess guns aren't as prevalent in HK as they are in the states, because there were many missions where it was all hand to hand.
However it's really fun hand to hand, easy to pick up and with the addition of leveling up branches your Kung Fu just gets stronger and better able to combo and counter. Some of the moves are brutal (like leg and arm breaks), and there's also environmental finishing moves. Like grabbing someone and shoving their face into a running fan,..or at one point slamming a guy into the engine compartment of a car that's being worked on,..and then dropping the engine onto him that's suspended above the car.
Like I said,..some brutal finishing moves.
There's a bunch of stuff to level up and there's some side missions like in a GTA game. Some of the controls are the same (like triangle to get in/out of a car.)
So kind of the whole time you do feel like you're playing a GTA clone, it's an unavoidable comparison.
However it was a really fun game. Chasing people through yards, up walls, over rooftops,...really felt like I was controlling a Jackie Chan movie. Which I've never felt while gaming, so that experience alone was worth the cost of the game.
So if you're a Kung Fu fan, Hong Kong cinema fan, Jackie Chan/Donnie Yen fan, and also a fan of GTA style games,....I seriously urge you to check this game out.
It's not a huge expansive game that will take 50 hours to beat, it's just a lot of fun if you're a fan of that stuff.
And yeah, walking around Hong Kong virtually is pretty awesome.
___________
If you get the game, the last couple missions/levels are intense and make up for the lack of guns in the rest of the game. It's a full blown "Final Act" for the film and bodies are flying, many are dying, sh*t's blowing up left and right. Total righteous chaos.
and when doing a driving mission,...shoot out the tires of anyone chasing you (Cops or Gangsters) it's much easier then trying to shoot them and totally makes their car crash 100% of the time.
