![]() ![]() Some parts of the city are illuminated by lanterns. Hong Kong really comes to life, especially at night, when the city is full of lights and neon. The Definitive Edition adds a lot in the way of graphic fidelity. Bottom line, the action in Sleeping Dogs is the best you will ever find in a game. You can move into slow motion bullet time and jump over obstacles, diving across the room guns akimbo, firing bullets into the enemies. The gunplay system takes a page out of every John Woo film, then amps it all up. If flying fists of fury aren't your thing, there’s also gunfire. You can find yourself lost in Sleeping Dogs for hours and hours just getting your kung fu skills down pat. The effect is positively mesmerizing, as Shen moves from enemy to enemy executing moves that flow into one another so well. The advanced moves require a lot of timing and skill and you can chain attacks one after another. As you gain experience points through the battles and go about the city getting collectibles, you can unlock more moves, which you can test at the dojo. You can slam metal gates down on enemies heads, smash them into speakers, burn them on stoves and the more bloody ones have you throwing them into grinders or smashing their faces on saws. Environmental attacks are brutal and not for the faint of heart. It’s a combination of heavy, light and grapple attacks as well as a deep parry system, so you have to move through fights tactically stunning and getting behind bruisers to defeat them dispatching the quicker nimbler foes faster and most of all, knowing how to use the environment to your advantage. In a system very reminiscent of the Batman Arkham series, the kung fu system in Sleeping Dogs is fluid, deep and most of all addictive, and it’s not a mash-buttons-till-your-fingers-fall-off either. ![]() The action is where this game excels above even the likes of Grand Theft Auto. Shen soon finds himself caught in the power struggles between the Triad bosses and his friendships with people on both sides of the law, making him question who he is as he treads the fine lines between the law and the Triads, all the while kicking all shades of derriere in his quest. Story Meet Wei Shen, an undercover cop returning from an overseas trip and now infiltrating the deadly world of the Triads. Now, Sleeping Dogs is making it’s next generation re release on PS4 and Xbox One as Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition. Combining great visuals, a storyline right out of Hard Boiled or Police Story movies and unbelievable blazing kung fu combat. Sleeping Dogs made that dream a reality when it launched in 2012. We’ll take the bad lip sync dubbing and all, just to have those fists of fury and all too real to be choreographed fight sequences. Carl Douglas got it right when he sang “Everybody Loves Kung Fu Fighting.” Having grown up on a staple diet of kung fu movies, on some fundamental level of our core being, we yearn to be kung fu masters. ![]()
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