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Sleeping Dogs
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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.
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"It's derivative as hell, but Sleeping Dogs' borrowed ideas are of a high enough quality to form an entertaining open-world experience."
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A Worthy Return to the Streets of Hong Kong

Welcome to the neon-lit, crime-infested streets of Hong Kong, where the line between good and bad blurs into a tangled web of deception and action-packed adventure. Sleeping Dogs Remastered for the PS… Read more

Good dumb open world Kung Fu action

I’m probably not the first person to admit this, but I don’t think the Grand Theft Auto games are actually that fun to play. They are spectacle crime simulators, with arcady driving and mediocre gun c… Read more

Greater than the sum of its parts.

It's nice to play a GTA style game that isn't set in the US, and doesn't cast you as someone who is essentially a mass murderer. Hong Kong looks lovely, particularly at night and when it's raining, an… Read more

U can push a dudes face into a table saw

U can push a dudes face into a table saw. U can push a dudes face into a table saw . U can push a dudes face into a table saw. U can push a dudes face into a table saw.U can push a dudes face into a t… Read more

Triads Get the Boot to the Face

There's a lot to love about Sleeping Dogs if you loved open-world games from the previous generation of consoles. Everything feels real arcadey from driving around in various cars to the ridiculous sh… Read more

"True Crime: Streets of L.A." meets "Shenmue".

"Sleeping Dogs" began life as "True Crime: Hong Kong" before the property was purchased by Square Enix from Activision. But the game still feels exactly like another "True Crime" installment. It is a… Read more

Sleeping Dogs Review

The tale of Sleeping Dogs is a strange one. Back in 2008, when United Front Games formed, they began working on an open world game about a Hong Kong based, female assassin. Activision saw the chance t… Read more

The Hounds of Hong Kong

There are a number of subgenres out there which you cannot develop a game in without inevitably clashing with some industry behemoth. For the MMO genre that behemoth is World of Warcraft, for modern m… Read more

Sleeping Dogs Review

Sleeping Dogs takes you to the streets of Hong Kong as a police officer trying to weasel his way into the ranks of one of the biggest Triad organizations. What could go wrong, right? You play the part… Read more

This game nearly cracks it. But bugs and design frustrations tarnish a potentially awesome game.

Lets get the obvious out of the way first. This game will remind you of GTA and that's never a bad thing. From its long story, the driving around a large city and wealth of hidden items around the wor… Read more

Brutal Fun

“Sleeping Dogs” manages to be a game without a single trace of innovation or any sense of personality and still be an amazingly fun experience. The game has not a single shred of originality. The figh… Read more

Sleeping Dogs: Don't Let This One Lie

This cover really did draw me to the game Sleeping Dogs is the spiritual successor to the True Crimes series. That’s all you really need to know, other than it was in kind of a development Hell scenar… Read more

How the West was won over by the East

From a long development cycle to being outright cancelled and then being picked up by another publisher, the fate of True Crime: Hong Kong is certainly an interesting one. Renamed "Sleeping Dogs" and… Read more

Sleeping Dogs Review

Early on in this game you realize it is not just a copycat of Grand Theft Auto. It has an intriguing story line, excellent gameplay, and an amazing open world environment. I really couldn't stop playi… Read more

Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangster

Sleeping Dogs (Xbox 360) I abandoned the open-world crime genre with 2004’s Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. I became weary of the game half-way through (having played the two previous entries in quick… Read more

Year of the Dog

The first time we see Wei Shen is through the monitors of a Hong Kong PD drug sting as he tries to conduct a transaction. When the sale goes bad, we take control as he charges through a densely packed… Read more

Sleeping Dogs is pretty Alpha

I am very surprised that Activision dropped this. It's really good, so much to do, so much to look at and you've got the DLC mission which are very unique and add a lot more to the game. It's a very g… Read more

From a Non-Fan of Gangster Games

I just finished Sleeping Dogs. Literally minutes ago. I'm writing this review as the credits roll. Don't worry, this won't be a review done shooting from the hip; I've been taking notes through the pl… Read more

If Jason Statham Made a Video Game

Sleeping Dogs had one of the most confusing and drawn out development periods in video game history. The game started out as Black Lotus, an open-world crime drama developed by Treyarch. However, the… Read more

Sleeper Hit

In an age overburden by open world games Sleeping Dogs sets itself apart with a fresh setting, a great melee combat system and a likable cast of characters. It is also fun as hell. This is a Chinese g… Read more

refreshing Hong Kong setting to make for a brilliant sandbox game

I have just come from finishing the PC version of Sleeping Dogs , and one of the first questions that entered my head was “Why, Activision?” Now, I have no idea what state Sleeping Dogs was in before… Read more

It's good, but that's about it.

I like Sleeping Dogs . But I can also understand why it was initally cancelled. Giant Bomb's review hits it on the head. It has some of the worst problems with open world games without really improvin… Read more

Shockingly Enjoyable

Rescued from developmental hell as a True Crime game by Square Enix, Sleeping Dogs is a surprising entry in the open world genre. Games with the troubled development story tend to not be solid (LA Noi… Read more

Sleeping Dogs Review

Sleeping Dogs is an open-world action adventure game developed by United Front Games and published by Square Enix. Sleeping Dogs is perhaps one of the biggest, and certainly most pleasant, gaming surp… Read more

Once Upon a Time in Hong Kong

What was once True Crime: Hong Kong is now Sleeping Dogs. You play Chinese-American Wei Shen, who grew up among the gangsters of Hong Kong and is now an undercover operative for the HKPD. The main sto… Read more

A fantastic, high-octane romp through Hong Kong

Lets get this out of the way first, Sleeping Dogs has a few missteps. Not many, but some small technical glitches and minor annoyances, but these are as I said - minor. It is a hugely fun and enjoyabl… Read more

A solid game

Sleeping dogs is a solid game - there isn't anything it does badly and plenty of things it does very well. No, it won't light the world on fire, but for a game that was very nearly cancelled, it has d… Read more

The Balance of Crime & Justice

Originally True Crime Hong Kong, Sleeping Dogs was the game that Activision essentially canceled. Square Enix and United Front saw potential in the nearly completed game, and decided to bring it back… Read more

Great game

Sleeping Dogs Overall: A great game that gets you sucked in, but the side missions get old fast. Visuals: They really outdid themselves with this one. Hong Kong looks amazing, and you really feel that… Read more

It Truly would be a Crime to not play Sleeping Dogs (sorry)

It is safe to say that Sleeping Dogs has had a difficult journey up to it's release. The open-world crime game originally began development in 2008 as part of Activision's True Crime series. It was su… Read more

An average game with few redeeming qualities

The latest game in the open world crime genre sees Sleeping Dogs make its case for signalling a change of direction in a seemingly saturated market. Set in Hong Kong , the game follows in the footstep… Read more

Inside Man: Sleeping Dogs Review

Originally posted on www.KnownGriefers.com Sleeping Dogs has the distinction of possibly having the most convoluted journey to store shelves that has ever produced a quality game. Just this past year,… Read more

Old Salty Crab

The part you want to here is this, Sleeping Dogs is actually a really good game, seriously. Story and character driven and most importantly very limited in the tedious game ruining attributes often se… Read more

Sleeping Dogs Review

When looking back on open world games that have expanded upon the Grand Theft Auto template in the last few years, its hard to recall one that has truly succeeded in each individual part of its gamepl… Read more

Hong Kong Playground

I'm a huge fan of Cantonese film. My favorites being Exiled and A Better Tomorrow, Sleeping dogs found it's way into my heart real fast. Its mix of hand to hand action, some average third person shoot… Read more

This Game Rocks

I love this game. Simple as that. I was very disappointed not to see GTA V @ E3. But this game came out of Nowhere and it delivers on everything it does and more. I gave this game 4.5 cause the only t… Read more

Sleeping Dogs ROCKS

I love this game. Simple as that. I was very disappointed not to see GTA V @ E3. But this game came out of Nowhere and it delivers on everything it does and more. I gave this game 4.5 cause the only t… Read more

My Sleeping Dogs Review

The development of Sleeping Dogs is actually a pretty unique one and is kind of interesting also. By all rights, this game should not exist at all. It started out as a new IP under publication by Acti… Read more

It'd be a true crime to ignore Sleeping Dogs! Uh... Sorry.

Sleeping dogs puts you in the shoes of Wei Shen, a police officer tasked with infiltrating a Triad cell and bringing it down in the neon-washed streets of Hong Kong. In traditional urban open-world ga… Read more

Authentic Hong Kong New Wave story & Bully's spiritual successor

The first time I remember hearing about this Sleeping Dogs was in an interview with Mike Skupa , it was still under the alias True Crime: Hong Kong. This was a dark period for the game because soon af… Read more

Surprise! Sleeping Dogs

The fact that we have recently enjoyed some behemoth open world titles in Grand Theft Auto IV and Saints Row: The Third, the tide is definitely pushing and pulling on the possibility of success for th… Read more

The Surprisingly Good Sleeping Dogs

Even before Activision dropped it, it was hard to imagine that Sleeping Dogs -- a game once set to be a reboot of the True Crime series -- would actually be good. The series itself is perhaps best kno… Read more

The Sleeper Hit of The Year!

Sleeping Dogs formally known as True Crime Hong Kong before being canceled by Activison and later picked up by Square Enix Is a sandbox 3rd person action adventure game much like the Grand Theft Auto… Read more

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