After being renamed, delayed, canceled, sold, bought, and then renamed again all in the course of four years, Sleeping Dogs had every excuse in the world to be a letdown, but just like Wei Shen, it's empowered by its tumultuous past, and much more than it appears at a glance.You can call it a trend, or a lack of ideas. You'll want to unlock every costume, complete every side mission, and play until there isn't a single drop of Hong Kong left for you to see. You'll be amazed by the sheer amount of content, and how compelled you'll be to consume every drop of it. When Sleeping Dogs grabs hold of you it absolutely refused to let go. ItвЂ™s still fun, and itвЂ™s still great, but it's just a little too conservative with its awesome abilities when it could allow for more sandbox freedom. You're given all of these awesome tools and then forced to only use them in the order the game sees fit. Sleeping Dogs lets you do plenty of cool stuff, but not letting you do it when you want to do it is sort of a buzzkill. You'll get involved in a chase and wonder why you can't just shoot the tires out of the enemy you're pursuing, or wonder why you can't tackle the guy you're chasing even though you're right behind him. It's more limiting than it needs to be, and too linear on a mission-to-mission basis. With such great gameplay you'd expect equally insane missions, but while there are some standout instances, a majority of the time you'll be doing the same handful of things the same way each time. A majority of story missions are fairly basic, and though they are inherently entertaining because of how remarkably enjoyable the components are, they are never all that interesting in their own right. Doing favors for pedestrians or busting drug-dealers kept us constantly engaged, making it difficult to ever put down the controller.Д«ut while small problems with controls and occasional glitches won't hold you back, you might become frustrated by the fact that Sleeping Dogs never fully embraces how fun Sleeping Dogs is to play. Thankfully, the game provides bountiful opportunities to use these skills, both in the gameвЂ™s lengthy campaign-which takes some 15 hours to complete-and the plentiful side missions, which can easily tack on another 10. Every single action is so entertaining that weвЂ™d go looking for trouble just as an excuse to use our fun melee takedowns, awesome gunplay, and fantastic driving skills. When all of these elements mix together (with a dash of parkour thrown in for good measure), Sleeping Dogs rises to the top, surpassing nearly every other sandbox-style game. The characters you work for lack the colorful flare of those found in games like Grand Theft Auto and you'll never feel all that connected to any of them, even if you fall for the undercover cop angle, which definitely adds to the tried and true open-world story formula. YouвЂ™ll constantly be passed between different members of the Triad as you work your way towards the top of the food chain, all the while needing to balance out your work with the police, making for entertaining (albeit slightly repetitive) missions. HeвЂ™s not an amoral killer-heвЂ™s a cop thrown into the middle of something big, and that stress gets to him quickly, creating a well-developed, likable character. Shen has understandable motives that extend far beyond simply trying to make a bunch of money. This small detail makes a big difference, both in terms of story and gameplay. That said, if you've never played Sleeping Dogs, this is undoubtedly the version to get. However, it's aged in two years, especially in this post-GTA5 world, so is probably not worth buying again if you already have it, although Steam owners get a 50% discount if they already own the game. The draw here is value, not flash, because bundled with the game are 24 DLC expansions including The Zodiac Tournament, Nightmare in North Point, and Year of the Snake, along with a glut of costumes that let you dress as Jackie ChanвЂ™s drunken master or don a barcode and bald head like Agent 47.

Sleeping Dogs already looks lovely, so the remasterвЂ™s high-density traffic and enhanced resolution donвЂ™t advance things massively.

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