Sleeping Dogs

Sleeping Dogs offers one of the strongest narratives in recent gaming and drags you through the gritty streets of Hong Kong's mob underworld in the process. Its gameplay doesn't offer many new ideas, but it delivers what it promises. Namely, an engaging story, fun combat, slick driving, and solid gameplay.

Overall, Sleeping Dogs is a nearly seamless, action-packed open world experience, whose pros vastly outweigh the cons. The story and its characters are thoroughly engaging, even more so than Grand Theft Auto's attempts thus far. While not a game-changer, Sleeping Dogs is certainly a step in the right direction, and a huge breath of fresh air in the action genre.

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The driving segments are nicely matched with the set piece moments in Sleeping Dogs, enabling Wei Shen to hijack the pursuers’ car or ram a police vehicle off the road. Vehicle gunplay starts from tense slow-mo moments and ends in cars going out in a fiery blaze of glory. All the while, Sleeping Dogs keeps track of your actions during the missions and tallies up a score that in turn ranks you in a global leaderboard in the aptly named Social Hub to compensate as the multiplayer portion of the game. Aside from bragging rights, there’s not much else to do there.

I’m not sure why more people aren’t paying attention to Sleeping Dogs, but now that the game’s out, hopefully you won't make the same mistake. Sleeping Dogs did things that wowed me from the moment I started playing, and it never really stopped. A few finicky issues aside, Sleeping Dogs has proven itself worthy of joining the top class of open-world sandbox games revolutionized by the likes of Grand Theft Auto IV and currently topped by more recent additions like Saints Row: The Third. But don’t be confused; Sleeping Dogs does some things better than even the cream of the crop, and its story w...

Sleeping Dogs is a sleeper hit!

As a package this is as feature-complete as you could want, but it's a long way from the version it could have been.

It’s remarkable how well United Front Games have fostered this game. All the uncertainty and lack of future is eradicated for a consistently entertaining title. If Sleeping Dogs started life as an unloved orphan, it’s now an adult that can hold its head high. Now the title has realised its potential, the Activision family will be regretting their decision to give up one of the year’s surprise hits.

Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Tony Jaa, Chuck Norris and Steven Seagal (OK, perhaps to a lesser extent for those last two) are undisputed martial arts masters one and all. But you can add Sleeping Dogs' Wei Shen to that list, as from the moment he kung fu kicks his way into the game's gritty criminal underworld, he effortlessly attains the status of ass-kicking super cop. Dress him in an Ong Bak or Game of Death costume (and you can), and he's a total kung fu legend. That's just part of the...