Sleeping Dogs

Sleeping Dogs: Open World Action-Adventure Game

Explore Hong Kong as undercover cop Wei Shen in this open world action-adventure game, featuring shooting, fighting, and parkour elements.

What is Sleeping Dogs?

Sleeping Dogs is an open world action-adventure video game developed by United Front Games and published by Square Enix. It was released in August 2012 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows.

The game is set in contemporary Hong Kong. Players control Wei Shen, an undercover Chinese-American police officer on assignment to infiltrate the Sun On Yee Triad organization. Gameplay focuses on Shen's fighting, shooting, and parkour abilities, and on gadgets that can be used for combat and exploration.

Players explore the open world environment of Hong Kong and complete various story missions as Shen. These missions involve combat, infiltrating gang locations, racing cars, and more. In between story missions, players can take part in side activities like fighting clubs, street races, and more.

Key features of Sleeping Dogs include its Hong Kong setting, hand-to-hand combat system, shooting and driving mechanics, expansive open world environment with a dynamic day-night cycle, and integration of Hong Kong action cinema style and atmosphere.

Reviews of the game praised its combat, ambitious open world design, and faithfulness to Hong Kong culture and cinema. Criticism focused on some technical issues and lack of innovation in the open world genre. Overall, Sleeping Dogs was seen as a standout open world action game at the time of its release.

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