A Beautiful, Forgotten and Underrated Game Just Turned Ten
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It was the August 14, 2012 when he made his absolute debut – first in the United States, a few days later he would also arrive in our country – the ambitious sleeping dogs. Born as the spiritual heir of the previous true crime (Activision series whose rights then passed to Square Enix), the game was to take up the dynamics of the series which had led us to track down criminals in New York and San Francisco.
Thus, in the role of detective Wei Shen there is we found ourselves infiltrating the Sun On Yee triad, running into enormous danger and risking forgetting who we really were. To animate what was a real homage to oriental action movies, a battle system focused on theuse of martial arts to overthrow their enemies.
sleeping dogs it also had an open-world structure that allowed roaming through Hong Kong, depicted in a particularly evocative way. We know that in 2014 we also saw the launch of a Definitive Editionwhich lead to sleeping dogs to also land on PS4 and Xbox One, having debuted on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 two years earlier.
Sleeping Dogs premiered August 14, 2012
Since then, everything is silent. We know that a vanished film is in the works (it was announced in 2017), we know that a possible multiplayer sequel had been canceled. And we know that the development team, United Front Games, officially shut down in 2016, likely putting the final nail in the coffin of sleeping dogs.
The franchise remains in the hands of Square Enix, but also given the recent U-turn taken by the Japanese publisher, which got rid of its Western IPs to focus on spending its resources in other ways, it is difficult to imagine that he could try to withdraw. . out of the cylinder sleeping dogs.
Upon its debut, the game received particularly positive reviews. To date, both the standard version and the Definitive Edition have a positive vote average (more than 80 for the original game). However, when Square Enix released their sales results in 2013, they were talking about 1,5 million copies sold, which translated to sleeping dogs being “Below expectations” – one of the slogans of the Japanese company – compared to the 1,75 million that were expected.
Since then, the IP has closed in silence and, ten years later, remains the good memory of a game that had a great atmosphere and was very enjoyable. Today it is possible to recover it on the various shops at an often ridiculous price (as on Instant play), although Wei Shen's adventure was probably worth more than it had.
SOURCE: Reviews News
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