Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition is basically a remastered version of the original released in 2012. You play as Wei Shen, and undercover cop working for both the HKPD and for a triad to defeat them from within. You climb up the ladders as you gain XP for both cop and gang related missions. Along with this you also gain face XP which gives you a better reputation with vendors and civilians. Being and open world, there are a ton of missions other than the main story that can be completed, meaning this game has plenty of content.


- Immersive atmosphere and city: The game does a good job making you feel like you're actually in Hong Kong, with busting streets, markets and sidewalks filled with vendors and citizens. You can actually interact with most of them, buying food, getting massages or doing favours. The graphics are actually not half bad, which adds to this.

- Fluid hand-to-hand combat: You can except good martial arts related combat from this game. You can achieve several unique combos as you beat down your enemies, unlocking cooler and better moves as you become stronger.

- Good gunplay: Not only does this game deliver in the unarmed department, but also the armed. The style of shooting is hiding behind cover and popping out to go guns-blazing. You can also aim while vaulting, you will be put into slow motion allowing you to clear rooms with one vault, which is pretty badass.

- Characters: As you progress in the game, you start to meet very interesting and unique characters, both friend and foe. The voice acting, character models, tone, speech, everything suits each character well and adds to the immersive factor of this game.

- Parkour: Although it's quite simple with just a few tricks like vaulting, jumping up to high places and stuff like that, I must admit it is still quite fun to do.


- Wonky camera: Whether you're sprinting, driving, reversing or fighting near a wall, the camera angle seems to mess up and either clip through walls, not allow you to turn around and look behind you or just snap into a random direction. It happens quite often, but it's nothing major.

- Repetitive missions: Majority of the missions are quite fun, but there are a handful that are basically the same thing repeated over and over again, only difference being the person giving the mission and a slightly different location.


8.8/10

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