Recent reviews by Harleen Frances Quinzel

Smooth Gameplay,
Graphics are fine,
Audio is decent,
Crafting is quick, simple and all sorts of combinations

Kovac's dialogues are funny and entertaining.

The Story Mode isn't hard,
One Shot Escape and Barricade in Kovac' Difficulty is nerve-wrecking,
but great sense of achievement once succeed.
Highly recommend using Nina, skilled in bow and fiery ammo.

Only lacking I can think of is a Storage box, so do not have to arrange inventories on the ground.

Had played the game before from another platform, and seeing the big sale on steam.
Just had to buy it again in June16 to support.

I Recommend.

Give me my money

Note: This review is about the changes in "Definitive Edition", not about the game itself.

So what is the difference between the original version and definitive edition? Not much, it's just patched original Sleeping Dogs with full DLC and some improvements to the graphic that are either insignificant or unimportant.
I can play the original version at max setting with solid fps, but I have to play this one on medium because the fps are too unstable (FYI, my spec is more or less the same as recommended), I also have a problem with ingame screen resolution, it causes me to have some kind of slightly visible letterbox appears at times, which is annoying because original version didn't have it.
But as I said, the changes to graphic are insignificant. World density is the only improvement that worth mentioning, which makes the world more living by adding more cars, people on streets, NPC variations (less clones),... but this change can be achieved by a free patch, not a patch being sold. Also, still no Steam Cloud, wtf dev? Seriously?

In short, Sleeping Dogs is an amazing game, but this Definitive Edition is a quick cash grab, patched games being sold at high price. Don't buy it if you already owned the original version, it's not worth it.

For people with spec below recommended: Don't buy it because the spec given by the dev is inaccurate, you can play it on low smoothly, but it will look worse and less stable than the original version on medium. It seems the game doesn't use up all the CPU power, but depends mostly on GPU power, which means you need a strong GPU to play this game on high smoothly.

Is the concept good? yes indeed. Is the gameplay good? If you think that constant bugs that are more than 2 patches old is good then yes. If you like to meet hackers in pretty much every single game then sure. Gameplay is great and fair. People from every rank can meet eachother, an entire bronze team can meet a full premade gold team but don't worry. If you hack the game it makes it easier because Ubisoft supports hacking by implementing BattleEye, the "anti-cheat" that doesn't do anything.

To start this off, I honestly love this game, its probably one of my favourite games of all time, but Rockstar really doesn't seem to care about its customers. I have over 350 hours in this game and have never used cheats a single time, but I was recently in a session with a hacker in which I recieved no money or anything from the hacker that could be used to get me banned, yet I was banned for no reason. My friend was also in the session and he asked if anybody in the session had reported me, the hacker responded saying he was trying to kill me earlier but I wasn't taking any damage and accused me of using God Mode, he admitted to reporting me for hacking, and without any evidence I got a 10 day ban. By now you would think Rockstar is at least trying to prevent this from happening.

Too lazy to write a proper review. To sum it up developers don't really care about the game, the community makes the skins and the maps. Improving the game? Good joke - pretty much every update ruins the game, for example the new mechanics with the viewmodel point of view (you could jump on spots where you'd normally need someone to boost you) or the R8, CZ - which were way, way too good and game breaking in the beginning then they got nerfed to the point they are unusable. They released sprays too, a feature in 1.6 and Source. Cool right? Oh guess what another way to earn money for Valve. Even with beta testing they still release an obvious exploit in the new mechanics, as well as the sprays. If you spray on a window, the spray isn't visible on the other side. Pretty much wallhack.. VAC is a joke and everyone knows that. They could do much more to stop cheaters but they aren't doing it. For anyone wondering why do I have so many hours is because I enjoy FPS team based games. Giving it a "Not Recommended" because this game is being treated very poorly considering the income the company gets out of it. AND ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ BOOORING GAME
and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ rip server ping lol ♥♥♥♥ you developers ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ vac sistem ♥♥♥♥ game trash dont buy

Context: I've been playing Call of Duty since World at War, though I skipped Advanced Warfare for lack of a platform to play it on, I considered myself done with the franchise anyway after the games began to lost their spark. So, when I built my own PC I couldn't really resist the chance to play another Treyarch Zombies experience. So, here's a little on the game modes. My lack of experience with Advanced Warfare means this is my first installment with the new mobility options, bear that in mind.

Campaign: Maybe it's because I'm getting older, but by god this was the worst story I've played so far. Black Ops 1 and 2 had a story that tied together classical war gameplay with sci fi elements in a subtle way that always made the big campaigns plot twist a surprise. This time, the ending is almost blatantly laid out in front of you from the moment you beat the third mission, assuming you're paying attention. I'm not sure what the message they're trying to get across in this game is, but it's a wholy unsatisfying experience, and by the 6th mission I was turning the difficulty down to recruit just so I could slog through the boring levels and make it to the end.

You're not fighting a war, because it's never really explained who you're fighting for, the game is one big game of "Chase Paul Taylor around the world" and by World I mean Singapore and Egypt. Level diversity isn't present here, and level design, while obviously catered to the "new" movement mechanics, isn't fleshed out further than the occasional few balconies in a room to add faux verticality. The campaign crutches on the movement mechanics as its interesting gimmick to keep it fresh, but it doesn't really work as well as things such as vehicular combat in the previous games, no matter how linear. The weird robot superpowers you get are all somewhat useless too, as they're just "Point at person, make them stop shooting you for a bit of time" Which seems a bit useless when you can just shoot them instead, or use the only decent ability to release killer flaming bees to clear a room. The Campaign is needlessly padded with customisation to add this illusion of content, when it's easier to just use the preset loadouts for each level.

A boring experience with no payoff, bland characters and far too linear shooting. Playing this made me want to play Black Ops 1. The main problem I find with these overly futuristic installments is that they're not believable enough to immerse yourself in, and atmosphere is completely non existant. I hope they finally ditch this future ♥♥♥♥, it's been 4 years. Take me back to World War 2 already.

Zombies: I played about 4 games of the new map before putting it down for good. The whole easter egg thing was nice at first, giving you an extra objective and a way to get a few extras, like maybe all the perks on the map, but this is ♥♥♥♥ing absurd. You have to jump through far too many hoops just to get basic features, and it's just a huge chore, honestly. You pretty much have to do it as well, unless you want all your guns to be worthless by round 15. Once again, they compromised level design in favour of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ly complicated story ♥♥♥♥. Not to mention the bland cast of literal whos voiced by expensive actors, throwing back to Call and Mob of the Dead, but I never liked those ones anyway. Kind of annoys me that this garbage is the only map available unless you own The Giant, which is still the best map, or unless you bought the season pass.
Playing the Multiplayer reinfused my love for Dirty Bomb.
The progress system is just there to give the player some feeling of accomplishment.
But for the most part, it's not the player that gets better at the game, just your weapons, perks and equipment.
Usually, weapons oneshot. SMGs as well. So the person with the better ping and monitor refresh rate usually gets the kill.

The story just made me miss the Modern Warfare series, where it was actually worth something. Stopped playing after the first mission. Lame.

I bought ARK extremely early, during the first or second week of release. I've watched it grow and change, I've watched devs listen and impement ideas based on input from the community, I've watched new DLC's be pushed out, along with a constant stream of new material and content.

That being said this game is so disgustingly optimized it makes me wonder if it was all worth it.

If you have a very high end rig, expect mediocre results, frequent video driver crashes, low FPS, random crashes and freezes.

This game is unfortunately also a complete stranger with the term balance. don't even bother with official servers unless you have no job/responsibilities. This will BECOME your job.

One or 2 tribes usually dominate a given server and deny the rest of the people access to a good chunk of the games content. Things take such an ungodly amount fo time to tame/gather/build and can all be lost in less than 10 min.

I've had some very good times in ARK, don't get me wrong. I love the potential this game has, I love what it wants to be, but it's just not there yet.

What kind of game releases DLC's in alpha, and stays in alpha for 2 years.

I'd recommend you don't get this just yet.

Fantastic game, ashame steamworks had to ruin it for everyone. I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but I really miss GFWL!
Cons:
Laggy beyond all belief
During said lag it says Waiting for other player, whoever reconnect first gets to attack first while the other player is waiting at his mercy to not land a free ultra/combo.
Can no longer message people, instead forces you to use a mic to communicate with whoever your fighting.
Mic must be either on or off, you can no longer toggle a button to make it active, extremely annoying.
Announcer is annoying as hell and there is no way to turn him off.
Did I mention the lag?
If you bought a dlc pack from someone other than steam your SOL.
Pros:
Can change your name at will whereas with GFWL you had to spend money to do this.
DLC from steam convert over.