By Craig Pearson on April 13th, 2012 at 7:00 pm.
You there! Do you want to know when in the calendar year Square Enix’s open-world police drama Sleeping Dogs will be with us? If not, please disregard the next few lines. Here’s something to distract you while the rest of us discuss the nexus of time and a game about a man running around Hong Kong punching people in the face. For the rest of us, it’s time to talk. Me, you, August 17th, Sleeping Dogs. And to the surprise of nobody, you can pre-order and receive a few special bonuses. One of those is a flying punch. If you want to know more, and want to see eight minutes of footage of the game, just stick £10’000 in my Paypal account and click the pre-order link below. Don’t click it first, as I have no way of denying anyone access. Prove to me the honour system works.
So, yeah: when you pre-order in stores you can get the “George St. Pierre content”, which is a flying punch, more powerful grapples and throwing damage, and an outfit. George is an MMA start who’d been advising the team on their in-game grapples. You’ll also get the “Police Protection content”, which includes a new mission, a SWAT uniform, gun, and car. Anyway, here’s some off-screen footage of the game from PAX. Eight minutes long, but starts with about four minutes of running. The rest is slightly awkward violence.
13/04/2012 at 19:09 Eukatheude says:
Basically it’s a GTA-like in Hong Kong? I’m in.
14/04/2012 at 07:02 siegarettes says:
Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars 3D?
13/04/2012 at 19:11 marlin says:
Craig! You been at the catnip again??
13/04/2012 at 22:58 Craig Pearson says:
I got it under control, maaaaaaan.
I’m going to take that as a compliment: I enjoy writing as if I’m on catnip. A cat on catnip, because a human on catnip would be the same.
Sigh, I miss my cat.
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13/04/2012 at 19:13 Algirdyz says:
Is it just me or the combat looks a lot like assassin’s creed? Which is bad….
13/04/2012 at 19:16 ZIGS says:
The thugs are awfully courteous, waiting for their turn to brawl with the main character
13/04/2012 at 19:21 Xune says:
My attention was rapidly heading down hill with the quicktime event chase but the fight was where I switched off. A “gang fight” where four people stand around while you slam a fifth guys head into an extractor fan. I appreciate the idea of “the player as the hero” but come on, that’s just stupid.
13/04/2012 at 21:16 Valvarexart says:
Well, in most games I’ve played, the NPC’s are courteous when you do your finishers and back off to give the cutscene proper space.
13/04/2012 at 19:22 DaftPunk says:
I expected more from this one.
13/04/2012 at 19:27 Bhazor says:
This just makes me long for Yakuza to come to PC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEa5rs9fyYU
Yes I know that games set in Japan but I don’t care because a) its awesome and b) I’m a racist, probably.
13/04/2012 at 19:32 woodsey says:
Hm.
I get the feeling this is going to leave a lot of people somewhat disappointed. I WANT to be excited by it, but there’s something that feels a little ‘off’ about it.
Oh, and it looks like they have the “wait for you to catch up”-type chase sequences, which are inevitably terrible, because there’s nothing interesting about ‘chasing’ someone who’s scripted to be caught at a specific time and place.
13/04/2012 at 21:20 engion3 says:
Probably because Square never fails to disappoint.
13/04/2012 at 19:39 hypercrisis says:
looks like one of those games that would have been great ten years ago
13/04/2012 at 19:44 Shooop says:
I played this game before when it was called Batman Arkham City. And didn’t have stupid scripted chase sequences.
Other than shoving virtual peoples’ faces into pointy things, what is this game going to bring to the table?
13/04/2012 at 19:45 Blackcompany says:
Is it just me, or do Eastern devs seem a little…out of touch…with Western gamers and their tastes?
I loved DSIII for the most part. But that multi-stage final boss fight was so blatantly Sqeniz-influenced it wasn’t even funny. Had final fantasy writ large all over it. And was much the worse for the fact.
13/04/2012 at 21:09 aurens says:
are you sure you commented on the right story? i have no idea what dsiii is and sleeping dogs (this game) is being developed by canadians and brits.
13/04/2012 at 21:50 Maltose says:
dsiii = dungeon siege 3, which was developed by obsidian or about as not-jrpg as you can get.
13/04/2012 at 22:10 TCM says:
Because transforming, multiform, ridiculous antagonist climax battles is EXCLUSIVELY a trope used by eastern devs, and not one that western literature, movies, and yes video games, had long beforehand, and continue to exhibit sometimes.
Wait, no.
14/04/2012 at 06:32 SteveHatesYou says:
This game was developed by United Front Games, in Vancouver.
13/04/2012 at 19:47 DeathRow says:
I hope this game gets better once we get to the sandbox portion of the game, because so far it looks like a sequenced, less fluid, arkham game.
13/04/2012 at 19:51 Davie says:
Regardless of anything else at all, that is some classy cover art.
13/04/2012 at 23:49 kael13 says:
I thought I recognised that art style. It’s by a guy named Tyler Stout. He drew a rather popular Iron Man poster a while back and has some other pop culture stuff for sale.
14/04/2012 at 04:11 Underwhelmed says:
I was actually a little disappointed that the entire game isn’t being rendered in the same style.
Arkham got the “fighting hand to hand with shitloads of bad guys” thing right, can people just start stealing it outright already? Of all the tropes in games that have been copy pasted ad nauseam why is that one left alone?
13/04/2012 at 20:48 DOLBYdigital says:
Yeah doesn’t look as good as it should be which stinks cause I like the setting and concept… The fighting isn’t as bad as AssCreed but could use more aggressive enemies and more fluid animations (although the one jump kick was pretty sweet). It’s a shame, I liked the first True Crime but that was a long time ago. This could get better though if it really opens up and lets you run around and arrest random people like the original :)
14/04/2012 at 01:25 kud13 says:
Since you are supposed to be blending in as a triad, I higly doubt they’ll let you randomly let people know that you’re a cop….
13/04/2012 at 21:34 Yosharian says:
Looks just like GTA? Does the world really need more GTA games?
I don’t think so… When it comes to making yet more GTA clones, we really ought to let sleeping dogs lie.
14/04/2012 at 00:13 DaftPunk says:
Stop using term GTA clone for fuck sake,should we call all other FPS games wolfenstein clone or something,don’t be stupid please.First true crime came out in 2003 btw,same year GTA 3 came out.
14/04/2012 at 01:44 aurens says:
true crime came out 2 years after gta 3 and was rightly pigeonholed as a “gta clone” from day one.
14/04/2012 at 04:12 Underwhelmed says:
I see what you did there.
14/04/2012 at 09:56 Yosharian says:
My work here is done.
14/04/2012 at 04:30 SkittleDiddler says:
Looks horrible.
Every time Squenix release a decent game, it’s followed by ten others that lower my respect for the company down a notch.
14/04/2012 at 09:56 Yosharian says:
Wait, they released a decent game?
14/04/2012 at 06:28 ScottHarrigan says:
This is extremely reminiscent of another game series in which the player deals out punishment with his martial arts. This appears to a Yakuza type of game but set in China from the perspective of the police. Open world games that focus more on martial arts than driving or shooting provide a welcome alternative to Grand Theft Auto games. This is not to say that GTA is not a good series, but sometimes it is nice to take it to the tough guys with fists alone. Hopefully Square Enix can handle a sandbox adventure.
http://www.videodetective.com/games/yakuza-4/371247
14/04/2012 at 10:50 felisc says:
I’d rather have gsp as a playable character in saints row. or roy nelson.
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