Sleeping Dogs is GTA Hong Kong with a new story. You play an undercover police officer named Wei Shien or something along those lines, who gets in the Triad with his best prison buddy named jackie. The game has a very well made plot, a few over the top minigames and worst of all glitches.
The worst glitch i ever encountered was the one where I was driving at top speed on a mini bike and went through the bottom of the map and fell into water durring a mission where I needed to tailgate someone for the forty millionth time. The game does add a cool feature to counter balance this called Action Jacking, where you can jump out of your car to high jack a fellow motorists car while your driving.
Speaking of the driving it is pretty solid, controls are okay, wide variety of cars that all drive near the same, except the vans go a max of 40 and every other vehicle goes 4000. It gets pretty annoying when you go to highjack a slightly faster car only to find out that in fact your now a proud owner of a soccer mom minivan and 5 screaming kids. Oh, and did I mention you drive on the left side of the road in Hong Kong? Pretty good tip to know, took me about 5 minutes to figure out why so many people were blaring their horns at me. You would think Hong Kong would have more traffic than this, other than a few cars here and there, but the traffic doesn't become much of a problem except in the missions.
The missions are pretty fun, but sometimes you realize that the missions start to feel the same, and get old really quick. Drive here, shoot that, drive back, avoid cops all rinse and repeat stuff, but the game really has a good way of shuffling the deck of missions around so you don't notice as much, but eventually you start to realize that whenever you go to draw your four cards that the game gets rigged, and you never end up with a full house but nothing but a jack, and 3 joker cards. Okay really odd comparison aside, the missions get stale, but the plot makes up for it, I really don't like to go into the plot when reviewing because of spoilers, just trust me, it's a damn good plot.
The Soundtrack is a good way to diversify your musical portfolio. It's really a damn good soundtrack, and normally these GTA style games have a really good soundrack so this follows the code. Although the game has one of the worst minigames I have ever played, and it is the F*CKING KARAOKE! I love the songs, but I hate the minigame that you are forced to play twice!
This game has a very odd way of splitting up XP given to you, there are three major XPs. Triad which is gained by killing people, and beating up old ladies. Cop xp is gained by not destroying public property, not destroying people's faces, and not being a big smelly meany, which is kind of a bitch to do, in simple missions like Drive to Point X, I will lose most of my XP on the way there because there is a traffic jam, and I REALLY need to go, and the sidewalk is pretty clear of cars. Did I say you get XP for cops? Well no, actually you get the max amount at the beginning of the mission, and at the end whatever you haven't pissed away by running over pedestrians is yours :D. The third major XP is Face xp, now this is kinda cool, its just random xp with already made out skill tree that gives you a TON of great perks. The odd thing about it is some clothing requires you to have a higher face level, how the F*ck do I have to low of a face to pull off some shitty knockoff shades from the chinese lady in the back ally.
So all in all it's a good game, repetitive, good soundtrack, shitty minigames, so I would rate Napping Puppies: 8.8/10 I would rent it, but I would NOT buy.
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