Difficulty:

Just Right

Time Spent:

10 Hours or Less

The Bottom Line:

"Masterpiece"

Thought originally as Activision's response to the massive goliath, which is Grand Theft Auto, the True Crime series has never managed even after two episodes to leave any mark in a genre dominated by the might of Rockstar Games.



This is probably the reason why Activision abandoned True Crime: Hong Kong in early 2011, which again a few months later was bought by Square Enix. Renamed Sleeping Dogs, and obviously reworked to the publisher's specification, the game managed stir quite some buzz in the recent months, even to the point of being awaited with feverish impatience by some players. But why?



Raised in San Francisco, our protagonist Wei Shen, has never renounced his Hong Kong origins, and he always kept in touch with his people back home. It is therefore natural that a turn of events puts Wei in a random Honk Kong jail cell, where he meets an old friend, Jackie Ma, a small scale mobster who has nevertheless an address book full of high ranked gangsters.