Fantastic martial arts film style hand to hand combat and very smooth on-foot gameplay. Driving isn't great.

User Rating: 8.5 | Sleeping Dogs PC
By downloadthefile | Review Date:
The game is much better than I would have expected. It has incredibly fluid melee combat, including combinations and a reversal button which feels just as good to press as the first time you do it. The animations are great, though the graphics are noticeably worse in less important seeming areas. The frame rate isn't always great and I noticed a strange sort of thumping choppiness which felt a little bit unusual, like the camera kept thumping while I was running at one point. More NPC's on screen makes for more graphics issues, as usual.

There are many interesting fighting and free-running sequences. This game is definitely like the love-child of Kill Bill and The Departed in terms of the plot and the emphasis on martial arts. It's definitely a worse version of these two movies, but it's still got many similarities. I wish there would have been more plot development before some of the more major events happen, to try and draw us in more. Your character pretty much immediately kicks ass. Definitely the big problems with this one gameplay-wise are the lack of easy to access transportation that doesn't involve stealing, and the poor driving controls. It feels like they worked on accelerating for a long time and made it feel nice, but braking feels no where near as good as GTA IV, which is still somehow the gold standard for driving mechanics in 3rd person sandboxes.

I just wish that the driving elements would be as good as the free-running and hand to hand combat have been. There are side elements, and the side quests are more involved than standard sidequests are, but I wouldn't really be concentrating on side stuff if I didn't go into it knowing that the main story is a little thin on length. I'd still buy it, though. The voice acting and story line so far have been terrific.

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