Sleeping Dogs Is Almost A Masterpiece
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00:00 Intro & Opening Remarks
01:41 Writing & Story
05:47 The Missions
08:55 Girlfriends
11:54 Visuals
14:31 Melee Combat
18:21 Takedowns
20:20 Cops & Robbers
22:33 Driving & Racing
26:14 The Shooting
29:42 Closing Remarks
33:40 Amazingly Awesome Patrons - Hry
The fact that they never made a sequel is absolutely criminal
We gotta make it happen
They tried but Square shut it down and the company who made it closed down
Those damn executives are sleeping on a perfectly good IP. They're dogs... sleeping dogs even.
They made one, got greedy and the thing sucked.
Same as prototype 2 we need a sequel so badly with today's graphics
My mother's side of the family are from Hong Kong, and when I was playing this on my Playstation in the living room with my family, everyone would just stop what they were doing and getting immersed in how true to life Sleeping Dog's Hong Kong was. My grandmother would try to tell us something about her experiences at certain locations, and laugh at all the Cantonese being spoken. Everyone would even laugh at how the drivers would swear at you for causing a crash.
Still one of my fondest video game experiences
Addendum: shoot I just remembered my grandfather was alive then and starting to decline from Alzheimer’s, so watching me play brought some of his memories out. He’d even join the drivers in cursing me out, haha
What a wholesome comment, genuinely made me smile. Thanking for sharing
My girlfriend lives in Hong Kong, and I want to show her this game, as well as Shenmue 2, and the upcoming Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown. I haven't played this game in nearly 10 years.
Thats a core memory bro cherish it forever
What an amazing experience. Sounds lovely
Awh this is really sweet. I hope you and your family are doing well
This was one of the first games I worked on as an environment artist, re-creating HK was such a fun time and really happy to see people giving the game love all these years later :D
Truly wish there was a sequel. Was a huge R* fan back in the day yet I preferred this to GTAV!
The env artists were awesome. I also worked on this game. A career highlight for sure. Add me to the list of people sad they didn't consider a sequel.
If you really did work on this game, you did a banger of a job. Definitely one of the more memorable games I played
@@zbreezy95 cheers! yea I worked on a lot of the organic areas/mountain drive stuff and a bit of the city, was really fun!
salute to you man. Absolutely insane game. Shame it didn't get a sequel tho@@PolygonAcademy
If you fail the wingman karaoke mission in this game, the fail screen is absolutely hilarious. You're meant to fail it but if you don't, it says "You didn't suck enough".
Gotta go and do that now
Honestly I'm just here to say that this game is absolutely INCREDIBLE and it's always nice seeing it being covered!
Extremely overlooked and a superior successor to true crime 🤘💚🔥
True that!
Too bad nobody gave a shit about it including you
I agree. I wish they made a Sequal fr. Absolutely a Wonderful Experience.
I played it a while ago, and while the combat is pretty fun and visceral, after a while, it just started to feel too easy.
Admittedly though, this was during a time when I was playing Ninja Gaiden II and that game will fuck you in the ass without a second thought. Playing Sleeping Dogs after that was like baby mode.
This game, being over 10years, still holds up to this day in terms of graphics and gameplay mechanics. Such a great masterpiece!
Loool. 10 years ago this game shit.
Gta 5 10 years😂
@@TommyEgan101 GTA is poop , Yakuza has nothing to deal with that apart from some stereotyped "culture" , Watch Dogs has nothing to deal with Sleeping Dogs , the storyline is very different and Watch dogs is about hacking , way more futuristic and the series was developed AFTER Sleeping Dogs , so Sleeping Dogs can't be related to Watch Dogs whatsoever. Saints Row is an absurd poop too , Driver is quite different and mostly focused on the sole driving. The driving system and shooting system in Sleeping Dogs are awesomely realized , the vehicles are inspired but and very well realized , the dynamics are great and immersiveness is greatly realized along the culture of Hong Kong. All of this in GTA is just junk with tons of useless content badly united , that's why Sleeping Dogs is famous and was much more bought while GTA is just filled with selling lies and propaganda , but in reality everybody practically realizes and knows it's just a failure played by almost only a bunch of exhibitionists. You get tired playing GTA V in a couple of weeks , just to summarize because one could write about that till tomorrow: far too easy , horrible driving system , junky shooting system , ridiculous and unrealistic story , ugly vehicles inspired but with lack of creativity and realism , horrendous map (but just depends on the country where the story is set) , silly lies-concepts written on the screen which would like to make the game fun but just make it ridiculous , police shooting and hitting automatically even if they shoot to a different direction because the aimbotted bullets just reach the target , police cars crashing at you at high speed which in reality would result in a suicide...there is nothing realistic and as a consequence of these dynamics the chases are all the same , and it comes that moment that you understand police guys have fear about entering the sewer , so every time things go like this: you put yourself in front of an npc girl , after 7 seconds she says "I call the police!" "What? I'm not doing anything" "I call the police! I really do" , you hear the police coming to shoot at you because you did what? No problem , that's what you are waiting for anyway , you drill the girl with loads of bullets and you calmly observe her painted face since she was running at 0.000001 mph , so you just start making some havoc , maybe with the rocket launcher you easily buy cheap at the market (XD) , then you reach the sewer and you wait for the bot cops running towards you straight and comitting suicide under your fire without any possible logic and tactics (but considering it is set in the USA , I may say this latter aspect is quite near to the real) , then , when you are tired to see those 5 stars on the screen , you just finish to slay the last wave and you run in the sewer , stars are set to 0 , repeat. As alternative , when you don't want to see skyscrapers you can change the settings and fly away by stealing a low quality jet fighter from Fort Zancudo and then you reach the sewer with a parachute. And then there are codes , you may call them cheats but they are not cheats because they are a normal official part of the game , so calling them "cheats" is wrong , anyway the purpose of those codes is essentially prolonging your gaming experience for 5 minutes before you get tired of them too. What is more "dangerous" in GTA are actually people trying to put you under the wheels of their cars or to crash their cars towards yours during chases , everybody are so gladly willing to damage their car or to get a bullet on the head just because you have a gun in your hands or you are chased by the police , they couldn't even buy a bycicle because they walk or drive all the time without ever entering a building , it's completely unrealistic but is done just in case you start sleeping too much in the middle of the boredom , they remind you not to be too distracted and to actually play a videogame , maybe another one which is better and funnier. And there is that boat sinking with no reason when you are far enough from the coast , I mean , maybe putting an automatic pilot to prevent the player from reaching the map limit? No , because wherever there is a sinking boat there is also a shark nearby , precisely a shark made of rubber. Sleeping Dogs has its defections and some of those defections are hateful , but still has much less (and less grave) defections than all other games of that kind , especially if compared to GTA which is pure garbage. Possible replies will never be read so to prevent some fanaticism.
@@tribalpyrotechnicsforrando2621 fucking hell i wasn't ready for that great wall of text when i clicked on read more
@@TommyEgan101 this game diff better than gta v lol
I've played it twice. I'm about to prepare for the third time. This game got me through some tough times. Happy I can play it on the steam deck now too. It's high treason that there isn't a sequel. Dammit there is a sqeual to almost everything now except the best stuff. Maybe it's better this way I don't know. I do love this game so much.
True. Reminds me when I was 16 playing this with my best friend. We're not friends anymore but the times were so amazing... Endless nights of summer
I 100% twice. I only did that with another game, Shadow Complex. This game is still amazing! I might go a third play.
I like the idea of those old school best-em-ups that had one off runs that just came, brought a good story and ended. I am kinda glad Sleeping Dogs doesn't have a sequel because it would betray the homage to that era of film making.
Yo how are you playing it on the deck!? Pls don’t tell me by dual booting it😅
Funny because im downloading it fir my third playthrough too, i olayed it last about 5 years ago
Now THIS is an entertaining game. Not too big to overwhelm you, lots of great activities, excellent hand to hand combat and gunplay, and a incredible recreation of Hong Kong. I only hope a sequel is green lit, since there’s a lot of potential to expand on from the base game.
The dev went under years ago.
heard about the live action w/ donnie yen, but its been years since announcement, i aint leaning to its release
Nah, there's going to be no sequel to this. There was going to be about 5-6 years back, but Square Enix was the publisher, they got greedy and midway through the dev time demanded the game be turned into a shitty MMO. It went into beta in 2015 and was bad enough that it was shut down by the end of the year.
Just enjoy this game, this is all anyone is ever getting of this series.
hi did we play the same game? there's menus upon menus and it's not well signalled
@@VMonkies definitely will do that after hearing that :/
My sister actually works in Hong Kong, and when i showed her the game she's actually very impressed by how well Sleeping Dogs captured that vibe of Hong Kong. Of course pedestrians arent on the same level but the ambient sound and the smaller details really makes it the most authentic virtual Hong Kong so far.
There’s a few comments saying the same it makes me appreciate the game a lot more knowing it’s so authentic
yeah, until TDU solar crown released, this game is still the most accurate representation of Hongkong.
Something rarely mentioned is how amazing the music and the radio stations were, I picked up a lot of great artists listening to the radio just driving, artists I still listen to until now, more than 10 years later. I am hoping we witness another Sleeping Dogs in this generation or the next, this game is a gem.
So true, I enjoyed the music when I played as a kid but during a recent play through I started listening to many artists that played on the radios🔥🔥🔥
Hudson Mohawke is goated
its been 11 years and i still use main theme as my phone ring tone
ninja tune ❤
@@nottucksfr that was the best station
I remember playing this to help me get over a breakup about 3 years ago and it was an incredible experience. It's easily one of my favourite games of all time
its always games that get us through hard times that mean the most to us
i was a little goober when. i played it
I have just had my first breakup at 30yrs old and the relationship was just one year. I am gonna buy a great gaming pc and play some great story game to divert my attention since I sold my old pc a few months ago. Can someone recommend a game with melee or FPS mechanics....but an awesome mature and emotional story?
My all time favourites are, watch dogs 1, Spec ops the line, far cry 3, far cry 4, Arkham origins, city, asylum and knight, tomb raider 2013 etc
@@danishbashir4184 sounds like God of War would be right up your alley. One of the best stories in any game and awesome melee combat.
@@reedified6514 on my list now. Thanks.
Although I will definitely play, one more thing I forgot to add, I don't like monsters, vampires or excessively unrealistic things in games.
As you can see the games I liked in my previous comment have mostly human elements. Witcher 3 is not in that list as you can see. I am not saying, that the games I enlisted are completely realistic but you do understand what I mean. Saints Row is a NO. GTA 4 is a big yes. Witcher 3 is a no, final fantasy is a no. Assassin's creed (early titles) is a yes. Now recommend at least one or two more brother. Cuz I need to go crazy and go non stop full game completion of at least 3 games.... meaning at least one week of play time since I have summer vacations.
The pork bun vendor in Sleeping Dogs is one of the most memorable NPCs in all of videos games.
Agreed. Wish he would’ve shouted “cha siew bao” instead though 😅😂
“A man who never eats pork bun is never a whole man”
Ahh, such good memories with pork bun guy. Iconic.
He's right up there next with the cabbage merchant as the greatest extras ever.
Speaking of Rush Hour, I'm surprised you didn't mention that Big Smile Lee was voiced by Tzi Ma, who played Counsel Han in the first and third movies. The casting and voice work in this game was absolutely fantastic
The voice cast for this game is a love letter to those sorts of films.
@@CThaDonBOKC4LHe was Counsel in the first movie, but had become Ambassador in the 3rd.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve replayed this game. What a phenomenal experience all around.
Why would you replay this game? It's just the same three things over and over.
How many times have you replayed the game? Why won’t you tell me?
@@talentkid234 Because he can't! Didn't you read his comment??? He's a man of honor and gave his word to the triads. Wild dogs can't drag that number from him so don't even bother trying.
@@chadwickerman Why can't the dogs do that? Let me guess, they are ...sleeping?
@@TimCollins-by1ijbecause he liked it? A lot?
A sequel to this was, and still is, sorely needed. It's genuinely one of the best games to come out in the last 11 years.
Thanks for keeping the legacy alive!! I worked on this game and it was a career highlight.
Oh wow you did??? Thank you so much along with everyone else who worked hard on this game! I hope one day you guys can bounce back and get a sequel or a spiritual successor. 🫂
I only got into the game in 2020 and I absolutely loved it. Recently I have been having the itch to play it again xD
Your whole team did a good job with this game. So fun!
Thanks for the game bro!
Thanks alot for the game
Another fun fact about the combat, the special costumes you can buy from the night market unlock special moves for Wei based on the character the costume references for some of them. Like the Ip Man costume lets Wei do a quick wing chun windmil punch and such.
The Deus Ex costume is the coolest 😎
They never tell you this! Pretty sure the MMA and Muay Thai outfits from the tournament DLC also change the limb breaking moves.
This game feels like some weird fusion of tones of yakuza and GTA, and I’m all here for it.
Once I saw Sleeping Dogs for the first time. It reminded me a lot of Yakuza.
thats exactly what it is... it led me to discover yakuza!
@@zackearl3200 Yakuza is such a amazing series.. very deep and good messages in it too!
@@SethirophBayonet666 it’s some of the best writing ever for a video game series. And voice acting. It’s all just so amazing
@@zackearl3200 exactly man!
I love how filled in the social world of sleeping dogs was. The Chinese signage was great if you're a bit bilingual. The fashion was fantastic. The signs are gorgeous. The "effortlessly edgy" bit reminds me of the novel Water Margin Narration (水滸傳).
"A good art style is something that never ages". Very perceptive.
I have consistently played this game at least once a year for more than 7 years. And I will continue to do so, because I think it's one of the greatest games ever made.
The game feels authentic in it's edginess, I love the graphics and aesthetics all around and the fighting mechanics are just so satisfying. This game and the Yakuza ones are one of those things that will never leave my heart.
Also, the song Hudson Mohawke - Fuse just really stuck around with me till this day. It extends the nostalgia I have for this game. It brings me back to the time it first came out and I was younger...
I got my Son on this 1. He loves it
I walked around Hong Kong last year listening to it!! Couldn’t help myself
The wedding massacre from this game is burned into my memory. I always think back in this game fondly. It was a massive shame this game underperformed in sales at release. Holding on to a fool’s hope that with the popularity of remakes, delayed sequels, and spiritual successors in recent years we will finally get some sort of “sequel”.
Yeah isn't that a rule with the Mafia as a day of ceasefire? You don't hit up weddings, you don't hit up baptisms, and you don't hit up funerals.
Yes or just a revised True Crime franchise. If it kept up with the good ideas, akd had the blueprint of the OG true crimes it would be amazing with today's technology I bet.
As a huge fan of HK action films, this was basically a perfect game for me. It's everything Stranglehold promised to be and so, so much more. Its amazing the game came out as great as it did given all the drama during development.
Yeah, man. This is what we wanted.
I am pleasantly surprised with how solid the hand-to-hand combat. Makes me feeling like a badass with their brutal finishers and moves.
@@IzunaSlap one of the best movies I’ve ever seen in my life with a soundtrack that’s fucking insane
Sleeping Dogs was such an awesome game. I played the hell out of it back in high school. I actually got docked points on a driving test once because I accidentally started driving on the left side of the road.
I live in a country where we drive on the left but in sleeping dogs I always kept driving in the right like in GTA
😂
Remember, a man who never eats pork buns, is never a whole man
I love the npc's there xD
For such a goofy game the story hits you hard sometimes. I remember very little of the story, but one scene that's been burned into my mind is when you find your buddy strung up from a meat hook. It's a fairly graphic scene, but it hits so much harder due to the fact that you've spent large parts of the game engaging with and becoming friends with this character and the protagonists voice actor really sells the panic and horror, desperately trying to save his friend even though it's clearly too late.
His death hits me because he was desperatly trying to escape from the conflict alive. He was almost buried alive prior to his death and Wei tried to find him a way out, so there was a brief sense of hope that he would survive, but it was too late as he found his corpse later on.
Yeah that scene is awful. Jackie deserved better.
I always remember the Wedding level too, always thought that was brutal
Tbf it was not very belivable since it was *extremely* obvious that something like this will happen yet Wei still let Jackie walk around alone, especially after, you know, him being buried alive a day before. And in overall story got weakier towards the end sadly.
Wedding scene was harder ;(
What I remember most was the cop reveal to Jackie.
God this game is so good. I wish they would have kept this franchise going.
It probably would've had Square Enix not been involved in publishing it.
Square Enix was notorious with how they handled IPs that were developed overseas during this era.
My guy it sold like shit so of course SE won't green lit a sequel
square sold some ips to embracer, i think this one was included.
@@lebrunjemz687 well then it's double dead, considering they cut a bunch of IPs after their $2 billion acquisition died in the last couple weeks.
Sleeping Dogs will always be a masterpiece for me. I finished this multiple times and thinking of replaying this again. It is criminally underrated. Its the Bruce Lee game I’ve always wanted. Love this game so much!
Great game. It just has so much going for it. Good protagonist, good side characters, great story with loads of twists, unreal fighting mechanics. I remember when I first played it I just spent hours fighting people.
Pretty good free running aswell. Being able to arrest people and put people in the trunks. Racing actually had car classes you had to use. Gambling on Illegal cock fights was pretty fun. The side activities were all pretty decent. Gun fights had simple but effective mechanics.. the fighting is apprently where the most effort and time went to for gameplay. It was always fun never got old. Between different combos, using weapons like a fish, and enviormental attacks it just was a blast
This is one of my all-time favorite games. The melee combat is just so fun and the story is really good.
I forget about this one.. It’s like GTA meets Yakuza.. You would think it’d be related to the excellent Watch Dogs due to the similarities in name & such.. But I guess it isn’t.. Weird coincidence
@@Mintcar923 LOL , how much bs man. GTA is poop , Yakuza has nothing to deal with that apart from some stereotyped "culture" , Watch Dogs has nothing to deal with Sleeping Dogs , the storyline is very different and Watch dogs is about hacking , way more futuristic and the series was developed AFTER Sleeping Dogs , so Sleeping Dogs can't be related to Watch Dogs whatsoever. Saints Row is an absurd poop too , Driver is quite different and mostly focused on the sole driving. The driving system and shooting system in Sleeping Dogs are awesomely realized , the vehicles are inspired but and very well realized , the dynamics are great and immersiveness is greatly realized along the culture of Hong Kong. All of this in GTA is just junk with tons of useless content badly united , that's why Sleeping Dogs is famous and was much more bought while GTA is just filled with selling lies and propaganda , but in reality everybody practically realizes and knows it's just a failure played by almost only a bunch of exhibitionists. You get tired playing GTA V in a couple of weeks , just to summarize because one could write about that till tomorrow: far too easy , horrible driving system , junky shooting system , ridiculous and unrealistic story , ugly vehicles inspired but with lack of creativity and realism , horrendous map (but just depends on the country where the story is set) , silly lies-concepts written on the screen which would like to make the game fun but just make it ridiculous , police shooting and hitting automatically even if they shoot to a different direction because the aimbotted bullets just reach the target , police cars crashing at you at high speed which in reality would result in a suicide...there is nothing realistic and as a consequence of these dynamics the chases are all the same , and it comes that moment that you understand police guys have fear about entering the sewer , so every time things go like this: you put yourself in front of an npc girl , after 7 seconds she says "I call the police!" "What? I'm not doing anything" "I call the police! I really do" , you hear the police coming to shoot at you because you did what? No problem , that's what you are waiting for anyway , you drill the girl with loads of bullets and you calmly observe her painted face since she was running at 0.000001 mph , so you just start making some havoc , maybe with the rocket launcher you easily buy cheap at the market (XD) , then you reach the sewer and you wait for the bot cops running towards you straight and comitting suicide under your fire without any possible logic and tactics (but considering it is set in the USA , I may say this latter aspect is quite near to the real) , then , when you are tired to see those 5 stars on the screen , you just finish to slay the last wave and you run in the sewer , stars are set to 0 , repeat. As alternative , when you don't want to see skyscrapers you can change the settings and fly away by stealing a low quality jet fighter from Fort Zancudo and then you reach the sewer with a parachute. And then there are codes , you may call them cheats but they are not cheats because they are a normal official part of the game , so calling them "cheats" is wrong , anyway the purpose of those codes is essentially prolonging your gaming experience for 5 minutes before you get tired of them too. What is more "dangerous" in GTA are actually people trying to put you under the wheels of their cars or to crash their cars towards yours during chases , everybody are so gladly willing to damage their car or to get a bullet on the head just because you have a gun in your hands or you are chased by the police , they couldn't even buy a bycicle because they walk or drive all the time without ever entering a building , it's completely unrealistic but is done just in case you start sleeping too much in the middle of the boredom , they remind you not to be too distracted and to actually play a videogame , maybe another one which is better and funnier. And there is that boat sinking with no reason when you are far enough from the coast , I mean , maybe putting an automatic pilot to prevent the player from reaching the map limit? No , because wherever there is a sinking boat there is also a shark nearby , precisely a shark made of rubber. Sleeping Dogs has its defections and some of those defections are hateful , but still has much less (and less grave) defections than all other games of that kind , especially if compared to GTA which is pure garbage. Possible replies will never be read so to prevent some fanaticism.
@@tribalpyrotechnicsforrando2621 "replies will never be read" lol guy nobody is reading your reply either get a grip🤣
@@tribalpyrotechnicsforrando2621I really love sleeping dogs but saying gta is poop, all these game like true crime, sleeping dogs saints row, mafia and etc. existed because of gta. Fatherless behavior coming from u lmaooo
same
I've replayed this game so many times and I still love playing it. The combat is so quick, flashy and brutal while the driving and shooting are so fast paced and kinda arcadey it doesn't get old even when you've played the game multiple times. I wish the sequel wasn't cancelled
You have butchered my beautiful name. It is not spelt like that!
@Mr. Ditkovich I know, I'm from an alternate universe where people pay rent
As a game designer, this video just makes me appreciate my childhood games more. Moreover, I want to appreciate how amazing this video was made and edited!
i remember playing this with 0 expectations, and it was so good. i loved it
gonna buy it 10 years late but aight
@@Kizzy_B its great
Whoever decided to combine cinematic martial arts with an Arkham style control scheme should win a lifetime achievement award.
It is such a obvious good combination that I’m surprised not so many games do it
@@pochiluis0570 I want a Hong Kong martial arts RPG that's like a Jackie Chan movie, the on-foot gameplay would basically be Sleeping Dogs and the bits in between would be Alpha Protocol. Maybe a more developed parkour/stunt system, but that's it.
@@jasonmoyer i want something on the style of uncharted, you know the hand to hand combat of the uncharted games? Well something like that, i had this idea on my head since I saw how games like the ps4 Spider-Man takes inspiration of the Arkham fighting mechanics and used on a more “street dirty fighting” scenario like the prison flashback of uncharted 4 where drake, his brother and the other dude are fighting in prison.
It's a real shame we don't see games like this anymore. The getaway was another great game.
yakuza?
Not only Yakuza is still doing games like this, but has being doing it way before Sleeping Dogs, the ispiration it's pretty obvious
Grand theft auto ?
@@simonemannai8117 yakuza is similar but the setting got boring over the years, would be cool if they finally added a bigger map with cars etc
@@simonemannai8117not my cup of tee rly
Totally warms my heart to see a video on a genuinely incredible game from so long ago, that flew under so many peoples radars getting over half a million views in 1 week!
This game IS a masterpiece! And a reminder of what actual good games were before all the micro-transactions, live services, rushed poorly performing, broken and cut stuff behind paywalls. I own the Definitive Edition and is still a blast to play even today. Thank you for the trip down memory lane! Now ... I might have to play this again :D .
I think the reason why the brutality of sleeping dogs hits better than in something like Kane & Lynch is because there are proper highs to offset the lows. Like there are a lot of genuinely positive and happy moments the cast of characters experience that both make them more likeable to the audience as well as serve to stand in stark contrast to when shit hits the fan. If everything just starts bleak and stays bleak then brutal moments really just don’t stand out nearly as much.
bleh, kane and lynch is straight up boring. Yes it has "story" but the gameplay was repetitive and copy-paste to each other. their characters are bland too, unlike weishen.
It was just a good game, bro. Dont overthink it.
"Proper highs too offset lows" okay calm down dude
@@dewmontain123 I'm just analyzing exactly why it was a good game, bro. You calm down, dude.
@@dewmontain123Retarded comment. Kane and Lynch fan
@@dewmontain123”it was just a good game bro” yes….because of these reasons? Lmao the utter lack of media literacy is hilarious
This is one of those games i have replayed multiple times and i still don't get tired of it. I love this game so much and really hope they somehow can make a sequel.
same, also the game runs well on an HD7450 1GB for its visual style, which it has its own appeal and still digestible even up to this day.
There was a sequel in development at one point, but it got canceled.
I think the devs went out of business some time ago, so that really sucks.
@@SL4PSH0CK You too? I ran this game extremely well on my old laptop with an AMD card.
I haven't played this game in a long time but one thing I won't forget is in the finale where Wei gets drilled in the leg and after a bit off time can start running like normal.
The devs obviously planned more with the romance options.
Shame we didn't get to see them realize the game in its perfect state.
I remember this game not only looking this good, but also being very well optmized. I had a crap PC back then and it run flawless.
The goal of the game is sexual intercourse with white women
same bro
FR optimization is very great I have no stuttering or even drop FPS
Same. I played on a shitty laptop where I hooked it up to my tv screen, and it still looked beautiful at medium graphics.
It's a testament to how modern AAA devs 10+ years later, are really just getting lazy when their games somehow look worse and can't even run properly on a 4090, let alone a budget system.
I remember playing this game a LOT when I was younger. I really liked the story, karaoke, and all the cool fighting mechanics (like using the environment to your advantage). I even had the police scanner in Wei’s room and liked listening to it (cause my father had an actual police scanner). Now I get my beat ‘em up fix from Yakuza games which are pretty similar in fighting and wacky side missions.
I always really loved this game, and it is one of the few games I have replayed multiple times on multiple different platforms just to experience it all over again. One of the most unique settings I've seen in an open world game, and it has a really good and engaging story too. I have nothing but praise for Sleeping Dogs.
The odd balance of quirkiness and dark/realistic themes in this game was my favourite part, it has action movie like instances with car jumping etc. but also keeps things mostly grounded.
Really fun game, I even consider it more fun than GTA V personally, so memorable that I remembered basically everything from the parts of the city to the missions you show in the video.
And that one attack with fast jabs and a hard punch, Dim Mak or something was something I tried on a friend because I saw it in this game lol.
Dim Mak is so powerful that the game doesn't allow you to use it on bosses.
Wei Shen is the sort of protagonist I would prefer GTA had (other than Niko Bellic), who might do some really shady stuff but are still characters you want to root for, rather than end up as inhumane psychos who act unapathetic towards everything around them.
@@leithaziz2716 I feel the same, GTA V had great gameplay but the characters were forgettable if not for their pretty good performances.
Their personalities were pretty mild, the entire game felt like playing a high budget Hollywood movie, which isn't a bad thing but it was definitely less inspiring than GTA IV.
@@keatonwastaken I wouldn't say they were forgettable, the problem was that I actively grew to dislike them with time. Michael comes of as a backstabber who acts like his skin is worth saving above everyone else, Trevor sometimes pretends that he has morals but then is a complete psycho the next minute, and Franklin is...kinda boring?
Even past protagonists like Tommy in Vice City have a simillar issue. CJ was still somewhat psychotic but at the very least you could tell he genuinely cared for his family, friends and gang members. And then Niko is the only one who's genuinely sympathetic and morally gray in a way that's complex. I get that these are sandbox games where you're giving the player too much freedom, but with Wei and Niko there's an attempt to ground them despite their actions.
@@keatonwastaken Wei Shen was genuinely likeable, whereas Trevor, Michael and Franklin were a bunch of assholes.
It’s been over a decade but Dogeyes still gets me all riled up
Dogeyes proved to be a massive prick during the first half of the game
Then Big Smile Lee decides to one-up him
So nice to see videos of how great this game is still being uploaded 👌 this is one of my favorite games. Purchased it on release and bought the definitive edition a few years back to replay it
One of my favorite video games. It was perfectly paced and it doesn't over pad it's length. Super fun.
I played Sleeping Dogs ages ago before I had a chance to play the Yakuza series of games. But now that I have, I feel like there's a number of parallels you can draw between the two games. Like the more personal set of sidequests, the environmental takedowns and the more involved combat system.
To say nothing of the internal politics of Asian crime syndicates, the fairly ridiculous situations you get roped into, karaoke, etc.
Alpha protocol is by far the greatest
I love Sleeping Dogs but could not get on with the combat or wildly oscillating tone of Yakuza.
You just had to say the dirty word "Yakuza" in order for me to play it.
@@UltimaPowerslol, another case of someone getting filtered by Yakuza's combat system.
I will never forget the wedding, and the lead up. One of my favorite set of missions ever.
Played this like 6 years sgo when i was teen still remember it
Gman, these reviews are always good tier. Your editing is outstanding and your points are always funny. Just excellent, as always
I loved this game. Came out when I was a sophomore in high school and had nothing going on and I spent hundreds of hours messing around with this game's missions and open world. Super solid gameplay and just the right amount of over the top spectacle. Never got tired of the environmental finishers and the diving out of or between cars in slow motion.
Same, I would never forget afternoons after school where I would play this gem and play Kiara by Bonobo whenever it would rain
This game definitely deserves a sequel, the Hong Kong scenery is awesome
I saw that Hong Kong is really kinda New York on a mountain.
@@Invidente7 Except Hong Kong as a city grew very organically so locations have great diversity unlike New York which is just tall skyscrappers with roads. Playing a game set in New York will suck
HEISENBERGFAM is everywhere.
Sleeping Dogs is one of my absolute all-time favorite Games. It's such a shame we never got a Sequel
Wathcing your videos I always get the feeling, that we could have been good buddies back when I was into gaming full time :)
Thank you for making content, and bringing these good memories back!
Keep them coming!
I wish they had a sequel or remaster of this game. It's so damn fun at times! Like I wish Sleeping Dog's car combat was in GTA 5.
It still holds up really well on current gen, I still have it downloaded on my Series X and it looks surprisingly great.
There *was* an MMO, got no marketing and is already shut down.
Fun fact: Some of the developers of Sleeping Dogs were former developers of EA Black Box, the studio that made the Need for Speed games of the 2000s such as Underground 1 and 2, Most Wanted 2005, Carbon, Prostreet and Undercover. That's why the handling model for Sleeping Dogs has that arcade-feel to it.
(Also supposedly some former Midnight Club developers also worked on the game which would explain why the handling model is similar to the Midnight Club series but I might be wrong on that.)
They had the ps4 remaster. This was originally a 360/ps3 game
hi nanachi the new version has all the DLC and better graphics on console if on PC no limits
It's criminal this game never received a well deserved sequal
*receives sequel
*becomes woke
Comments:
"it should've ended with sleeping dogs"
"maybe we shouldn't asked for a sequel"
"why woke?"
"wokeness ruined yet another game"
@@IskenderCaglarM41B441actually now I’m glad it doesn’t have a sequel.
Wokeness ruins everything
@IskenderCaglarM41B441 Definitely what would happen if they were to do it nowadays. It would've been awesome if they could've started on another addition right after the first.
@@ayetbone Just the dumbest take. Just because the most mainstream games have gone "woke" doesn't mean it has infiltrated the whole industry. Especially in the current times when lots of studios are forming out of "insert former X developer" devs.
What an excellent video, literally redownloading the definitive edition now cos it was released for Games for Gold back in like 2017 ish. What a throwback. One of my favourite games ever
Every time I go back to Sleep Dogs I’m reminded how graphic it is and brutal some of the moments it are. Such a great game.
Born too late to explore the world
Born too early to explore the space
Born just in time to eat pork bun and become a whole man
One of the best games ever made. The fact they never made another one is beyond me.
It because when they were making the game the developer ran out of money and went bank rupt and another company bought the game and finished it but it wasn't really popular back when it first released and so that why there is no sequel and it didn't get popular tell people found it as a hidden gem years later... I was wanting to play it but it said it's not available on the PS5 backwards compatibility because of a lot of technical issues and I didn't want to waist money on a game that crashes every 5 minutes
Because the company went bankrupt
No lies told
I have played this game since 2012, sold it, re-purchased it at least 3 or 4 times. I have completed the full story mode at least 10x or more and yet I still never get tired of it even know i know the outcome. To me the story is so deep and yeah just like other open world games it had its share of glitches and what not but that did not stop me from still enjoying this game until this very day and is my all time favourite open world game.
This game was one of the highlights of my final year in college. Great times playing and replaying levels with pals after classes. It was like playing a Hard Boiled sim fantasy mixed with grittiness of The Departed
Aah, Sleeping Dogs...This always reminds me of college, and playing it on a coursemate's laptop. I have the game on PC and PS4, yet haven't finished the game in a long time.
One of my favourite games of all time. The world, the aesthetic, the radio stations, the combat, the story, the side activities were just so good. Beat it three times. I would gladly play it it again and again.
James Hong is such a wonderful actor and voice actor; everything he's in is elevated by his presence. Instantly recognizable voice and just oozing with character.
This game still looks good. It’s been a long time since I’ve played Sleeping Dogs, and it’s one of the most under appreciated action open world games ever.
One of my favourite games of that generation and the one after. The most memorable one. Doesn’t just hold up, it would outright top the charts now.
When this game came out, I was 15 years old. I had my learners permit and I was driving my mom everywhere we went together. One day when she came by the school I got behind the wheel and immediately started driving on the left side of the road before she was like “WHAT ARE YOU DOING??!!”
I switched lanes and all I had to say was, “woah, I’ve been playing Sleeping Dogs WAY too much”
LOL it's different for me. In my country, we drive on the left side of the road. I played GTA too much that I'm getting used to drive on the right side. I don't have any problem with that irl since I've been driving on the left side since forever.
But, when I first played Sleeping Dogs, it somehow feels strange for me to drive on the left side even though I am used to left side. I was unable to fight the urge of driving on the right side because of GTA lol
You're lying dipshit
That’s gotta be the dumbest shit I’ve heard and I’ve heard some pretty dumb shit already this year .
I Don't believe that story even for a bit!
@@miyamoto900 okay :)
I chat with my brother a lot about games we used to play a ton of when we were younger and Sleeping Dogs always ends up getting brought up. I genuinely think it's one of my favourite games, up there with games like Hitman Blood Money, Halo Reach and Fable 2. Real glad to see it getting some serious love because it truly deserves it.
One of my favourite games! My favourite part is what the NPC's randomly shout in Cantonese cause i can understand 😂
I always said that Sleeping Dogs was the game that nearly came to the GTA level (in some aspects being far ahead). I really wish we could get a sequel that improves on bad things and keeps the good ones.
On what aspect did it come close to gta level? The only one I could think of is combat (even though it has shit ton of flaws) it doesn't do anything better.
Its above GTA level... hell even Saints Row series (1, 2, The Turd) is above GTA's :))
This entire game feels like an over the top action movie and I'm all for it. The way how cars overdramatically fly up in the air when you shoot the tires for example is something you'd definitely see in those movies.
I'm currently doing multiple playthroughs in a row. This is literally the best action videogame ever made. The fightin, the rolling gun fights, even the minigames and sidequests are fun to play.
It hurts knowing that they were working on a sequel and it got cancelled. RIP Sleeping Dogs! We will miss you!
IT IS a masterpiece. Literally the most underrated game of the last decade
It's not
Along with mad max
This game was neither a masterpiece nor the most underrated game of the last decade.
This game is known by a fair amount of people and is praised by almost everyone who have played it. I can only imagine you've played like 10-15 games from the last decade with all of them being extremely popular so this became underrated by default
P.s. don't hate me, I love this game. Just won't exaggerate that it's a masterpiece
@sharjeelahmed7913 man it got middling reviews when it came out and a lot of people were mad that it was a "gta clone" but it's literally better than gta 4 in every imaginable way. I'd say it's very much underrated.
@@sharjeelahmed7913 Sleeping Dogs is like the movie 'The Big Lebowski'. Its considered a classic today, but it get mid reviews when it released. If it wasn't underrated, it would have gotten a real sequel. Most underrated? Now that is debatable.
I used to love dressing as a cop and seeing the cutscenes of wade with the bad guys while everyone wonders who the cop is 😂
Sleeping dogs storyline is above every gta story they dont even come close.
Getting this game for my ps3 on Christmas will forever be one of my favorite memories
The hand to hand combat can be even more expansive with a DLC where you can learn a completely different fighting style. One of my favorite open world games.
The Drunken Style & Wing Chun
@@dominiquejones3805and the cursed style
Really wish there would be more games like this. The combat system is even better than in the Arkham games, and the special costumes and missions are MOST entertaining. Not to mention the convincing characters and interesting main story.
Arkham can be single button smash at times, I agree this game had various combos.
@@anonymousinfinido2540 Yeah, the reason I love this games combat so much is because it stays nice and simple while also adding just enough variety to make it feel like no two fights are ever exactly the same.
No its not as good not even compared to Asylum. But its close.
@@filippetrovic845 what?
Lmao this mid game doesn’t hold a candle to any of the Arkham games, sleeping dogs wasn’t even better than true crime New York City
seems like yesterday this came out. time truly flys by. amazing how games that came after this took heavy influence like mafia 3, watch dogs & even gta online
I like that the devs went to Hong Kong and interviewed current and ex Triad members, as well as cops from the organised crime squad.
They learned things unique to the HK underworld, like the mini bus extortion racket, which is apparently so profitable it's on the same level as drugs, with far lower sentences if they get caught - which makes it one of the most hotly contested rackets.
Little things like that make the setting feel so much more fleshed out.
“Like he just lost a fight with a brick wall”
Truly genius writing and execution of your video essay here, I never thought I would feel this great clicking on a CZcams video.
If it weren’t for you, I’d never recognize this beautiful art of a game.
One of few games I loved to play from the beginning just to experience the entire story and its contents over and over again.
My favorite thing about this game is just how broken the driving is. Like once your get in a car, you're invincible because of the ramming feature (which I also use as a boost to win races)
Road Runner records was lit man.
I miss this game.
I never realized how much I loved this game when I played it. Something about hearing Cantonese in a triple A game feels so much at home.
I wish you went into the DLCs they were interesting too
Yeah the dlcs were so fun
I used to love True crime streets of LA my dad and i played through the whole thing. One of my favourite memories growing up. Hes only sat through a handful of games so if it keeps his attention i was happy.
I still actively play this game done it a bout 4 times this year everything I love even the radio stations play some great songs and the characters from triads you slowly become to love
i love how the urban jungle environment has its verticality, i remember often free running or mantling thru environments and fighting on rooftops
Playing the remaster on the highest settings makes the crowds unlike anything in any other open world game, and it still runs really well.
Like an 8/10 game even with it being rushed to release, has the perfect mix of taking itself seriously and fun arcade gameplay.
This game was and is absolutely a fantastic piece of electronic art back then and now too. It amazes me in a bad way how it was soooo underrated plus no second instalment didn't come up..Would be a perfect surprise if the second part comes in the near future ..
played it years ago and its still one of my favorite
One of the few games I want to replay years later.
This game is legendary, it just feels like you're playing a really good hong kong action movie. One of my favourite games of all time for sure!
I agree wholeheartedly, this game holds up to this day. It's really a bummer that we may never get to see a sequel. One can dream
I really like this game. Played it a lot in my dorm during my college years. It felt like a proper Hong Kong action film in the 90s and 2000s. I just hoped there's more to it after the main story. Now I'm thinking of playing it all over again.
Gman should review the Greyhill Incident. I can’t believe the studio fumbled such an awesome idea for a video game, especially when supposed alien abduction stories are scary as shit.