Sleeping Dogs (formerly True Crime: Hong Kong)

wotzgoingon · 26-05-2012 9:34pm

Loved True crime streets of LA. Anybody else collect the bones and play as snoop Dog?

Zero-Cool · 26-05-2012 11:50pm

Ya man, I have great memories of driving a 6 4 as snoop listening to thuggish ruggish bone!

Head of square enix released statement saying activision were crazy for letting this go. have to agree.

Zero-Cool · 08-06-2012 6:12pm

Karaoke is confirmed as a mini game and I didn't have much interest until I saw this GIF. I'm fairly sure this is 'I ran so far' by Flock of Seagulls. Instant Vice City memory. I picked up Yakuza 3, just played the opening bit. Gonna give it a proper lash to get in the mood for Sleeping Dogs

E3 VID:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnu4s1t0M_s

Mensch Maschine · 08-06-2012 10:36pm

I try not to get too hyped for games these days incase they exceed my hopes. But....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvUekX7xkgs

PseudoFamous · 09-06-2012 2:35am

Potential-Monke wrote: »

I really hope that they're not over-hyping this and it ends up being pants like Saints Row 3. It does indeed look amazing though.

Saints Row 3 was actually a great game.

I would just like to say that there's a certain aspect of ridiculousness in games like Just Cause 2 and Saints Row 3 that makes them great funand incredibly playable. GTA San Andreas managed to show a touch of it, too. Your actions had no negative effect, and you could cause an RPG apocalypse while freefalling from five thousand feet.

GTA IV took itself too seriously, and was pure boring for me.

I'll probably be buying Sleeping Dogs, regardless, but unless I can do insane acts of carnage with ease and little consequence to break monotony, it won't be any fun. I want to play a free roaming game, not a true to life simulator.

wnolan1992 · 29-06-2012 3:59pm

There's an interview over on Gamasutra with some of the games' devs if anyone's interested.

When Grand Theft Auto got so popular, there was a mini-boom of open world games; but open world crime games didn't really solidify into a genre that a lot of companies worked with. It seems like Saints Row has really come into its own, as well. Do you think there's room to capture an audience?

Stephen van der Mescht: Absolutely; I think there's room. I think what we're trying to do with the game, specifically with it being an undercover cop story, is bring a different sort of model of perspective, or a different feel to it. The story is about being a cop, not about being a gangster or a thug. It's about facing those difficult decisions that people in undercover situations have to make.

Zero-Cool · 03-07-2012 11:23pm

Achievements/Trophies list revealed. Even more hyped for it now.

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/sleeping-dogs/achievements/

dreamers75 · 03-07-2012 11:28pm

PseudoFamous wrote: »

Saints Row 3 was actually a great game.

Complete rubbish compared to the rest tho, so any detractions are valid. I love saints row but 3 was a poor attempt.

wnolan1992 · 04-07-2012 12:17am

dreamers75 wrote: »

Complete rubbish compared to the rest tho, so any detractions are valid. I love saints row but 3 was a poor attempt.

OT I know, but I agree with you about SR3. I couldn't get into it at all. I felt they tipped the balance of craziness to the point where it just wasn't fun for me any more. SR2 is by far the best of them imo.

sheehy83 wrote: »

Achievements/Trophies list revealed. Even more hyped for it now.

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/sleeping-dogs/achievements/

The ones that make me excited:

*spoilered just in case.

*

Purchase all vehicles.
Purchase all clothing.
Achieving 90% and above for all songs at the Karaoke Bars in HK.
Hijack 5 trucks and collect their cargo.
Win 50,000 on a single cockfight.
Kill someone with a fish.

Zero-Cool · 06-07-2012 11:12am

Some nice outfits here!

Sephiroth_dude · 06-07-2012 1:30pm

anyone know what the pc specs are?

wnolan1992 · 06-07-2012 3:16pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

anyone know what the pc specs are?

Not sure how reliable these are but:

Minimum Requirements
CPU: Celeron E1200 Dual-Core 1.6GHz / Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3600+
Graphics: GeForce 510 / Radeon HD 4350
RAM: 2 GB
OS: Win Xp 32bit
DirectX: DX 9
HDD Space: 9 GB

Predicted Requirements
CPU: Core 2 Duo E8300 2.83GHz / Athlon II X3 400e
Graphics: GeForce GTX 260 / Radeon HD 4870
RAM: 4 GB
OS: Win 7 64bit
DirectX: DX 9
HDD Space: 9 GB

Source

Sephiroth_dude · 06-07-2012 3:28pm

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Not sure how reliable these are but:

Minimum Requirements
CPU: Celeron E1200 Dual-Core 1.6GHz / Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3600+
Graphics: GeForce 510 / Radeon HD 4350
RAM: 2 GB
OS: Win Xp 32bit
DirectX: DX 9
HDD Space: 9 GB

Predicted Requirements
CPU: Core 2 Duo E8300 2.83GHz / Athlon II X3 400e
Graphics: GeForce GTX 260 / Radeon HD 4870
RAM: 4 GB
OS: Win 7 64bit
DirectX: DX 9
HDD Space: 9 GB

Source

Q9300 quad core @2.50ghz
4 gigs ram
Gtx 260

Hopefully she'll run ok :-)

Anyone else getting this for pc?

Zero-Cool · 08-07-2012 12:11pm

looks bloody brilliant, watch in HD. Random gameplay showing fighting, driving, racing, chasing and shooting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvUekX7xkgs

wnolan1992 · 08-07-2012 2:00pm

^^Aw fook yeah!

Pre-ordering soon. Only a month to go.

Zero-Cool · 09-07-2012 9:16am

New vid of gameplay. That same old level they showed a few times before but devs made a list of improvements and showing it off in this vid. Nice how the enemies don't have red circles under them anymore.

*lighting/shadows look greatly improved,
*facial expression and details on NPCs look great(those three guys @ 3:08 look awesome),
*the phone looks better designed and disappears in a stylish fashion,
*Lanterns now sway in the wind,
*Wei now screams in pain when hurt,
*shop items at the stand are now 3d objects instead of 2d images of watches,
*seems more populated,
*casual NPC push added(pushing people out the way when your walking),
*You can now see into a lot of the windows,
*light is actually coming up from those skylights and you can see in them as well,
*damaged fan now smokes after being destroyed by enemies face,
*ragdoll physics seem greatly improved,
*and the fighting seems to have been great sped up so you're not waiting for guys to attack you, keeps things very tense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkQn4se9L3o

Zero-Cool · 09-07-2012 10:21am

New gameplay from Day 2 at the expo. 14 minutes of awesome. This just looks unreal!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhsmfuaLTQQ

funky penguin · 09-07-2012 1:09pm

He royally fecked up the show piece stunt at the end there! ha!

Seph503 · 09-07-2012 2:01pm

This game is looking absolutely savage:cool:

Pre-ordered.

Zero-Cool · 09-07-2012 2:06pm

funky penguin wrote: »

He royally fecked up the show piece stunt at the end there! ha!

HAHA ya bad ending alright, so bad they decided to just quit the demo. Sleeping Dogs is looking like the perfect mix of realistic gritty story (gta) and crazy antics (saints row)

Zero-Cool · 10-07-2012 7:17pm

Gamesnash.ie have this up for pre-order now. Just ordered myself, can't waaaaaaaaait!

PS3:
http://gamesnash.ie/index.php?main_p...oducts_id=2416

Xbox:
http://gamesnash.ie/index.php?main_p...oducts_id=2417

wnolan1992 · 10-07-2012 7:21pm

Video was gas. Love the way he looks around himself at the end then seems to just go "Eh, Feck it, that's Sleeping Dogs!" :P

Really made the game look cool, the fighting and shooting look class.

The only doubts I have about it are the driving. They look very arcadey(similar to Saints Row). I'd prefer a more GTAIV style.

Really looking forward to it though.

SeantheMan · 11-07-2012 3:31pm

The fighting looks extremely boring.

You have 6 men around you, and they all seem to just wait for you to finish with 1 guy.
Only on 1 or 2 occassions have I seen someone trying to help out their buddy getting pummelled or interrupt you, and when they do it's useless and obvious

It should be made more like batman

Zero-Cool · 11-07-2012 3:36pm

Ya, have to say it does look crap how only one guy attacks at a time but the devs have made changes since e3 and it was in one of the newer vids that other guys tried to jump in as well. Comic Con will be showing new footage in the next few days, we might see more of it then.

As long as it's better than the spiderman combat system!

wnolan1992 · 11-07-2012 3:42pm

I wouldn't mind a combat system like the Assassin's Creed ones. Granted it gets a little repetitive, but you (well at least me) feel like a complete badass when there're 6 dudes lying dead in the street. :P

I just can't wait to throw a guy into the boot of a car and drive off in it. :P

Zero-Cool · 11-07-2012 3:45pm

Ah I hope it's not like Assassins Creed, hated that fighting system.

But yeah, I'm definitely gonna pull up beside some civilian, grab em and put em in the trunk, then drive up some Hong Kong montain, take him out and throw him off the top!

wnolan1992 · 11-07-2012 3:46pm

sheehy83 wrote: »

Ah I hope it's not like Assassins Creed, hated that fighting system.

But yeah, I'm definitely gonna pull up beside some civilian, grab em and put em in the trunk, then drive up some Hong Kong montain, take him out and throw him off the top!

Nothing like an open world game to bring out the psycho in us. :pac:

Sephiroth_dude · 11-07-2012 3:51pm

anyone else getting this for pc?

PseudoFamous · 11-07-2012 4:30pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

anyone else getting this for pc?

I plan on it, yeah.

Sephiroth_dude · 11-07-2012 10:01pm

Will it have xbox controller support for pc?

Zero-Cool · 12-07-2012 9:04am

Check out this guy playing SD at Comic Con with 3 screens and in 3D!

Zero-Cool · 13-07-2012 7:39pm

40 minutes of gameplay vid below. The whole start of the game, I skipped the cutscenes, but wow this looks impressive!!

The NPC's picking their noses was gas.

http://www.videogamer.com/videos/sleeping_dogs_extended_play.html

Zero-Cool · 14-07-2012 2:42pm

Video overload from comic con!

Tour of the apartment. Load of other vids below it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KYx1ORThGA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CcnnnqUOMg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD2kweSF1js&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQW6WlD1ZQY&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rC1gBLOOK8&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxrbcMX1HnE

wnolan1992 · 14-07-2012 3:31pm

sheehy83 wrote: »

Video overload from comic con!

Tour of the apartment. Load of other vids below it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KYx1ORThGA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CcnnnqUOMg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD2kweSF1js&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQW6WlD1ZQY&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rC1gBLOOK8&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxrbcMX1HnE

The driving looks better in that drag race than it did in the previous videos you posted. Still a bit arcadey for my tastes, but I'll make my peace with it.

The fighting looks fun, but not if you didn't like Assassin's Creed I'd say.

One thing I noticed, when he was wrecking the car, both headlights stopped working when he hit the hood on the right hand side. Hope they fix that.

Still psyched for this, but I don't think these vids will win over anyone who wasn't converted already.

Browning2010 · 14-07-2012 5:26pm

When is this game out?

Best place to get it?

I loved TCSOLA, that's got to be a good few years old now, I can remember certain parts but nothing concrete.

wnolan1992 · 14-07-2012 5:33pm

Browning2010 wrote: »

When is this game out?

Best place to get it?

I loved TCSOLA, that's got to be a good few years old now, I can remember certain parts but nothing concrete.

Out August 14th.

Important to bear in mind that this was never intending to be a True Crime game. Activision just attached the name to it when the studio originally brought them a new IP.

Zero-Cool · 14-07-2012 7:14pm

Browning, its out august 17th in europe, I preordered mine from gamesnash.ie

The reason I didnt like assassins creed combat was because it was about stealth kills and then escaping but it was too easy to kill 20 guys and broke the atmosphere. Combat in this looks good, matches the feel of hong kong cinema. Fighting def looks better than previously and guys look to attack you at the same time.

Driving looks like a good mix of gta and saints row. Surveillance mini game looks interesting, dunno why he had that woman arrested though.

This makes me wanna watch some undercover cop kung fu films.

Sephiroth_dude · 14-07-2012 10:03pm

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Out August 14th. Important to bear in mind that this was never intending to be a True Crime game. Activision just attached the name to it when the studio originally brought them a new IP.

Its 14th in the u.s,17th in over here

wnolan1992 · 14-07-2012 10:57pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Its 14th in the u.s,17th in over here

Yeah, sorry about that. I keep mixing up the US/Europe dates for both this and ACIII. $:\$

Notorioux · 15-07-2012 3:15pm

Everything about the game looks good apart from the combat one AI attacking you at a time is kinda boring.

wnolan1992 · 15-07-2012 5:13pm

Another gameplay demo from SDCC from Gamespot.

http://comic-con.gamespot.com/video/6387194/sleeping-dogs-comic-con-2012-stage-demo

balkieb2002 · 15-07-2012 6:20pm

Youtube version of the above gamespot vid:

Disappointed about lack of dual wield (considering the setting) but still really looking forward to this one!

Zero-Cool · 16-07-2012 12:04pm

Yeah, strange that there's no dual wield in it.

That guy from Gamespot is one of the worst presenter/interviewers I have ever seen. He has been covering SD at comic con for gamespot but lads on the official forums flooded his twitter complaining when he cut SD coverage short because they showed too much halo 4.

Can a Mod delete the 'formerly true crime: hong kong' bit from the subject title please?

wnolan1992 · 16-07-2012 12:28pm

sheehy83 wrote: »

Yeah, strange that there's no dual wield in it.

That guy from Gamespot is one of the worst presenter/interviewers I have ever seen. He has been covering SD at comic con for gamespot but lads on the official forums flooded his twitter complaining when he cut SD coverage short because they showed too much halo 4.

Can a Mod delete the 'formerly true crime: hong kong' bit from the subject title please?

He's pretty woeful alright, his "banter" with the devs is woeful.

I'd leave it in the thread title, TC is a recognisable name and would draw people into looking at the thread. Be better to edit the first post and put in the new release date as well as the story behind the name change.

Sephiroth_dude · 16-07-2012 12:54pm

I hope the pc version now be a crappy port :>

Zero-Cool · 16-07-2012 1:26pm

wnolan1992 wrote: »

I'd leave it in the thread title, TC is a recognisable name and would draw people into looking at the thread. Be better to edit the first post and put in the new release date as well as the story behind the name change.

Yeah thats true alright, I'm afraid this is going to go under a lot of peoples radars. Really hope they increase the difficulty of the fighting, looks too easy at the moment

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

I hope the pc version now be a crappy port :>

The devs said the PC version was built from the ground up to take advantage of the new graphics cards on the market. No sign of official specs yet though.

Zero-Cool · 17-07-2012 11:43am

New gameplay vid from 1:30 on. Looks like either a triad or cop upgrade includes getting a bar to jimmy cars with making them faster to break into.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv_z6RJ-IUc

Zero-Cool · 17-07-2012 6:53pm

Check out the Voice Cast, Emma Stone, Lucy Liu and a few boys from The Dark Knight and Infernal Affairs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYXOANLzuJw

Zero-Cool · 19-07-2012 2:25pm

Been some leaks of magazines with review scores. If these are true, then things are looking good.

600x-1

balkieb2002 · 19-07-2012 2:51pm

sheehy83 wrote: »

Been some leaks of magazines with review scores. If these are true, then things are looking good.

PIC

Yeah looking good indeed though unfortunately they are console reviews. Hoping the PC will be getting similar (or better considering its not a console port!)

Sleeping Dogs (formerly True Crime: Hong Kong)

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