Sleeping Dogs: 5 things we can’t wait for

Sleeping Dogs has been through hell and back. Originally starting out as an entry in the True Crime franchise, Activision lost faith in their action-infused IP.

Thankfully, Square-Enix saw the potential within the concept and backed United Front Games to produce the goods.

Sleeping Dogs has already impressed us in our hands-on preview, and with the game merely weeks away, there’s a few things we can’t wait to do in Hong Kong.

Kung-fu authenticity

Sleeping Dogs prides itself on its hand-to-hand combat and Kung Fu-inspired heritage, and Square-Enix are promising to deliver that thanks to the free-flow combat system.

Rocksteady Studios (the team behind Batman: Arkham City and Batman: Arkham Asylum) consulted United Front with their fighting system to ensure that it has the right pedigree behind it.

Flying Cars

Cars will be flying in Sleeping Dogs; not because it’s set in the future, but because Wei will be involved in a lot of vehicular chaos, resulting in flaming, flipping and exploding cars.

Illegal street races will also be standard-fare in Wei-Shen’s climb to the top of the Triad hierarchy.

Catch me if you can

There’s something so simple yet so intense about chasing down an escaping perpetrator.

Sleepings Dogs will feature a bunch of on-foot chase sequences, requiring Wei-shen to acrobatically make his way through busy markets, rooftops and streets to close in on his enemy and take them down.

Action movies – eat your heart out

The inspiration for Sleeping Dogs comes from a lot of Hong Kong cinema and Hollywood action movies.

Jumping from the roofs of cars, slow motion gunplay and over-the-top kills are all part of a day out for undercover detective Wei-shen.

Respecting honour

While Sleeping Dogs is an action romp of note, it doesn’t let the story elements take a back seat.

With a strong cast, including Emma Stone, Lucy Liu, Tom Wilkinson, Kelly Hu, and Lindsay Price (to name a few), expect a deep and winding story that’ll have some twists in Wei’s Triad infiltration attempt.