{"id":40752,"date":"2012-07-04T15:36:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T13:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=40752"},"modified":"2012-07-04T15:38:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T13:38:32","slug":"sleeping-dog-dev-has-respect-for-gta-but-throws-a-punch-at-the-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/40752-sleeping-dog-dev-has-respect-for-gta-but-throws-a-punch-at-the-competition","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping Dog dev has “respect” for GTA, but throws a punch at the competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Given all the talent that has gone into the various facets of gameplay, Sleeping Dogs is looking to be one polished experienced, but given the open-world nature of the game, comparisons to the Grand Theft Auto series is inevitable.<\/p>\n

When asked about going up against the long-running king of the sandbox, United Front’s Stephen van der Mescht said that “there’s room” for a new game to exist alongside the GTA and Saints Row series.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

“As far as the game itself goes, I think everybody does something a bit differently,” he went on. “GTA is obviously the grandfather of them all, and we have a ton of respect for what they managed to accomplish within the open world genre. Saints Row, I think, has carved out a really interesting niche for themselves. They obviously go for the real over-the-top gameplay style.<\/p>\n

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United Front have a point of pride in Sleeping Dogs’ free-flow hand-to-hand king fu action. “We’ve taken a different turn with ours, and we’ve really pushed much more on the hand-to-hand mechanics than any of our competitors. When it comes down to the core combat system – melee combat, using melee weapons, bringing the environment into the combat system – there’s going to be stuff that people are going to be able to do in this game that they can’t do at all in other open world games.<\/p>\n

“Hong Kong cinema – a lot of the movies have classic martial arts combat, fluid, being able to move around the environment, fight people, use the environment in really interesting ways – that’s something we’re really passionate about. If you could get to feel like Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee, Chow Yun-Fat, or one of those guys in an open world setting, that’d feel pretty awesome.”<\/p>\n

Sleeping Dogs<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is set to release on 14 August.<\/p>\n

Source: Gamasutra<\/a> via OXM<\/a><\/h5>\n

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United Front Games feel Sleeping Dogs can deliver a punch to open-world games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":38482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,3776,505,2219,2414,1472,2322,211,4250,3777],"class_list":["post-40752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-avalanche-studios","tag-ea-black-box","tag-megarom","tag-megarom-interactive","tag-rocksteady-studios","tag-sleeping-dogs","tag-square-enix","tag-united-front-games","tag-wei-shen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40766,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40752\/revisions\/40766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}