Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition

Game Info

The Definitive Edition of the critically acclaimed, award winning open-world action adventure, reworked, rebuilt and re-mastered for the new generation. With all previously available DLC included and a wealth of tech and visual improvements, Hong Kong has never felt so alive. A vibrant, neon city teaming with life, Hong Kong’s exotic locations and busy streets and markets hide one of the most powerful and dangerous criminal organizations in the world: the notorious Triads. Play as Wei Shen – the highly skilled undercover cop trying to take down the Triads from the inside out. You'll have to prove yourself worthy as you fight your way up the organization, taking part in brutal criminal activities without blowing your cover. Destroy your opponents in brutal hand-to-hand combat using an unmatched martial arts system. Dominate Hong Kong’s buzzing streets in thrilling illegal street races and tear it up in explosive firearms action. Sleeping Dogs’ Hong Kong is the ultimate playground.

Name

Companies

United Front Games

Released

10/10/2014

Platforms

Mac, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One

Type

Shooter, Racing, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure

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Reviews

Sunday, August 11, 2024 8:14:19 AM

18 Steam users votes up

WeeHammy

Steam user

I've had Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition in my Steam library since I made my steam account. I've neglected to play it for a stupidly long time. I played it once in 2018 (some achievements unlocked then) and then it gathered dust in my backlog. I recently just got to it as I'm cleaning my backlog and I've not had this much fun on a game for a long time.
Sleeping Dogs back then - 2012 PS3 - was an astonishing game. It was way ahead of it's time in terms of game-play, open world and combat. Does it stand now in 2024 onward? Is the definitive edition worth it? Well, below I will give my opinion and a pros and cons list but first, a small disclaimer!
This review is MY opinion, MY own personal experience and MY thoughts. I am brutally honest when it comes to reviewing games. If you do not like my opinion, my time or respect my personal experience, please move on.

Cons/Issues

⚫I had a constant bug the entire game. Whenever I pamped my horn I had a constant horn playing over all of my audio. It happened to me constantly. Even the slightest mistake of pamping made it happen. I fixed this by closing my game and verifying my steam files.
⚫The game is filled with bugs, glitches and audio problems (for me anyway). I encountered teleporting AI/NPC's, the AI driving MY car during a quest in circles or crashed into walls, my car randomly exploded when I got shot once and it failed my quest, no audio when I was punching or shooting people and so much more.
⚫Your camera can quickly escape you as sometimes it felt like it had a mind of it's own.

Pros

⚫An amazing in-game soundtrack to listen to while you drive around. Probably just as good as GTA V's radio, in my honest opinion. Not as much but still pretty damn good.
⚫A good sized map - Hong Kong - which is filled with people, cars,detail and stuff to do. It might look small but trust me, they have packed so much into it and that's astonishing for its age.
⚫The amount of content in this game will blow you away (remember it's age). You get to race, do demolition derbys in a "batmobile", solve crime as a police officer and lots of other side content for you to explore!
⚫The graphics are still pretty damn decent in 2024. Yes they are a tad dated but it still looks great for being and older game and not to be crude, the original Sleeping Dogs looked pretty rough around the edges so the Definitive Edition is a blessing on the eyes.
⚫The combat was VERY fluent and excellently designed. I loved every aspect of hand-to-hand combat and the gun-play.
⚫The game has a fantastic "STATISTICS SCREEN" to track all of your collectables, mission progress, world progress and anything else you might be looking for which lots of current gen games fail to include.
⚫Sleeping Dogs has an amazing amount of unique puzzles? puzzle solving mechanics? (for lack of better words) - you get to triangulate a persons location, pick lock doors, pick lock/hack lock-boxes, hack cameras and crack safes. After a while the mechanics for the lock-boxes does get stale.
⚫The story of Sleeping Dogs is absolutely FANTASTIC. UNFORGETTABLE. WELL-WRITTEN. It has a well engaging plot that is filled with so many memorable characters and moments.
⚫You get ALL 24 DLC with the definitive edition for free. Rather than making you pay for the DLC separately which is fantastic.

My Verdict

In 2012-2016 Sleeping Dogs was at it's prime. It has aged like fine wine and in my honest opinion, it is still one of the BEST open-world story-driven games we will ever be able to play. The combat is still phenomenal, the characters and story is/are unforgettable and the game offers so much content.
Bugs, glitches and flaws aside, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition is a must-buy and if you have NEVER experienced this game, you have no idea what you are missing out on.
Playing Sleeping Dogs in 2024 brings back so many memories from when I played it on my PS3 all those years ago. It really makes me pine for a true NEXT-GEN sequel but sadly... I don't think we will ever get to play a Sleeping Dogs 2.

8/10. Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition is an absolute MUST PLAY!!