Sleeping Dogs (video game)

Sleeping Dogs is a 2012 action-adventure open world video game developed by United Front Games and published by Square Enix.

Taking place in Hong Kong, the game has the Player Character in the role of Wei Shen, an undercover cop who infiltrates a triad gang called the Sun On Yee to bring it down from within. Its gameplay appears to take elements from many other series such as Grand Theft Auto, Just Cause, Max Payne, Batman: Arkham Asylum (especially the hand-to-hand combat system), and Assassin's Creed, mixing them all in one big package.

The game had originally begun development as the third game in the True Crime series and was orginally called True Crime: Hong Kong. Due to the poor reception and performance of the second game, however, as well as delays and budget overruns, Activision, the original publisher, canned it in 2010. Shortly after that, however, it was picked back up by Square Enix and renamed.

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Sleeping Dogs provides examples of the following tropes:

• Bullet Time
• Expy: The Sun On Yee triad's name is a reference to the real life triad gang called Sun Yee On.
• Ten-Radio Station Band
  • The Heroine - H-Klub Radio
  • The Lancer - Kerrang! Radio, Roadrunner Records
  • The Smart Guy - Warp Radio
  • The Big Guy - Sagittarius FM
  • The Chick - Real FM, Daptone Radio
  • Kid Appeal Character - Ninja Tune Radio
  • The Mentor - Boosey & Hawkes
  • Tenth Ranger / The Quiet One - Softly