Do you remember of the project True Crime: Hong Kong, conducted by United Front Games (the studio behind ModNation Racers) and funded by Activision? Not much, especially because the publisher, most of the funds concerned to steer the Call of Duty and Blizzard games, canceled True Crime: Hong Kong, manufacturers can be found in the unpleasant situation of having to finish the game alone or just simply to abandon it completely.
However, the landscape came from the Square Enix, the Japanese publisher tradition, becoming more interested in grabbing a significant share of the market for western games (titles such as Deus Ex: Human Revolution and the new Tomb Raider stand as testimony in this regard). The Japanese took over funding and publication of the old True Crime: Hong Kong, offering those in United Front Games and support the production segment of the London studios of Square Enix. With this transition from one publisher to another, the game was renamed Sleeping Dogs.
Even if the name was changed, the basic gameplay remains the same: we will have sections of hand fights, shootouts and spectacular car chases in a virtual replica of contemporary Hong Kong. The hero is the undercover cop Wei Shen, whose main objective is infiltration and destruction of triads’ mafia from the city, in a style reminiscent of John Woo’s films. Moreover, manufacturers have placed a special emphasis on fighting melee combat system letting to be one of the most complexes until now. To celebrate the resurrection of Sleeping Dogs, Square Enix has made a promotional movie with real actors also were offered the first official pictures of Sleeping Dogs.
