Play it on: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series 360, Xbox One
Current goal: Pull as many enemies as possible against the wall and smash their heads
There are a lot of great games coming out right now and even more promising ones on the horizon, but for some reason my mind is stuck in the past. I have all the seasons of Telltale’s The Walking Dead before going to bed last night because I remembered that I never finished reading the whole story. I made sure Night in the forest was installed on my PS5 before my annual trip to Possum Springs. And of course I played Fate 2 every evening with a few friends to get exotic gear and a title related to the shooter’s recent 10th anniversary. But what will probably take up most of my weekend is Sleeping dogsan open-world action game from the early 2010s that I never gave a proper chance.
Sleeping dogs spun out of the True Crime Series of action games I played on the PS2. Originally announced as True Crime: Hong KongThe project was eventually canceled and revived as Sleeping dogs under Square Enix. And it was great. I remember thinking at the time that no game I had played before had successfully combined both a satisfying open world And a deep and entertaining combat system. As Wei Shen, an undercover cop taking down the triad gangs strangling his hometown, you walk the line between cop and gangster in a morality system that unlocks different techniques for use in combat. Sleeping dogs was a bit of a thug, but unlike, for example, the comically exaggerated fist fights of the Like a dragon Games, junk in Sleeping dogs felt more realistic, wilder and more immersive.
It also has a pretty good cast. There are actors like Tzi Ma, who plays the Chinese commander in Arrivaland Tom Wilkinson, whom you saw in the 2000s in films such as The Girl with a Pearl Earring And Batman begins. However, the most famous names that people know are Lucy Liu and Emma Stone, who play a singer and the main character’s lover respectively. I guess you come for the gritty crime thriller and stay for the acting skills of this star-studded cast. — Moises Taveras
