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The whole game has a heavy focus on hand-to-hand combat that, once you master it, is amazing. While the game feels like a GTA clone at first glance, it really, really isnвЂ™t.

IвЂ™ve never been to Hong Kong, but this game has made me really consider going. If you go to the night markets, it actually does feel like youвЂ™re in a busy place. The voice acting, the music choice on the radio stations, and just the overall ambience you get while exploring Hong Kong. But hey, you donвЂ™t see them that often, so it doesnвЂ™t affect the overall cinematic experience.ДЄnd while itвЂ™s nothing updated, the sound work in this game is great. Not every character got a loving makeover though, with a lot of NPCs asking for favours just looking like they need to be put out of their misery. ItвЂ™s a small difference, but it does make a fair amount of difference. This time around, everyone has traded their waxy sheen for actual skin, and clothes made of fabric. One thing a lot of video games are guilty of is making their characters look like theyвЂ™ve been lightly jogging on a humid day, with an unnatural gloss that just makes me uncomfortable, and the original 2012 release was guilty of that. So in this updated version, Hong Kong looks as amazing as ever, with not just great art design carrying the whole feel, but higher resolution textures and, from what I can tell, better normal mapping and lighting.Д®ven the characters look a lot better this time around. The original game had a gorgeous rendition of Hong Kong, which looked even more amazing at night when it was raining, which may be oddly specific, but reallyвЂ¦ amazing.

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The Year of the Snake is interesting, if only for the fact you see Wei Shen doing much more on the cop side of things, even if itвЂ™s a little вЂplay by my own rulesвЂ™ at times.ДЄlright, so this is the part where I talk about the major reason this is an upgrade over the 2012 release. The Definitive Edition also comes with both DLC stories, with Nightmare in North Point being an interesting spin on the world already established, with undead taking over and stealing your girlfriendвЂ¦ which might not be the most original story, but it works enough to make for an enjoyable little side story. Is Ricky the coolest dude youвЂ™ll ever be BFFs with? Damn straight! No twists or turns, itвЂ™s a straightforward story with believable characters and just a fun ride to be on. Is Pendrew a bit of a dickish cop? Yeah, he pretty much is.

One thing I really enjoyed with the storytelling is that all the characters are pretty straight forward in terms of first impressions.

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Granted, any normal human being would crack under the pressure Wei was under, but sometimes it reaches Shia Le Bouf levels of irrational yelling.

My only real gripe with the story is Wei Shen comes across as a little wooden at times, or maybe a bit too angsty. The main missions in the game have you running errands for and against the triads, like hijacking a mini-bus route, delivering traitors to grieving, cleaver wielding mothers, among other things. You spend the game playing through the eyes of Wei Shen, an undercover cop trying to take down the Chinese Triads from the inside, specifically the Sun On Yee (based on the real life Sun Yee OnвЂ¦ yeah). Now, the story in Sleeping Dogs isnвЂ™t the most original, but after playing at least a little bit, youвЂ™ll realise itвЂ™s about how itвЂ™s told, and the way youвЂ™re made to feel for the characters as you go along.

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A Grand Theft Auto-esque open world, with a combat system reminiscent of the Batman Arkham series and AssassinвЂ™s Creed, and all of it set in a gorgeous representation of Hong Kong, with a story not unlike all those kung-fu movies you watched growing up? Not without itвЂ™s flaws, Sleeping Dogs definitely made a lasting impression on me, so I was pretty happy to see itвЂ™d be coming back with a few improvements. When Sleeping Dogs first came out in 2012, it really caught me by surprise.

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