Play on: Computer, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series 360, Xbox One
Current goal: Pull as many enemies as possible into the wall and smash their heads.
There are a lot of great games coming out right now, and there are more promising ones on the horizon, but for some reason my head is stuck in the past. I’ve downloaded all of Telltale’s seasons The Living Dead before going to bed last night because I remembered that I never actually finished 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 Destiny 2 every night with friends to grind exotic gear and a title related to the shooter’s recent 10th anniversary. But the thing that will probably take up most of my weekend is Sleeping dogsan open-world action game from the early 2010s that I never had a chance to play properly.
Sleeping dogs twisted out of True crimes a series of action games that I played on PS2. Initially advertised as True Crime: Hong Kongthe project was eventually canceled and resumed as Sleeping dogs under Square Enix. And it was amazing. I remember thinking that no game I had played before had created a satisfying open world AND deep and enjoyable combat system. As Wei Shen, an undercover cop taking down the triad gangs strangling his hometown, you walked the line between cop and gangster in a morality system that unlocked different sets of techniques to utilize in combat. Sleeping dogs he was a bit of a brawler, but unlike, say, comically over-the-top fistfights Like a dragon games, scraps in Sleeping dogs seemed more realistic, brutal and emotional.
The film also features a vast cast. It features actors such as Tzi Ma, who played a Chinese commander in Arrivaland Tom Wilkinson, who could be seen in 2000s films such as Girl with a pearl AND Batman begins. But the biggest names people will recognize are Lucy Liu and Emma Stone, who play the singer and the love interest, respectively. Come for the murky crime, stay for the acting skills of this cast, I suppose. — Moises Taveras