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Square Enix London Studios, a part of Square Enix Europe, announces Sleeping Dogs™, a gritty and visceral openworld cop drama set in the vibrant city of Hong Kong.

Developed by United Front Games in collaboration with the renowned Square Enix London Studios, Sleeping Dogs will be available in the second half of 2012 for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows PCs.



Sleeping Dogs catapults players into the role of undercover cop Wei Shen, tasked with taking down one of the world’s most fearsome criminal organisations from the inside... the Hong Kong Triads. As players explore the bustling and crowded Hong Kong island, through its neon-lit side streets and sprawling street markets, an incredible story unfolds of loyalty and betrayal, where Wei begins to question his own motives as he is sucked in deeper than he could ever imagine.



“From the moment you pick up the controller and experience the blend of driving, close combat and shooting you know you’re playing something fresh and a bit special,” said Lee Singleton, General Manager of Square Enix London Studios. “Sleeping Dogs has one of the best melee combat systems out there – it’s super brutal with devastating takedown moves, and when added to UFG’s proven heritage in driving games, a first class story and the vibrant backdrop of the Hong Kong underworld we get a fiery recipe with fun written all over it.”
“Working on Sleeping Dogs has been such a huge passion for the team at United Front Games and we’re really pleased to be working with Square Enix London Studios,” said Stephen Van Der Mescht, Executive Producer at United Front Games. “The extensive experience both our studios have in creating compelling openworld gameplay and rich and rewarding combat makes for a perfect partnership. Working together we can make sure that Sleeping Dogs is the most intense and immersive experience it can be.”



Offering players an island packed with action, every street corner, market stall, harbour dock or city skyscraper can become an opportunity for intense shoot-outs, adrenaline-fuelled street races and intense, brutal martial arts combat. Featuring one of the most intuitive and imaginative combat systems, Sleeping Dogs empowers players to perform an extensive set of martial arts moves, singlehandedly taking on numerous opponents. Players perform bone-crunching kicks and combos, vicious counters and a cinematic set of environmental takedowns making use of countless real-world items from circular saws to phone booths, incinerators to refrigerator doors.

All pre-orders get upgraded to Limited Edition- Which includes:

Georges St-Pierre Pack:
- GSP’s signature “flying punch”
- Exclusive GSP outfit including T-shirts, headband and shorts, which unlocks the flying punch and increases grappling and throwing damage

Police Protection pack:
- High Speed Mission
- HK Police SWAT Outfit
- Exclusive assault rifle
- SWAT Police Vehicle

Available for Pre-Order Here: PS3 - Xbox 360 -

Pretty stoked for this game, formerly known as True Crime: Hong Kong.

Not exactly sure why Activision dropped this...

Sinncross said ...

Not exactly sure why Activision dropped this...

They said at they would concentrate on established franchises e.g. COD

... anyway their loss, Square's gain plus plenty of time to polish it to the nth degree seeing as was nearly ready for release more than a year ago.

I think they just werent happy with the results they were seeing. I mean, they could have just given the TC IP away but they retained it.

Will be interesting to see how this materialises... caught my eye on first reveal but hopefully more TC1 and not that lame TC2 I say.

... whatever happened to Getaway 3? I'd fancy that too.

Sony Closed the studio for Getaway and Merged the team with another Sony in house dev company to work on other Sony IP's.

But I really Enjoyed True crime 1 - So keen for this!!

True Crime 1 was an enjoyable game! So if they've polished the package for NxtGen, then could be awesome!

Tea said ...

Sony Closed the studio for Getaway and Merged iteh team with another Sony in house dev company to work on other Sony IP's.

They did this back after the first Getaway was released. They merged with SCE Camden to create SCE London and went on to create 2 new titles in the franchise.

The truth is that SCE London overexerted themselves with Getaway, Eight Days and their strength titles of Singstar etc.

Ultimately, while Eight Days an the Getaway would be great, SCE London has added to Sony`s variety of exclusives and are the ones rumoured to be doing Syphon Filter PS3.

I did not like any of the True Crime games! I could not bring myself to finish the first or second one!
Same with The Getaway, played the demo of 1! The shooting bits where fun, but the driving was hideous!! 2 was no improvement for me!
But Sleeping Dogs could be interesting!

Updated Header Post with the ingame story trailer - Keeping my eye on this!! Looking good

Old announcement trailer

Will wait on reviews

Sleeping Dogs Video Preview by Gamespot

This game is looking WICKED!

Does look pretty cool tbh!!!

Looks like it could be cool.

The artwork makes me think of a Tarantino movie

As long as it's not High Speed Chase "heavy"...the chases looks awesome, just hope it's not overkill!

Hope they keep to the over the top HK styled action Like true crime one and a similar combat leveling up mechanic

"You are a cop. I am an undercover cop! The rules are different!"

I have not really seen anything yet that makes me WANT this game!