Square Enix has dropped a new combat trailer for United Front Games upcoming open-world crime drama, Sleeping Dogs. I’m very much looking forward to this one, and have been since it was announced back in 2009 as True Crime: Hong Kong. I enjoyed the True Crime series, particularly the first one (Streets of LA).
This is shaping up to be a really good looking open-world game (my favorite kind of game). This one hits stores on August 14th for Playstation 3, PC, and Xbox 360.
So THIS is what happened to that True Crime Hong Kong project. Geez, I thought that thing was long gone and dead. I definitely see potential here especially if there’s a lot to do in that open world and the gameplay is tight.
I never did get big into the earlier True Crime games.
First True Crime game was great. Didn’t care much for the story, but I loved the open-world good cop/bad cop gameplay.
True Crime: Hong Kong was cancelled by Activision in early 2011 despite the fact that it was looking great. Square Enix swooped in and bought the publishing rights for the game, but they didn’t the True Crime name which is why it’s now Sleeping Dogs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Front_Games
Interesting pedigree on the developers. I hope this game will be good.