Glimpses

Is that you, Rockstar?  A couple hours into this game and I couldn’t help but think, “Wow, this game is exactly like GTA if it were set in Hong Kong.” And then I realized how much monopoly the GTA series enjoys in the open-world market. For the rest of the game, I had to make a conscious effort not to keep comparing Sleeping Dogs to GTA, and I still couldn’t help it. Perhaps one reason for this was the way violence is showcased in Sleeping Dogs. Most of us have seen violence like that only in the GTA games. Moreover, when you have a gritty story involving mafia gangs, drugs, prostitution and other vices of the world, you can’t help but draw parallels with GTA. The psyche of Wei Shen Anyhow, these similarities don’t, and shouldn’t, affect how good the game is, how well-developed its characters are and how well the plot is presented to the player. You play as Wei Shen, an undercover cop in Hong Kong, with a mission to infiltrate the triads and help in the capture of their most prom...