Super Adventures' run of spectacular semi-recent story-driven sandbox games starting with 'S' concludes at last with
Sleeping Dogs! Here, you can listen to the theme while you read:
youtube link.The game didn't used to start with an 'S', that only happened relatively late in development. It actually began life as a new IP with title
Black Lotus (no relation to the
Lotus Turbo Challenge games), but publisher Activision decided they'd like to revive their
True Crime franchise and relabelled it '
True Crime: Hong Kong' instead. Then three and a half years into development they decided that they'd rather cancel the whole thing altogether, and that was the end of it... until Square Enix stepped in like a big damn hero and saved the day, in a similar way to how Deep Silver saved
Saints Row IV. They then retitled it to
Sleeping Dogs, which is a decent enough name I guess, though personally I think they should've gone with '
Final Fantasy XV' just to see the reaction they got.
(Click the pictures to view them in an epic screen-filling 1280x720 resolution... well, screen-filling if you've got a tiny little monitor like I do.)Read on »_01.png)
Super Adventures' run of spectacular semi-recent story-driven sandbox games starting with 'S' concludes at last with
Sleeping Dogs! Here, you can listen to the theme while you read:
youtube link.The game didn't used to start with an 'S', that only happened relatively late in development. It actually began life as a new IP with title
Black Lotus (no relation to the
Lotus Turbo Challenge games), but publisher Activision decided they'd like to revive their
True Crime franchise and relabelled it '
True Crime: Hong Kong' instead. Then three and a half years into development they decided that they'd rather cancel the whole thing altogether, and that was the end of it... until Square Enix stepped in like a big damn hero and saved the day, in a similar way to how Deep Silver saved
Saints Row IV. They then retitled it to
Sleeping Dogs, which is a decent enough name I guess, though personally I think they should've gone with '
Final Fantasy XV' just to see the reaction they got.
(Click the pictures to view them in an epic screen-filling 1280x720 resolution... well, screen-filling if you've got a tiny little monitor like I do.)Read on »
Super Adventures' run of spectacular semi-recent story-driven sandbox games starting with 'S' concludes at last with
Sleeping Dogs! Here, you can listen to the theme while you read:
youtube link.The game didn't used to start with an 'S', that only happened relatively late in development. It actually began life as a new IP with title
Black Lotus (no relation to the
Lotus Turbo Challenge games), but publisher Activision decided they'd like to revive their
True Crime franchise and relabelled it '
True Crime: Hong Kong' instead. Then three and a half years into development they decided that they'd rather cancel the whole thing altogether, and that was the end of it... until Square Enix stepped in like a big damn hero and saved the day, in a similar way to how Deep Silver saved
Saints Row IV. They then retitled it to
Sleeping Dogs, which is a decent enough name I guess, though personally I think they should've gone with '
Final Fantasy XV' just to see the reaction they got.
(Click the pictures to view them in an epic screen-filling 1280x720 resolution... well, screen-filling if you've got a tiny little monitor like I do.)Read on »
Super Adventures' run of spectacular semi-recent story-driven sandbox games starting with 'S' concludes at last with
Sleeping Dogs! Here, you can listen to the theme while you read:
youtube link.The game didn't used to start with an 'S', that only happened relatively late in development. It actually began life as a new IP with title
Black Lotus (no relation to the
Lotus Turbo Challenge games), but publisher Activision decided they'd like to revive their
True Crime franchise and relabelled it '
True Crime: Hong Kong' instead. Then three and a half years into development they decided that they'd rather cancel the whole thing altogether, and that was the end of it... until Square Enix stepped in like a big damn hero and saved the day, in a similar way to how Deep Silver saved
Saints Row IV. They then retitled it to
Sleeping Dogs, which is a decent enough name I guess, though personally I think they should've gone with '
Final Fantasy XV' just to see the reaction they got.
(Click the pictures to view them in an epic screen-filling 1280x720 resolution... well, screen-filling if you've got a tiny little monitor like I do.)Read on »
Super Adventures' run of spectacular semi-recent story-driven sandbox games starting with 'S' concludes at last with
Sleeping Dogs! Here, you can listen to the theme while you read:
youtube link.The game didn't used to start with an 'S', that only happened relatively late in development. It actually began life as a new IP with title
Black Lotus (no relation to the
Lotus Turbo Challenge games), but publisher Activision decided they'd like to revive their
True Crime franchise and relabelled it '
True Crime: Hong Kong' instead. Then three and a half years into development they decided that they'd rather cancel the whole thing altogether, and that was the end of it... until Square Enix stepped in like a big damn hero and saved the day, in a similar way to how Deep Silver saved
Saints Row IV. They then retitled it to
Sleeping Dogs, which is a decent enough name I guess, though personally I think they should've gone with '
Final Fantasy XV' just to see the reaction they got.
(Click the pictures to view them in an epic screen-filling 1280x720 resolution... well, screen-filling if you've got a tiny little monitor like I do.)Read on »
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