To sum up the gameplay of Sleeping Dogs is simple. Take Batman Arkam City and add Saints Row open map structure and dating. If you are familiar with those games then you know exactly how Sleeping Dogs will play. In short, you have a fairly decent arcade style system based around counters and grapples being paper or scissors to your opponents rock (blocking) or scissors (attacking). Your opponent blocks, you grapple, they attack, you counter and repeat with a sprinkling of chain combo moves if you learned them.

The story is classic Hong Kong, Loyalty, Corruption, Family, Sacrifice, Law VS. Criminals and the grey line in the middle of the two. If you have watched Hard Boiled then you have a solid basis for how this game plays out. It's not new, but they do a good job making you actually care about some of the people that die in this game. Yes, people die, alot of people die, alot. In fact, most of the main characters, die.

The story was good, and there was depth. Try it.