Want more Sleeping Dogs help? Get our 8 essential tips for conquering Hong Kong.
Sleeping Dogs has been one of the surprise hits of this summer and in our Sleeping Dogs review, we called it "one of the best open world games of recent years."
So we're all agreed it's a damn fine game, but once you start playing, how do you make the most of Sleeping Dogs' many fine gameplay systems and excellent martial arts action? Well we turned to Dan Sochan, Sleeping Dogs' producer to get his expert tips on how you can play like a Triad Warlord or indeed how to be the best cop you can. Here's five essential tips Dan recommends.
1) Strut your threads
"My number one tip collect clothing sets they're really useful. So you get three matching items and the bottom left of the screen will tell you what clothing set they belongs to. It may not feel like a big thing, you're going to get maybe a 5% bonus increase to your Triad and Cop XP for each mission. But if you think about it, that's just a free 5% for wearing this outfit and it's a really quick way to upgrade your character to give you more abilities, more moves, increase your damage all that kind of thing. It makes a big difference, so it's a really great one to put into practice."
"There's still a few drug bust areas that I consistently struggle to beat , there's twenty guys and a bunch of them have weapons and things coming out you. I love that, I love the fact that there's areas of the game that I'm really challenged playing. Anyway, before I do one of those tougher sorts of missions, I'll go back to the wardrobe and put on a set that gives me increased melee damage, or melee resistance, something like that. "
Comments
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budge on 22 Aug '12 said:
The fight club mini games in this make you feel like a God!
Currychips on 22 Aug '12 said:
Those drug bust mini missions that have tonnes of guys are easy to win, every time. Get a nippy, agile car and just plough into them. Kills most of them almost instantly. Jump out and finish the last few off if you fancy a bit of fisty cuffs.
Black Mantis on 22 Aug '12 said:
Wouldn't work for the two that take place in the sewers though!
dog_man_STAR on 22 Aug '12 said:
brilliant game, 10 - 12 hour completion time my arse, iv put 20 hours into this gem and i'm about 2 thirds through the campaign. do a story mission then a drug bust or 2, fight club, hunt for some health shrines, lockboxes, learn some new moves, have a race, buy some new clobber, maybe a massage or 10...next story mission.
budge on 22 Aug '12 said:
Yeah, i've played nearly 22 fun lovin' hours myself and i've only completed 56% of the story. I never believe these completion times in reviews anyway.
Black Mantis on 22 Aug '12 said:
Same here. Thing with reviewers though, is that they have to blast through games quicker than normal and move on to the next. They should specify whether they did just gun through without doing all the side-missions, which I think CVG did to be fair.
El Mag on 22 Aug '12 said:
My save file says 26 hours, and I got the plat last night.
It was a bloody good play. Hopefully any future DLC will have a few more cop cases, I enjoyed the 4 it has.
gmcb007 on 22 Aug '12 said:
Alternative: Ruin the whole purpose of the game by buying one of the several 'boost packs' on the marketplace.