Sleeping Dogs went through several iterations before the finished game was finally released. At one point it was to be part of the True Crime series and had the working title True Crime: Hong Kong. A few years into development though, Activision sold the publishing rights to Square Enix and a brilliant game was born.

Sleeping Dogs maintains the fantastic settings that the True Crime games had perfected but is able to back them up with some incredibly tight gameplay. Combat is great and the environmental kills make for some wonderfully cinematic moments. It's still not quite on par with Grand Theft Auto but really isn't too far behind.