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I donвЂ™t know what in the holy hell they were thinking with those driving mechanics but seriously, I hope someone at Rockstar is playing this game and taking notes. GTA IV, for all itвЂ™s amazing successes, had one abysmal, unforgivable failure at itвЂ™s core: every car you drove felt like it was driving through mud. This is Driving, with a capital D, that will make you feel like a badass again. AndвЂ“and!вЂ“best of all: the driving mechanics are such that you can actuallyвЂ¦ Drive! Tapping the e-brake will send you skidding around a corner from which you can deftly recover and thread through traffic like a stuntman. Or a row of shrubs seemingly made of concrete. There are rarely unreasonable obstacles that will maddeningly stop you dead in your tracks if you drive into themвЂ“like a 3 foot fencepost that can suddenly halt a garbage truck traveling at 50mph.

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Since itвЂ™s impossible not to compare to this game to GTA, IвЂ™ll go on to point out that some of the major annoyances of that series are absent here: you never seem to find yourself stranded on an empty street with no cars in sight. ItвЂ™s a little bit of everythingвЂ“and some well-chosen bits at that.

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Noire, the upgrade system to learn new combat moves from AssassinвЂ™s Creed, and even a little bit of being able to choose between being good/evil (aka cop/triad) from games like Mass Effect.

WhatвЂ™s incredible about this game is that it seems like the people who made it have been playing all the other great games recently and taking notes on what makes them fun: Sleeping Dogs convolves the fluid hand-to-hand combat of the recent Batman series, the tense footchases from L.A. The game is set in Hong Kong, which adds the quirky twist that all cars drive on the left side of the road there. Sleeping Dogs was made by Square Enix, a well-renown Asian studio if youвЂ™re unfamiliar.

So itвЂ™s with all that taken into consideration that I say this: the king has got a serious challenger here. GTA IV was the entire reason I bought both a Playstation 3 and a projector. IвЂ™ve played each one religiously and thoroughly, mining for the hidden secrets, striving to reach that one obscure area of the map just to say IвЂ™ve been there, and replaying them all to hear the dialog and watch the story unfold again. GTAIII is the progenitor that spawned generations of spin-offs just about any open world game that incorporates driving, social satire, and a nice violent plot owes something to this series. IвЂ™ve written plenty of times on here about my love for Grand Theft Auto.

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