A story-driven action adventure set in a gorgeously recreated Hong Kong setting (a mix of various Hong Kong sectors fairly accurately recreated). The game is based on real events (though names have been changed). You are Wei Shen, and you lead a double life as a Triad gang member and an undercover cop - so you will be playing both sides of the story. It is Wei's job to bring down the Sun On Yee gang (a tweaked name of the real-life 'Sun Yee On') from the inside, and so he must find a way in, and get people to trust him. Soon, Wei starts to feel divided loyalties as he gets in deeper and deeper. The main storyline is linear but the plot is fast-paced and entertaining. There are masses of side missions that fit in with the plot very well and you can choose when and if to play these.

Sleeping Dogs contains all the usual open-world elements we love: a gorgeously atmospheric and thriving city densely populated with people and traffic, great ambience (especially the night market), vehicles to unlock and drive (or simply steal), USEFUL collectibles that either upgrade your health and strength, or your bank balance!

Very. The driving and parkour elements are simple and responsive and the martial arts moves are only taught gradually and are not overly complex, though you might find yourself scribbling down a few moves as there are ultimately 12 to remember! The game's tuition system spreads your learnt moves gradually through the game using a novel system of returning to Wei's former Kung Fu school. For exchange of each school's missing trophies, you will be taught a new move and given some non-aggressive adversaries to practise it on. It works very well. As for weapons combat, I personally found it easier to switch to mouse for aiming, but the game switches seamlessly between controllers while playing. The only negative aspect is the sometimes-uncontrollable camera angles after reversing a vehicle. The camera is too slow to face forward, meaning you often start driving blindly. Other than this, everything is great.

Regarding game requirements, you really will need to pay attention to those because this is a heavy game graphically. There is some stutter in the cut-scenes regardless of GPU but the cut-scenes are only occasional. You will benefit greatly from a gamepad. This is not the sort of game for people who have a 'delicate' audience in the room as there is a lot of 'colourful' language and such. If you're a female gamer, you'll probably cringe at some of the lines spoken by some women (some are really bad!) - but not enough to kill enjoyment of the game.

If you enjoyed the game enough that you'd likely play it through again, then I'd say yes. It looked great before but there are a plethora of improvements: denser NPCs and traffic, heaps more variety in shop signs, lots more lit signs, beautiful environment effects, super-realistic road and building textures and improved controls. A few bugs in the original game have been fixed, and all the cars, outfits, apartments and cash DLC is no longer automatically awarded to you at the beginning of the game (a problem with the original version, leaving players with nothing further to play for). The only caution is that, if your PC struggled a bit with the original, it will struggle more with this version given that it is a much heavier game for your GPU.