Sleeping Dogs 2 (2016 Video Game)

Sleeping Dogs 2 is a 2016 action-adventure video game developed and published by Square Enix. After United Front Games shut down, Square Enix took up the mantle and decided to make this game. Despite the low sales of the 2012 game, Sleeping Dogs scored very positive reviews. This game will be released on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC on October 2, 2016. The game continues with Wei Shen, the undercover HKPD cop from the first game.

WARNING
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Rating
M (Mature) for Extreme Violence, Profanity, Sexual References, & Nudity

How Long To Beat (HLTB)
Main Story: 24 hours

Main Story + Side Content: 31 hours

100% Completion: 45 hours

Gameplay & Plot Dynamics

 * Every feature from the first game is brought back.
 * The game features the return of Wei Shen, the undercover agent from the last game.
 * The story takes place just two (2) years after the events of the last game.
 * The dating feature is expanded upon this time: Wei can go on multiple dates with multiple women. Amanda returns from the last game. Like the last game, the girlfriends do not impact the main story. When going on dates, the player has the option to choose what to do. There are multiple activities to partake in this time around: karaoke, eating out, drinking out, movies, live performances, crazy driving, parkour, and once you get close enough to a girl, the player has the option to take the girl back home to sleep with.
 * The Cop Skill Tree and the Triad Skill Tree return: there are twenty (20) upgrades per skill tree this time, making the combat and shooting way more enhanced and engaging.
 * The Melee Training Skill Tree returns with twenty (20) upgrades this time, making the combat more enhanced and fun.
 * All of the skills from the first game return, so all of the sixty (60) skills and upgrades in this game are completely new and unseen mechanics.
 * The map includes the return of Hong Kong, including North Point, Central, Aberdeen, and Kennedy Town. Kowloon, Kowloon City District, and Tsuen Wan are included, making it so that Hong Kong feels much larger. Square Enix hired Hong Kong experts from China to map the game and expands North Point, Central, Aberdeen, and Kennedy Town, making the game feel as accurate to real life as possible. The game's map is approximately three times (3x) bigger than the last game's map.
 * Side content, such as favors, jobs, and races, return with much more side content to partake in.
 * Replayable missions return, helping you make the most out of your experience.
 * If you do not reach max Triad XP or max Cop XP by the end, random events will pop up. Triad events will be marked as red question marks and Cop events will be marked as blue question marks. You can do both of them to increase your XP. They appear throughout the game, including the endgame.
 * During the second act of the game, helicopters are made available to control.
 * With the addition of helicopters, the player can reach the rooftops of Hong Kong, making the parkour much more fun.
 * During high-level Cop events and case missions, Wei has the ability to call cops to back him up. This is not available for main story missions and cops can only be called if the player is having a hard time beating an event or getting through a case.
 * The game's tone is very dark and mature: the story deals with themes such as betrayal, violence, depression, and crime.
 * To make it so that the story is more organized, Square Enix divided the story into three (3) acts.
 * Enemies are much faster in melee combat and much more accurate in shooting combat after complaints that the last game was a too easy in difficulty.
 * There are now five enemy factions to fight in this game: Sun On Yee triads, police officers, 18k triads, Blue Dragon Union triads, and Asian Krips.

Protagonist

 * Wei Shen

Main Antagonists

 * Raymond Mak (main antagonist) - police officer and ally of Wei Shen. Him and Wei have finally settled their differences and become friends in this game. Raymond is on the field a lot more this time around. He is an ally throughout most of the story until the third act when a revelation is revealed.
 * James Zhang (secondary antagonist) - head chairman of the 18k Triad: he is extremely violent, using a spear to torture Sun On Yee members and any others who cross the path of the 18k.
 * Henry Liu (tertiary antagonist) - head enforcer of the Blue Dragon Union Triad. He is a businessman, just like all of his triad. He is the CEO of Liu Enterprises, which specializes in selling cars around Asia. Secretly, he is also triad and has ties to sex trafficking, drug trafficking, and pornography. He profits off all of this for his business and Hong Kong basically worships him.

Other Antagonists (encountered in main story)

 * Paul Fang - head chairman of the Blue Dragon Union Triad
 * Kevin Wong - an 18k soldier / brute
 * Kathy Zhao - Sun On Yee red pole
 * Benedict Zhu - a young 21-year-old 18k soldier / brute whose parents were murdered by the Blue Dragon Union Triad when he was a child
 * Joshua Yang - secretary of Henry Liu with ties to the Blue Dragon Union Triad
 * Sang Smith - tourist from Seattle who is an associate of Sun On Yee, 18k, and the Blue Dragon Union all at the same time. He pretends to be an ally of Sun On Yee, delivers drugs and weapons for 18k, and delivers girls for the Union

Side Story Antagonists

 * Roland Ho - former member of Sun On Yee who sends out goons to steal money from Wei for revenge of Wei dropping out of the debt collection game two (2) years prior
 * Kevin Pham - an Asian Krips member from Los Angeles who goes to Hong Kong to expand Krip operations worldwide; starts a mini war with Sun On Yee
 * Jack Huynh - an Asian Krips supplier
 * Bruce Wu - dangerous serial killer based in Tsuen Wan targeting innocents
 * Parker Lee - street racer based in Kowloon City District; cheats by using guns to intimidate his opponents
 * Tina Phuong - owner of Vietnamese Karaoke Club in Kowloon; has several sexual relationships with Asian Krips and is also a gangster herself; not affiliated with any gang
 * Huang Piper - a thief who is breaking into houses all over Hong Kong and destroying them as much as possible
 * Ryan Chu - a martial arts club fighter based in Kowloon; is very bad at fighting, but is also very physically strong; brutally murders his enemies after losing a fight
 * Simon Chang - small-time 18k associate who works on convincing young men ages 18 - 25 to join the 18k and kills any young men who does not fit the needs of the 18k
 * Kyle Yin - Chief Executive of Hong Kong; ties to the Blue Dragon Union; has many drug and weapon dealings with the Union, working on taking down both 18k and Sun On Yee
 * Michael Tang - HKPD officer who also grooms young college girls in his free time

Supporting Characters

 * Jane Teng
 * Kenneth 
 * Conroy Wu
 * Broken Nose Jiang
 * Old Salty Crab
 * Tran
 * Ricky Wong
 * Vivienne Liu
 * King
 * Angela Yin