Sleeping Dogs isn't a reboot of True Crime. It was an unrelated game Activision wanted to use that franchise name for.That's what Sleeping Dogs was and now that's dead too.
The only game that stood up to GTA was True Crime. Don't @me
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No this isn’t correct, as a fan of the series I was following the news at the time it was originally True Crime Hong Kong but the IP rights were purchased by Square so it essentially was a reboot. It offered the same good cop bad cop system that True Crime had, but a lot of the archaic mechanics of the original games were overhauled the UI was improved and it essentially looked like a new game but a lot of the core foundations exist.
GTA 3 and GTA 2 are radically different games because of their generation, but the foundations exist and they share the GTA IP name. The same is the case with True Crime and Sleeping Dogs the difference is that When True Crime became Sleeping Dogs they did not keep the IP name because the developer and publishers changed from Luxoflux and Activision to United Front and Square Enix. Who probably decided to modernise aspects of early 2000s gameplay to a more moder 2010s style of gameplay. But the Good Cop Bad Cop mechanic is a major indicator that it IS A REBOOT.
No it was a game being developed and Activision wanted to use that franchise name on it. The developers had nothing to do with True Crime. Activision saw similarities in the being an undercover cop so they were pushing that.
The original title of the game was Black Lotus. It wasn’t even conceived as a True Crime game.
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No more pork bunsSleeping Dogs is dead and there's nothing we can do about it
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Was Sleeping Dogs Actually A True Crime Game Sequel?
Ok that’s interesting
But even if it started development as a different game Activision still attempted to make it a True Crime Hong Kong reboot because the similarities were clear. It’s like Doki Doki panic being turned into Super Mario Bros 2 US, is Super Mario 2 not part of the Mario IP?
It may be different from what was originally created but it still shares the same core of a Mario game running and jumping, sure Super Mario Bros 2 isn’t a reboot but that’s because the mechanics lasted for one game and didn’t carry onto the sequel.
Here is the key quote from the article above that supports my view “it was reworked to fit into the True Crime series, according to Gamasutra, with a male lead.”
Unless the original True Crime IP gets revived then I will consider it an entirely different franchise to sleeping dogs and sleeping dogs can no longer be thought of as a reboot.
If you think the term spiritual successor is more suited I’m ok with that but Sleeping Dogs was True Crime Hong Kong at one point.
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I don't like thinking about Sleeping Dogs. The savagery of Jackie and Winston's fate. 
The fact that Square never made SD a franchise shows how incompetent of a publisher they are
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Sold a lot of copies too
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Op retarded cuz saints row 2 was exponentially better than gta 4
Wasn't that because of the remaster?Sold a lot of copies too
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The fact they made a remaster means it sold a lot
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Sleeping dogs and Saints Row besides the 4th one
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The black man is always targeted.
They permanently deaded that series to focus on fakkit ass white washed Final Fantasy
