![]() But the premise sounded cool af – an open world game based in Hong Kong featuring both the triads and the police. I remember picking up Sleeping Dogs for either £1.50 or £2 in CEX – I had never heard of it and was sceptical that it would be any good at such a low price. A visit to CEX brought the delightful news that – as it was now old gen tech – PS3 games were readily available for buttons! Only around ten years late to the party I set about exploring the back catalogue of classic games – and now I am going to commit my thoughts of a number of these classics as reviews for Pure Dead Gaming. I of course gladly took him up on this offer and a week or two later had a slim PS3 sitting under my telly ready for use. His partner’s son had one languishing in the loft which had not been switched on in years. Probably around 2016 another friend of mine got himself a PS4 and was telling me how great it was – when I commented that I hadn’t even got a PS3 yet he was like “do you want one?”. By the time I became aware that the PS4 had made it to the market, it was with some alarm I realised that I had just missed an entire console generation – with the sole exception of a couple of shots of my mate’s PS3 when I was round at his house for a bevvie. Once we had an extra mouth to feed, the cost also became a factor. We got married in 2005 and over the next ten years or so life just completely got in the way of gaming – moving countries and continents, changing jobs and careers and ultimately becoming parents were all blockers for my former hobby. Acquisition of a PSP helped feed my gaming needs but the PS2 eventually got sold as it was just gathering dust. I duly progressed to the PS2 when I was living in Japan in the early to mid 00s but video game play took a bit of a hit when my now wife moved into my one room apartment. How many kids in the 80s got their start in video games due to this fallacy? I moved on to the Mega Drive, Amiga, Saturn and finally the original PlayStation by the late 90s. I’ve been playing games since the day I came home from primary school to find my dad had bought the family a Commodore 64 for “educational purposes”. Play for this review was started on the PS3 version which I picked up a few years ago then put down – I came back and played it properly more recently on the PS4 remaster. A remastered version for consoles followed two years later, which also included all the previous DLC and was branded the “Definitive Edition”. ![]() Sleeping Dogs was originally released on PS3, Xbox 360 and Windows in 2012. This is the first piece in a planned series of reviews going back and revisiting classic games from previous generations. ![]()
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