Square-Enix’s Sleeping Dogs has finally come up with a firm North American release date along with some cool pre-order bonuses from a few participating retailers.
Square-Enix will release Sleeping Dogs on August 14th, 2012 in North America and August 17th, 2012 in Europe. The game will be an open-world police drama and was formerly known as True Crime: Hong Kong before the rights to the game were purchased by Square-Enix and the name was changed.
Here are the pre-order bonuses for Gamestop, Amazon.com, and Best Buy:
Best Buy: ‘Georges St. Pierre (GSP)’ Pack:
- GSP’s signature “flying punch”
- Exclusive GSP outfit including T-shirts, headband and shorts
- GSP’s outfit unlocks the “flying punch” and increases grappling and throwing damage
GameStop: ‘Police Protection’ Pack:
- Exclusive “High Speed” Mission
· Exclusive HK Police SWAT Outfit
· Exclusive assault rifle
· Exclusive SWAT Police Vehicle
Amazon: ‘Martial Arts’ Pack:
- Shaolin Showdown Mission
· Shaolin Warrior outfit (with increased striking damage)
· Bonus Triad XP points
· Wing Chun decoration for safehouse (with temporary combat buff)
Exclusive content for the digitally downloadable PC version of Sleeping Dogs will be announced at a later date.
Sleeping Dogs is developed by United Front Games in conjunction with Square-Enix London Studios and will be released August 14th, 2012 in North America and August 17th, 2012 in Europe for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Windows PC.
I actually really like the look of this game. I’m hoping it’ll turn out to be good because it’d be cool to have a game that resembles a martial arts action film and, also, it’d stick one to Activision for dropping it originally.
Why did they drop it in the first place if it was panning out to be such an impressive game?