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New game in Sleeping Dogs universe in the works

United Front Games working on new game called Triad Wars with Square Enix; more information in 2014.

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United Front Games is working on an all-new game set in the Sleeping Dogs universe called Triad Wars, the developer announced on its website today. The news comes after Square Enix filed a trademark application for Triad Wars on September 30. 2013/29/sleeping_dogs_2_86448_screen.jpg 2013/29/sleeping_dogs_2_86448_embed.jpg

"It's something we've wanted to do for ages, and we're very happy to be working with Square Enix again… but that's all we can give you for the time being--we'll have more information about what the game’s going to be in 2014."

Sleeping Dogs, a resurrection of True Crime: Hong Kong, launched in August 2012 and achieved profitability this summer. Though it is not clear how many copies the game has sold, Sleeping Dogs continues to see more than 500,000 people playing it every month as of August 2013, according to Square Enix.

Square Enix teased previously that in the future it will invest more seriously in games with more persistent online worlds as a means to keep players engaged in the experience.

"We see the opportunity for some of our games continuing beyond a traditional beginning, middle, and end," Square Enix head of product development Darrell Gallagher said in August. "We can have them become extendable and more persistent--with an opportunity to build and grow across games. To design in a way to keep our games alive for years instead of weeks."

For more on Sleeping Dogs, check out GameSpot's review.

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Yes! Definitely buying it!

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the first game was pretty good, if they can clean up some of the issues it could be gold.


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I hope they work on the driving physics and get rid of that shaky cam effect.

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@Aekom i just was thinking about it but i'm sure they'll do better this time : )

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definitely interested sleeping dogs did pretty well for a first shot and there is a lot of potential to build upon what they have already made I'm definitely gonna be following this

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Say no more, SOLD!

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You don't say

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sounds good, i loved the combat system..

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As long as it's not an MMO, I'm fine!!!

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besides being too easy and without fun random content, i found sleeping dogs an awesome game! i'd love a sequel.

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This is great news ! I loved Sleeping Dogs and it was much more enjoyable to me than GTA 5 which is soooooooo fucking overrated ! And please don't say I liked it more only because I'm chinese.I'm not fucking chinese.

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Sleeping Dogs is still just an unfinished cartoon and they put in zombies, WOW how original , oh , I am sorry were those magical evil spirits ?

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Yes Please ! :>

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I really hope they keep the film references going. The infernal affairs vibe of the game was great and the horror expansion. I know it's just a name but.... Triad Wars? A faint whiff of half baked multiplayer, dumbed down story and milky, milky cash cow udder has just crept into my nostrils. Still fingers crossed that they build upon what was a solid game.

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Sleeping Dogs...F*{K YEAH!!

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Great news. Sleeping Dogs was great even though it was a bit short. Hope they make a good game again.

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Also better OST than any of the GTA games

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FediOzthDzc

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Better storytelling by far to GTA.

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@texasgoldrush Yup. a bunch of chinese dudes acting like and talking like niggas.

*snore*

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@frylock1987 @texasgoldrush The story was actually based largely around the infernal affairs trilogy which is regarded as on of Hong Kong's greatest cinematic achievements. It was even remade by Scorsese for Americans who couldn't be bothered/are unable to read subtitles.

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@Battle_Toad27 @frylock1987 @texasgoldrush Despite the fact that The Departed was a good movie, it doesn't hold a candle to what the original Infernal Affairs trilogy movies are, those movies are masterpieces

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@frylock1987 @texasgoldrush Sleeping Dogs Story > Any GTA story

FACT!

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This game should include more story influencing choices

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Hallelujah! Totally loved the 1st one

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SD its great game deserve sequel i buy it

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great news!

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Loved this game. Can't wait to here more about this new one.


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Sleeping Dogs was a good game hopefully single player based world for triad wars I know online is the future but I feel they put less effort into single player if they include online

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Good news, it was a solid game.

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Yeah the story was pretty interesting too.

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It will tie-in with the story of Kingdom Hearts 3.

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You know what was a fun game? Sleeping Dogs. Dat melee combat and carjacking while in motion. I was badass incarnate. XD

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@NeonNinja and story was also good

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Nice. I thought Sleeping Dogs was very good, hopefully we get another single player game similar to it. Online is fine, but looking just at GTA, I've been more into the SP than the online so far.

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Im hoping they have a new main character, i mean Wei Shen was good but i felt his story was done. New city, new character. And hopefully they dont turn it into an MMO. And for the love of god make stuff to do after youve beat the game!

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better be on wiiu thats all i gotta say dont be like rockstar lmao

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No please focus on single player and not on persistent online worlds like every other damn company doing now.

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Really great game. My only complaint is after I leveled up all my martial arts skills I had no desire to play anymore

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Just beat Sleeping Dogs

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next gen sleeping dogs? I'm down :)

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I'm really excited for this, Sleeping Dogs was my personal GOTY for last year so I hope that a follow up can live up to it!

That Square Enix quote about online worlds is quite separate to the UFG announcement so I really hope that they don't turn it into some sort of silly MMO. Maybe having player drop-ins like Watch Dogs could work, but I really think this sort of title is best as a single player game.

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Sick and tired of seeing great single player games getting turned in to mediocre online games.

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First. Keep it set in Asia. Hongkong or Shanghai or Taipei. Second, Don't make me be a criminal like in GTA5. I like being the good guy. TY

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@harndoogle There are no 'bad guys' in GTA, they're unfortunate victims of circumstance, struggling life's many difficulties, including the inability to conform to social conditioning and societies imposed pressures, due to a competitive capitalist structure that forces one to become a wage slave for the ruling class, or buckle under the immense pressure and turn to a life which involves what is considered criminal behavior.

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WHoa! that is a strong argument there!. But for me in GTA you are a bitch who answered to anyone's request

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@XNEXUS666X @harndoogle In GTA V not so much victims they are, they are more like lunatics, and your reason for killing is pressure from society? They are very mentally weak pathetic human beings then.

On the games before GTA V, I sorta agree on they were forced, but not GTA V.

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@harndoogle You're very shallow

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Something tells me I'm gonna be a lil disappointed. Why are devs these days are always making "online worlds" their first priority? Their main selling point? I'm not bashing online play, since I have alot of gamers friends I play online with about 5 days weeks. But come on, I mean obviously they can't do more with Wei Shen unless you want a prequel of him in the U.S...........and do you really want to go back there? The game was fine the way it was, and it had GREAT DLCs! Just tell me the next one will be bigger and better, more variety, more depth, that there will be a new bad ass character. A great SinglePlayer experience. Ok, it did have a few flaws, one was the bad driving but not bad enough that you couldn't get used to it, and the other was the police surveillance not being challenging at all.

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@PaulJanson I know right, what is with this virus called persistent online worlds, let single player games be focused on single player and put less focus on online, they should do online only after polishing the singleplayer.

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not really enough information to form an opinion yet. the talk of "persistent online worlds" is worrying, but it's still not enough to go on. it's still worth watching though.

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