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Sleeping Dogs Dev Reveals PC Open-World Action Game Triad Wars

Triad Wars is set in Hong Kong and launches for PC in early 2015; watch a trailer now.

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Just as the studio said it would, Sleeping Dogs developer United Front Games has revealed its next game. Triad Wars is a online open-world action-adventure game for PC set in Hong Kong.

In the game, due out in 2015 (sign up for the beta here), your goal is to "rise to power as a criminal kingpin of the Triad underworld." To do this, you'll need money, and you'll get that by establishing your turf with "lucrative, albeit questionable operations" through which you'll gain stacks of (dirty) money you can use to arm yourself against rival gangs.

Money alone won't be your saving grace in Triad Wars, however, as players will also take on shooting, driving, and melee missions. "In Hong Kong, the action never stops and your rivals aren't going down until you put them there," Triad Wars community manager James Baldwin writes on the game's website.

Overall, United Front Games stresses that you'll be able to play Triad Wars the way you want to.

"Whether you choose to excel in extortion, hacking, money laundering, stolen cars, or even just good ol' fashioned violence is strictly situational and will be representational of your playstyle. It's your city to claim, and how you do it is entirely up to you," Baldwin says.

United Front Games also expects that Triad Wars will grow and evolve over time, based on player feedback. In the video above, a developer says, "This thing's a living, breathing thing. It's just going to keep evolving. I'm excited to figure out what it's going to be in two years. It could be a completely different game, and that's really exciting."

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Square Enix can turn anything into rubbish with their online BS. That will be the only way this fails.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Squeenix are not involved in this. The publisher this time is Nexon. lol no.

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lol, You're such a loser.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> and you know all about that ...stupid is as stupid does hey Forrest.

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Lol what... You didn't read the article did you?

There is nothing rhetorical about what you said.

It seems as if you didn't read it, made a comment, somebody points out to you it isn't Square Enix publishing and in an effort to not looking foolish, you insult DarkSaber to make it sound as if you weren't talking about the article but are in fact just leaving some random statement!?

Are you a politician by any chance?

I'll give 10/10 for writing gymnastics though. ;)

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Don`t care what you say, doesn`t get anymore rhetorical than that. Dismissed. Now stop wasting so much time and get a life.

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Think there making this rubbish to try and turn people away from PC.

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I expect it will have deeper game mechanics but that`s easy when you only have GTA and its clones.

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A step backwards from an awesome Sleeping dogs offline.

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It's aboot being stuck with WASD controls like Sleeping Dogs. B*tt holes.

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if this was SP i would sign up but MMO MP gah nah thanks.

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Doesn't seem that bad to me. I've signed up for beta access, hopefully I'll get to check it out.


As for SD2, well... i think that will be announced next year or so, after this project is launched.

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*Sigh*. Another F2P online game. GTAV is still the undisputed king of open world game design.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> NAH, I play it and it`s ok. There are better open world games with deeper gameplay.

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Name one? Just one game that does what you stated better than GTA V?

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> NO!!! *GTA fanboy*

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Out of the open world games that where released close to it (GTA 4, Mafia 2, Saints Row 3/4, Just Cause 2), Sleeping Dogs was my favorite, I loved the somewhat predictable story, the combat, the driving, the great atmosphere of the sort of Hong Kong city (especially the raining days). I didn't liked the low difficulty of the police chases, the challenge was to not run too fast to loose them. Anyway I was looking forward to a sequel, to a new story...sadly disapointed that it's gonna be a GTA Online clone. Also it looks like they are just reusing the old assets, so not too many new things.

Maybe a bit of topic, but can't help it, it reminds me of the Legacy of Kain online game...that's exactly what fans were waiting for.

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So the community says we like Sleeping Dogs. And they come back with this.....A bland pastiche of a Farmville: Gangster Edition that only superficially uses Hong Kong as a vague backdrop?!

...What? And we wonder why some game companies/publishers fail? They simply don't/cant REALLY listen to their communities.


Sleeping Dogs was a surprisingly good single-player sandbox game that immersed you into a previously unheard of environment in Hong Kong. A Hong Kong that felt alive, articulated, with the narration providing some nice thematic elements and had a few notes of mature social commentary about a place we never knew of before. All held together with solid gameplay that mixed it up.


Look. If we tell you that you guys make a surprisingly good burger and we would like another, don't come out of the kitchen with spaghetti. Even if it turns out as the best spaghetti ever (which it won't) WE DIDN'T COME TO YOU FOR THIS.
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@1blackone I think what's happened is SD didn't sell as well as it should have, everyone seemed to love it but it still didn't sell and they would have lost money. So i think they're trying to use what they have already built to bring in some more capital so they can fully realise Sleeping Dogs 2. Hence why next gen Sleeping Dog ports and this.


If it means a better Sleeping Dog 2 then i'm all for it, remember these guys can't work for free, they're passionate about what they're doing but also need it to bring in money to continue.

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I think you have hit the nail on the head there.

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Yeah, I'm sure they're doing what the community asked them to do. Somehow I must have missed the part where all the fans were saying "You know what we need instead of SG2? A semi-MMO"

Plus, are devs seriously still trying to sell the "Every person will experience a different story" crap? Everyone? Are they planning on maxing out at 5 players?

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Getting Sleeping Dogs for PS4 next month as I missed it.

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"Just as << LINK REMOVED >>, << LINK REMOVED >> developer United Front Games has revealed its next game. Triad Wars is a online "

Stopped reading there.GTFO with your online only crap.

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I suggest they rename this game into 'Sleeping Pills Triad Wars', cause mp only games are boring and [they] will put you to sleep faster than a boot to the face.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Yep, WOW didn't captivate anyone :)

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online only? F that!

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if its a online game that plays exactly like Sleeping Dogs.. than great! I hope it comes to consoles...

but if its not.. and not coming to consoles.. than whatever...

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This is why we can't have nice things.

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So they go around playing Triple Triad with each other?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Aw man, Triple Triad...I miss that...I think 70% of my total FF8 playing time was with TT; collecting, changing rules, going after the rares...and I'd keep them all, never traded them for items.

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Waste of time and effort. They should be making Sleeping Dogs 2.

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Seriously, the game's name sounds like some FB game from Zynga

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Seems a helluva lot like The Godfather 2.

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@pongley The Godfather 2 was awesome, b/c it was not some F2P grindy-crap.
The first Godfather game was God-awful. Reviewers rated GF 1 way too high, and GF 2 way too low. Play both games back-to-back, you'll see.

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I did not care for the God Father.

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