This is a game specifically designed for people that watched Hong Kong action movies in the 90s and 2000s.

It's also the most clever twist on the open-world genre I've seen since GTA3. It most games of that genre, you are free to cause chaos and mayhem all the time. (I'm talking every GTA, Just Cause, Prototype, Saint's Row, etc.) It makes the tone a bit strange, if you want to play anything other than a psychopathic killer. Kudos to Saint's Row for playing with that idea, and I sneer at Rockstar for the tone-deaf plot of GTA5.

Anyway, in Sleeping Dogs, you're an undercover cop. Thus you must simultaneously keep in with the Triad by committing appropriate violence and theft, while at the same time doing what you can to minimize civilian casualties and property damage. This, together with the best plot I've yet encountered in an open-world game, makes this the pick of the breed. It's even pretty good for a console port, with hi-resolution textures available for download, and the default keybindings are, for the most part, quite sensible.

This is a great game. You should play it.

Most grand strategy games have the player as a faceless intelligence behind a nation. In CKII, you play instead as the head of a dynastic line. This changes your priorities in so many facinating ways- instead of just trying to make (say) England more powerful, you're goal is to see that your relatives gain power anywhere. Maybe that means making England powerful. Maybe it means assassinating the current king and plunging Europe into war. It's amazingly deep yet quite accessable. I recommend it without reservations.

This is the best stealth game I have ever played. I normally hate platformers, but this one does it right. You will not regret playing this game.