Bought this game on SSS like 2 years ago. Playing it now and wow what a Diamond in my library.

+ Ages really well game came out 10/2014, still a fresh experience 6/2017
+ Wei ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Shen
+ Asian GTA without being too over daunting and unfinishable.
+ Martial Arts Combat gameplay, very intuitive
+ Racing... suprisingly great controls
+ Great Story highlighting Asian values being tested
+ Asian flavored vehicles (lol): Supra, Skyline, Evo, WRX lookalikes.
+ Outfits = Asian Hero costumes! ie Jackie Chan's Drunken Fist & Rumble in the Bronx, Jet Li's Chen Zen, Black Mask, Green Hornet, Tony Ja's Ong Bak, Donnie's Ip Man, Buddhist Monk, Sun Wu Kong & Bruce Lee's Tournament outfits. Some outfits actually have signature moves like Ip Man's Wing Chun fast punches! Buy Definitive for that, otherwise those are microtransactions.

- I'm currently trying to be a completionist. 2 achievements in particular are bugged Achieve 30 Silver Stats & 30 Gold Stat Awards. I currently have 83/88 Silver Stats & 84/88 Gold Stats.
- There are a specific 30/88 particular golden stats that count toward the 30 Stat Achievement.
- You tend to lose your gun when you start a new mission if you pick it up via open world roaming.
- I'm nearly done with everything. :( .
- I'm done with everything. All achievements. 100% :(

10/10

JUST MAKE SLEEPING DOGS 2 HAPPEN!

dogs watching three
dogs that slept two where
shame

"A man who never played Sleeping Dogs, is never a whole man."

After the 100% completion I can say that:
When it comes to visual differences the Definitive Edition features better lighting, character models and textures, some improved world textures, more depth of field, smoke, smoother reflections and visual effects. In short, the game feels more organic.

Now you have more people and cars on the screen. I've noticed new faces, different outfits and generally better looks.

The keyboard keys were remapped to more standard layout. Notable changes:
-RMB to E (entering cars, countering).
-Space to L.Shift (sprint and parkour).
-RMB now is used for lock-on.

The game mechanics are mostly the same. HUD has been slightly revamped, making elements sharper, smaller. Phone's front and UI has been changed completely. Most of the icons have been changed. Main menu has activity feed now and you can switch between social hub entries without the need to wait until they load.

The car traffic AI is okay-ish, heavy trucks still scratch the walls on turns, but I've noticed that the AI sometimes keeps crashing into my parked cars. Car physics are semi-buggy. There have been cases of weird spawns and semi floating vehicles.

Pedestrian AI needs a bit of polishing. I've experienced bunch of harmless / hilarious bugs and glitches:
-Some individuals keep walking into other people as if they were walking into a wall.
-Friendly AI had problems entering my car / locating door when needed.
-Some thugs were levitating for a brief moment.
-Panicking thugs tried to escape, got in a car and kept driving into a wall (they try to back off, but still hit the exact same spot).
-Enemy reinforcements sometimes get stuck between cars or they keep looking at you from afar.
-Random guy upstairs in Club Bam Bam went through the floor and landed on the ground floor like it was nothing.
-Some pedestrian animations keep overwriting themselves (loop too early) and end up looking like they're having a stroke.
-Sometimes people get spawned above the water.
-Some people get stuck in walls.

I've also noticed some audio issues. Sometimes some sound effects aren't played or they randomly appear / disappear. Seems like some audio bits also get either delayed or overlap (especially noticeable if happens during dialogues). Even had 2 radio tracks playing at the same time.
I'd like to point out that camera needs tweaking too. Sometimes it doesn't center well, stucks in things or points at wrong angles, has weird sensivity. Especially noticable in action hijacks.
I didn't experience these issues in original patched SD.

The DLC content is nicely implemented into the main game. You do not get instant access to the items (which would ruin the experience and challenge like in the original SD), instead you can access them in shops (the clothes guy says wacky lines about individual sets), so in-game currency has extra use now. The NANP and YOS side stories are available directly at the main menu, no need to switch between them. The red envelopes are now scattered all around the map and can be found in semi-hidden places. Notable difference: most of the DLC related side missions can only be played once, not including Zodiac island.

SWAT Pack DLC's unlimited side missions were turned into "Cop Job". No need to travel in a HKPD vehicles, the missions are marked separately on your map and unlock based on your progression. Possible scenarios (possible spoilers):
-You raid, beat up and arrest street gangs while having a bunch of officers as a backup.
-You're given a vehicle and have to ram the escaping suspect's car, then arrest him.
-You respond to store shootouts and neutralize thugs.
-Sharpshooting / one shot kill the thug without harming the hostage.

There are also some modified individual side missions (possible spoilers):
-"High Speed". Imagine Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. You've given a police car and your goal is to shutdown a race by slamming into racer cars.
-Modified "Death by a Thousand Cuts". Arena fighting with a golden meat cleaver. Enemies have poisoned weapons and your goal is to survive and kill 30 enemies. it's quite hardcore, especially if you haven't upgraded anything.
-Modified "Shaolin Showdown". Defeat 40 monks. Up to 30 on screen.

The optimization is even better than in the original. Playable on higher resolutions with less performance hits.
Notable difference: you can Alt+Tab freely. The game doesn't go into windowed mode anymore and stays in full screen, there's no need to change options back every time (which was extremely annoying).

Final verdict:
Worth if you've never (for some reason) played the game before.
Otherwise for fans that enjoyed the game.
PS. Needs a lot of patching. The bugs add up even if they're semi harmless.

I may update this review if we discover some new "facts".

You know what a tragedy is?
The lack of sleeping dogs 2

Not a single dog in this game

play this instead of gta trilogy

the fact that sleeping dogs 2 never came out is criminal; game was ahead of its time for sure

Why don't you have a pork bun in your hand? You look like you could use a pork bun! A man who never eats pork buns, is never a whole man!