Recent reviews by Patchwork

One of the greatest games ever made, and now it's much more accessible to get into for the average player.

I think sleeping dogs has a fantastic melee system that has much more complexity than you would expect to find with similar open world story driven games. I also like that though the melee system has a lot of depth, the game isn't a pure brawler either. The open world element and side activities like the fight club are a lot of fun and allow you to break up the monotony a bit. however if I had one complaint for this game, it's the fact that some of the DLC adds way too much extra money, cars and XP to the point it almost ruins the enjoyment of progression.

After hearing so many bad things I was a little hesitant to get it, but decided it was my obligation as a thief fan to at least check it out. I went ahead and watched Total Biscuits review on YouTube to get some game-play and other thoughts to make a decision myself instead of just blindly following the review numbers. I will say I am glad I got it. I think a lot of reviewers expected this to be the original thief at a 1:1 ratio and I think that's just asking to much. If you go into this just wanting a game with good stealth game-play and an all around good time and challenge then this is your game. I just don't suggest getting this if you are expecting this game to compare with the classic.

After playing this I can tell Edios Montreal did all they could to keep the fans of the series happy. A big worry for some people is the focus system and just being dumbed down, and I won't deny that those dumbed down features aren't there, but the great part is you can remove all those handicaps to an extreme with the extensive custom difficulty which is an amazing feature if you want a challenge. Being part of the western developer division of Square Enix, you get all the graphical options, and support for the latest and greatest PC tech like they have done with their previous games. Graphically it's not the best looking game out there, but it has a really nice balance between quality and performance allowing me to play in eyefinity at 5760x1080 going no lower than 40FPS with an overclocked r9 290. It's positional audio is also fantastic when trying to find sounds coming from around you. However at the time of this review there is a bug that is glitching audio distance calculation making people having a conversation 2 houses away some times sound like they are right next to you. Audio mixing also isn't fantastic where music can often be drowning out dialog if you leave it to high. Guards voices can also drown out your inner monologue in the game as well which is a bit annoying that I am looking forward to a patch for.

A big complaint with most reviews is having a lackluster and hard to follow story, and they are not truly wrong. However, It doesn't makes the game any less fun, and like I said earlier, if you are expecting this to be the original thief 1:1 in quality, you might be a bit disappointed and they have changed a few things for the worse in the game-play, but I still think that it is an extremely fun game.

If you are going to buy this game because of my review, then don't. I'm going to be frank, this review is pretty bias, and I recommend you do what I did and form your own decisions by watching a walk-through of the first few missions and such to get a feel for the game-play and make your own decision like I did, instead of basing your entire purchase on someone else's experience.