Players must complete missions to unlock content and continue the story, but they may instead freely roam the game's open world environment and engage in both legal and criminal activities. Gameplay focuses on Wei Shen's martial arts moves, fighting, shooting and parkour abilities, and on gadgets that can be used for combat and exploration. Set in contemporary Hong Kong, the single player story follows martial artist and undercover police officer Wei Shen who infiltrates the Sun On Yee Triad organization.

It was originally released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows in 2012. Sleeping Dogs will be available for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Windows PC on August 14th in North America and August 17th in Europe.Sleeping Dogs is an open world and martial arts action-adventure video game developed by United Front Games and published by Square Enix's European subsidiary. 1, The Man with the Iron Fists), Tzi-Ma (Rush Hour, The Quiet American), Yunjin Kim (Lost, Diary of June) and Kelly Hu (Martial Law, X2). Supporting cast includes Emma Stone (The Amazing Spider-Man, Zombieland), Robin Shou (Hard to Kill, Fatal Chase), Terence Yin (New Police Story, Colour of the Truth), James Hong (Blade Runner, The Day the Earth Stood Still), Lucy Liu (Kill Bill: Vol. Wei becomes one of the most-trusted lieutenants of “Red Pole” Winston Chu (Parry Shen - Better Luck Tomorrow, The New Guy), slowly becoming ingrained in the criminal underworld. Aided by police inspector Pendrew (Tom Wilkinson - Batman Begins, The Full Monty), Wei earns the trust of his childhood friend, Jackie Mah (Edison Chen - Infernal Affairs I/II, The Dark Knight). Sleeping Dogs features the voice talent of Will Yun Lee (Die Another Day, Total Recall) as Wei Shen, an officer sent deep undercover. “ As huge fans of the genre we knew exactly who we wanted we knew who could bring the script to life. “ Sleeping Dogs features over two hours of rich dialogue in a story inspired by some of Hong Kong’s finest films,” said Stephen van der Mescht, executive producer at United Front Games. A line-up of both Hollywood and Hong Kong cinema stars were enlisted. Square Enix today revealed the cast list for its upcoming open world cop drama, Sleeping Dogs.

Sleeping dogs cast