In terms of character progression, Sleeping Dogs takes the Grand Theft Auto model and adds a couple of new wrinkles in the form of multiple advancement paths.
There's also a bit of Matrixy, Max Payne-style bullet time thrown in for good measure, and while the convention is well past cliche status at this point, it's only occasionally necessary. Thugs will come at you with fists, flying kicks, tire irons, and 12-to-1 odds, and after a bit of practice, Wei Shen is a whirling, counter-punching dervish straight out of Hong Kong's celebrated action cinema scene. Martial arts brawls in this game are glorious, gut-wrenching slugfests. I don't know whether Sleeping Dogs' dev team set out to emulate Batman: Arkham Asylum's hard-hitting melee mode, but it feels quite similar, and this is unequivocally a good thing. Combat is a bit better, control-wise, and it's even more fun than the game's movement system.
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