Revival Club - Sleeping Dogs
4Player Podcast
Nick Henderson
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, Nick is joined by three lovely 4Player community members, Skud, Steve, and ChaiThai, to discuss our time spent playing 'Sleeping Dogs!' Released in 2012 by Square-Enix and United Front Games, the project weathered a troubled development cycle and still managed to delivery a memorable open-world action experience at a time when Rockstar dominated with Grand Theft Auto. It draws inspiration from Hong Kong action cinema to tell a story of an undercover police officer who is trying to infiltrate the criminal underbelly of Hong Kong.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Nick here. You're about to listen to another episode of the Revival Club at 4Playnetwork.com. |
| 0:05.2 | Every month, the community nominates votes, plays, and discusses a classic game together in Discord. |
| 0:10.0 | At the end, we ceremoniously wrap up our time with each game by recording a short podcast, |
| 0:14.4 | very much like the one you're about to listen to right now. |
| 0:17.1 | If you're interested in participating, nominating, voting, discussing, or even being a guest on a future show, |
| 0:22.8 | consider supporting us on Patreon at patreon.com slash 4Player at the $3 tier or higher, |
| 0:27.6 | or you could subscribe to our Twitch channel at 4PP.TV. |
| 0:30.7 | But enough about that, let's get started. |
| 0:32.6 | Thank you. Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of the Revival Club here at 4Playernetwork.com. My name is Nick Henderson. I'm your host this evening. And I am joined by three lovely community guests to talk about sleeping dogs. |
| 0:57.1 | Scud is joining us. Hello, Scud. How are you? Hello, I'm good. I'm also joined by community |
| 1:02.7 | member Steve. Hello. And community extraordinaire, Chaitai. You've been around for a while. |
| 1:08.4 | Hello, Chai Thai. Hello. And so, like I said, we're going to talk about sleeping dogs. |
| 1:14.6 | We actually nominated, voted, played this game throughout the month of June. |
| 1:19.6 | And there's a lot to unpack here, kind of like our last game, Okami. |
| 1:24.6 | So I'm just kind of kind of roll right into it. I have a bunch of talking points and stuff that we want to get into, but there's a long history of this game. |
| 1:31.3 | And I wasn't quite sure where to start, which is actually why... |
| 1:36.3 | So Chaitai said that he has maybe some background knowledge or insight that we may not have because he has made more exposure to the |
| 1:46.0 | influences of this game, which is Hong Kong action films. Am I correct? That is correct. So |
| 1:52.6 | Sleeping Dogs is very clearly influenced by Hong Kong Chinese cinema. And the thing about that |
| 1:59.3 | kind of type of cinema is that you need to know is |
| 2:01.5 | the action the over-the-top theatrics the opera of it is all very authentic to the type of |
| 2:07.8 | movie they present Hong Kong cinema tends to be particularly a no cop is ever bad kind of |
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