Year of the Snake succeeds in giving more Sleeping Dogs, but without actually adding anything to the experience. Finishing Year of the Snake allows Wei to take the teargas launcher back to the main game, in case you wanted to have fun watching teargas canisters smack off of people’s head. The main story can take about 4 – 5 hours to finish, and another couple of hours can be added to complete the side quests as well. Of the three story-drive DLCs, Year of the Snake is easily the longest. What Year of the Snake doesn’t have in new variety it tries to make up with in substance.
None of them are really interesting, and all of them feel copy/pasted from the main game. There are also new side quests in Year of the Snake, but they suffer from the same problem as the main quests. It’s funny, but ultimately not enough.Īctually, all joking aside, I think this is the best screenshot I’ve taken in a game in a while. The one change up I can think of is a mission where Wei was given a teargas launcher to control a riot. The fact that Wei is a police officer could have been a good change up by offering missions where Wei has to use his police skills to investigate, or has to confront members of the Sun On Yee now that he is no longer one of them (actually, the Sun On Yee is mysteriously completely absent for no good reason) but this never comes up in the game. The mission structures are also more of the same: sometimes Wei will have to go beat people up, other times he has to shoot some people, there’s a couple of car chases as well, but nothing different. Wei can also now end fights a little early by arresting wounded enemies, but neither of these are really major improvements to Sleeping Dogs’ combat system. It’s funny the first few times, and noticeably over powered as tazed enemies tend to lay on the ground for extended amounts of time. Yes, now instead of punching the people he grapples Wei will instead whip out a Taser and taze them. Yet when Nightmare in North Point gave me new enemies types to fight and Zodiac Tournament added in boss fights, the best Year of the Snake has to offer is a Taser. This isn’t a bad thing of course, Sleeping Dogs was already one of the more fun games released in 2012 so the lack of overhauled mechanics doesn’t really strike me as too worrying. Year of the Snake doesn’t really change up or add anything noteworthy to Sleeping Dogs’ gameplay. You’re going to get arrested for that, no joke.Īnyone searching for something new will have to keep looking. Plus, the game ends on one of the most anticlimactic conclusions I’ve ever seen. Nothing interesting happens, the plot isn’t forward in any meaningful way, and none of the dangling strings left in Sleeping Dogs are picked up on. Lacking the interesting characters and situations of the main story, Year of the Snake’s plot basically doesn’t do anything. Now Wei Shen and Inspector Teng team up to try and stop this cult and bring down their leader. Despite this Wei Shen accidentally stumbles upon a plot from a cult that is hell bent on starting the apocalypse, something they are convinced will happen with the new year. As such they basically demote him to a regular beat cop. Sadly, while more Sleeping Dogs sounds good on paper, Year of the Snake doesn’t do anything worth celebrating.Īfter the events of Sleeping Dogs the higher ups in the police force are not happy with Wei Shen’s path of destruction that he leaves behind him all the time. Year of the Snake changes that, being a direct follow up to Sleeping Dogs’ main story.
While Sleeping Dogs had a few DLC campaigns, up until now none of them have been canonical. There may be differences between versions. Reviewer’s note: I played this game on the PlayStation 4. Available On: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
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