


That sounds like a Steven Soderbergh movie waiting to happen. However, according to Thrall his two partners in crime consisted of a 6 foot 7 inch assassin (I kid you not) and a burly ex-street fighter. Oftentimes in open-world action games we're surrounded by a colorful cast of caricatured personalities and tropes. Grenades being chucked down a mainstreet near a high-end jewelry. Sounds kind of spiffy, eh? Well, former-Marine Chris Thrall explained that his first day in Hong Kong was anything but spiffy, saying. Over at Pocket-Lint, they managed to talk to a real-life ex-Triad member who lived in Hong Kong for a while and worked as a bouncer at a Triad night club. The game is an unforgiving look at the dangers of Triad gang-life and the uncompromising antics that follow suit with being in one of the most feared gangs in the world. I'm sure there are brewing pitchfork and torch sessions over in parent-teacher forums and communities involving mothers against violence over the recently released Sleeping Dogs.

Have you been soaking in the sights of the fictional Hong Kong in United Front Games' Sleeping Dogs? Have you enjoyed beating the crap, mercilessly, out of ordinary NPCs and gang members alike? Do you revel in the game's ultra-violence? Well, if you though it was all fun and games, for an ex-Triad gang member, the art is pretty much an accurate imitation of real-life.
