I loved Sleeping Dogs. I loved it so much that it was my Game of the Year last year by a clear majority, and I found myself gnashing my teeth for another go at it, even if it was just a straight-up replay of the game in its entirety. With Squeenix being...well, Squeenix, I had started to wonder if we'd actually see anything else from the series, however, but always hoped and assumed that news would be forth-coming. That hope has paid off, as United Front Games are working on a game called "Triad Wars" which will be set in the Sleeping Dogs universe. However, there is...a couple things that get me worrying because as you all know, I am sort of prone to worrying about literally everything.
The trademark filed for the game, as far as I know, is simply "Triad Wars" and not "Sleeping Dogs: Triad Wars", which is well, kind of the thing you -don't- want to do. I hope it's a sub-title and it makes the most sense to be, what with it being set in the same universe and keeping that brand recognition is key, but I don't know how trademarks work in terms like that. "Triad Wars" on its own is incredibly generic and that leads into another point that deserves a little worried thought to it.
This is Squeenix we're talking about. Granted, it's United Front Games developing, but Squeenix has the whole thing by the balls, you can bet, and we all know where Squeenix has been buttering their bread lately. Or at least trying to. And failing pretty uniformly. Chances that this game, since absolutely nothing about it was announced by the name (potentially just half of it) will be a mobile/tablet game are far too high for my liking because they're present at all. The idea is that it'll be a PS4/XBone game, of course, but I'm not putting anything past Squeenix, especially when the trademark, as stated, is simply for something called "Triad Wars" which will go well right next to all your other iOS games. I can't name any of course (aside from Angry Birds), but you know what I'm getting at.
Assuming that we're not expecting the worst, one can only dream of what might actually occur in a Sleeping Dogs sequel, especially one (hopefully) sub-titled "Triad Wars". Wei Shen obviously spent the majority of his time trying to shut down some of the Triad factions and members, but you can't always get rid of all of them, and the game could take place in the aftermath of the first game during a rebuild time or something along those lines. Of course, it could also be a prequel that shoes off the establishment of the Red Poles in the Triad and their respective rises to power. Or it could even be a game that runs concurrent to the events of Sleeping Dogs while Wei is running around, stirring up the pot and trying to get them all taken down. The possibilities for another Sleeping Dogs game are honestly a bit astounding and it does manage to get me excited and hopeful despite a complete information blackout until 2014, apparently.
It's going to be a long, hard wait, but at least I have plenty of things to keep me occupied while I wait for news about the game. Fingers crossed for a PS4 game to play alongside the Tomb Raider sequel so that I can tell Squeenix that I really do actually support their non-Final Fantasy projects. Since, you know, they apparently need to be told that. Excessively. Loudly. So that they can't say the best/fastest selling iteration of an IP's sales are "not what they expected". Because they're dumb.
just give me some more environmental finishers and we're all peachy, United Front Games
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