Ambiance is markedly better, because you can't walk around Los Santos without being inexplicably antagonized by someone (addicted to obscenities, it would seem) who apparently has no real beef with you to begin with. And though this is purely subjective, I would even go so far to say the radio stations are better in Sleeping Dogs. There are minor things that make it better as well, from the ability to take a human shield to the ability to put someone in your trunk and drive around with them to the ability to frickin use your cell phone and car door at the same time! Even the collectibles give you more incentive to run around looking for them, in both terms of their rewards and the likelihood you will actually find something (also thanks to the enormous map in 5). Skill/perk progression is easily superior. In Sleeping Dogs, you can buy a vehicle, destroy it, and go back to your garage for another one. You know, the one where you HAVE to torture an innocent person to progress the story? Options include things like pulling their teeth out?. ![]() I'd say they were DISTURBING if the whole torture mini-game thing hadn't already claimed the title. And THAT’S not to speak of the needlessly explicit voiceovers in 5 if you should happen to hire a prostitute because you always found the experience in previous GTAs. That's not to speak of the hand to hand and melee combat which is infinitely better in Sleeping Dogs, as are the abilities surrounding gunplay and hijacking cars while driving alongside one and hopping onto its roof from your own vehicle, etc. As for the map in 5, what good is a huge map when there's little (that's fun) to do in that map considering its size (Google "GTA 5" and "boring" or "bored" and tell me what you find)? Getting from one side of the map to the other is a hassle if not a bore, the protagonists are pathetic and despicable compared to those in SD, the story (if you can even call it that) falls short by comparison as well, and even the lamest extraneous content in SD (karaoke and cockfighting) blows the lamest of extra content in GTA 5 (dog training and yoga) out of the water. But then, the graphics in SD aren't BAD either. Now, no one (who's sane) will deny that GTA 5 has better graphics and the map is bigger. Only thing it doesn’t have (that counts for anything at all) is flying/sky diving, but then Just Cause 2 did that better three years ago. Sleeping Dogs is a prime example of that. ![]() But I can get that just by stepping out my front door in real life! Doesn't make it enjoyable when everything I tried to have fun doing in GTA 5 had been done better in previous games. Sure, it has better graphics and a bigger map. After playing SD, GTA 5 did nothing but disappoint me. Sleeping Dogs is BETTER than GTA 5, as Rockstar didn't appear to learn anything from watching it beat GTA 4 down.
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