Details Emerge for Cancelled Sleeping Dogs 2

A couple of features from the cancelled Sleeping Dogs 2 have surfaced online, giving fans of the original game a look at what might have been if the game have made it to release.

The details of the Sleeping Dogs sequel have emerged thanks to Waypoint, which shared its findings of the mysterious projects. United Front Games originally pitched its idea for Sleeping Dogs 2 back in early 2013, and even though the project was cancelled by the end of that year, and didn't enter production officially, there was a short period of time where United Front Games was gathering its plans for the game.

The title was planned to follow the footsteps of the original game, with hero Wei Shen joining up with a corrupt cop partner named Henry Fang in China's Pearl River Megacity. The city itself was going to be more dynamic than the one found in the first Sleeping Dogs, with the player supposedly being given the possibility to arrest any NPC in the game world.

United Front Games would also have introduced full co-op support for Sleeping Dogs 2. It seems that users would have been able to choose whether to play the game solo or participate in certain co-op missions, with options including various procedurally-generated challenges such as fight clubs and vehicle races, but with a difference. Apparently, the game itself would have 'analyzed' where the player was up to in the Sleeping Dogs 2 narrative, and modified the co-op potential accordingly.

The title was also expected to include an intriguing mobile and tablet tie-in, which would've allowed the player to take on the role of inspector Jane Teng, and try to manage the police force in the city. Those who played both the mobile game and the full version of Sleeping Dogs 2 would have seen their choices in the app then change the main city's dynamics. It's worth mentioning that the ins and outs of this idea were far from fully fledged, but it was a fun concept nevertheless.