Analog Addiction: "Let’s all be honest for a moment: when you had first seen Triad Wars, you had thought it’s simply the missing multiplayer component of Sleeping Dogs; a way to cash-in on Square Enix’s decision to save the True Crime franchise (although the publisher didn’t purchase the actual intellectual property, opting instead to create a new one; hence, Sleeping Dogs), instead of working on a sequel. By the way, developer United Front Games and Square: people are still waiting for that tantalizing “Sleeping Dogs 2.” While I’ve only experienced a few hours of the game’s closed beta (there’s not much to do, at the moment), I’m pleased to tell you Triad Wars has a lot of potential."
The live-action Sleeping Dogs may not only help change perceptions on video game movies, but have a larger effect on the movie industry.
I can not wait for this! Sleeping Dogs was such a great game. Shame there may never be a true sequel but hearing that Donnie Yen is the star in the movie just put this up to number 1 on my can't wait list!
I predict a cyclical effect. If the movie kicks ass then the game will get more attention and the world will get built. If the movie sucks then it will affirm the critics who didn't like the game and the world will get crushed
Sleeping Dogs MMO Triad Wars is to close on January 20, United Front Games has announced.
The game launched on PC in closed beta in early 2015 but, by the developer's own admission, "wasn't right for many" players, most of which had likely been expecting an online version of Sleeping Dogs.
When United Front Games and Square Enix announced more in the Sleeping Dogs universe, fans got their hops up for a return to that setting. What emerged was a free-to-play PC game called Triad Wars announced in October 2013, and it didn’t catch on.
Today, United Front has confirmed the game will not make it out of beta. Everything will wrap up on January 20 at 12 p.m. Pacific / 3 p.m. Eastern. “We’ve loved seeing how you’ve played Triad Wars but we know it wasn’t right for many of you,” the studio writes.
When I saw the original reveal I thought it was stupid to begin with. The game looked terrible even the last time they showed it. I don't see why we couldn't just get a sequel.
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SE should have paid United Front to create a proper SD sequel for current gen and PC..
That would make too much sense. 1st game was great But there was plenty of room for improvement. But hey they wanted to jump on the free the play bandwagon with their precious microtransactions.
I at least hope there was sum concurrent development; that while TW was known, they were also quietly working on SD2 proper w/ another team (hopefully main team, cuz TW was mostly recycled SD assets anyway).
I mean, it Has been 3 yrs since SD released. Hoping for an announce this e3, maybe w/ release for holiday '16, which'd make it 4 yrs since SD1, which seems just right for a sequel cycle.
I'm not sure if they have the ability to make a proper sequel alone.
This sort of looked like a idea to get more out of the game engine and resources from Sleeping Dogs.
... I was quite disappointed with it's depiction in Sleeping Dogs.
They basically only had Hong Kong Island in SD, and not a very faithful representation of Hong kong Island either, sadly.
I truly hope that with this next game, they can do Hong Kong justice and include many more locations, like Lantau Island and Kowloon and the New Territories, instead of ignoring them.