So, what everybody playing these days?

[cemaphonic]

79. I'm liking Sleeping Dogs at the moment, and it doesn't seem to have gotten much attention.

It's in the GTA/Saints Row genre set in the Hong Kong criminal underworld. The PC is a undercover cop, but with personal connections to the criminals he's investigating, so the story is pretty engaging (if pretty cliched). The recreation of Hong Kong is really lively and beautiful, and it has some really impressive weather effects. Certain places have some really funny side dialog if you hang around the area for awhile.

Best of all, like most of the games in the genre, there is a wide variety of clothes to purchase and unlock, so if you get tired of the story taking itself too seriously, you can always dress up in increasingly silly outfits and play Chinese-American Serpico.

There are also some truly cringe-inducing attack animations - even the hardened gangster mooks that you fight will recoil in fear and disgust if you pull off some of the more brutal moves.