Awesome / Sleeping Dogs (2012)

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• Wei vs the ten Dogeyes goons in the martial arts tutorial. It allows Wei to be inducted into the Water Street Gang.
• Despite being extremely difficult, the fight in Club Bam Bam has many an awesome moment. Especially enjoyable is jumping off the higher platform and watching the floor panel underneath you explode in sparks during the landing. To say nothing of if/when you smash a guy into an aquarium, before picking up a fish and beating enemies to death with it. The game will actually acknowledge this with an achievement. And it's all set to the beat of Hudson Mohawke's "FUSE".
• During the Serial Killer Case, Sun On Yee members are being kidnapped and murdered for their organs. Wei finds out that one of his friends, Calvin, is next. When Wei arrives, Calvin is just being tossed in the trunk of a car. Wei is now in a bit of a predicament: if he rescues Calvin, then he'll expose the fact that he's a cop. So he pulls off an action hijack (In other words, he jumps on top of a moving car from a moving car ala Pursuit Force), subdues the kidnapper, and leaves Calvin in the truck for the police to deal with. It pretty much makes the player feel like a complete badass.
• Taking down that asshole Hotshot. In the final act of this mission string, you find out Hotshot ran Ace off the road, killing himself and severely injuring his girlfriend. Incensed, Wei sets up a roadblock with Inspector Teng to put this guy away and challenges Hotshot to a race and steals a sports car to do the deed. Hotshot starts off by cheating his way through the countdown, so you're already at a disadvantage. But it's fine because eventually, Hotshot runs into the police roadblock, at which point you are now free to go to town against Hotshot's car and turn it into a smoking wreck before losing the cops and driving off like a boss.
  Wei: "See you later Hotshot! Hey! Say hi to the police for me!"
• Winston's mother takes one of the men responsible for Winston's murder, chops him up, and makes him into stew. Then when Wei brings her Dogeyes, the man who ordered the hit, she starts to feed him the first guy, and lectures him before slowly cutting him into pieces. Near the climax, one of Lee's men makes the mistake of turning his back on her to point his gun at Wei. While she has her signature cleaver. She basically puts it clean through his collarbone.
• Near the end of the "Dockyard Heist" mission, Jackie finds himself trapped in the back of a cargo truck with an 18K bruiser as the truck speeds off. After Wei manages to stop the truck, he quickly opens up the back intent on rescuing his friend, only to find that Jackie has already beaten the thug into submission on his own. To put that in perspective, Jackie is rail-thin, has only recently made his first kill (and isn't feeling too good about it) and has been repeatedly shown as far inferior to Wei in hand-to-hand combat.
• The finale of the funeral shoot out where you have to use a grenade launcher to blow up dozens of cars filled with 18K Triads.
• The penultimate mission is awesome on so many levels, Wei gets captured and brutally tortured by Mr. Tong after finding Jackie's body, then he breaks free from his bonds and escape from the apartment, killing everyone in his path, then he gets into a fight with Mr. Tong and after defeating him, stabs him through the chest with his own machete! And to make sure he's really dead, he proceeds to beat his face into a bloody pulp. And to finish it off, Wei steals his clothes and his car.
  • The drive to the final mission builds tension quite nicely. As you speed to the election, you start hearing quotes from various characters from different points in the story while the great, somber "Miles to Go" by Stateless plays. It's a great way to recap the entire game and really makes you feel ready to finish things for good.
• In the final mission, you invade Big Smile Lee's compound, slaughtering your way through his henchman and chasing him down, and after defeating Lee in a fistfight, Wei feeds him into an ice chipper.
  • Mr. Tong's machete, the one he tries to use to kill Wei, has unlimited durability, unlike the kitchen knives and cleavers most thugs have been using as improvised melee weapons. If you brought it with you, you can slaughter Lee's mooks with the blade of his own Torture Technician right up until the point where you shank the back of the guy who has a gun for you to steal.
  • Confronting Pendrew at the end. When Wei reveals evidence that implicated him in the murder of Uncle Po, Pendrew's Oh, Crap! reaction is priceless. And to really rub salt in the wound, Wei reveals that he made sure all the Sun On Yee at the prison Pendrew's being locked in knowing that he was the one who killed Uncle Po. Pendrew immediately panics, saying that he won't last one day. Wei's response? " That's the idea".
• The entirety of the martial arts clubs are like this. Wei Shen is forced not only to fight one guy at a time but two, three, and eventually seemingly a dozen at once. He then kicks their asses. Bonus points if he's wearing the Bruce Lee yellow tracksuit.
• The DZS-90 from the Wheels of Fury DLC is made of pure awesome. This thing is slick, fast, and handles like a dream, and that's not even getting into the EMP, machine guns, and ramming device it has. It's so powerful that Dr. Tang had to ship it into Hong Kong in parts to evade Chinese authorities. And Wei gets to keep it at the end of the mission string.