O’Connell goes on to provide a brief game synopsis: “Wei Shen is the main character and he was born in Hong Kong and left Hong Kong, because of an incident with his family. I won’t go into that and spoil it, but he’s come back to Hong Kong as an adult, after being an undercover police officer in San Francisco. And he goes undercover with the Hong Kong Police Force up against the Triads, using his childhood connections to get in with the Triad. So there’s this very interesting challenge for Wei of having his duty as a police officer, but also his abuse of his loyalty to his friends — and that’s really the crux of the story.”

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Van Der Mescht continues, “At its core, we wanted to create a classic undercover cop story that comes with all the tension and all the moral dilemma that often the characters find themselves in. They have to go deep under cover, and before you know it they actually start to like and befriend the people they’re actually undercover with, and allegiances get very murky, and it’s a grey morality, and not a world of black and white. That’s the intriguing thing about an undercover cop story.”

Catch Machinima’s interview with Van Der Mescht and Lee Singleton, General Manager, Square Enix London — with Hong Kong as the backdrop — right here.

“Working on Sleeping Dogs has been such a huge passion for the team and we’re really pleased to be working with Square Enix London Studios,” says Stephen Van Der Mescht, executive producer at United Front Games.

“The extensive experience that both studios have in creating compelling open world gameplay and rich, rewarding combat makes for a perfect partnership. Working together we’re ensuring Sleeping Dogs is the most intense and immersive game it can be.”

Sleeping Dogs will be available in the second half of 2012 for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows PC.

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