6 Times Definitive Editions Felt Lackluster

Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition

Spare a thought for United Front Games’ Sleeping Dogs, an excellent action adventure with a strong open world and story set in Hong Kong and focused on the Triad. Despite selling over 1.5 million copies and seeing plenty of DLC, it more or less remained a one-hit wonder for Square Enix (its spin-off Triad Wars was canceled and forgotten). That being said, it’s hard to muster too much sympathy for its definitive edition.

The Definitive Edition marked the game’s debut on Xbox One and PS4 (with the improvements also coming to PC) and collected all of its DLC in one package. United Front did tout improvements like fog and mist effects, redone lightning, some additional animation frames, animated lighting for neon signs and so on. However, comparisons revealed that it wasn’t that big of a step up from the original and, like Dishonored, ran at a locked 30 frames per second on Xbox One and PS4. Again, if you expected 1080p gameplay with all of the content in one place and never played the Xbox 360 or PS3 versions, this might have been appealing. For everyone else, it was just there.