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Slam City with Scottie Pippen
Slam City with Scottie Pippen SEGA 32X Front Cover  Slam City with Scottie Pippen SEGA 32X Back Cover

 Slam City with Scottie Pippen is a Full-Motion-Video basketball game. It uses proprietary technology to allow switching from one scene to another without lag, which allows for smoother interactive video.

Gameplay is relatively simple, using little more than arrow keys, and is very different from any other basketball simulation. Basketball is merely the subject for the game's plot, involving the new-guy, Ace (the player), and a host of other characters, basketball players or just spectators, all with different personalities. It's basically play one-on-one on a warehouse court and climb the "ladders" until you earn enough respect to play against Scottie Pippen.

The game features a total of 13 characters, 5 of which the player has an option to play against, all of which are played by real actors.

Sleeping Dogs 
Sleeping Dogs PlayStation 3 Front Cover  Sleeping Dogs PlayStation 3 Back Cover

 Sleeping Dogs is an open environment action game set in the crime world of the Hong Kong Triads. The protagonist controlled by the player is Wei Shen, a Chinese-American police officer who returns to the Hong Kong neighbourhood of his youth to infiltrate the Triad organization Sun On Yee. In the opening scenes he quickly hooks up again with his old friend Jackie Ma who introduces him to the Triad boss Winston Chu. Even though many characters still remember Shen from long ago, he has to work his way back up. The main storyline has him perform various missions for the organization, starting with simple extortion quests with the local merchants. These quests have to be followed to make available new missions and open up new parts of the city, but a role-playing element allows Shen to choose his own path. Three types of experience points can be earned: Triad, Cop and Face. The first two determine Shen's devotion to either the Triad or the police respectively, based on his actions. The third is an overall experience system that determines Shen global reputation. Leveling up opens up new upgrades through a skill tree system. Players are free to leave the story behind and explore the city at their own leisure.

The game borrows many elements that were popularized by the Grand Theft Auto series. The city is full of people with their own routines and the player is free to intervene. Next to the main story Shen can buy or steal cars, join a fighting ring, gamble, visit clubs and markets, participate in illegal races, pursue police case missions or do deliveries for the Triad, bet on cockfights, or do karaoke or general favours for the citizens. While on foot Shen has an arsenal of moves that allow him to sprint, climb, vault and slide, with short slow motion sections for impressive actions. Chase sequences often mix loose action with scripted sequences. Melee combat is an important part and Shen can take on multiple opponents at once. Using a martial arts fighting style, players can chain punches and kicks into large combos, along with a cover and blocking system. The environment can also be used for attacks, slamming opponents' heads into walls or kicking them in a telephone booth. Almost any vehicle can be stolen and there are cars, boats and motorcycles. Guns are also present and they are used during car chases as well, along with cinematic moves where Shen is able to jump from one moving vehicle to another. Firing weapons however only make an appearance later in the game and even then they are scarcely used. While on foot the ranged weapons combat system introduces cover mechanics, free firing and targeting specific body parts.

Shen is able to get a girlfriend, shop for new clothing and get his own apartment. Communication is mostly done through phones. Health generates automatically, but it can also be restored by buying food and drinks from stalls in the streets. Collected money can be used to buy new melee combat moves. As a police officer Shen can hack security cameras to spy on others. Hacking is done through a mini-game similar to Mastermind, but with numbers instead of colours. The player keeps tracks of important marks and objectives through a mini-map in the bottom left corner. When dying during a mission, Shen wakes up in a hospital with some wealth removed.

Sly Cooper : Thievieus Racoonus
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus PlayStation 2 Front Cover  Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus PlayStation 2 Back Cover

 Sly Cooper is the latest in a long line of master thieves. When he was a kit, a gang called the Fiendish Five killed his family and divided up their book on the art of thieving: the Thievius Raccoonus. Sly must defeat all the members of the gang to recover the book while evading Carmelita Fox, a police officer chasing him around the world to apprehend him.

This game is divided into five worlds, each themed around a particular part of the world and the villain headquartered there. Most worlds are structured as a central hub with entrances to numerous individual levels. Each of the levels has a primary goals which earns you a key. You must collect all the keys in the world to fight the world's boss.

Many of the levels have a platformer structure. The objective of these worlds is to reach the location of the key. There are substantial stealth elements here as you must dodge searchlights and trips lasers which set off alarms and avoid alerting guards. In addition to the main objective, there are clue bottles to find. Finding all the clues in a level allows you to open a safe with a page from the Thievius Raccoonus which grants a new ability of some sort. After getting this, there is also a master thief sprint where you must get from the start of a level to the exit within a time limit.

There are also mini-game levels which could be kart-style racing, several varieties of shooter or assorted other tasks, such as collecting objects before your enemies do.

Boss fights also run to several styles, ranging from platforming, to more straightforward combat to puzzles to rhythm to shooter.

All artwork is done in a cel-shaded style and dialogue is fully voiced.

Sly 2
Sly 2: Band of Thieves PlayStation 2 Front Cover  Sly 2: Band of Thieves PlayStation 2 Back Cover

 Thief and raccoon Sly Cooper returns in a new cel-shaded platforming adventure wherein he forms a band of thieves with Bentley the turtle and Murray the purple, hippo-like creature, which each have their own role within the game.

Sly is the fastest, most agile member of the band of thieves and still is the character you play with the most. But certain missions require the special abilities of Bentley, who is smart and can drop bombs, as well shoot enemies from a distance. Other missions require the muscles of Murray, who can lift nearly everything, including enemies.

The main goal of the game is the retrieval of a number of clockwork pieces from different locations around the world. Each theft has to be prepared with a number of sub-missions which have to be completed before the 'real thing' can begin.

Sly 3
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves PlayStation 2 Front Cover  Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves PlayStation 2 Back Cover

 Sly and the gang is back in this third outing of Sly Raccoon-series. This time, the story takes the boys (Sly, Bentley and Murray) to the fortress that houses the treasures of Sly's family. Although they are still weary from the adventures in the previous game, they have to get up and face the new threat that could mean the end of Sly's business and the loss of his family heritage. The game itself is a lot like the previous games: Sly sneaks, jumps, and swings himself around the levels, collecting various items, defeating bad guys and ultimately taking on the boss character. The other members of the gang step in on the action once in a while but the Sly centric sections are the main focus of the game. If you like games that had many things to do, this sneak-em-up/platform/action/adventure/puzzle game is for you.
 
Sly 4 
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time PlayStation 3 Front Cover  Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time PlayStation 3 Back Cover

 Sly and all of his buddies are back to their old tricks on new platforms. All the humor and adventure is back, and this time the friends are traveling through time, trying to save Sly's ancestors. The classic Sly Cooper game play is back, with sneaking, brawling, several playable characters all with different abilities, and mini-games galore.

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