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My name is Josh. I'm 20 years old and live in Las Vegas, Nevada. I enjoy playing all sorts of games. My favorite genres are RPG's and Shooters. I prefer to play a game through first without going for achievements as I find it's a better experience to go into a game blind. However I often break my on rule because I have no self control. I own and play both an Xbox 360 and PS3. I'm also proud owner of a broken psp and a fully functional DS lite. A while ago I decided to review every game I play so most of my posts will be reviews, although I will have the occasional rants and likely be to lazy to follow through. I like to play games on easy as I have a short temper so take that as you will. I'm currently only working part time so I'm using the internet way to much and play games more than a normal person should. That's about it for now, so hopefully you enjoy the blog.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFMYPBpxs6w

If you take a look at that video, you'll see the Police Protection Pack. Offered as a pre-order incentive to gamestop customers. (at least in the US) Based on that video, I and many others dropped down money at gamestop. As it turns out, that ad was a blatant lie. What you actually get in the game is one mission that is about 2 minutes long where you get driven around by a cop while you shoot vehicles chasing you. That's it. You don't get to use the armor, gun, or car in free roam. Also there are no exclusive police upgrades at all. It's just one 2 minute mission. I couldn't believe it when I played it. So I took to gamefaqs to see if this was the case with everyone else, or if I just missed something. I was directed to this link on the games official forums.

http://forums.sleepingdogs.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1322&start=15

In it, a community manager for the game states that as we suspected, you don't get to use anything that was promised to you. All you get is the mission. I'm legitimately outraged that they would make a trailer showing you using the items in the open world, but give you nothing promised. Plus despite the fact that the trailer says "exclusive police upgrades" there are none in the DLC.

Now they say they're looking into letting people use the DLC they way they clearly showed in the promo video, but it's not a sure thing. They haven't mentioned anything about the upgrades yet, so that's a wait and see.

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On one hand, that's a company blatantly lying to secure preorders. BBB should definitely be notified about this. That's fucking wrong.

On the other, as with almost all preorder stuff, it would have been useless probably anyway. If not from the get go, then within an hour of play.
I absofuckinglutely hate in-game preorder incentives. Everyone should get that content, instead of stripping it out from other patrons' games. Give me a poster, or a discount if you want to secure the sale, but don't piecemeal the extra content to specific stores.
Weird. I got the Deep Undercover thing from Walmart and I'm not sure if it even has a mission. But yeah, the suit and the car and the scanner have been working just fine in my open world.
Considering how long Black Orchid was in development, I'm not surprised by this type of bullshit.

This game started as a game about a yakuza female assassin, then became a True Crime game, and then it morphed into Sleeping Dogs. What a journey for what really amounts to nothing.
It's a really great game actually, but I can't help but feel ripped off to a degree.

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