Breed, size, weight and environment will also have a bearing on how much shut-eye they’ll take. In fact, they might only spend five hours a day being active, with half the day devoted to sleeping, and the remaining time resting.Īs with humans, factors such as activity levels, age and health can all affect a dog’s need to sleep, as well as the quality of that sleep. Unlike humans, who generally stay up all day and then sleep for one long stretch at night, dogs spread out their sleep time. There was no new outfit to wear here, more a thorough beating for the scruffy suited man from the two triad bouncers.Dogs sure can snooze. Just as in real life, this "face" is gained all too often by resorting to violence.įor Thrall in the Hong Kong nightclub, things were even more brutal. In Sleeping Dogs, it can be won by helping out other characters and results in you gaining access to more impressive outfits and vehicles. “You could see that whatever this old boy had done, he had made them lose face because of it.”įace - or respect - is wound meticulously into the criminal underworld of Hong Kong, Thrall tells us, and often leads to extreme bouts of violence just like that he has previously mentioned. “Our 6 ft 7in mate is literally running towards the door with this man in a scruffy suit strapped over his shoulder." “We had a guy come to our club one night, a very small chap wearing a scruffy suit, he must have been about 50,” Thrall continues. He used to get smuggled across the border to the mainland quite regularly to do a hit on some other triad gang." “The third doorman, he was a 6 ft 7in assassin. “My fellow doorman who stood next to me, he was a streetfighter, he would just go mental in a scrap,” Thrall says. Home to some of the best fight scenes in the game, things again start sounding all too real when we ask him to outline an average day's work. In the case of Sleeping Dogs, there's club Bam Bam, a place not unlike that in which Thrall ended up working. Moving to the city to setup a business venture which quickly turned sour, Thrall, an ex-Marine, ended up working as a bouncer in a gang-run nightclub. Just like in the game, he experienced Hong Kong at its most raw and violent. Things are sounding very Sleeping Dogs already and this is just Thrall's first experience of the city, well before he had moved there permanently and got involved with the triads himself. “It had all gone a bit Pete Tong and this gang had ended up chucking grenades down a main street in Hong Kong.” "While I was in the street, a gun and grenade battle broke out between a triad group who had attacked a very upmarket jewellery shop.
“My first time in Hong Kong I was in an area called Sheung Wan," Thrall explains. Speaking to Chris Thrall, an expert on all things Hong Kong and ex-doorman to the 14k, a notorious triad gang, Pocket-lint learnt how realistic Sleeping Dogs is - as well as how scary the real life Hong Kong can be. In the case of Sleeping Dogs however, things are more real than you might think.
The world of video games usually employs a fair amount of artistic licence to provide the player with fun. Set among the dangerous triad gangs of Hong Kong, Sleeping Dogs is a Grand Theft Auto-style open world game which thrives on the seedy and tempts you at every turn with something mischievous. At the push of a button it is possible to run up to anyone within the game, smash their legs in half and then walk off while everyone around them winces. (Pocket-lint) - Sleeping Dogs is violent.
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