United Front heeft ruim 35.000 foto's genomen voor Sleeping Dogs

Stephen van der Mescht, executive producer bij United Front, heeft in een interview met het Aziatische PlayStation Blog aangegeven hoe de studio het referentiemateriaal heeft gemaakt voor Sleeping Dogs. Hij zegt dat de studio ruim 35.000 foto's en uren aan filmbeelden hebben gemaakt om Hong Kong in beeld te brengen.

“We took 35,000 to 40,000 reference photos and hour upon hour of video footage, but it’s not a street for street depiction”, zegt Van der Mescht. “It was important for us to capture the essence of city. Lots of the landmarks are there, many of the names are similar yet, first and foremost, we wanted to make that space fun to navigate around.”

In een eerder interview met website Siliconera heeft senior producer Jeff O’Connell al gezegd dat de ontwikkelaar ook gesprekken heeft gevoerd met de politie van Hong Kong en leden van de triades van Hong Kong. “There is a lot of stuff we learned from talking to those guys that made its way into the game in some interesting ways”, aldus O’Connell.

“It was not like we showed up to Hong Kong and said, is there Triad here? Is there anyone we can talk to? And a bunch of guys raised their hands. It was a long process to talk to a couple of these guys and they would only speak directly with our writer. That was all done through a contact we had in the entertainment industry there who had friends who were in the Triad or had previously been in the Triad. It took many weeks and months for them just to meet our writer.”

Sleeping Dogs komt 17 augustus uit op Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 en pc. Mensen die meer willen weten over het spel kunnen hier de preview lezen.