11 Video Game Sequels Not Made For Their Original Audiences

4. Sleeping Dogs: Triad Wars

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Remember Sleeping Dogs? It was a fantastic open-world game in the style of GTA that paid homage to different pieces of Hong Kong cinema, including Infernal Affairs and Hardboiled. It had some brutal combat, a compelling story, and some fun gameplay, so you'd think that the follow-up would attempt something at least vaguely similar to that single-player experience.

What players were going to get instead was the now cancelled Triad Wars, which was going to be an MMO taking place within the Sleeping Dogs universe. It was also going to be a PC exclusive, which would mean that most of the title's audience would've been unable to play it anyway.

With Triad Wars now taking an indefinite vacation, here's hoping that a sequel to Sleeping Dogs is on the cards, and that it won't aim to depart from its initial features too soon.

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.