{"id":140384,"date":"2012-12-14T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/the-winner-of-dtoids-best-action-adventure-game-of-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-12-14T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T20:00:00","slug":"the-winner-of-dtoids-best-action-adventure-game-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/the-winner-of-dtoids-best-action-adventure-game-of-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The winner of Dtoid&#8217;s best action\/adventure game of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"best-of-2012\">Best of 2012<\/h2> <p>Are you ready for some action? Some excitement? All day long, we&#8217;re dropping our picks for the best games of the year and we move now to the best action\/adventure title. Of all the categories we voted for in 2012, this one actually brought us some of the most difficulty in declaring a winner. The votes are in, and it&#8217;s mighty close.<\/p> <p>As a reminder, here are our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/the-nominees-for-dtoid-s-best-action-adventure-of-2012-240380.phtml\">nominees<\/a>&nbsp;for best action\/adventure of 2012:<\/p> <ul> <li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/review-dishonored-236085.phtml\">Dishonored<\/a><\/em><\/li> <li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/review-hotline-miami-237249.phtml\">Hotline Miami<\/a><\/em><\/li> <li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/review-max-payne-3-227387.phtml\">Max Payne 3<\/a><\/em><\/li> <li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/review-sleeping-dogs-232834.phtml\">Sleeping Dogs<\/a><\/em><\/li> <li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/review-tokyo-jungle-234885.phtml\">Tokyo Jungle<\/a><\/em><\/li> <\/ul> <p>And the winner is&#8230;<\/p> <p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/v1cdn.jbsgame.com\/goty%2520actionadventure-620x.jpg?resize=620%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" width=\"620\" height=\"200\"  data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/p> <p><strong><em>Sleeping Dogs<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p> <p>In the end, <em>Sleeping Dogs<\/em>&nbsp;walks away with our best action\/adventure game. With an open-world design offering a multitude of activities, exciting chase sequences and a brutal combat system that provides ample opportunity to take advantage of environmental elements, there is no denying that this is a fully-featured package.<\/p> <p>Staggeringly beautiful (particularly on PC), players are made to feel as though they have been transported into a world where street fights and criminal enterprise are around every corner. Hong Kong is alive, bustling with activity, and as much a character as Wei Shen himself. You will utterly lose yourself in its bustling crowds and energizing atmosphere.<\/p> <p>A game which almost never saw the light of day, <em>Sleeping Dogs<\/em>&nbsp;emerges as a front runner in the very best games of the year. Kudos to Square Enix for having the foresight to pick the project up when it was floundering. If they hadn&#8217;t, we would never have had the opportunity to enjoy such a stellar title. 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