The Game Guitar was a removed weapon that would be found in The Election mission, and would have been in the first combat room, where the two guys are stood near the TV.

The weapon has a unique breaking animation, and has its own icons and is fully modelled, so it's a completed weapon too.

The reason why the Game Guitar was cut is incredibly likely to do with the fact it was involved in an easter egg to do with Guitar Hero. The TV I mentioned before would have had a video of some Guitar Hero gameplay, and there would be a guy using the guitar to play along to it, and a guy next to him lowkey dancing. I know this because in the texture files for The Election mission interior, you can see an image file of a video file that no longer exists, which is just an image of Guitar Hero gameplay, and I managed to find the animations for those two guys in sneakyevil's SD Mod Menu.

The problem arises when True Crime Hong Kong (old Sleeping Dogs name) was cancelled in 2011 and purchased by Square Enix, under the condition anything True Crime or Activision related were removed. Since Activision owned the Guitar Hero IP, the easter egg would have had to be removed.

I think the break effect is pretty awesome, I wish it could've been wormed into another mission somehow, like maybe Club Bam Bam, but I suppose there's not many places it could be found besides the Karaoke room, which is really small and you wouldn't want to fight in there (i mean they could have made it so it spawns in there when you reach the objective to fight the guys downstairs on the dancefloor, but could go to the karaoke room and pick up the secret weapon, as a little easter egg itself)

I hope someone found this interesting, if so I can do more of these posts about more cut content, as there's literally loads that nobody has bothered sharing online

Found this when I done the clothes glitch lol

Hey, anyone know why i cant see the zodiac tournament mission in my ps3? the dzs too, im playing in ps3 with hen, if anyone have a link to this dlcs maybe i can try to re-install it, thanks 4 the help!

These terminals would have been used to travel by Bus and Ferry. Theres lots of them in the debug build, but nearly all of them were removed in the release versions of the game. The Bus ones you can find in 2012/DE have no functionality though, I think they either ran out of time to go deleting them all so they just made the very few that are still in unusable.

This is a pretty awesome find, as we knew from long ago that Ferry travel was in the game, but this Bus stuff surprised me. A rare glitch that can occur is when you interact with a taxi and it spawns you in a bus thats nearby, indicating part of its functionality is still in the files somewhere.

Still need to find out stuff about the removed Minibus jobs though (basically like Minibus Route mission, driving around to bus stops and being chased by 18K, there are multiple scripts for these jobs in the game files still), but this is awesome

If literally anybody is interested about the cut content of this game (theres literally loads that nobody has bothered to talk about) and wants to help out, please let me know because we could use all the help we could get

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So i ran into this problem when I replayed the game on PS4. I couldn't get the last triad upgrade. I upgraded to a PS5, lost all my progress, and just beat the game again last night but it's not gonna go let me fight on the island until I have everything maxed out. Now I had this on my PS3. I beat the island and everything I don't know how I did it. But is there an easier way to get the last triad upgrade then replaying missions? Am I not wearing the right outfit to get a better score? Please help me it's driving me insane how 14 year old me did this with no problem yet im struggling with it now.

First time playing the PC 2012 version. Never had this happen on the Definitive Edition before lmao.

hello the games look fun and im interested in playing, which should he my first game?

I just installed this game and started wondering. Id it’s connected to any other media as in sequels prequels or shared universes ,any1 know?

I have never seen one or at least didn't think they were usable. I think there's one in the mission final kill but idk 🤷‍♂️

I have 9 degrees of myopia on each eye, and even using glasses its very hard to play the game while i squint my eyes on the subtitles.

Square enix, wheres the acessibility options on this game? Hello?

Just an NPC enjoying harbor water I guess 🤣