Part 8

Learn how to use the city map, understand waypoint markers, and explore districts like North Point and Central in Sleeping Dogs.

You can access a full map of the city by pressing Select (or touchpad) and use the buttons indicated to set a waypoint (a marker on your map you've manually placed as a destination) marker (a destination you want to travel to), to view available missions, to zoom in/out and to toggle on/off the legend that explains the map symbols.

The map's Collectibles View marks with white symbols all the collectibles you've found so far. By completing the dating side-missions you'll unlock the abilities to have the locations of all collectibles marked on your map. Any ones you have not yet found will appear as grey icons both on the main map's Collectibles View and on the minimap (a small map displayed during gameplay) that's displayed during play.

Sleeping Dogs is set on Hong Kong Island with four urban centres connected together by a few roads and highways. Central and North Point are the largest districts, both individually bigger than Kennedy Town and Aberdeen combined. The in-game map also highlights the smaller areas of Soho and Victoria Peak.

As soon as you're allowed to exit the market area after the Night Market Chase mission you'll be free to explore the whole island. Visiting all four districts earns you the Man Around Town trophy.

Districts:

• North Point: Located towards the south-east corner of the island. This is where you start the game and it's home to several key locations such as the Night Market, Golden Koi restaurant, Club Bam Bam and the secret undercover police headquarters. It also has the most shops and facilities.
• Central: The large district at the top of the map. There are major business and retail sectors here (with several shops again) plus a hospital in the south-west corner.
• Aberdeen: Situated in the south-west of the island. The prominent features of Aberdeen are its harbour area and Aberdeen Island which is accessed via a large bridge to the south.
• Kennedy Town: On the western side of the island. Like Aberdeen, Kennedy has few shops and the main feature is the docks.
• Soho: On the southern perimeter of Central, near the centre of the island. Soho is a small region with several narrow lanes and home to the K-Bar venue. There's also a large police station to the north-west.
• Victoria Peak: Lies between Kennedy Town and Soho. Victoria Peak is a mountain situated in the centre of the island and accessed by long winding roads on either side.

A wide range of facilities are available across Hong Kong Island and these will all be marked on your map; you can buy vehicles and clothing, play minigames and purchase temporary buffs. The map also shows important locations for missions and the position (and status) of any nearby police units. The symbols used for all these are listed below; the same map icons are also shown on your minimap in the corner of the screen. Occasionally you'll see an arrow above or below a map icon which indicates that the objective is higher or lower than your current altitude. Sometimes an icon will get obscured by text on the map - if this happens try zooming in/out to get a better view.

Map Icons:

• Story Missions: Marked in green. Hovering the cursor over an icon shows the title of the mission. A list of currently available missions is shown in the bottom-left corner of the main map screen. Green markers also indicate objective locations during a mission.
• Safehouses: Marked with a white (or pale blue) house icon. After completing the Night Market Chase tutorial mission you'll gain access to your first safehouse located to the north-west of the market in North Point. You will unlock additional safehouses as you progress through the story. The following safehouses are available:
  • North Point Apartment - unlocked by completing Night Market Chase mission
  • Central Apartment - unlocked by completing Uncle Po mission
  • Aberdeen Houseboat - unlocked by completing Initiation mission
  • Kennedy Town Apartment - unlocked by completing Fast Girls mission
  The following functions are available at your safehouses: use wardrobe (to change your clothes/accessories and save outfits), use television (to access the surveillance network), use refrigerator (to get a drink for a health regen buff), use sink (to wash blood stains off your face and clothes), use toilet (to heal fully), use bed (to advance time 6 hours, auto-save, heal fully and clean clothes).
• Police Cases: Marked with a dark blue waypoint icon. Cases are multi-part police investigations which become available as you work through the main story.
• Jobs: Marked with an orange waypoint icon. You can accept simple jobs like stealing cars to order.
• Favours: Marked with a yellow circle icon. Favours are short side-missions where you help someone.
• Drug Busts: Marked with a pale blue shield icon.