

Microsoft has never given this much investment to its upcoming Xbox games lineup before, and it's very clearly starting to bear fruit.One of the most praised features of Sleeping Dogs is the way the game depicts the night life of Hong Kong.

We've seen many of them already from the likes of Avowed, State of Decay 3, and Starfield, but even some of the rumors we've uncovered like Project Dragon, Cobalt, and now Shaolin, speak to a truly broad and diverse lineup that will be hard for competitors to catch up with in the very near future. If it pans out as planned, it represents another compelling game Microsoft is exploring for its growing army of exclusive titles for Xbox Game Pass. The design brief I received is now a few months old, but the 'Shaolin' codename appears in far more recent documents too, suggesting that the project is moving forward.

But it does appear that the project is going ahead. Until we get an official announcement, there's every chance some of the plans for this game may change, of course. Brass Lion co-founder Manveer Heir recently put a tweet looking for potential hires to work on an upcoming "unannounced action RPG" with an anime aesthetic. Also, it appears that legendary hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan themselves will be heading up the game's sound track. You will be able to obtain loot, weapons, gear, and so on, in both procedural endgame dungeons and more tailor-made events. The campaign is planned to run for a couple of dozen hours, complete with a rich endgame comprised of seasonal content drops and other updates. In details I revealed on my Xbox Two podcast, I've heard that Shaolin is a third-person melee-oriented RPG complete with four player co-op.
