After your little escapade on the docks, you will find yourself where you most probably belong: in prison. A fellow prisoner will quickly recognize Wei and identify himself as Jackie, an onld friend from Wei's childhood on the streets of Hong Kong. After a brief discussion of the past and a few jokes between old friends, Jackie will get right to the point; Wei had left for the United States, but now he has returned hom for some reason. Wei will question about Jackie's connections in the triad gangs, the largest street gangs in Hong Kong. You will quickly learn of a feud between two local big-name gangsters, Dog Eyes and WInston. Jackie rolls with Winston, and thus you will too. Dog Eyes is an ambitious guy, though, and he's looking to take control of the streets of Hong Kong really soon. As Jackie leaves on bail, he'll request that you look him up after you get out of jail.
As it turns out, this will be a big fat "mission accomplished" on your part. After a very brief and insubstantial interrogation scene, the cops will turn off the cameras, revealing that you are in fact undercover. Your mission here was to make contact with Jackie, your old buddy, and use him to get close to the triads. From the inside, you will shut them down. You have to build the trust of not only the triads, but the cops, but infiltrating the gang, and you'll be starting from step one. Previous attempts to get close to WInston, Dog Eyes, and the rest haven't exactly panned out for older agents, but the Hong Kong police do have faith in you. Well, one of them does, at least. The other will argue that your checkered past, which will be revealed to come, puts you at risk of snapping under the pressure of the assignment. Uh oh...
Back on the streets of Hong Kong, Jackie and Wei will have found each other again. After a weird aside about Jackie looking you up while you were in America, you will be back in control. Follow Jackie through the narrow corridor ahead and to the rJackie will explain how Winston and Dog Eyes should be on the same side, both of them falling under the umbrella of the same gang, but they are both vying for control of the gang's territory. Enter the building with the red doors ahead, and a cutscene will initiate. Unfortunately, before Jackie can spit his game with the woman behind the counter, a group of thugs will burst in and attack Jackie. Now, it's your job to hold them off. Tap out a four-hit combo by hitting the X button four times in quick succession. Then, hold down the X button for a heavy attack. Finally, hit the X button twice and hold it for a third time to initiate a damaging combo. With these skills under your belt, finish the fight with the thugs just as a second group bursts in.
You will now learn about grabs. Hit B to grab an enemy, and hit X to pummel them while they'[re in your grasp. Alternately, hit RT to toss enemies out on the ground. Finally, you can grab an enemy, sprint at a wall, desk, or other large object, and automatically slam their head against it when you reach it. Use these skills, along with your fisticuffs from the last tutorial, to finish off this group of enemies as well. A final enemy will rush in as you beat them all. Grab him, approach the desk, and hit B again to send him packing with a special finishing move. Help Jackie up and you will get a glowing recommendation from him when you see Winston, which, as it happens, will be right now.
Jackie will introduce you, but you will immediately get off to a rough start. Winston's bodyguard will take a rough stance on newcomers to the gang. He will begrudgingly let him by when Winston starts conversation. Jackie will tell Winston all about your antics in the market earlier, and this will jog Winston's memory... although not perhaps for the right reasons. He likes your sister Amy better than you. but he unfortunately won't be able to see her anymore. Wei will begrudgingly admit that Amy has died since he left for America. Winston will decide to take you on. Carlo, the bodyguard, will take you out back to deal with a "problem" in the market. This problem will tunr out to be a sort of initiation fight in the back alley. The members of Winston's gang will try to beat you up, and you will have to survive by countering their moves . How to counter their moves, you ask? Simply. Just hit the Y button when you see an enemy glowing red nearby. You will have to survive for a little over 30 seconds by simply countering the enemy's moves. If you try to fight back, they will block and dodge, so just counter for now.
Your initiation will be interrupted by Dog Eyes himself, accompanied by two thugs. You will get off to a positively great start with Dog Eyes... seems like everybody remembers Wei for the same reason. Dog Eyes has a plan for aggressive expansion, and Winston plans to put a stop to it. He will send you and Jackie out to the market to intimidate the shop owners into paying for protection from Winston, and not their current protector, Dog Eyes. This will lead you into your first real mission of the game.
