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Over 3 hours of Watch Dogs gameplay footage right here, including some brand new multiplayer

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The Watch Dogs review embargo lifts on the 27th of May, the same day the game is available for retail. Personally I’m always very wary of any game that doesn’t allow reviews to be published before release date.

It often feels like the company is trying to get as much early money in as they can since they know the game is going to be slammed in the reviews.

But I just can’t see that happening with Watch Dogs. It’s got itself a perfect release window, the early previews of the game have been fantastic and now Ubisoft has allowed a bunch of YouTubers to come to Pars to try the game out.

The YouTubers were allowed to record the footage and now over 3 hours of different sections of Watch Dogs is now available to … watch. I haven’t watched all three hours but they all seem to be running on the PlayStation 4 version which is being up scaled to 1080p, from 900p, and locked at 30 frames per second.

7 minute drive to traverse the map

First up we have a 7 minute video from PlayStation Access where they drive across the map as quickly as possible. In the video they debate whether the map is larger than GTA V or not with no solid conclusion but they do say it feels more alive.

Police Chase

Next up we have some police chase gameplay from clayman90. Where we get to see numerous hacking take downs of the cops which just looks awesome. We also get to see that you can adjust your view while driving to be either in the car or outside.

Spider Tank

Spider Pig, Spider Pig, does whatever Spider Pig does… oh no wait that’s not right. It’s Spider Tank, here’s quick video of one of the virtual trips you can go on where you take control of a Spider Tank and destroy everything in your way. This one from Silentc0re

Skill Trees and Map Size

silentc0re is back with a quick video showcasing the skill trees in the game along with the size of the map and how you progress.

Multiplayer

Oh and Ubisoft has been very sneaky and has managed to keep a special multiplayer mode secret right up until now. There isn’t much information about it but the objective is quite clear. You need to secure a digital file and decrypt it to win. Your team mates can speed up the decryption by staying close to you or rather setting up defensive positions to stop the enemy taking you out.

It looks like a ton of fun and I can’t wait to car surf down the main streets of Chicago blowing everything up.

Gameplay Walkthroughs

Quite a few of the videos that have arrived on YouTube are longer gameplay video’s and walkthroughs. I’m not going to break each one down so check below for the videos from GameRiot, docm77, vikkstar123, jackfrags and others mentioned above.

So that’s what we have so far. If these YouTubers are to be trusted the game is looking and playing fantastically and I guess if the game comes out to mediocre reviews then we know which YouTubers to no longer trust.

[Thanks to Brian Murphy for the tips]

Last Updated: May 23, 2014

35 Comments

  1. Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!

    May 23, 2014 at 10:04

    3 hours of game footage? Why? Why not just spoil it completely by watching 3 hours worth of game footage. I never could figure why anyone would watch so game footage before playing it

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    • Hammersteyn

      May 23, 2014 at 10:08

      Same here, I’m not watching but I am very excited now.

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    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      May 23, 2014 at 10:08

      It’s reality TV for gamers?

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    • RinceofFuturePast

      May 23, 2014 at 10:08

      And they say that the reason they don’t want the reviews out earlier is because they.. Don’t… Want… Oh yeah, what you said…

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      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        May 23, 2014 at 10:16

        Are you looking for logic in marketing? 😉

        They’re working desperately hard to control what information goes out, they can’t control the content of an independent review. Which isn’t to say there’s some conspiracy, just that they only want positive PR being released before… release.

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        • RinceofFuturePast

          May 23, 2014 at 10:19

          0-o

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          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            May 23, 2014 at 10:21

            BOOM! Bet you never predicted that!

          • RinceofFuturePast

            May 23, 2014 at 10:23

            Sorry, can’t hear you, your voice is too deep…

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            May 23, 2014 at 10:26

            So I shouldn’t go deeper?
            ..
            ..
            ..
            ..
            ..
            ..
            Said no one ever.

          • RinceofFuturePast

            May 23, 2014 at 10:31

            Guy walks into a tent store. ‘Hi, I’d like to buy a tent’ ‘Too camp?’ ‘HI I’D LIKE TO BUT A TENT’… 0-o

          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 23, 2014 at 10:42

            So he is the daddy in the relationship then?

  2. RinceofFuturePast

    May 23, 2014 at 10:08

    Soooooo. Their excuse is they DON’T WANT SPOILERS OUT THERE… Erm. Bit fucking late, non?

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  3. Hammersteyn

    May 23, 2014 at 10:10

    I just want to click every video, but it’s like movies. I never watch a trailer for a movie I look forward too. Like Godzilla. Don’t wanna see any accidental spoilers.

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    • RinceofFuturePast

      May 23, 2014 at 10:15

      Spoiler There’s a monster involved 0-O

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      • Hammersteyn

        May 23, 2014 at 10:16

        LOL that’s like saying Pompeii has a volcano.

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        • Alien Emperor Trevor

          May 23, 2014 at 10:17

          Eish. I hope they coordinate the rescue work to make sure they all get away safely.

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          • RinceofFuturePast

            May 23, 2014 at 10:20

            Nothing could save that last movie…

          • Mark Treloar

            May 23, 2014 at 10:35

            Nothing did, its already history.

          • Hammersteyn

            May 23, 2014 at 12:00

            Though I doubt that Pompeii was anything like the movie portrayed. I did enjoy Keither Sutherland though

          • Mark Treloar

            May 23, 2014 at 14:53

            Did he have 24 hours to try and stop it?

          • Hammersteyn

            May 23, 2014 at 15:06

            LOL

          • Sk3tz0

            May 25, 2014 at 17:18

            Keifer Sutherland is Jack Bauer and Big Boss.. U dont get any more badass than that..

          • Hammersteyn

            May 23, 2014 at 10:37

            Crap movie, but I’m happy how it ended

          • Admiral Chief in Space

            May 23, 2014 at 10:40

            So, it had a happy ending…

            *wink*
            *wink*
            *nudge*
            *nudge*

          • Hammersteyn

            May 23, 2014 at 11:59

            Depends on how you feel about the cast, the characters and the movie as a whole when it ends.

  4. FoxOneZA

    May 23, 2014 at 10:32

    This will certainly push GTAV to come onto PC asap once the console peasants are done testing 😛

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    • Admiral Chief in Space

      May 23, 2014 at 10:40

      Hehehe, now now, be nice

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    • John Mips

      May 23, 2014 at 20:29

      Wouldn’t the peasants be the ones using a dying platform like the PC? I’m just curious.

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      • Ameno Sagiri

        May 27, 2014 at 00:18

        Far from dying, son.

        It’s growing much much larger. Massive bloat of indie games and game developers, along with more ways to acquire games for PC.

        Then going by ONLINE Steam users alone, they are triple of what they were in 2009.

        I’m not sure how it’s dying when the population is massively bloating and it has more games than every console ever made combined.

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    • Sk3tz0

      May 25, 2014 at 17:15

      GTA V gonna be on PC.. and Firefly will get a new Season.

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  5. TheBusterMan

    May 23, 2014 at 21:31

    Doesn’t seem to be a lot of pedestrians about.

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  6. Matt

    May 24, 2014 at 00:29

    i dont understand the release date is this tuesday, so why did i get the game today ?

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    • Robert McFadden

      May 24, 2014 at 01:14

      in ny by any chance?

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      • Matt

        May 24, 2014 at 17:53

        ny ? ….. it just arrived on my doorstep on friday and i got it from walmart

        Reply

  7. wmstudio

    May 26, 2014 at 10:16

    Rave On !!!New hard game to try = Big Cube http://goo.gl/jDT90Y The Rolling Stones likes Big Cube.

    Reply

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