I really enjoyed Watchdogs. No, really. I didn’t get quite so caught up in the downgrade saga, and I kept my expectations in check going in. I had a grand time hacking the city of Chicago, even if that hacking was largely perfunctory, single button press stuff. I played it, as much as I could, as a ghost – hacking from the side-lines instead of going for full frontal assaults and I think I had a better experience for it.
Naturally, I’m excited for its impending sequel, which seems to be the Assassin’s Creed 2 to the new game. It adds layers of welcome complexity, makes the game more interesting to play, and fleshes out the basic ideas that the first game promised, but never really delivered on. Like Assassin’s Creed 2, it also has a more interesting setting, and a much more interesting main character.
Taking place within San Francisco’s counter-culture, the game puts you in the shoes of Marcus Holloway, a disenfranchised young man who has a bone to pick with CtOS, the Big Brother security system that controls just about everything. It’s profiled him as a criminal. He wants to take the power away from the corporation, and give it back to the people.
Check it out in the game’s launch trailer – even though the game launches next week.
“After being wrongly profiled as a criminal risk by a citywide operating system, Marcus Holloway investigates to find rampant corporate corruption and manipulation of the public. Marcus and his group of hackers, DedSec, wage a war to take down the system and return power to the people.”
Last Updated: November 10, 2016
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 10, 2016 at 14:05
“the game puts you in the shoes or Marcus Holloway” Cool, I didn’t know we had multiple protagonists.
Original Heretic
November 10, 2016 at 14:07
Ever since Monopoly, I’ve always wanted to play a game as a shoe.
Admiral Chief - N7
November 10, 2016 at 14:10
BATTLESHIP!
Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0
November 10, 2016 at 14:33
Ever since Chinpokemon I’ve always wanted to catch a shoe
Lord Chaos
November 10, 2016 at 14:16
Why would you want to wear someone else’s stolen shoes? O_o
Admiral Chief - N7
November 10, 2016 at 14:19
If the shoe fits…
Dungeon of JJ
November 10, 2016 at 14:36
*gives standing ovation*
Admiral Chief - N7
November 10, 2016 at 14:10
Interesting
Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0
November 10, 2016 at 14:34
More so than Muffjyhaar 3
Andre Fourie
November 10, 2016 at 14:44
O_o
Andre Fourie
November 10, 2016 at 14:45
OH XD. DUH. Jirre ek is deur die kak. Thats what a stomach bug does to you, except for the pukey pukey and dodgy doody.
Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0
November 10, 2016 at 15:06
A joke Admiral wil get
Andre Fourie
November 10, 2016 at 15:07
It took me a while, but I know the joke.
Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0
November 10, 2016 at 15:31
XD
Admiral Chief - N7
November 10, 2016 at 15:00
xD
Ottokie
November 10, 2016 at 14:13
“It adds layers of welcome complexity, makes the game more interesting to play, and fleshes out the basic idea =s that the first game promised, but never really delivered on.”
“He wants t take the power away from the corporation, and give it back to the people.”
😛
Alien Emperor Trevor
November 10, 2016 at 14:20
Good thing you only said “:P”, who knows how many spelling mistakes you’d have made otherwise. 😀
Ottokie
November 10, 2016 at 14:20
You see right through me don’t you. xD
Admiral Chief - N7
November 10, 2016 at 14:20
Funny, since it is a Ubisoft game….
Now if only dEAdsec got set thEAr sights on sEAmone EAlse
HvR
November 10, 2016 at 14:28
GTA Hackerz taking down the evil American Corporation with the power of the Cloudz
Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0
November 10, 2016 at 14:32
What? No preorder now bullshit after the trailer anymore?
Andre Fourie
November 10, 2016 at 14:42
XD
Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0
November 10, 2016 at 14:35
Marucs Holloway……… so close
Darren Peach
November 11, 2016 at 08:55
Ha. This track takes me back to my youth….. terrible music, but still nostalgic.
Dungeon of JJ
November 10, 2016 at 14:36
There is only one open world “dog” game, and that’s Sleeping Dogs 😛
Andre Fourie
November 10, 2016 at 14:42
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6bfd4eef7e2f8ffeabb219a332b3e91a4dbc77be8ffdc01e1b2ed2afa59938b5.jpg
Darren Peach
November 11, 2016 at 08:40
I really enjoyed Watchdogs. No, really. I didn’t get quite so caught up in the downgrade saga, and I kept my expectations in check going in……. How refreshing. Sometimes people forget to actually enjoy a game.
Darren Peach
November 11, 2016 at 08:52
Ooh. This looks like fun.
Darren Peach
November 11, 2016 at 08:53
Great track used.
Fox1 - Retro
November 11, 2016 at 10:23
Watch Dogs 2 > NMS