With the ability to transform a whole city into your marionette, Watch Dogs Ubisoft's new take on the violent genre and makes for a mix of stealthy, frantic, and at times frustrating gameplay. The game's hacking mechanic is what makes the game stand out from its sandbox forebears. 'So we focused a lot on making sure you hack everything, control everything, and access every single person's information,' he said. When we talked with the game's creative director, Jonathan Morin, he mentioned that the team wanted to create a world where people could express themselves differently.

There are the run-and-gun missions, a collection of side games, fluid gunplay, auto larceny, and just general mayhem.īut Watch Dogs offers something unique. Perhaps unavoidably, Watch Dogs touches on the common ingredients that go into every violent, open world soufflé. Even bits of Ubisoft's own Assassin's Creed franchise managed to find its way into the surveilled streets of Chicago. The open world gameplay of Watch Dogs is very reminiscent of, well, other open world games-most notably Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto. But the game's central moral dilemma is this: The technology is only as evil as the people who use it. In the Watch Dogs world, the smartphone in your pocket is even more dangerous than the gun in your hand. It's this 21st-century digital destructive power that Ubisoft Montreal wanted to explore with its new open-world title. Look no further than the ongoing worries about bulk data collection and the almost weekly accounts of internet frailty. Developer: Ubisoft Montreal // Publisher: Ubisoft // Release: // Systems: Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U (Fall 2014), Microsoft Windows // Price: $60

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