Watch Dogs was a commercial success, breaking the record for the biggest first-day sales of a Ubisoft game and becoming the biggest launch of a new intellectual property in the United Kingdom at the time. The game received generally favorable reviews praise was directed at the gameplay, mission and open world design, combat system, hacking elements and mission variety, while criticism was expressed concerning technical issues, the discrepancy in graphical quality between marketing and the real game, plot, and protagonist. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Wii U in 2014. The score was composed by Brian Reitzell, who infused it with krautrock.įollowing its announcement in June 2012, Watch Dogs was widely anticipated. Hacking features were created in consultation with the cyber-security company Kaspersky Lab, and the in-game control system was based on SCADA. The developers visited Chicago to conduct field research on the setting, and used regional language for authenticity. Duties were shared by many of Ubisoft's studios worldwide, with more than a thousand people involved. An online multiplayer mode allows up to eight players to engage in cooperative and competitive gameplay.ĭevelopment of the game began in 2009, and continued for over five years. Set within a fictionalized version of the Chicagoland area in 2013, the single-player story follows grey hat hacker and vigilante Aiden Pearce's quest for revenge after the killing of his niece. The game is played from a third-person perspective, and its world is navigated on foot or by vehicle.
It is the first installment in the Watch Dogs series.
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Kotaku reporter Jason Schreier has corroborated the leak details, also adding that, from what he’s heard, the game’s NPC system is “so ambitious that it’s been causing the developers a lot of headaches (and may have led to at least one delay).”
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Perhaps the most interesting tidbit from the Amazon posting describes a system in which players can assume the roles of other NPCs in the game’s world-“Every individual you meet in the open world, has a full set of animations, voice over, character traits and visuals that are generated & guided by gameplay systems.” page that has since been deleted, Watch Dogs Legion will take place in a “post-Brexit world in which society, politics and technology have changed and altered London’s fortunes.”Ĭould this proposed time period and setting mean that Ubisoft’s usual “ apolitical” stance may change with this game? Time will tell. The yearly Ubisoft leak is upon us once again, as details for the new installment in the Watch Dogs franchise, titled Watch Dogs Legion, were uncovered just a week ahead of E3.Īccording to an Amazon U.K.