Ubisoft brings us the sequel to the highly anticipated, over hyped, yet underwhelming Watch Dogs. Ubisoft released Watch Dogs 2 on November 15th. Announced back in June a week before E3, Ubisoft showed many videos on what the team did to improve the gameplay and the game mechanics in an attempt to earn the public’s trust back when it came to the Watch Dogs brand. Does Watch Dogs 2 become the Microsoft of the tech world, or does it remain a start-up company never becoming big enough to get out of the garage?
Story: Watch Dogs 2 takes place in San Francisco and its surrounding area. You play as Marcus Holloway a hacker originally from Oakland who resides in San Francisco. At the start of the game, you begin by going through a trial in order to join the Deadsec hacker group. Deadsec's goal is to become the biggest hacker group out there, by exposing the truth about big tech companies as they take the data you enter from your emails, to tracking you in your everyday life. Putting a stop to that will get you followers, but your big target is Blume a company run by a Steve Jobs wannabe "Dušan Nemec", who turns out to be very crooked with having all these companies in his pocket from politics to human trafficking. So its "Dušan Nemec" and Blume you want to take out and give the people their freedom back.
Gameplay: Watch Dogs 2 is a third person sandbox game. You explore the wonderful and very different area of San Francisco. Players get to experiences how techy San Francisco is in some of the missions, from hacking a camera to exploding a gas tank to kill one of your enemies. You have more gadgets in your arsenal rather than just a phone this time around; a remote RC jumper and a drone are at your disposal. The drone and jumper will help you during infiltration missions when you don't want to be caught and go into combat. You can also sneak into places by taking out your enemies silently with a yo-yo, or go in guns’ blazing, which feels out of place in this game. I really feel Marcus should hack his way through everything. As you complete missions you gain followers, allowing for upgrades like vehicle hacking, combat skills, and RC and drone upgrades. This game is not just about the combat, it has some great puzzles to solve which at times can feel pressured because of a timer, but feels great when you accomplish them.
Graphics: The graphics in this game are well mixed; the character models and cars look fantastic, as does the scenery and main building structures. But it's the NPC's and environments that look like they belong on the PS3 and Xbox 360.
Verdict: Watch Dogs 2 is a game that fixes almost all of the problems from the previous installment. It is a fun open world game, with great dynamic characters, great writing, and much better gameplay mechanics; it is definitely worth the pickup.
Watch Dogs 2: 8.5/10
Reviewed by ICE at Gamers of the Round Table.
Good job Ubisoft
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I think Cyberpunk is close in gameplay. Sure it's a futuristic setting but I find alot of similarities with the two games.
These open world games might scratch your Grand Theft Auto itch until GTA 6 comes out.
From PS Blog: "It’s been more than two months since the all-new PlayStation Plus completed its launch rollout in late June, and we are pleased to see the positive feedback we’ve gotten from our members. This includes games available on the service, such as Stray, Ghost of Tsushima, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, which are among some of the top games played so far from the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog. Today, we’re excited to share the lineup we have in store for the month of September that we are adding to both the Monthly Games lineup for all members and Game Catalog for Essential, Extra and Premium members on PlayStation Plus.
The Monthly Games are available from September 6, and Game Catalog and Classics from September 20. Let’s take a closer look at the packed month ahead. "
I definitely want to check out Granblue as I'm interested in the Granblue JRPG coming out next year.
Its pretty good, especially for people that don't play fighting games only to compete vs. others online
Yea, that's what I was going to say, it's not just an online fighter it's got a great single player story.
Yeah definitely worth it if you haven't checked out the mobile game. It's a far more accessible than most fighters too.
Yeah I wanted it at one point but kept backing out cause I had GG strive and other games
I'll play some Heat. and Toem looks rather interesting. Extra / Premium get some good titles too.
Mainly Granblue for me, but I heard good things about Toem and it's one I wouldn't have bought, so that's good. Heat is throwaway fun, which is what I want from Plus essentials.
Really good month for Extra and Premium too. Ass Creed Origins, Deathloop and WatchDogs 2 and Granblue Versus are all for me.
Of course they put Deathloop on there less than a month after I finally bought it, and naturally still have it sealed. At least now Ill be able to play it without swapping discs out. Kinda surprised to see them put that on there considering its a Microsoft owned property. I think you have to respect Microsoft a little bit here for allowing Bethesda to operate independently and do these sorts of things. They kept the agreements in place and havent even announced the PS5 exclusive Bethesda games for Xbox. Im starting to wonder of those deals are for permanent PS5 exclusivity.
@brewin
Deathloop released September 14th. So we wouldn't hear any news about an Xbox release until a year has passed. Same with Ghostwire: Tokyo, wouldn't expect to hear anything until after March 25th.
Yeah, I'm sure Deathloop will come to Xbox after the exclusivity contact ends, and I doubt PS will partner with Bethesda again given the new ownership.
Anyone who plays games or even doesn't, should play Spiritfarer. It's easy 10/10, your emotions aren't ready...
I got lost in that game. Loved it so much! It soaked up my time in the best possible way
I'm looking forward to that.
Also, Chicory: A Colorful Tale, which won a bunch of awards. I have almost bought the game a dozen or more times.
