SeekerWatch Dogs
'Watch Dogs' delivers big action and creepy thrills by way of its innovative hacking, even if the story falls a little short.
-- As reviewed by Tom's Guide
Product details
- HACK THE CITY: Control the city's infrastructure, in real time, with Aiden's cell phone; Trap your enemy in a 30 car pileup by manipulating the traffic lights; Stop a train, and then board it to evade the authorities; Narrowly escape capture by quickly raising a drawbridge; Anything connected to the city's CTOS can become your weapon
- SEAMLESS MULTIPLAYER EXPERIENCE: Discover a new level of interaction, cooperation and confrontation between players thanks to a brand new multiplayer game system that links the single and multiplayer modes into one seamless experience; That means no menus, no loading screens, just instant open world multiplayer action
- DYNAMIC NAVIGATION: Watch Dogs gives you the ability to not only use the city's ctOS to your advantage, but the streets as well; In real world Chicago, cut through one of the buildings or climb to the rooftops to catch your target
- HIGH OCTANE DRIVING: Get behind the wheel of more than 65 vehicles bursting with horsepower to explore the massive city while completing missions; Ubisoft Montreal partnered with Ubisoft Reflections, the acclaimed studio behind the award winning Driver series to develop each vehicle with state of art physics and handling
PROS
+ Hacking component is fun and engaging
+ Compelling multiplayer and mini-games
+ Large skill tree
+ Chicago looks breathtaking
CONS
- Shallow storytelling
- Loose gunplay and driving mechanics
- Bad voice acting on the part of the protagonist
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Expert reviews and ratings
By PCWorld on May 27, 2014
Watch Dogs is beautiful, but it doesn’t do anything to change up the same core game we’ve seen since Grand Theft Auto III. This game is “next-gen” in the looks department only.
70
By Tom's Guide on June 04, 2014
'Watch Dogs' delivers big action and creepy thrills by way of its innovative hacking, even if the story falls a little short.
70
By IGN on May 27, 2014
One-button hacking might be overly simplistic, but it does give you abilities that make playing through Aiden’s story feel powerful and fun. Doing side missions and multiplayer as you make your way through the dark and lengthy story makes it feel like a huge adventure, and stealth options let you play smart if you prefer. Car chases aside, Watch Dogs is fundamentally very well made, and has more than enough unique ideas to make it a great and memorable open-world action game.
84
By TrustedReviews on June 17, 2013
Just think about it: even before there was a new console generation, Watch Dogs was the game that would define it.
80