Review: Watch Dogs

Just coming here to enjoy the video again after George's viral tweet and how almost a decade after this game things have only gotten worse in the AAA space.

Eight years have passed and the closing words are still describing the state of Ubisoft franchises

Good video!

eye den

"How many videogame heroes wear a baseball cap?"
Ness: Okey intensifies

Hm this was recommended 6 years later, I remember when this game came out and every magazine and forum was full of downgrade evidence and stuff...good times. I'll enjoy this video

Your first mistake was buying a Ubisoft game.

Ubisoft goes out of their way to sabotage themselfs.
...is like Konami, but with actual Success even when they fail.

It's the same thing as GTA, except GTA is a great franchise and better than Watch Dogs.

Guys is this game worth on sale for like 10 bucks

His name is pronounced like you'd pronounce the disease that HIV turns into (AIDS), not like when you're just hanging around being useless (idle)

I bought this game and its DLC for 15€. The first day I played I was actually very pleased:
- I really liked the city and how lived it felt, even more than Los Santos to be honest.
- The story seemed ok, I mean it was another Ubisoft Revenge Plot™ nothing too bad nor too god. I think that It would've been better if Lena had been Aiden and Nicky's daughter and that they broke up after the toll the death of his daughter put on the relation but that's a personal opinion.
- The driving was alright, it wasn't the boats of GTA IV nor the Formula 1 cars of GTA V.
- The hacking was simple but fun to use and see.
That was the first day but the more I played the less I liked the game due to all the chores it had. You see, I'm that kind of player that needs to complete everything he sees on the map or that has some way of tracking progress and that ruins Ubisoft games for me. It happened when I decided to give Assassin's Creed IV and Oddisey two chances to win me back: the first days I was enjoying myself but after that I was just scratching chores from a list.

To complete the progression of one of the side missions you have to do 40 fixer contracts. 40! The game has 39 main missions! And that's not counting 15 gang hideouts, 20 crimes, 20 CToS breaches, 20 QR codes, 20 privacy invasions... these last three are specially bad since they have you running around looking at walls like an idiot searching for cameras and fuse boxes. When the gameplay is just ok, you need to give the player some context to actually care for what is happening, in Watch Dogs you have missions were Aiden says "this guy beat a woman, I'll make him pay for that" so you'd expect maybe some trashy dude and a couple of his friends, maybe he's from a gang or something but nope, the mission consists in ambushing a 5 car convoy full of guys with heavy military weapons and armor. Logic. He says he's a vigilante but most of the fixer contracts involve helping criminals. Three missions in the first act of the game revolve around finding a witness and making sure he doesn't reveal your identity, going as far as getting yourself arrested and thrown into the prison were the guy is being kept. Then you hear how the radio speaks about how "people seem to side with vigilante Aiden Pearce". So your identity isn't as secret I guess...

I've completed all of the side content available at the moment in the game but just 7 main missions and I'm at 70% completition. What the fuck is this? Ubisoft needs to learn that 3 missions copy pasted 30 times each is not content is bloating a game with stuff that adds nothing to it.

Just picked it up for 4 eur on 360. Solid buy.

The best part of the game is when you get a motorcycle on the L tracks

NOBODY BUT AIDEN DRIVES A MOTORCYCLE BTW

I don't understand why I'm the only one that thought the radio songs were okay. Even Angry Joe says the radio is bad...

wow 2014 you didn't know about fraps >.>

I found the game fun

I can understand the complaint of "what's my motivation for running around and collecting all these things?!?" complain in open world games but I have never once asked myself that.. I do it because it's there and if I don't do EVERYTHING.. i will never finish the main story. It's totally psychological on my part and it's also a problem. I spent like 10 hours in The Witcher 3 collecting plants before I convinced myself I had to stop because I had several hundred of each common plant... I just instinctively ran around collecting things that showed up on my minimap. My point is, I never have trouble caring about collecting all the stuff because I have a psychological need to collect all the stuff. It's not OCD, I hate it when idiots say they have OCD when they don't. My need to collect all that stuff doesn't interfere with my life.. I can function just fine without doing so. But I play games to decompress and the repetitive action of collecting pointless virtual shit does that for me. funny because I hate having pointless shit laying around in real life. I could fit all of my stuff minus my furniture in my car.

4 years late comment: I got the game for free and still feel kinda ripped off. The game is bizarre. The stealth is kinda cool and enjoyable but the combat is just plain bad. The cars had banana peels for wheels and the story is underwhelming.

The thing that frustrated me the most in this game was that I actually tried to beat it without killing anyone, but in the cutscenes the other characters are like "YOU ARE A MURDERER!" and aiden is like "yes, i am..."
wtf ubisoft, I'm trying to be a good person

It is even more obvious how Bland "Watch_Dogs" was compared to the 2nd.
and the sequel was rushed and lacks proper optimization... even though it was superior.

Ubisoft finds a way to fuck anything up... even when it turns out to be good.

So you're a whiny unhappy little bitch living in the outskirts of a pseudo-city that doesn't even have an IKEA right? Thought so. Grow up.

This game is great because it some how is more enjoyable on low graphics settings

It's sad because this could have been one of the best video games.

"Eye-din"

watch dongs

it sold well because it's a good game you moron

name better games, go for it, and dont just say gta either, don't listen to this guy, the driving is not bad and neither is the shooting, the shooting is actually quite good

I have to disagree but the shooting is very solid, the driving is arcadey but not bad that's for sure, you are just way to negative about the game. The open world is one of the best elements of this game I believe

slightly chubby? I wouldn't say that is true, I think that Aiden is thin

hehe maybe you should not own a pc, then you would be good, just get a console

I was drawn into this game by the ballpark spectacle beginning, expecting the stealth to continue. And then I had the mission that began in a construction site, where I realized that nope, no stealth for me. :( Such lost potential

This game was awful, not because it was broken but because it was so boring! I quit paying attention to the story half way through and started just literally running through missions trying to finish it, and like you said this game keeps going and going it's like torture. To this day this game is only like 1/3 done, it's absolutely amazing how much stuff is broken or makes zero sense. It's pretty sad most reviews didn't even notice.

He's not wrong about a lot of things, but I do like this game.

Well, over 3 years later, Ubisoft gave the game away free. And here I am, watching a review to see if it's even worth my time.

:o i am not the only one who thought that the licensed tracks were bad

The best part about watch dogs was spider tank

God, I could look past a lot of this games problems, but the muscle cars😤😤😤😤. I’m not sure how a proper muscle car drives in real life, but I’ve never driven a more sluggish and unwieldy piece of junk in my life. I did play this game after a play through of HL2E2 so I did have higher expectations for driving but still, fuck this game.

I loved this game.

Oh God why would you buy this console game on PC?

How did you pronounce his name? I get that you don't like the game, but they say his name in the game, there's no excuse for the made up, retarded way you said it.
Other than that, this was a great video.

tried to install this game 5 times. finally succeeded. deleted after an hour because i couldn't stand the driving and mouse control

Heh, this looks garbage, but it was free with Xbox Games with Gold, so no reason to avoid trying it now :D

I don't see what you were looking at with the texture not attached to the sign? Now I'm curious what I missed