
Разработчик: Ubisoft
Описание
WATCH_DOGS™ COMPLETE EDITION
Experience Watch_Dogs - the phenomenon of 2014 - with the biggest edition ever!
As Aiden Pearce, a brilliant hacker, turn Chicago into the ultimate weapon in your quest for revenge.
In this Complete Edition, including the game + Season Pass, access a new game mode, weapons, outfits and missions and plays as T-Bone, the legendary hacker in a brand new campaign!
About the Game
All it takes is the swipe of a finger. We connect with friends. We buy the latest gadgets and gear. We find out what’s happening in the world. But with that same simple swipe, we cast an increasingly expansive shadow. With each connection, we leave a digital trail that tracks our every move and milestone, our every like and dislike. And it’s not just people. Today, all major cities are networked. Urban infrastructures are monitored and controlled by complex operating systems.In Watch_Dogs, this system is called the Central Operating System (CTOS) – and it controls almost every piece of the city’s technology and holds key information on all of the city’s residents.
You play as Aiden Pearce, a brilliant hacker and former thug, whose criminal past led to a violent family tragedy. Now on the hunt for those who hurt your family, you'll be able to monitor and hack all who surround you by manipulating everything connected to the city’s network. Access omnipresent security cameras, download personal information to locate a target, control traffic lights and public transportation to stop the enemy…and more.
Use the city of Chicago as your ultimate weapon and exact your own style of revenge.
KEY FEATURES
HACK THE CITY
Watch_Dogs takes place in a fully simulated living city where, using your smartphone, you have real-time control over the city’s infrastructure. 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.
STREET JUSTICE
Living in inner city Chicago where violence is best answered by violence, you have the skills to take the fight to the streets. Take down enemies by delivering devastating blows with your baton, or experience a shoot-out like never before with a physics simulation that rivals anything in the shooter category. Use a combination of shooting and hacking to gain advantage in any given situation. The streets are designed for you to create your own plan of attack. Overall, you will have access to more than 30 traditional weapons.
HIGH OCTANE DRIVING
Ubisoft Montreal has partnered with studios such as Ubisoft Reflections, the acclaimed studio behind the award-winning Driver series to bring you a game bursting with horsepower. Get behind the wheel of more than 65 vehicles, each with state of the art physics and handling, and explore the massive city while completing missions.
EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL
Disrupt, the all-new game engine dedicated to Watch_Dogs, uses advanced processing and graphics to deliver a stunning visual and an incredibly realistic experience. Disrupt gives you the power to affect the story, the city and the life of the population with your choices creating a ripple effect throughout the city.
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 buildings or climb to the rooftops to catch your target.
SEAMLESS MULTIPLAYER EXPERIENCE
Discover new levels 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.
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, italian, german, spanish - spain, czech, danish, dutch, hungarian, polish, portuguese - brazil, swedish, finnish, norwegian, portuguese - portugal
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Originally released for Windows 7, the game can be played on Windows 10 and Windows 11 OS
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 @ 2.66Ghz or AMD Phenom II X4 940 @ 3.0Ghz
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 11 graphics card with 1 GB Video RAM - Nvidia Geforce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD 5770
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 25 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c Compatible Sound Card with Latest Drivers
- Additional Notes: Broadband connection and service required for multiplayer mode. Supported Video Cards at Time of Release: nVidia GeForce GTX460 or better, GT500, GT600, GT700 series; AMD Radeon HD5850 or better, HD6000, HD7000, R7 and R9 series Intel® Iris™ Pro HD 5200
- OS *: Originally released for Windows 7, the game can be played on Windows 10 and Windows 11 OS
- Processor: Eight core - Intel Core i7-3770 @3.5 GHz or AMD FX-8350 X8 @ 4 GHz
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 11 graphics card with 2 GB Video RAM - Nvidia Geforce GTX 560 ti or AMD Radeon HD 7850
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 25 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c Compatible Sound Card with Latest Drivers
- Additional Notes: Broadband connection and service required for multiplayer mode. Supported Video Cards at Time of Release: nVidia GeForce GTX460 or better, GT500, GT600, GT700 series; AMD Radeon HD5850 or better, HD6000, HD7000, R7 and R9 series Intel® Iris™ Pro HD 5200
Отзывы пользователей
Unplayable thanks to Ubisoft Connect. Do not waste your money on it.
did two missions and took all the ctOS towers
then played the game like in gta would shoot people
steal kill gang hide outs rob the gun store
type shit good
It's a little awkward on some of the scenes but for its age it still has great graphics and a good storyline.
eh. port okayzinho com alguns problemas de performance que podem ser facilmente resolvidos com mods.
muito estranho que o online não funcione nessa versão específica do jogo, parece algo que poderia ser fácil de resolver, mas também não dá pra esperar competência da Ubisoft
Better pirate it because of the ass ubi launcher that doesn't have a proper offline mode and the game gets disconnected if you have unstable internet. F*** all launcher programers. Hope they all get laid off instead of actual game devs.
i got stuck on a part of a game where "bed bug" kept dying when i tried to hack into his router it is really annoying
I love this game, and have replayed it multiple times on different consoles. but for whatever godforsaken reason, the steam version does not come with a multiplayer license and will not let you connect to ubisoft's servers and can only be fixed by buying the standard edition again on ubisoft connect.
in short, if you bought it on steam and want the online features to be available you have to buy it twice. wonderful ubisoft. truly a revolutionary company.
I have been troubleshooting this game for 40+ minutes. I have not even passed the launching screen. For context, I have very good specs (rtx 4080, i9 14th gen cpu....). I think the problem comes from ubisoft connect's apps, why do I need another launcher to own/use software that is already in my steam library????
I will ask for a refund in the meantime.
Regards,
cant play this game since its owned by an account that doesnt exist anymore on ubisofts side, fuck ubisoft and their third party installer bs for an offline game that somehow requires an internet connection to play.
The game was amazing, the action scenes and the story were very good, I loved that the character never got tired while running :D Only the NPCs were very stupid!
Solid game, underrated. It had issues at launch and was downgraded slightly but nothing you can't fix on PC. I played this on a garbage PC back when it was released and didn't quite have a good experience. Replaying it now was far better.
You can tell they put a lot of effort in making this one, just needs some time to get used to the gameplay and slow start for the story, this isn't GTA. The main missions are all different for the most part. It does have some small issues though, as every game, like being a bit repetitive with the side stuff if you going for those but still has a lot of different ones and you can be creative using the world around and have different approach in all; for example one of the convoy side missions I blocked the road inside the tunnel with cars and the pedestrians were trapped there so i helped them escape by opening the door and I just realized the door can be used as cover shooting through the window and such, you won't be bored if you are creative that's the whole point. Also in some it makes you use your damn brain which is a good thing. Problem is, the side mission map icons are a bit similar to ones that are shops/minigames etc so the map ends up being quite confusing, you see all these icons and it is overwhelming so check those carefully and what each means by the progression wheel. The shooting kinda sucks but a bit depends on the weapon, just use silencer pistol and you're good, stealth is perfectly fine as it works a lot better so that's what I always go for, or use the environment/hack to attack enemies. The other issue is the driving, it REALLY sucks, it's as bad as Sleeping Dogs'. The bike handling somehow is fine. Either way you do get used to these stuff.
Also great online/multiplayer use, players being a fixer in Aiden Pierce's world (depending on player's session), the online hacking aka "hide and seek" is fun and everyone should try that, you might come across some cheaters but it isn't often. I wouldn't say the map design is like Chicago, it's a bit lame being an island like this but it's well designed on the ground and very detailed, as expected from Ubisoft.
8/10
You must be online in order to play this game. Last night internet went off and I tried to start the game. No dice. Now that the internet is back on Ubisoft Connect still believes there is no internet connection and refuses to allow the game to run. 91 hours in and I'm out of luck.
Just to twist the knife, exactly 0 of the online functions in the game have worked since I started playing. so the online requirement is baloney from the get go.
I waited for this to be on sale for so long to play it and i was so excited.
The story is good but not the best and Aiden kinda gets weird and not all mysterius like and smooth as in the beggingng. The gameplay was good could be better cause i encoutered some bugs. And the only thing is that i kinda gave up on 100% cause the servers are too dead and little active players but other than that everything was okay
Watch dogs is an enjoyable game to play. But you need to download "flawless widescreen" to play it with normal FoV. I set mine at 17.75 in that program and it worked/looked great.
If you only play the base game - this game will be enjoyable from start to finish, no matter if you grind all side content or not. Despite a few prolonged animations here and there - everything works really well.
The story is slighly above average. Voice acting is pretty good. The main character fits its role. It was a bit strange that even though you play as a hacker - you can carry and use the whole arsenal of an army (various shotguns, pistols, ARs, sniper rifles and even grenade launchers). Some missions can feel like those badass shoot-em-up movies from the 80s.
I find car controls arcade-y, but fun. You can feel the speed in this game. Police chases reminded me of the original NFS:Most Wanted and the chaos that you create with your hacking tools on the road were very reminiscence of Split Second game.
Hacking is very streamlined and you will use it mainly for cameras and for various puzzles. Other than that you will hack random people's phones for money and small missions. I find all the hacking stuff a bit too simplistic and not to deep, sadly. But it was ok anyway.
Gameplay is smooth. Movement felt similar to Assassins' Creed games from that time period, but the vaulting is a bit too limited. And you can't jump. So there is that.
Map is quite big, but most areas aren't very memorable. It's just a city for you to do predetermined things. I don't know why, but this game reminded me a bit of Deus Ex games. Has similar feeling/aura.
Side content is pretty good. I enjoyed doing the usual "checklist" of things to do like in every ubisoft game. Sadly, if you want to get all achievements, you'll have to do online stuff and good luck with that. If you don't have Watch Dogs on the ubisoft launcher - online will not work. Yep. And if you have, then you'll have to install the game there and run it at least once to be able to play online content through Steam. AAAANd even if you can - nobody really plays it. And if you manage to connect to some random dude - he will probably disconnect midway through stuff. Bleh. Abomination of a service.
As for the Bad Blood DLC... it's bad. Most main missions are nonsensical Rambo-like shootouts without any real story behind them. Side missions are also extremely repetitive and there are like 100 of those. Holy F. In some missions, good luck staying in one place near a computer while dozens of enemies, that can three-tap you, swarm you from all 4 directions at the same time while also throwing grenades at you every 10 seconds. Plus you have to talk with a police lady before and after every single side mission.... Every. Single. Time. With. The. Same. Repetitive. Lines..... F. THAT.
Overall the DLC package is not worth it. It's just sloppily made.
Base game is good and is still worth playing. DLC - avoid.
The story is great, you can easily put 50 hours in this game (maybe more) if you're an achievement hunter as myself. It is worth it to hunt them in this game, since you can watch interesting scenes, or do unusual side quests as well. But be aware there's a bug that I've encountered at the "Not a job for Tyrone" main mission!
THE BUG
BedBug just keeps dying when you try to hack in his house, reloading the mission or even the game doesn't fix that sadly!
SOLUTION
Just shoot a couple of bullets (or magazines) into BedBug's house, or just shoot randomly until not one NPC is around! That should help!
OVERALL
It is worth to buy the game, but the online part of the game is unavailable. I've read some articles on reddit that if you write a letter to ubisoft support they can make your online work, but I don't know if it's legit. The person(s) said that they fixed his (and other players) game in a MONTH!
What a joke... still the game has a amazing story, and a very good "hacker" atmosphere!
Will you be the next hero that we never needed?
Watch Dogs 1 is a masterpiece. The story was amazing. The graphics looks great. The gameplay is great. The music was so good. I do love background music, like police chase music. I like Aiden and T-Bone, they were the best characters in Watch Dogs Series. Well, also Wrench too in Watch Dogs 2. In this game, you can do others like side missions, investigations, collectibles, online, and mini-games. I don't think people still playing in online mode, because this game is 11 years old now. Side missions take too long to complete and collectibles are too long to collect them all for 100%. Complete this game for 100% was painful, but it was fun. Mini-games are cool and forgotten. I think this Watch Dogs Series is a masterpiece and underrated. Bad Blood DLC was great, but it was an underrated DLC. Well, Street Sweep was fine and grindy. Watch Dogs It's like GTA, but for hacking. 10/10
A standout open-world game with an engaging hacking mechanic and a well-crafted atmosphere. The story is average, but it offers fun side activities and sandbox-style gameplay. Driving mechanics feel a bit clunky, but the overall experience is enjoyable. If you like open-world games, it's worth a try.👍
Rating: ⭐ 7/10
aged like fine wine, id still argue this is better than the sequel and possibly better than GTA 5 if were comparing single player alone
Story is great but it's a little buggy I suggest getting Watch_dogs 2 if you are just starting out.
easily one of my favorite games to date. graphics still kinda hold up to your average game today. damage models are good enough. and the gameplay is good. playing on realistic difficulty adds a little more challenge which i like. you will very quickly die if you aren't paying attention. the story is decent, not my favorite part of it but its not inherently bad. 8/10 i highly recommend this game if you catch it on sale. can be as low as 2 bucks sometimes.
Although some of the missions flow well and use the hacking mechanics in a unique way, the majority of them feel like a bad ripoff of far cry due to the poor shooting mechanics (if they're done loud) or a bad ripoff of splinter cell (if they're done quiet). I honestly felt like I spent more time shooting then I did hacking during my playthrough, which wouldn't have been as much of an issue if the combat wasn't so atrocious. Some of the enemies mid to late-game are so bullet spongy I lowered the difficulty to easy and still had to dump dozens of rounds into them. Although the story has some odd plot holes and some stuff is either not explained or seems to contradict previous moments, overall it's an interesting sequence of events with interesting characters. I'm glad I ended up seeing it through, but damn was it painful at points.
bunch of bugs and glitches first time playing in awhile... guessing this game isnt supported or updated anymore
---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☑ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
---{ ? / 10 }---
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Even though this is an old game, I still enjoy it a lot! The ability to hack city systems adds a unique and exciting way to play. Definitely a great experience!
The game in general is good, the story is decent with good gameplay but it gets repetitive really fast. It has good graphics but makes my PC overheat because it lacks optimization. Soundtrack is OK at best, there are no radio stations but a personalized playlist, which means you can get the same songs on repeat over and over again. The DLC story is short and the other content are these really tedious side quests that you have to complete 60 times for 100% (you have to even repeat previously completed ones to achieve this, little variation), plus 29 driving missions that get really fucking repetitive and annoying. The Online gameplay is broken on the Complete Edition because it can't connect to the Ubisoft servers. This doesn't happen on the Standard edition bought from Ubisoft Connect, unacceptable.
Overall this game is a 7/10. Play it with background music or podcast and it will become more enjoyable. This game comes free with Watch Dogs Legion so buy that one instead when it goes on sale.
Ubisoft so fucked they randomly added Steam achievements to the game without making any update to the game
Wasted money on a complete edition just to find out it doesn't have multiplayer and i sure am not wasting money again just to get a few achivements, very nice work ubisoft
We treat Ubisoft sincerely, but Ubisoft looks down upon us. I won't buy Ubisoft games anymore. Let's all boycott this "Dog sticks" game developer. Ubisoft might as well be renamed "Dog sticks" now!
我们把育碧放心里,育碧把我们放脚底踩,以后育碧游戏都不会买了,大家抵制这个狗棒子开发商,现在育碧应该改名狗棒子了!
Fun story mode, but I wish they did a lot more with the hacking aspect of the game in terms of what you can do with it. I had a lot of fun playing this when it first came out on PS4, and then later replaying it on PC.
Really enjoyed the game, it seems very appealing to GTA series...with several references in gameplay. But the hacker stuff really comes out as differenciator. The Online hacking can be annoying, gladly you can turn it off on the options.
Played Watch Dogs 2 during 2020, and it is a BANGER. Decided to check out the first one in the series, and man, story is goood. Well, the middle was kinda filler garbo but the beginning and the ending was goooooood.
Keep in mind that I DID play the game modded at the start, I never really tried out vanilla
First off, I got to say the HUGE negatives:
- Game is only fun to play when modded. The camera control is SUPER HORRIBLE, it emulates a joystick, and you have to get a mod to get rid of that. Even after getting rid of it, there is still a limit of how far you can turn, which I'm fine with because I play on a lower sens, but if you play with a pretty high one, you might get disrupted a lot. WD2 is actually good
- You need the UBISOFT STORE version in order to play multiplayer. Classic Ubisoft. Well, I just bought the game for $1 on Ubisoft Launcher, played it unmodded for 5 mins, and then refunded it, JUST to unlock multiplayer. yep.
Other than that, good game. Story is so good. Hacking is more meh compared to Watch Dogs 2, I was so used to WD2 more complicated hacking, this is more point and click.
Also, I HIGHLY recommend playing with the Fox mod, this hides the minimap and your wall hacks, but once you use the profiler, it's available, but you have no crosshair. Lowkey adds an extra challenge and makes the game way more balanced because there's a tradeoff from having really busted wall hacks
If you're curious about ALL of the mods i've played with, here they are:
- The Fall of Windy City
- AlternateGunSounds
- 2013 Vehicle Handling
- Realistic Ragdolls
- Living_City
- Addons for Living City mod
- The Fox Mod
Police & Faction Overhaul caused a lot of in-game crashes during missions, and it was probably meant for freeroam. Was it better than Watch Dogs 2? Honestly, they're lowkey the same feel, but WD2 is wayy more replayable, especially with that good multiplayer and I don't need any mods to make the game feel good. Yeah. Damn, this was a long ass review.
- Ui occasionally subprecise (blow sth up instead of hacking a camera, real bummer)
- story has potential, but falls short of what it could be (some decisions or actions don't feel 'real' or consistent enough)
- some characters feel dull, i.e. the protagonist and his family
+the idea of the game is somewhat great
++ most other characters are well explained and authentic
+++++ boy have I never played such an immersive game before. You really got the feeling that Chicago is filled with people and stuff in general. Really felt like walking through a city where people actually live. Great immersion, really,. Created a dense and intensive mood in the game that carried a lot, A LOT of the fun.
Too bad the story wasn't so satisfying, otherwise it'd be an instant replay.
Never understood the hate for this game, its some of Ubisoft's best work and we truly had no idea just how bad things were gonna get lol.
It was used to be my favourite game until I played, its one of those games where it looks great from outside but it gets boring the more you play, it has a lot of different types of missions to play but it kinda feels like same thing over and over again, but it's a one of a kind, or I should say first of it's kind. and I hate ubisoft connect.
The best Watch Dogs. Good characters, interesting story, fun gameplay.
this game is super good good graphics everything i would recommend this game
i just finish the it was so good a typical revenge story i dont know about the fuss about this game the graphics were great, the story is good, gameplay also good love hacking people and seeing their profiles overall its 10/10 for me
I am very late for this review, I played this game first back in 2015 when I was a freshman in my undergraduate course, I would still play it on my handheld PC whenever I get the time or when I feel like it.
This game is the closest we would get to a modern assassin's mechanic. You have a hacking mechanic, which would translate well against the lock-picking mechanic in the classic Assassin's Creed Era. Some missions such as Desmond the modern-day setting in AC 2, AC Brotherhood and AC Revelations has the same air around it that was captured with Watch Dogs. By incorporating Abstergo Corp. and various story points from Assassin's Creed Universe it does confirm that these 2 Universes are ultimately the same.
The game also mixes the real and fantasy elements quite well. I would say 90% would be real-world and 10% of the Fantasy elements is the perfect mix of the charm of Assassin's Creed. CTOS and overstreched reality of Watch Dogs does take the cake that we got in the Classic Assassin's Creed.
I know that some players are disappointed because of E3 trailer showcase and the game's graphics downgrade but I prefer you to try at least once because this game has some cool stuff which cannot be seen in other open world games.
It's the best game in the franchise and isn't as complicated as the others, the ending leaves you empty with no purpose in the game other than being a vigilante.
After a hacking job goes wrong and his niece is killed in an attempt to scare him off, vigliante hacker Aiden Pierce is on a personal quest for answers and revenge. Now eleven months after the botched job and death of his niece, Pierce will only start to scratch the surface as to why it all happened, uncovering corruption within Chicago bureaucracy, the criminal underworld and the security system the city has fallen overly reliant on, ctOS.
Watch_Dogs is a fascinating game that grew to spawn a series that plays with the idea of making the player's environment ultimately at their control through hacking on top of a mix of generic Ubisoft gameplay.
In terms of story, Watch_Dogs hooks the player with the mystery of what happened with the Merlaut Hotel job and the people involved with the death of Aiden's niece on top of introducing a great cast of characters. Aiden himself is a haunted man that continues to struggle remembering his niece in any other time in her life that wasn't the night of her death while also trying to protect his sister and nephew from his quest for revenge and his identity as Chicago's vigilante presence. Personally, i had a fine time with Watch_Dogs' plot and looked forward to each twist and turn in the story.
Gameplay in mind, Watch_Dogs has quite a bit to offer when it comes to exploring the city of Chicago and turning it into your technological playground. Blending the gameplay of most other open world "crime" games like your Grand Theft Auto's, Saints Row and Mafia series and adding the ability to hack your environment as well as the usual Ubisoft staples like towers to reveal collectables and other activities does make for a fresh take on the genre. But that's only because of the hacks.
Hacking is the name of the game with Watch_Dogs. Weather you're driving around, in the thick of gun combat or just wandering around the city, the world is at your fingertips with Aiden's phone. With your phone equipped, players can walk the streets of Chicago and highlight civilians and display their name and a random fact about them that the ever invasive ctOS has learned about them. Purchase history, a hobby they like, marriage status, political leaning, all kinds of things can be gleamed from the public. Some will also have a few dollars stashed in a bank account that you can steal from and later find an ATM to retrieve your stolen cash, others may have a car that unlocks in an app to summon on demand or a song that you can play on your media app.
But stalking the civilian populace is just one part of hacking. When it comes to the stealth and gunplay of Watch_Dogs, it can be crucial to set up traps. Go into a hostile area and find a security camera to start scanning the area, marking out enemies and plan your approach. Maybe you'll find a tougher enemy that walks by a power box or transformer you can detonate and kill them to cause some panic among their allies. Or maybe find a phone lying around to play a distraction to lure someone away and either perform a stealth takedown or kill with a silenced weapon. If things go loud? Maybe an enemy has a set of grenades you can hack to detonate, blowing them and anyone around them up. Or maybe to cut someone off from calling extra backup and surrounding you.
Stuck in a car chase with the cops or a pursuing gang? Not a problem with your hacking abilities. Throw any tails you have off by hacking a set of traffic lights and causing a mass crash, put up a barrier and have a pursuer crash into it or blow up a steam pipe from under them, there are many options the player has to shaking off extra trouble in the shortest time possible. But if you learn how to use the city to your advantage, maybe you can utilise parking garage doors to open for you to get in and close right behind you to give yourself a moment's grace breaking line of sight.
On the topic of gunplay, it's serviceable. You'll grow a complete arsenal of weapons from enemies or trips to gun stores or through certain feats for more powerful and uniquely named pieces of kit. Guns have star ratings that take into account damage, recoil and accuracy and certain weapons will come with suppressors for those silent kills. But what i'm more interested by is how the AI works in combat. If you're able to take cover and stealthily run across to another side and find cover, enemies will slowly approach where you were before and lay down suppressive fire and grenades to fish you out, giving you the chance to ambush with the slow-down Focus ability to make some precise kills or get out of the area entirely.
You can also use a variety of craftable items found on your weapon wheel for your stealthy or guns blazing encounters. Deploy scans to highlight enemies, craft and throw lures to make your own hack-able distraction devices or cause a temporary city wide blackout to completely leave your enemies in the dark (way more effective at night) for stealth takedowns, a set up for Focus killing or a quick escape from the area. If bullets are flying by you however, why not craft and toss out some grenades, hack-able IEDs or even some proximity IEDs to create traps, a communications jam to stop a reinforcement call or some pills to rebuild your Focus meter.
New hacks, weapon skills, driving capabilities and craft-able items will unlock as you level up or complete a Gang Hideout to earn skill points to invest in their respective trees. Completing missions, contracts focused on your skills with a car or stopping a convoy, invading the privacy of people's homes by accessing their cameras through unsecure ctOS boxes (some of which can be real creepy) and reaching certain feats in your 100% save file tracking Progression app will shower you with enough XP to have all the skills in the game.
Chicago is also packed with additional side missions and activities for the player to lose themselves in. Examples of the activities can include varying stakes of poker, drinking contests, shell games, chess puzzles. Both side missions and activities also have rewards on the Progression app ranging from XP to skills to vehicles and guns.
But a standout side activity are the Digital Trips. These apps which can put a user into a dream-like state have a variety of fun games to play that are all incredibly unique. Certain scores in these Trips will unlock outfits for Aiden to wear (that is if you haven't already visited one of the many clothing shops and spent some of that stolen cash).
The only thing that sours Watch_Dogs for me in the tiniest way is the multiplayer. Ubisoft is a complete joke when it comes to trying to enable you with access to multiplayer services. Early on you'll have a tutorial from an NPC "invading" your game but will be blocked from further online tutorials because of Ubisoft Connect's back-end and not really connecting your Steam purchase to your Ubi account. This either forces you to buy, open and quickly refund the game through Ubi Connect or hound their support ticket to get a Ubi Connect key for Watch_Dogs. And since Ubi Connect has achievements for engaging with the online aspects, getting it set up is already one tedious aspect... The players are another. Expect to go up against some of the most paranoid people on the planet when you invade their games to hack or tail them or get invaded by another player and go up against the most low-blow tactics known to man to hide from you. Those online achievements, the players i had to try and stomach to get them from and dealing with Ubi's support team just asks the question "Why do they love forcing multiplayer achievements to games they won't care about in five years?".
But overall, i loved Watch_Dogs. From it's story, the characters, the hacking abilities and just how alive Chicago can feel as you casually walk around and listen to people having conversations or doing freestyle rap or hanging out with partners or friends, the world feels lived in. And i cannot recommend it any higher.
like mafi 3 boring mission. but graphic so wonderful
quite optimized. good story, good mechanics. nothing too annoying. great challenges. like GTA but with hacking stuff from cyberpunk. the skills tree not fantastic but otherwise highly recommend to get this when its on sale.
A bit late to the watch dogs party, but this was my first playthrough in 2025 and I enjoyed this game. Chicago is beaut, Aiden prowling it's streets looking for fools to take down feels like a proper Chi town Batman.
I find the story mostly interesting. The only part I found funny was in Act II when the plot required Aiden to show a lot more urgency but he runs off trying to find a bunker instead. But I do like the story and the characters, Aiden and Clara being my favourites.
The side missions are alright, a bit repetitive after the first few times but I find gang hideouts somewhat challenging so it remains fun.
It's an alternate GTA style open world game with puzzles in the form of hacking. While the GTA comparisons haven't always done this game well, it's a fun alternative and a good game in it's own right. No achievements in this game though, hopefully soon.
Very good, would be better without the unnecessary ubisoft account connection requirement
this is the first game i played on the ps4 and i liked it the quality is ok the story is really good and serious the combat is very well managed by ubisoft and i bought it on pc because there are also good mods for this game so i give it an 8
Underrated game. It just lacks of, maybe a new game+. If not, maybe some cheats codes for unlocking all weapons from the start of the game, no wanted level, freeze the hero protector villain status, unlimited ammo and crafted items. And maybe some more criminal convoys or gang hideout. Absolutely hate fixer contract because of the driving mechanics of this game. Sometimes all of that adds fun to the game too.
good game i played all the story and it was good not super fun but fun
Shiny techno baubles...
Dark story regarding vengeance, and protecting offensively.
Story itself isn't actually too long, but there are some campaign scenarios that... aren't easy. Particularly if you don't know how to handle them.
Endgame is decent. Do whatever you want in the game world, or play around with those lucid minigames that you can play. In short, mostly collecting/unlocking things and messing around.
Depends on the kind of game you like to pick up, just as with different individual books.
The game is nice, it looks good for the time it was released, and the story is entertaining. The last mission is a very large jump in difficulty, and where to go might not be obvious. You might have to look for the ctOS locations on the web.
Дополнительная информация
Разработчик | Ubisoft |
Платформы | Windows |
Ограничение возраста | Нет |
Дата релиза | 09.03.2025 |
Metacritic | 77 |
Отзывы пользователей | 73% положительных (16640) |