Watch Dogs

If you’re the kind who enjoys GTA but wishes you could throw in some high-tech hacking and a slick John Wick playstyle, then Watch Dogs is right up your alley.

I loved this one cause you can play it like John Wick if you’ve got the skills.
The traversals are Fun and smooth, especially with those sharp animations that make everything feel downright fluid. The city of Chicago feels alive.
The story’s decent too, enough to keep you wrapped up in Aiden’s world of revenge and tech-savvy antics.

It might’ve caught some flak back in the day, but trust me, it doesn’t deserve the hate.If you fancy a mix of sneaking, hacking, action, you’ll find a mighty fine time here.

Watch Dogs is a rather solid action-thriller from Ubisoft that got better with time.

Visually, yeah, we were promised a much more impressive-looking title, but it's a solid-looking game that was clearly still being held back by PS3-gen technology. Lighting, I would say, is too bright at times. I would recommend turning down contrast to the bottom; a pro tip I would call that immediately makes it more pleasant on the eyes. Shame there is no way to set the framerate to 60 though.

Story is something I didn't expect to enjoy as much as I did; it's a crime story in which a vigilante slowly chips away at an empire to get to the one that caused tragedy in his life. John Wick comes to mind; it's nothing special, but it is well done without modern forced Ubisoft comedy, making it much more compelling by default. Aiden is by far the best character in the series and is the only reason to play Legion, as well as T-Bone and Jordi, fun and when needed threatening additions to the story. The story behind Aiden's family, though, could have been more fleshed out, just used as motivation and that's it.

Gameplay is easily the best aspect of the game, with great gunplay and stylish takedowns spiced up with somewhat gimmicky hacking skills, but combined, if done correctly, there is a lot of fun to be had. Car physics, though, are somewhat too arcadey, but not that big of an issue, but it makes me question how this game started off as a Driver entry. Open world has plenty of activities, from the poker games in which you can cheat to the privacy invasion variety, spiced with outpost cleanup Ubisoft is infamous for, but never as exhausting as something in AC RPG titles.

There are also multiplayer modes to try out; besides the basic racing and death matches, you can do tailing/hacking of real players that are casually playing the game unaware of your presence. Some real creative fun to be had there, but it can be cheesed when you figure out slowing time doesn't work when someone is trying to hack you.

To sum up, Watch Dogs was not met with praise and achieved expectations I then personally hoped it would, but even over a decade later it's still a solid crime story I could recommend.

This game is very untreated. I understand why people don't like it cause the side missions are repetitive as hell. The story is really engaging and at the end of it all you are not left feeling dissatisfied instead it makes you want to know more.

this is definitely a game!

0 dogs to watch. 1/10.

Aden: I don’t regret. I look forward. Everything is connected, and I’ll use that to expose, to protect, and if necessary -- to punish.❤️