Watch Dogs

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  1. Critizen
    Sep 3, 2023
    4
    Rating: 4/10

    Watch Dogs, Ubisoft's creation, is a game that brings forth visually attractive urban aesthetics. However, despite its positive aspects, there are certain factors that I cannot overlook, influencing my rating of 4 out of 10. Attractive Aesthetics: Right from the outset, the portrayal of the city is good. The details of skyscrapers, urban life, and interaction with    Rating: 4/10

    Watch Dogs, Ubisoft's creation, is a game that brings forth visually attractive urban aesthetics. However, despite its positive aspects, there are certain factors that I cannot overlook, influencing my rating of 4 out of 10.

    Attractive Aesthetics: Right from the outset, the portrayal of the city is good. The details of skyscrapers, urban life, and interaction with electronic systems are crafted with great care and attention to detail. The concept of hacking in an urban world adds an intriguing twist.

    Repetitive Missions and Monotonous Gameplay: Unfortunately, as you progress through the game, it becomes evident that missions are surprisingly repetitive and lacking in the necessary variety. The hacking mechanic, though initially intriguing, becomes a predictable routine. Side missions fail to offer enough diversity and often feel like simple variations of the main missions.

    Forgettable Story and Characters: The main plot, centered around protagonist Aiden Pearce and his personal vendetta, fails to generate lasting interest. Aiden as a main character lacks depth and empathy, making it challenging to connect with his story. Secondary characters also lack development, negatively impacting the overall narrative.

    Conclusion: In summary, Watch Dogs presents visually attractive urban aesthetics that initially impress. However, the repetitive missions, monotonous gameplay, and lack of depth in both story and characters leave it falling short of its potential. Despite its strengths, the overall experience proves unsatisfying and fails to meet the expectations one might have.    … Expand
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    Apr 30, 2023
    1
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  3. The_D4RknesS
    Oct 20, 2022
    4
    the game itself is good but the optimization is horrible and it doesn't have much of what was promised
  4. StarkAgentos
    Apr 22, 2022
    4
    Геймплей неинтересный, с элементарными механиками. Стрельба вообще никак не ощущается, как и вождение. Графика так себе, даже для своего времени. Сюжет меня не цепляет.
  5. F3T1W
    Aug 27, 2021
    3
    A more interesting craft like GTA, at first it is interesting, then you feel the lack of a soul
  6. defenz
    Aug 9, 2021
    2
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  7. justgamerman2
    Jun 8, 2021
    4
    The story and mission designs of this game are good, but the gameplay is the most disgusting gameplay mechanics I've seen among all games. The game does not officially aim at you. The character stands up by himself when in the trench. The aiming aid of the game is so disgusting that it officially won't let me use my mouse.
  8. Samvvel
    Jun 1, 2021
    4
    If there's one redeeming quality about this game it's the gorgeously recreated Chicago. If you wanna just make a virtual trip to the city, it's probably your best chance. But the gameplay itself is just awful. Ubisoft took the worst aspects of GTA/Saints Row and turned them up to 11. Best believe that each and every activity in the game are there to annoy you. The only ones I at leastIf there's one redeeming quality about this game it's the gorgeously recreated Chicago. If you wanna just make a virtual trip to the city, it's probably your best chance. But the gameplay itself is just awful. Ubisoft took the worst aspects of GTA/Saints Row and turned them up to 11. Best believe that each and every activity in the game are there to annoy you. The only ones I at least mildly enjoyed were the optional CTOS system hacks. All of the rest either has a stupid-ass timer to artifically inflate the difficulty, or has a million other small things that will prohibit you in one way or another from even remotely enjoying the game. As far as GTA clones go, I'd much rather play Total Overdose or Just Cause 1 than touch this crap again.… Expand
  9. FredGner
    May 19, 2021
    4
    Repetitive gameplay, mediocre story, uninteresting characters, self-serious game. interesting concept though.
  10. Dave5
    Feb 27, 2021
    0
    You don't want to pay for this, if you can get it for free, go through the story, but the online content is not simply bad, it is the worst I ever met.
  11. TobiasReaper
    Jan 17, 2021
    0
    This is a f***ot game. Every mission is frustrating, you fail no matter what you do, controls are bad, and the cops pop out of nowhere.
  12. Gabrsa19
    Nov 29, 2020
    0
    Jogo de merda jogabilidade confunde, você mata o inimigo e ele consegue jogar a granada mesmo morto, cheio de bugs o jogo fui fazer a missão de correr atrás do cara o aiden ficou preso dentro do teto.
  13. FrostormNidhegg
    Nov 1, 2020
    0
    Параша от Юбисофт. Машины управляются запредельно убого, в игре есть стандартная блевотина от юбисофт - ты идешь, проходишь 3 метра, тебя тормозят и показывают какое-нибудь дерьмо, постоянно все дерганое, играть не дают. Зашел в комнату - все, не можешь бежать. Вышел на улицу - вот тебе говнокатсцена. В итоге динамики вообще нет, ритм игры максимально рваный. Стрельба говно. Сюжета нет.Параша от Юбисофт. Машины управляются запредельно убого, в игре есть стандартная блевотина от юбисофт - ты идешь, проходишь 3 метра, тебя тормозят и показывают какое-нибудь дерьмо, постоянно все дерганое, играть не дают. Зашел в комнату - все, не можешь бежать. Вышел на улицу - вот тебе говнокатсцена. В итоге динамики вообще нет, ритм игры максимально рваный. Стрельба говно. Сюжета нет. Играть фантастически скучно. Если вы КУПИЛИ вотчдогс - вас надо в биореактор скинуть вместе с компостом, чтоб метан вырабатывался. Я получил ее бесплатно на раздаче, но можно было не ставить - само собой дерьмо унылое, юбисофт же. Просто унылейшее дерьмище. ГТА, любая трехмерная часть, бесконечно интереснее. Sleeping dogs и Якудза - бесконечно интереснее. Just cause - противоположность от Вотч догс. В Джаст коз у тебя нет унылого дерьма, ты можешь развлекаться как хочешь, никто тебя не тормозит и унынием не душит. Saints Row - то же самое, бесконечно веселее и интереснее, чем вотч догс. У юбисофт есть 2 игры интересные - Сидж и Реймен Леджендс. Все остальное - дерьмо блевотное. Надеюсь эти идиоты обанкротятся и закроются. Хуже говноделов в индустрии нет.… Expand
  14. Resonator
    Oct 20, 2020
    2
    I regret that I bought this **** game. The gameplay is boring, the story is very bad, the protagonist has no personality and the game is broken. They lie to us on the trailers and the visuals are very ugly too. I never gonna buy an Ubisoft product again.
  15. Gilaras
    Sep 2, 2020
    3
    when they call reinforcements, they just suddenly teleport the area :( and we die so quickly.
  16. Skidrow1911
    Jun 26, 2020
    0
    trash trash trash trash trash trash trash trash trash trash trash trash trash trash trash trash trash trash trash trash trash
  17. MaxmilianKohler
    Jun 6, 2020
    3
    Very poorly optimized for PC. In 2020 you will still need a high-end PC to run this game well, and keyboard & mouse function is very poor. It also takes a really long time to open, and the quality of graphics for the FPS cost is poor.

    Dynamic FOV is annoying. Open world/free roam gameplay. I didn't find most of the mini games and side quests appealing. The spider one is pretty cool    Very poorly optimized for PC. In 2020 you will still need a high-end PC to run this game well, and keyboard & mouse function is very poor. It also takes a really long time to open, and the quality of graphics for the FPS cost is poor.

    Dynamic FOV is annoying.

    Open world/free roam gameplay. I didn't find most of the mini games and side quests appealing. The spider one is pretty cool though. The default graphics are pretty washed out and lacking shadows/shading, so had to install mods to improve it. But the mod makes trees and grass really pixelated.

    I don't like driving from cops. It's boring. Thankfully you can mostly skip those side missions.

    Most of the vehicles aren't really fun and don't handle that well.

    Most of the music is pretty bad, so I turned it off.

    I craft items and they disappear. Missions disappear even though it appears that the game still registers me as in a mission.

    Missions bug out. The first forced Online Contracts. I completed everything, now it wants me to access the Online Contracts App but it says it's unavailable during missions... After watching a walkthrough it appears that the "Online Contracts App" never actually shows up, and I was thinking what they wanted me to access is the "Fixer contracts".

    The "fix" I figured out was to click "monitoring network" instead, which opens the "online contracts" menu/map, which you can get stuck in. And the fix for getting stuck in that is to click every single option on the map, and one of them should eventually work. For me, "online hacking" was the one that worked. Then "request hacking target". Then I went into the game menu options -> online -> online invasions OFF.

    Fills up your screen with information to read while you're getting shot. And then after you dismiss it so you can not get killed it's difficult/impossible to find. An easy fix would be if the game paused during those pop up messages, like pretty much every other game does.

    The mouse accel makes the combat really frustrating, especially when there are lots of enemies. It even makes the map frustrating to use.

    Lots of annoying and buggy things, such as completing an area and then enemies respawn right away. Or completing one section of a mission and then enemies spawn right on top of you and kill you immediately, resulting in you having to do everything again, including the unenjoyable hacking mechanism. Plus you have to go through unskippable cut scenes over and over. Missions frequently bug out and make you lose everything you earned during the mission. Because the only way to get out of a mission is to erase everything since the beginning of it. Crazy.

    Sometimes you can't use the same key that you used to open a menu to close it. Can't scroll out far enough on the map. You have helicopters chasing you and you have to do actions on them or attack them, but it locks your camera so you can't even look at the helicopter. There's no mechanism for getting out of boats normally/easily. The upgrades are super "meh".

    This is the kind of game where you're thankful when it's over.    … Expand
  18. r03vg
    Apr 15, 2020
    2
    Криво, косо, кое-как - вот девиз этой игры. Сюжет ни о чем, графика не та, что обещали, оптимизировано описанным раннее способом.
  19. xoca
    Nov 29, 2019
    0
    Even over 5 years of buying this game, this is the most disapointing game I've ever bought.
    The gameplay seemed inovative and fun on the trailers, but it turned out boring and repetive.
    Worst of all was the preformance. This game had AWFUL performance on ANY PC! I tried it on my decent laptop, on my high end PC (at the time) and even on the PS4! It would stagger constantly and crash    Even over 5 years of buying this game, this is the most disapointing game I've ever bought.
    The gameplay seemed inovative and fun on the trailers, but it turned out boring and repetive.
    Worst of all was the preformance. This game had AWFUL performance on ANY PC! I tried it on my decent laptop, on my high end PC (at the time) and even on the PS4! It would stagger constantly and crash every hour or so. EVEN ON PS4! How can you even do that?

    A crap game, for primium price.    … Expand
  20. NronQsr
    Jan 5, 2019
    4
    At its launch, Ubisoft lied about the graphics, (downgrade) and had many bugs. There was even a file in the game that laughed at the PC players. The game was a simple port that did not deserve a purchase at all.

    However, to be fair, I have to say that personally I love the story very much, it has that rebellious and youthful touch that encourages you to reveal yourself against    At its launch, Ubisoft lied about the graphics, (downgrade) and had many bugs. There was even a file in the game that laughed at the PC players. The game was a simple port that did not deserve a purchase at all.

    However, to be fair, I have to say that personally I love the story very much, it has that rebellious and youthful touch that encourages you to reveal yourself against injustices while at the same time it deeply explains some of the problems of our society regarding cybervigilance and cybersecurity.

    I'm going to keep a low vote even though now the game is more fixed by the patches because I think the solution is not to fix it after lying to your users. If you want to play the game, buy it now and at a reduced price.    … Expand
  21. DKR
    Nov 24, 2018
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Dreadfully, painfully, inexcusably average.

    Ubi's marketing team hit a grand slam with this release. They tantalized us with impossibly-awesome trailers, then delayed the game for a year. The promises of graphics, depth, and the innovative idea of a free roam game with the ability to hack everything left the consumers drooling at the potential of limitless possibilities. After a year of waiting that left gamers tossing in their beds and squirming in their chairs, Ubi releases.....this.....this gimmicky, average, unfinished, simulacrum of what we expected.

    Well played, Ubi.

    Per EVERY F**ING VIDEO GAME AND MOVIE PLOT -EVER-....the point is our hero's (?) loved one is killed/captured, and now you're on a murderous rampage of vengence/rescue. Yaaaaawn. It's hard to pull for the hero when the game opens with him committing digital grand theft.

    While the voice acting is on par, the characters are so goddamn BORING. Tyrone "Bed Bug" and Jordi were likable, but get crowded out by the interchangeable good-ol-American, brown haired, white skinned, raspy-voiced, single minded vigilante.

    And just what did we get after all the hype and potential of being a hacker? A ranged, context-sensitive action button. Really. Instead of walking up to a door and pushing "open", I push "hack" from a distance. Ground breaking sh** we got goin here. Nothing you can hack is remarkable either. You can hack a few things to stop traffic, make explosions, or set off frags your enemies hold.

    Even if you DO make good hacks, the A.I. is the most un f**ing fun A.I. design I've ever seen. The police A.I. in particular is.....WTF UBI?? They are super over powered, almost impossible to shake off, and any random thing can "sick" them on you. Example: You're sitting on a bench, a bad guy walks by you, goes OMG PLAYER CHARACTER, then runs away shooting at you. The police show up, triangulate your exact location, then spray rifle fire at you, then call in back up so your screen is swarming with them. Example 2: You get a mission to stealth into a enemy-ridden area, you can't get caught/sound an alarm, OR kill the target. They must be MELEE KO'd, right? So you try to use that hack (you know, the whole f**ing selling point of the game) and you hack a guy's grenade, he throws it at the target, kills him, and you fail the mission. Example 3: if the police are p**ing you off, just run to a boat, drive away, and you'll fully lose aggro. If you're the hacker good-guy, why can't you use some strats to bring the police and direct them at the bad guys? So, so, so much wasted potential.

    And the driving.....JESUS HAVE MERCY, THIS DRIVING ABSOLUTELY SUCKS!! It's hard enough to control, but as you gain speed, your frames go down, so you're controlling a slippery dump truck with flip-book visuals. This game is a mess!

    What little it does get right is nothing you haven't seen a billion million gazillion times before. It seems that -tragically- all video games can offer us is more shooters with a gimmick here or there and slightly better/worse controls and/or optimization. WD baaarely stands above average with its hack gimmick and a few exciting moments.

    Perhaps most unforgivable of all is missions that have exciting build up or some remote form of tension have the most generic, unsatisfying endings. Par for the usual open-world tropes, you climb a tower, follow the dot on your map, kill everyone, then run from the police until a floating text goes "GJ! YOU DID THE SAME MISSION...BUT OVER THERE THIS TIME!" While that could be passable for most side missions, more dramatic missions like breaking up a human trafficking ring should have been faaaaar more satisfying than "GJ! YOU DID A DIFFERENT MISSION!" I couldn't even get a 15s cutscene of the police cracking it wide open and escorting the girls to their families or something? ANYTHING??

    The other one I can't forgive is when you bust the badass hacker Dfault (spelling). He's built up in the dialogue to be some mysterious, world-class hacker, enough to give Aiden a rival. He out hacks your team, and you have to go chase him personally. He hacks around you, plays weird mind games, I admit, it was exciting, but it ended like every other mission: hold W+Shift, and smash M2 until you catch him.......aaand end of mission. WTF?!?! WHO IS DFAULT? WHY DID HE HACK YOU? WHO IS HE WORKING FOR? HOW DID HE FIND THE HEROS?? This is like if Star Wars 4 5 and 6 ended with someone nonchalantly shooting Darth Vadar with a laser gun and CREDITS.

    If you can find it for 20ish bucks, you can run thru it, and never play it again. It has its moments and the combat CAN be satisfying, but after what Ubi did to us here and the trend of it (google e3 graphics vs real game graphics) this s** needs to stop. With all the ppl swearing off Ubi and their investors jumping the shark, how are they still getting so much money....?

    For the sake of gaming, plz let this company die.    … Expand
  22. jugadorhardcore
    Sep 4, 2018
    0
    ubisoft is way back to make a dencent action rpg game. this version is worst than xboxO and ps4. and that a lot to said...
  23. AWHcosmo
    Apr 17, 2018
    0
    I did not get my free tablet with this review like the "professional" critics, so this review is actually sincere... and not biased. *Clears throat* the game sucks... the hacking sucks, the graphics suck, the "action" sucks.. this game was so bad, ubisoft had to bribe other critics with tablets, just to get a good review.. and these morons call themselves critics, the same guys can beI did not get my free tablet with this review like the "professional" critics, so this review is actually sincere... and not biased. *Clears throat* the game sucks... the hacking sucks, the graphics suck, the "action" sucks.. this game was so bad, ubisoft had to bribe other critics with tablets, just to get a good review.. and these morons call themselves critics, the same guys can be bought with a case of Mountain Dew to give sonic free rides a 10/10… Expand
  24. Machobruce
    Dec 31, 2017
    0
    I tried the pc version free retail from Ubisoft and i'm relieved for didn't buy it.
    - awful graphics;
    - generic missions (like mini-games);
    - doesn't have a solid story;
    - sometimes crash;
  25. OberiousLocke
    Dec 14, 2017
    0
    The camera is absolutely terrible. The driving controls are so horrifically done that driving is a lost cause, where it's impossible to avoid most collisions if you're going any faster than 10-20 MPH. God forbid you attract police attention, considering the AI rubberbands so hard that unless you get 3-4 hackable lights or blockers in a row, losing them is impossible. Even when you do,The camera is absolutely terrible. The driving controls are so horrifically done that driving is a lost cause, where it's impossible to avoid most collisions if you're going any faster than 10-20 MPH. God forbid you attract police attention, considering the AI rubberbands so hard that unless you get 3-4 hackable lights or blockers in a row, losing them is impossible. Even when you do, those **** green ctOS scans are damn near impossible to avoid given the previously mentioned horrible driving controls

    So much potential thrown out of the window by a crappy dev team.    … Expand
  26. Akselis
    Sep 28, 2017
    0
    Ubish1t Entertainment present: Watch Dogs: Torrent Edition
    I don't want write 1000's words about how this game sucks, all already know it (If you are not a filthy "Pro MLG Critic" of course...)
    Just remember one rule - never buy games from Ubish1t again. This is the most greedy and sh1tty company I ever seen in whole Game Indusrty.
  27. KreshPlays
    Jul 12, 2017
    0
    Я всё ещё жалею о том, что продал дорогой UPS-S из кейса в CS:GO, чтобы сделать предзаказ этой игры. Это моя глупейшая ошибка.
    На дворе 2014 год, Ubisoft уже начали катиться по наклонной, но скатились не совсем. А тут ещё новая игра, интересный сеттинг, многообещающе. Именно этот фактор заставил меня, да и не только, обратить внимание на эту игру. Просмотрев трейлеры, я решил - надо    Я всё ещё жалею о том, что продал дорогой UPS-S из кейса в CS:GO, чтобы сделать предзаказ этой игры. Это моя глупейшая ошибка.
    На дворе 2014 год, Ubisoft уже начали катиться по наклонной, но скатились не совсем. А тут ещё новая игра, интересный сеттинг, многообещающе. Именно этот фактор заставил меня, да и не только, обратить внимание на эту игру. Просмотрев трейлеры, я решил - надо предзаказывать. Дождавшись заветной даты релиза, я весь день играл в эту игру в предвкушении большего. Оно вот-вот должно было случиться. Игра не оправдывала ожиданий. Окончательно понял я это после десяти часов игры. Кошмарная оптимизация, детали проработаны на отвали, кошмарное управление автомобилями. Графика по тем временам выглядела вполне достойно, но серость всё же давала о себе знать. Единственный плюс в этой игре - интересная история и сюжет, вот только процесс прохождения уныл и однообразен. Практически все миссии - это лазь по камерам/взломай/иди куда-то по стелсу. Именно поэтому прохождение далось очень тяжко, чем дальше, тем больше тошнило от этих миссий. Впечатлило также взаимодействие с миром на примере светофоров, подрыва канализаций и прочего. Но эффектные аварии тоже очень быстро надоели. Ну хоть вторая часть стала лучше.    … Expand
  28. TitaniumDragon
    Jan 3, 2017
    4
    Sadly, the game doesn’t live up to expectations, though not for the reasons that many of the people who complained about the graphical downgrade (the game, frankly, still looks pretty decent) seemed to think was the cause.

    The game starts off well enough – the protagonist, Aiden Pearce, is confronting the man who caused a car accident that ultimately killed his niece. It was a hit on    Sadly, the game doesn’t live up to expectations, though not for the reasons that many of the people who complained about the graphical downgrade (the game, frankly, still looks pretty decent) seemed to think was the cause.

    The game starts off well enough – the protagonist, Aiden Pearce, is confronting the man who caused a car accident that ultimately killed his niece. It was a hit on Pearce in revenge for Pearce doing a job at the Merlaut hotel, where he walked in and hacked into the system along with his partner, the shady Maurice. After beating up the man in search of the men who sent him on the job, Aiden still doesn’t get the answer he wants. He is forced to sneak out of the stadium and create a distraction while his new partner, Jordi, smuggles the man out.

    Aiden is forced to cause a blackout, turning out the lights in the stadium and creating distractions so he can get past the cops unseen. When he gets out, the police chase him in an exciting car chase, and after Aiden finally escapes, he goes back to his hotel to talk with a mysterious hacker who might be able to get him some more information.

    This sequence is really great and does a great job of selling the game to the audience – we see a number of characters, we get a revenge plot going, we have a central mystery to solve (both who ordered the hit on Pearce, and why), we see the comedy relief in the form of Jordi, and we see… okay, Pearce himself sucks, but whatever. How can all of this not come together into something awesome?

    Ubisoft found a way.

    The trouble, in the end, is that the game is very scattered. The central premise of the game is that you are a reformed “fixer”, a hacker/thug, but a great deal of what you do in the game is not only blatantly criminal, but the main sidequests are taking out hits on other people and stealing information. For a supposed vigilante, you’re pretty much just blatantly a criminal, possibly even worse than the people you’re facing off with given your body count and reckless use of various military grade weapons, including the game-breaking grenade launcher that one-shots almost all enemies and vehicles.

    The phone spying only rarely really ends up mattering – while looking at people’s private lives seems cool, in the end it is just random stuff that pops up and frankly has little weight after a while. I just started tuning it out by the end of the game, and while some of the ideas – like sending people distracting text messages or phone calls based on the snippets of their personal lives – was neat, there was very little of it that was actually used directly in the plot.

    Indeed, for an uber-hacker, you really just feel like a thug with a gun and a magic smart phone that various real hackers soup up for you – which would be fine if the game actually called you out for that, but it really doesn’t do much to do so.

    About three quarters of the scattered plot is driven by Pearce himself being blackmailed rather than Pearce’s own quest for revenge. The identity of the people behind the hit ends up being a letdown – built up to be a scary organization that cannot be beaten, you instead find out you’ve been fighting (and handily beating them) the whole game. And for a game about hacking, the game seems to focus an awful lot on shootouts with people, with only the odd bit where you guide someone to safety through cameras – a neat idea that only gets used a few times, and feels much more cerebral than just mowing people down with your grenade launcher and sniper rifle. Most of the time it is easier to just kill the bad guys than use stealth, which feels wrong in a game about a sneaky hacker, and in the end, the hacking mechanic feels more like a gimmick stuck into a cover-based shooter than the central aspect of the game.

    The only thing that the game really does well is the multiplayer. While several of the modes are not so great, there are two modes – tailing and hacking – which are really amazing. The reason why? These modes are fully integrated into normal gameplay. According to the game, you have “fixers” out after you – people trying to hack you, steal your data, and identify you. But the brilliant part is that this is *other players*, who from their point of view, are going after bad guy “fixers” on behalf of the citizenry. You have no idea whether or not someone is after you – your first and only warning of being hacked is that you’re told that someone is hacking you, and you need to track them down within a location. You’re never even told that you’re being tailed – unless you notice someone following you around and looking suspicious, you’ll have no idea that you’re being tailed. It creates a real sense of paranoia.

    Sadly, the rest of the game isn't so brilliant. In the end, it is a mediocre cover-based shooter.    … Expand
  29. Nyakuya
    Dec 20, 2016
    0
    Este juego es una mierda por donde se lo mire. Gráficamente es una basura. En rendimiento es una basura. La inteligencia artificial es una basura. Está lleno de bugs y de detalles absolutamente nada cuidados. La historia es una basura y los personajes (menos T-BONE, el amigo de T-BONE, y Jordi) son una basura.

    Lo único que disfruté de este juego, fue su dlc de T-BONE.
  30. Machiavelli_Esk
    Oct 7, 2016
    4
    Beautiful city with nice hacking tools but after reaching ca. 4 hours of gameplay the euphoria is gone and there is less that keeps you in game. Just classie ubisoft tasks, like capturing an outpost(CTOS Tower) or defeating some gangsters, very repetitive and uninspired. Story is just disastrous.
    Story 2/10
    Graphic 6/10 Gameplay 3/10, too easy, at an early story point you got already    Beautiful city with nice hacking tools but after reaching ca. 4 hours of gameplay the euphoria is gone and there is less that keeps you in game. Just classie ubisoft tasks, like capturing an outpost(CTOS Tower) or defeating some gangsters, very repetitive and uninspired. Story is just disastrous.
    Story 2/10
    Graphic 6/10
    Gameplay 3/10, too easy, at an early story point you got already overpowered skills and really repetitive
    Sound 7/10
    Driving 5/10
    Atmosphere 5/10
    In fact i didn't remember particular parts of the story or other missions, so it wasn't waste of time but i hardly recommend to hear some good music(or other things, to have some distraction) while playing watch dogs.
    So the only thing that motivates you to end the bad story, is the city of chicago. But this isn't enough for a AAA title so 4/10 is appropriate.    … Expand
  31. localhost
    Oct 6, 2016
    0
    Horrible piece of ****
    Horrible piece of ****
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    Horrible piece of ****
  32. Loskutorr
    Oct 1, 2016
    2
    Unplayable. There is no FOV slider, there is no way to turn OFF mouse acceleration. Game feels uncontrollable. Character automatically "sticks" to the walls when you do not want to. Mouse feels laggy, unresponsive. Menus are made for gamepads and consoles. Car physics is a joke. Graphic is mediocre. Game is not worth even downloading from pirate bay. Played on i5, 16Gb RAM, GTX 1060. PlayUnplayable. There is no FOV slider, there is no way to turn OFF mouse acceleration. Game feels uncontrollable. Character automatically "sticks" to the walls when you do not want to. Mouse feels laggy, unresponsive. Menus are made for gamepads and consoles. Car physics is a joke. Graphic is mediocre. Game is not worth even downloading from pirate bay. Played on i5, 16Gb RAM, GTX 1060. Play Witcher 3 instead of this crap.… Expand
  33. TechnoStew
    Jun 17, 2016
    0
    Thank you, Ubisoft, for raising my expectations and dashing them quite expertly. Here I am, hyped as anything for this game when it was first announced (Little did I know that Ubisoft started sucking after Far Cry 3) and then I finally get my pre-ordered copy on launch day. I am so excited! I slam the disc into my PC and install. Holy crap it's 20 GB. Okay, I can delete GTA IV. Sure. NoThank you, Ubisoft, for raising my expectations and dashing them quite expertly. Here I am, hyped as anything for this game when it was first announced (Little did I know that Ubisoft started sucking after Far Cry 3) and then I finally get my pre-ordered copy on launch day. I am so excited! I slam the disc into my PC and install. Holy crap it's 20 GB. Okay, I can delete GTA IV. Sure. No problem. Then I play it. My hopes and dreams are shattered within the first 10 minutes. The controls are TERRIBLE. The aiming is terrible, the driving is terrible, the overall controls are either totally unresponsive, or hyper sensitive. So I stop playing, until today. I picked this game up again thinking that MAYBE they fixed my 4 dozen gripes that I told them about on Twitter, and it is still the buggiest pile of ass in the world. I am only giving it a 3 (Now a 1, see edit) because the stealth and hacking are ""okay"". . . .EDIT: So I started playing, AGAIN (Third time is the charm?), and maybe I forgot how bad it was, but nope. It got worse. Basically, it is now possible to get SHOT by a BAD GUY in the MIDDLE OF THE STREET, and now the CIVILIANS will NOT call the police on the BAD GUY, but instead on YOU for GETTING SHOT. This new """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""feature"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" now makes most gang hideouts near busy streets absolutely IMPOSSIBLE.… Expand
  34. dypsomaniart
    May 21, 2016
    0
    bad optimisation for pc, game runs badly even on massively overpowered systems that should run it easily. Bad pc keyboard and mouse, the mouse acceleration is terrible and no way to turn it off. I had to play with a controller, but I shouldnt have bothered. Within a couple of hours this game goes from a smart idea to a purile, racist, lame world full of jokes and scummy people that maybad optimisation for pc, game runs badly even on massively overpowered systems that should run it easily. Bad pc keyboard and mouse, the mouse acceleration is terrible and no way to turn it off. I had to play with a controller, but I shouldnt have bothered. Within a couple of hours this game goes from a smart idea to a purile, racist, lame world full of jokes and scummy people that may appeal to a 14year old boy, but not really anyone else I dont think. Ubisoft created a world that didn't make me want to go back to it at all, not even to fight said scummy people, as the main character is just as dumb and unlikeable.
    I wish uberflop offered refunds on their games.    … Expand
  35. DJ_Kaas
    Apr 13, 2016
    0
    WELCOME TO THE FUTURE OF GAMING! I feel sorry for the folks who paid 60 bucks for this ****
    Watch Dogs, AKA the big budget version of Goat Simulator.
  36. cobblers76
    Dec 6, 2015
    0
    The developers spent their money on marketing rather than making a good game.

    This is all I have to say, so I'll just keep on typing until this review is over 150 character and I can post it.

    DO NOT BUY THIS GAME.
  37. EricFate
    Jul 18, 2015
    1
    A waste of potential from beginning to end. Inconsistent writing, non-sequitur mini games, a lead character with no redeeming characteristics, and a tedious open world in which there is no joy to be had from simple exploration. Save your money and get Sleeping Dogs or Saints Row instead. They both understand that games require an element of fun first and foremost. All this game does isA waste of potential from beginning to end. Inconsistent writing, non-sequitur mini games, a lead character with no redeeming characteristics, and a tedious open world in which there is no joy to be had from simple exploration. Save your money and get Sleeping Dogs or Saints Row instead. They both understand that games require an element of fun first and foremost. All this game does is demonstrate why the marketing team should never be given sway over the design team. Once you get past the hype, this game reveals itself to be nothing more than a pile of hot garbage.… Expand
  38. Rizwan
    Jun 29, 2015
    0
    Actually, I was waiting for this game from 2013. The release date was always making late. At last it was released in May 2014. I was eagerly waiting for it. But when I played it , it greatly disappointed me. The graphics of the trailer was great, But in the game, Huh !!!!! Really a disappointing piece of **** !!!!!
  39. Jacktes
    May 30, 2015
    4
    A poorly optimized mess of a game that disappoints on all levels. I genuinely put the game in my toilet and pissed on it to show how happy pre-ordering it made it.

    Hey, at least it managed to turn me off of pre-ordering entirely now, so that's a plus side.
  40. DevinTakkar
    Apr 1, 2015
    3
    This game is just a big disappointment.
    Yes, the core idea is good and yes, the hacking is the best part of the game...but that's the only thing that's actually fun and it's just not enough to carry this game. The gameplay besides hacking is clumsy, the controls on pc are annoying, driving feels wrong and the gunplay is awkward..
    And yes, the story is boring and the main character not    This game is just a big disappointment.
    Yes, the core idea is good and yes, the hacking is the best part of the game...but that's the only thing that's actually fun and it's just not enough to carry this game. The gameplay besides hacking is clumsy, the controls on pc are annoying, driving feels wrong and the gunplay is awkward..
    And yes, the story is boring and the main character not interesting, so no way I'm going to finish this.
    Don't bother with it.    … Expand
  41. r00n
    Feb 24, 2015
    4
    Good game, but not what I've expected. Played this for several hours. After a while, connecting from one camera to another is getting boring. The menu to upgrade skills is hard to understand in the beginnning. What made me upgrading skills in the wrong order, and there is not much to do that a few standard things. I like the graphics and the open world.
  42. BigBossReviews
    Feb 3, 2015
    3
    Another piece of overhyped trash released by UBISOFT, I made the mistake of preordering this game, and threw my $60 dollars down the fu*king drain. This game is a prime example of terrible PC ports, since this game is an avid supporter of console parity, although, this being the PC, modders are in the works, trying to fix this game, and yet Ubisoft is putting out patches to wipe these modsAnother piece of overhyped trash released by UBISOFT, I made the mistake of preordering this game, and threw my $60 dollars down the fu*king drain. This game is a prime example of terrible PC ports, since this game is an avid supporter of console parity, although, this being the PC, modders are in the works, trying to fix this game, and yet Ubisoft is putting out patches to wipe these mods out. FU*K THIS GAME, AND FU*K UBISOFT!… Expand
  43. UND34DxTR41T3R
    Jan 19, 2015
    3
    This game has an interesting idea of what it wants to be but it failed massively

    my PC can run this game no problem but it sometimes crashes my PC no patch has ever fixed this! The story is stupidly short and the ending is terrible Its filled to the brim with glitches like falling trough the map the game not loading properly and its not only on PC my friend has a ps4 and it    This game has an interesting idea of what it wants to be but it failed massively

    my PC can run this game no problem but it sometimes crashes my PC no patch has ever fixed this!

    The story is stupidly short and the ending is terrible

    Its filled to the brim with glitches like falling trough the map the game not loading properly and its not only on PC my friend has a ps4 and it crashed alot of time and fell through the map 5 times

    the open world it empty with nothing to do i fell into the hype and i was sad once i bought the game

    it feels like an boring gta game this costs too much and you should just buy gta    … Expand
  44. flexy123
    Jan 8, 2015
    3
    It looks like a GTA game from 2004, except that in 2004 games looked already better than this crap. Gameplay is also boring and unrealistic. It's like a poor man's GTA. Deleting from HD.
  45. baevar
    Dec 27, 2014
    0
    Sigh Metacritic site error on first review, so here's the short version:

    Would never play because it has Uplay...and I have an AMD card. Never had a chance to earn points, 0/10 wake the F up Ubisoft, your brand is tanking over DRM that only hurts paying customers and offers literally zero benefit to the consumer. Yes I know there's points and unlock rewards; but Ubi is extracting    Sigh Metacritic site error on first review, so here's the short version:

    Would never play because it has Uplay...and I have an AMD card.

    Never had a chance to earn points, 0/10 wake the F up Ubisoft, your brand is tanking over DRM that only hurts paying customers and offers literally zero benefit to the consumer. Yes I know there's points and unlock rewards; but Ubi is extracting those reward elements from a normal game, and sticking it into its DRM; completely unnecessary; let me unlock things for the games I play because of things I do in the game, not add some unnecessary reward points layer just to justify really bad and invasive DRM that has in the past not even let me play games I own because it can't connect to its own servers even though I'm online, or the stupid Uplay client crashes in the background. Clean up your act Ubi; here's an old addage about customer service for ya "Ignore your customers and they'll go away"    … Expand
  46. Ihatefifa14
    Dec 8, 2014
    0
    This game got me bored after i had played for less than an hour. Im glad i got it for free with my PS4 traded that **** in the next day. It was so **** bad holy ****
  47. Gawee08
    Nov 25, 2014
    2
    Watch_Dogs had a lot of potential but Ubisoft managed to somehow mess up Watch_Dogs in a way they have never done before (Including Unity, which was a great game but it had bad optimization). I love Ubisoft (Even if they make terrible PC ports) but Watch_Dogs is a terrible game that no one should have to play, even on PC. It was filled with glitches, poor optimization, missing featuresWatch_Dogs had a lot of potential but Ubisoft managed to somehow mess up Watch_Dogs in a way they have never done before (Including Unity, which was a great game but it had bad optimization). I love Ubisoft (Even if they make terrible PC ports) but Watch_Dogs is a terrible game that no one should have to play, even on PC. It was filled with glitches, poor optimization, missing features that they showed at E3 and bad graphics compared to today's standards.

    Watch_Dogs follows Aiden Pearce, a man who's niece was killed which made Aiden Pearce go on a quest to find the man who murdered her and take revenge. Aiden Pearce is a hacker who uses his phone to hack objects such as traffic lights, transformers, street pipes and generally most electronics in the futuristic city of Chicago.

    Gameplay for Watch_Dogs was average, but hacking was terrible. The hacking puzzles were mediocre and unoriginal, the normal hacking was just hold Q to hack and the shooting was.. meh.

    Aiden Pearce is the blandest character Ubisoft has made, he is more bland than Connor from Assassin's Creed 3. Aiden Pearce does not have any personality, his story is filled with cliches and he never shows any signs of emotion. Aiden Pearce is not likable or relatable due to the fact that he shows no signs of emotions or any personality.

    Watch_Dogs has many bugs, poor optimization, bad graphics, average gameplay and a terrible story. No one except for diehard Ubisoft fans should play Watch_Dogs as it is just not fun to play and the ending is a major let-down. I recommend you don't play this game unless you really want to. Ubisoft showed many great things at E3 but in the end, they downgraded graphics and took out many features that would've been great.    … Expand
  48. AngusMacAskill
    Nov 18, 2014
    4
    Such high expectations for this game, for it to have fallen so low is a disgrace. Ubisoft has never had qualms to leave their PC consumers hanging but to actively sabotage the PC versions of their games is inexcusable.

    Yet, that is the least of the problems with Watch_Dogs. Very bad AI. Some NPCs will not even react to you throwing a grenade or even shooting at them. Very sloppily done    Such high expectations for this game, for it to have fallen so low is a disgrace. Ubisoft has never had qualms to leave their PC consumers hanging but to actively sabotage the PC versions of their games is inexcusable.

    Yet, that is the least of the problems with Watch_Dogs. Very bad AI. Some NPCs will not even react to you throwing a grenade or even shooting at them. Very sloppily done collision and texture mapping. The sheer amount of bugs is one of the only constants in Ubisoft games left. The story is virtually non-existent. Dialogues are abominable.

    The only redeeming factor, if it can be called as such, is the freedom to shoot anyone in the face, which has resulted in quite a few amusing youtube videos.

    All in all, cannot recommend this game but if you're partial to mindless violence you may enjoy the game.    … Expand
  49. HuntingArt
    Nov 18, 2014
    3
    Do you want to be a cool baddass hacker like the ones you see in the movies?
    Did you buy this game to feel like an awesome hacker with 1337 skillz where you can be cool and even do what the government chooses not to do in order to be a great vigilant?
    Or even to just do whatever the **** you want, and feel like you've got power on the tips of your fingers? Yeah me too. What I described    Do you want to be a cool baddass hacker like the ones you see in the movies?
    Did you buy this game to feel like an awesome hacker with 1337 skillz where you can be cool and even do what the government chooses not to do in order to be a great vigilant?
    Or even to just do whatever the **** you want, and feel like you've got power on the tips of your fingers?
    Yeah me too. What I described sounds awesome. Too bad what you're really going to get is Magic Button to Steal (worthless) Money From People, pointless and barfed up car chases, mixed in with killing people from afar that you need two serious patience through boredom for.

    Somehow this game was not as I expected it would be after I saw the breathtaking E3 footage. Nnnnope. This game, had I known how completely-and-utterly boring it would be, I'd have only purchased it for $15 USD. Like, yeah! Yeah this game sure is fun! But you know what's more fun? Nintendogs. At least currency in that game actually worth something. Yeah, you heard me.

    Hacking in this game is nothing more than pressing A to Jump. That is to say, hacking isn't hard. Hacking isn't interesting. Hacking is so easy that it actually feels kind of pointless. There's a couple of things you can do to hack in this game; press button to steal money, press same button to listen in on phone call, press same button to create a distraction, press same button to explode a transformer, press same bu- do you get it? In five minutes, you've gotten enough money to buy every gun in the game. You are not a cool hacker, either. You're just a person who times somebody stepping on a pipeline before making it go off but not in a cool I'M A HACKER way but in a "I pressed jump before I got to the goomba" way. When you finally do get to hack into a computer sort of thing- you get presented with what I must conclude is their attempt at a "puzzle". Most of them are timed but... as long as you don't click anything you get to stare at it for as long as you'd like until you get it. If you don't get it in time, then you get to start over. So it's POINTLESS. It's not even complicated either. It's like one of those old pipe games where you move the pipes so water goes through. Not exactly a puzzle...

    You're expected to ""hack"" when you're infiltrating buildings, but by that I mean; you need to kill everyone in an area, and conveniently people are standing around a lot of explosives that you can "jump the goomba" on. They also expect you to shoot people here though. I go for the sniper. Granted, if it didn't take so much patience and annoyance on top of that, this would probably be fun for me. I explode who I can, and then I snipe out the rest. It is all rather tedious though.

    Then after that you have these Car Chase Scenes!!!1!1!11 They are completely unimpressive. They expect you to hack while you're doing these car chases? But with the exception of making draw bridges go up or turning green lights red and a few others, you can't really have the control to hack. I don't even understand what it wants me to do when it tells me to press my jumping goomba button. Like what am I doing? Granted if I could drive while looking behind my car, it would probably make sense, and I could understand why their car blew up; but I can't as it is. If you don't go to international waters, then these chase scenes are long, and their boring, and they're INCREDIBLY redundant. Actually the hacking and sniping is redundant too but.. this is more so.

    These are the two main game play things we get in the game. "Car Chase, Hack/Snipe, Car Chase, Car Chase, Hack/Snipe, Car Chase, Car Chase", UGH.

    The plot though... is awful. Like it really is. But not as awful as our really bad main character. Lackluster plot aside, our main character is not just "morally gray", he's downright **** After his sister's daughter dies because of HIM (why they didn't kill him instead of his neice who ****ing knows) she asks him to stop all of this **** because it got her daughter killed and it's going to get her and her son killed! He's all "But vengeance!!!!" and then wouldn't you know it it literally puts his sister and her son in danger. Again like why don't these people just kill this dude instead of "punishing him through people around him"? Ah right game devs are incompetent and don't know how to motivate characters, right. Anywho- I'd be fine playing a really **** character if the game I was playing them in didn't KEEP MAKING THEM OUT TO BEING HEROES. Cause this guy? He's despicable. He doesn't care about ANYONE except his reputation! Like, hope you weren't planning to get mugged today! This guy doesn't care and even though he knows you're getting mugged he wont lift a finger until you're already ****ed over. You're welcome! ..literally that's in the rules. If you save the person too soon you're penalized.

    This game could have been something great but instead it's just churned out old and tired tropes and gameplay.    … Expand
  50. Tobi_Whatever
    Nov 13, 2014
    4
    This game is a typical modern Ubisoft release.
    A lot of broken promises, E3 bullshots and graphical downgrades to increase console sales.

    The game is a bad, buggy mess of a GTA clone with "press x to awesome" feature.
    This game doesn't just feel unfinished, it actually is.
    4/10 since you can at least walk and shoot bug-free most of the time.
  51. Roemerquelle
    Nov 8, 2014
    1
    To be honest: I was very excited when Watch_Dogs was announced. The trailers and everything made my jaw drop down to the core of the earth. I'm not a graphic whore, but I couldn't stop thinking about how great this game looks. So I pre ordered it for PC and was very excited when it eventually came out..
    So I installed the game and I could turn graphic settings on maximum. "How great!", I    To be honest: I was very excited when Watch_Dogs was announced. The trailers and everything made my jaw drop down to the core of the earth. I'm not a graphic whore, but I couldn't stop thinking about how great this game looks. So I pre ordered it for PC and was very excited when it eventually came out..
    So I installed the game and I could turn graphic settings on maximum. "How great!", I thought. "It runs smooth on those settings? Wow!", I thought.. But something was wrong. The graphics looked very bad. Not nearly as good as in the announcement. Few weeks later it became clear that they just downgraded the game on PC, to make it look like the PS4/Xbox One version (more or less). Thanks to some modders, the PC-com could play the game now how it was supposed to be. It even ran smoother with those mods. But again: I'm not a graphic whore. If the rest would've been great, I wouldn't have been complained. But the rest sucks too.
    In short:
    - Boring story
    - boring characters (Aiden seems like he doesn't care about anything..)
    - Boring hacking (Press Q to hack everything!)
    - The worst car handling ever.
    - Considering that you're the hacker vigilante, it's pretty stupid that it's much easier to clear a base of enemies by just rushing in and shooting everyone.

    But hey, there are also some positive things:
    - Digital Trips. Funny as hell.

    In my opinion one of the most disappointing and boring games of the last few years.    … Expand
  52. peterf28
    Oct 31, 2014
    2
    Stupid and boring game. I start to hate Ubisoft. The open world is limited and does not feel real .They dont make good games, very boring . I also hate other ubisoft games .
  53. iansarmy1
    Oct 25, 2014
    3
    A terrible, broken, downgraded PC port that Ubisoft simply walked away after only a paltry effort of trying to fix it. Even it runs smoothly on your system you're really just buying a very mediocre GTA clone. Don't reward Ubisoft for dumping this clunker on PC gamers.
  54. JadeRegent
    Oct 20, 2014
    3
    --The Characters--

    Watch Dogs is a game full of wonderfully creative characters with interesting motivations and backgrounds, unfortunately the main character isn't one of them. Attempting to get away from the whole "dead wife and kids" theme that many games that feature male protagonists that have lost someone go with they really didn't hurt anything going instead with "dead niece".    --The Characters--

    Watch Dogs is a game full of wonderfully creative characters with interesting motivations and backgrounds, unfortunately the main character isn't one of them. Attempting to get away from the whole "dead wife and kids" theme that many games that feature male protagonists that have lost someone go with they really didn't hurt anything going instead with "dead niece". Iraq is an Iraq war vet who took what he learned and brought it back to his neighborhood, turning a group of average gangbangers into a well trained army. Lucky Quinn is an aged Mob Boss who clawed his way to the top. Despite being well into his late 70's he isn't afraid to get his hands dirty when work needs to be done. Aidan Pierce is a hacker with a niece who died entirely because of him, who blames everyone else instead of himself (the person actually responsible) for her death.

    --The Story--

    The story is pretty generic, man with lost loved ones begins searching for those responsible but along the way is faced with a moral dilemma about whether he's doing the wrong things for the right reasons and whether or not at the end of the day he's the bad guy but it's livened up by a pretty interesting cast of supporting characters.

    --Gameplay--

    The gameplay was really hit or miss for me, the combat works really well and while the inclusion of a bullet time ability a little disappointing the ability to use hacking with it helped get me over it. I really enjoy the way the enemy reacts when you fire off some rounds, move to a different location and they'd still be looking for you at that old position, it really made the whole experience feel very organic. Unfortunately, the same thing cannot be said for the driving mechanics. With most cars its like the roads were made of ice most of the time with the way the car's back ends would just go spinning out whenever you'd turn at anything faster than a slow jog. Not sure if this happened to anyone else very often but if the car is moving at anything other than a dead stop, when you get out you'll be doing a combat roll out of the car moving slower than people on the sidewalk, more than once Aidan decided to dive out of this incredibly slow moving car directly into an oncoming garbage truck.

    I say thing about every sandbox game that takes place in a city but its really disappointing how many buildings I can actually walk into. In the Chicago metropolitan area I can walk into MAYBE about one in every 15 buildings. Maybe instead of making the game look so pretty, we work on actually having places to go into.

    Finally the hacking, while an interesting concept most of the time you'll forget about interacting with the environment via hacking unless the game is forcing you to. Why hack the streetlights or a bridge when you can just use the Jam Comms ability and prevent the police from even being called in the first place. Why use environmental explosives when I have a pump action grenade launcher.

    --Summary--

    Watch Dogs plays like a cross between Grand Theft Auto and Assassins Creed with the little hacking gimmick thrown in. Unfortunately the various pieces of this game do not coalesce into anything more than mildly entertaining. It gets boring a few hours in after you've tried most of the hacking tricks out a few times and realize how shallow the system actually is.    … Expand
  55. ruediger
    Oct 19, 2014
    3
    Overhyped piece of donkeysh*t. Unoptimized gameengine, unoriginal and tedious gameplay are just a death sentence for any game. I'm glad I got that game for free in a hardware bundle else I would have felt like Ubisoft dropping a big fat deuce on on my face.
  56. reowner
    Oct 10, 2014
    3
    crappy PC optimizatiion, requires a 780ti or higher just to run this game on ultra settings and smooth as butter.
    bought this game expecting to run on ultra settiings with a 680...nope..get 10-10 fps tops. as crazy as it sounds, it's true. even when turning vsync off, have to play on lowest settings just to get decent FPS. story and gameplay is not all that great, played and beat gta v    crappy PC optimizatiion, requires a 780ti or higher just to run this game on ultra settings and smooth as butter.
    bought this game expecting to run on ultra settiings with a 680...nope..get 10-10 fps tops. as crazy as it sounds, it's true. even when turning vsync off, have to play on lowest settings just to get decent FPS. story and gameplay is not all that great, played and beat gta v and it feels too much like gta v, driving mechanics and everything else, seems just liike another rehash, hope ubisoft does not let me down with far cry 4 or tom clancy's highly anticipated the division.    … Expand
  57. Shelledfade
    Oct 3, 2014
    3
    Pros:
    -Visually stunning world, rich in small detail.
    -Movement feels good. Cons: -Lifeless and disconnected world. -Guns sound like toys. -No "contacts" like GTA 4, you are 100% alone in this game. -One-button hacking gets extremely old fast. -Cannot shoot a gun while driving. -Cars have really bad physx and drive like unstoppable tanks. -All clothing stores are identical, all    Pros:
    -Visually stunning world, rich in small detail.
    -Movement feels good.

    Cons:
    -Lifeless and disconnected world.
    -Guns sound like toys.
    -No "contacts" like GTA 4, you are 100% alone in this game.
    -One-button hacking gets extremely old fast.
    -Cannot shoot a gun while driving.
    -Cars have really bad physx and drive like unstoppable tanks.
    -All clothing stores are identical, all gun shops are identical.
    -Little to no reason to explore the rich world.
    -There really isn't any loot in the world at all, think gta 4 city but much less lifelike, it feels dead, and crafting components are so inexpensive it just kills exploration.
    -Every single mission is the same. It either involves chasing someone by foot or by vehicle, or killing enemies that roam specific paths in a small area. The one-button hacking doesn't even add anything to the gameplay. If the hacking was removed it would essentially be the same game with little difference. You are not going on interesting missions like gta 4 where you would rob a bank or anything like that at all.

    -Digital trips: It adds some interesting game modes that have absolutely nothing to do with regular gameplay but it almost feels like the developers were aware of how lifeless and boring the main gameplay was so they added these digital trip game modes like driving a tank-spider and blowing crap up, and it does add some variety but I just wish the variety was in the main gameplay itself and its not, at all.    … Expand
  58. FWordFizz
    Oct 2, 2014
    0
    Ubisoft. Give it up. You are an EA. You ruin every good idea you touch. Just let Dev teams finish their games before they put it out and you will be fine. Don't throw us an alpha and say its a finished product.
  59. ibbie
    Sep 27, 2014
    1
    This game is like Cancer, You don't wan't it but you still get it in the end...

    This game is **** **** **** and even more ****!
    If you have a beast rig then expect 30 fps as a max on ultra and 50 fps on low!
    Uplay is the reason for Japan's high suicide rate! -_-
  60. BSim500
    Sep 26, 2014
    2
    Good Lord, where to start?

    Controls : Badly ported consolized controls (mouse speed all over the place & inconsistent from one menu to the next, 1 second laggy delay in all movements (compared to 0.3-0.6s in most fluid games), smartphone menu is a simulated analog stick, predictive targeting keeps jumping about, cannot crouch or jump without "contextual" actions, "uncovering" takes a    Good Lord, where to start?

    Controls : Badly ported consolized controls (mouse speed all over the place & inconsistent from one menu to the next, 1 second laggy delay in all movements (compared to 0.3-0.6s in most fluid games), smartphone menu is a simulated analog stick, predictive targeting keeps jumping about, cannot crouch or jump without "contextual" actions, "uncovering" takes a few seconds to "unstick" from a wall, combat feels massively clunky, sluggish aiming and poor "gunplay" in general.

    Driving : BADLY game-breakingly broken (long 1s delay in turning regardless of speed, brakes unresponsive, two speeds - stop and 80mph, can't shoot from vehicles, collision detection broken with oncoming traffic & objects), etc. Physics are a joke (everything either weighs 100 tons or is totally weightless and there's no sense of friction on the roads at all).

    AI : Police "rubber-banding" ruins fun of chases, AI characters/cars spawn & despawn 20 meters from you especially during chases, AI broken on crime quests (if you take down a mugger, NPC's will treat you AS the mugger), helicopter locks laser sight on you even when zigzagging at 80mph, side missions get spammed too fast. The city looks alive, but only as long as you don't interact with anything (you can't even talk to anyone), immersion breaking contradictory random tags "HIV positive blood donor", etc.

    Hacking : Nothing more than "Press Q to win" novelty which becomes boring after first 20mins and is nonsensical anyway (hack mechanical steam pipes?), hacking traffic lights ahead merely creates jams in the middle of the road where you want to drive (and pursuing enemies are so close they bypass it), hacking a bridge will simply cause police to "teleport spawn" the other side anyway after 5 seconds, trying to hack behind you (looking back) is impossible without crashing, super annoying hack puzzles.

    Nonsensical plot : Aiden is a "hero" who got his own niece killed whilst committing a crime (then blames everyone else) then since goes on a crime-fuelled rampage - to stamp out crime), Aiden keeps saying he needs to remain anonymous when the authorities and the media mentions him on the news all the time. Aiden doesn’t want to get arrested, so later on he gets arrested in order to break into prison to intimidate a witness there who can identify him even though the police already know who he is and are after him. Missions get ultra repetitive & tedious (I stuck with it for 8hrs up until Act 1 ("Not The Pizza Guy") then gave up out of sheer boredom as they're all the same recycled "meet contact and escape ambush" cut & paste sub-plots that are obvious padding to make the game longer than it should be,

    GFX : Texture pop-in, GFX texture quality low and massively dumbed down from E3 footage (ie, blatantly false & dishonest marketing), poor performance, chronic stutter, missing face texture bug, AMD cards run 20-40% slower than they should, lengthy unskippable cutscenes (made worse by lack of quick/manual saves), alt-Tabbing back & forward loses VSync & triple buffering requiring highly annoying switching from fullscreen to borderless and then back to fullscreen again to avoid 30fps lock in rate (and usual D3Doverrider fix doesn’t work due to game being 64-bit), some building sign textures are low-res & have visible JPEG artifacts.

    Everything else : Dual DRM (Uplay + Steam), no quicksave or multiple save slots (see +300 pages on Ubisoft support forum about game-breaking save-game corruption for why this is important), Some journalists were openly bribed with a free Nexus 7 'gift', long load times, final boss QTE, all that "city scale freedom" and you still get “You are leaving the mission area” messages, people’s metadata feels contrived and on an obvious "random number generator" algorithm after 20-30mins of play, overheard phone conversations reused over & over. 95% of the Skill Tree makes little difference to gameplay, 90% loading screen bug, unbalanced weapons (pistol more powerful than grenade launcher). Ludicrously inefficient (3GB VRAM required for ugly textures complete with JPEG ringing artifacts?)

    Overall : A nasty little PC port of a game that falls way short of what could be great potential. Maybe a sequel will fix what's broken, but this is one wildly over-hyped train-wreck.    … Expand
  61. Mystery
    Sep 20, 2014
    0
    TERRIBLE, Worst game ever never even runned after 13 hours of trouble shooting , patching and **** downloaded it still dont work THEY RELEASED 2 DLCS INSTEAD OF FIXING IT, graphics let down terribly worst game ever i wasted £45 and didn't even get a **** refund
  62. Hornet
    Sep 16, 2014
    3
    Abysmal release on PC. More technical glitches than you can shake a powerful gaming rig at, and even that won't help. As usual, Ubisoft gives zero f***s about the PC community and hasn't done any significant patch work (not excusing the horrible release state in the first place). Let's not forget that, once again, Uplay was a disaster at launch.

    The technical problems are shocking - I    Abysmal release on PC. More technical glitches than you can shake a powerful gaming rig at, and even that won't help. As usual, Ubisoft gives zero f***s about the PC community and hasn't done any significant patch work (not excusing the horrible release state in the first place). Let's not forget that, once again, Uplay was a disaster at launch.

    The technical problems are shocking - I can't believe how horrible the driving physics are considering Ubisoft has proven once before that they can do a good driving game (Driver: San Francisco).

    Aside from that, the on-foot traversal is clumsy, the shooting mechanics mediocre, the hacking elements asinine, and the storyline and characters completely lacking. Only minimal fun can be eked out in short bursts before the tedium sets in.

    Just about the only thing that can be said is that the environment artists did a fair job of detailing the city, but this is let down by a poorly optimised graphics engine.

    Sadly this generated massive sales for Ubisoft and this is apparently all they care about, so we can expect more dross like this in future. I won't be foolish enough to fall for it again.    … Expand
  63. gwolf14
    Sep 14, 2014
    3
    The theme of this game showed so much promise but fails to deliver on a number of levels. The hacking mechanic was interesting but soon lost its appeal after the 100th time of pressing X. The characters and story were uninteresting and cliched but worst of all was the playability of the whole thing.
    The game does look amazing with everything turned up to ultra, but good luck playing it    The theme of this game showed so much promise but fails to deliver on a number of levels. The hacking mechanic was interesting but soon lost its appeal after the 100th time of pressing X. The characters and story were uninteresting and cliched but worst of all was the playability of the whole thing.
    The game does look amazing with everything turned up to ultra, but good luck playing it with those settings. The game is poorly optimized for the PC (if you can call it optimized at all) and is truly unplayable with the settings.

    I have an i7 4770K, GTX 780 and 16Gb and experienced stutter even on the lowest graphics settings. This is after doing everything in my power to fix the issues and speed up the game. Changing the settings to medium caused game breaking lag and on ultra my entire system was brought to its knees.

    If you have a top end system (and I mean seriously top end) then give this game a go. Otherwise, give it a pass. It's not worth the time or the hassle to try and play.    … Expand
  64. chelonia
    Sep 12, 2014
    0
    I wanted this game to be good but unfortunately that wasn't the case. It's the same game as Far Cry and Assassin's Creed re-skinned. The graphics have been considerably downgraded to be the same on consoles. And between the bugs, childish memes, and boring gameplay, this is quite possibly the worst game I've ever played.
  65. AzzyTheCharger
    Sep 12, 2014
    0
    I would like to start by saying that this game is an absolutely terrible port on the PC regardless of the downgraded graphics i performs utterly bad. The story was quite enjoyable at first but then in gets slow and really boring.
    in short, the game was over hyped and disappointed many gamers including myself.
  66. asdgfasgagag
    Sep 11, 2014
    0
    No spoilers. Honest and quick review. Hello. OK first things first. Most of us were hyped about this game. Maybe we expected more than it delivers. As this is a review for the PC version, I have to inform you that the port is a sloppy job.
  67. montana
    Sep 6, 2014
    1
    There are lots of things in this game that is worth criticizing, but the most important thing is the fact that this game is a poorly optimized consoll port. There is no way to turn off mouse acceleration and the movement off the character is horrible to control with a mouse - you cant turn without moving 2 meters around in a circle. And where the fu%k is my FOV slider!!!? - The camera isThere are lots of things in this game that is worth criticizing, but the most important thing is the fact that this game is a poorly optimized consoll port. There is no way to turn off mouse acceleration and the movement off the character is horrible to control with a mouse - you cant turn without moving 2 meters around in a circle. And where the fu%k is my FOV slider!!!? - The camera is so close to the caracter its like you are breathing down Aidens neck. To add insult to injury these are easy fixes and a big middle finger to pc gamers.… Expand
  68. KAOS661
    Sep 4, 2014
    2
    This game is just awful.All there is to it is a guy hacking traffic lights. What a terrible game. A waste of time and money. Worst game of the year without a doubt!
  69. DaveAus
    Sep 3, 2014
    1
    While it tries to make the open world genre feel more modern and relevant. It takes what could of been a great social media privacy commentary and turns it into a generic shooter, with an open world that is incredible empty and lifeless.

    The brief and random descriptions you get from street walking NPC's seems more like an attempt to hide how dumb and pointless they are, then add    While it tries to make the open world genre feel more modern and relevant. It takes what could of been a great social media privacy commentary and turns it into a generic shooter, with an open world that is incredible empty and lifeless.

    The brief and random descriptions you get from street walking NPC's seems more like an attempt to hide how dumb and pointless they are, then add individuality to them.

    The 'Press x to hack' aspect is almost completely useless in actual game play apart from scripted segments in a few missions. Unlike the misleading trailers, hacking the world around your opponents is more of a waste of time then tactically useful. Popping out from cover and shooting/throwing grenades is the most efficient way to kill enemies, nothing new.

    The graphics are sub par, and it can't help but draw comparisons to Grand Theft Auto 5, a game that came out a year earlier, yet looks better and has more to do.    … Expand
  70. Eyes1
    Aug 29, 2014
    0
    The more I play this game the more convinced I am that I have been ripped off! The developer carries on like the graphics and visuals are a 'game' changer but I honestly cannot see the greatness. Especially given the amount of resources it uses. It does remind me of a time when we wrote programs and our code was not very good which resulted in our basic game utilizing massive resources.The more I play this game the more convinced I am that I have been ripped off! The developer carries on like the graphics and visuals are a 'game' changer but I honestly cannot see the greatness. Especially given the amount of resources it uses. It does remind me of a time when we wrote programs and our code was not very good which resulted in our basic game utilizing massive resources. But that cant be the case here can it....Maybe I should go have my eyes tested or something.… Expand
  71. DuraboITA
    Aug 26, 2014
    0
    The game is amazing!!! This is the nextgen!!! The cars are handling like a brick and missing the deformation. Those amazing pedestrians with the same walking animation. The boring storyline, and press to win hacking. Oh god 10/10!!!
  72. Vayra
    Aug 26, 2014
    4
    Watch Dogs in its current state, with post-release patch, is playable and runs fine on PC. This review is written based on a modded and patched Watch_Dogs, which eliminates the poor performance and lackluster graphics of the original release. However, the game itself and its core mechanics still suffer from a simplicity that destroys the game's (re-) play value.

    When you first start    Watch Dogs in its current state, with post-release patch, is playable and runs fine on PC. This review is written based on a modded and patched Watch_Dogs, which eliminates the poor performance and lackluster graphics of the original release. However, the game itself and its core mechanics still suffer from a simplicity that destroys the game's (re-) play value.

    When you first start playing this game and the possibilities of hacking open up to you, it all seems very promising and fun. The city of Chicago is quite large, the setting is interesting, the game looks great (with E3 graphics mod, that is) and runs smooth. An absolutely *massive* amount of mini-games, collectibles and other small events becomes available quite fast, and before finishing the first Act of five of the games' story, it is very likely you will have explored all of these options. It is also very likely that you will hack everything and everyone you come across (simply because there is no effort involved) which will quickly fill your bank account and allows you to unlock every single weapon in the game.

    And then... then you've played 4-5 story missions, done some random events, and you stumble upon the fact that this is it. The game won't get any more interesting. The game won't surprise you at any time. The difficulty of missions is only ramped up by linking a number of repetitive objectives together. The best moments of creativity consist of walking around looking for cameras to hack a ctOS tower, or a QR code. All of the side missions are just variations on the same objective set, which is extremely limited: kill or knock down a target, drive a time trial, avoid cops, hit Q to hack something.

    At its core, Watch Dogs is an open-world cover-based shooter with some gimmicks added to it that make the game far too easy and straightforward. Within the first three hours of play, the endless rinse-and-repeat of objectives and collectibles makes the otherwise well detailed city a boring place. The story itself is not bad, but the protagonist is a lifeless shell with zero personality that directly detracts from the great setting and potential of the narrative.

    For those who approach games like these with a sandbox- attitude, here is what your gripes with the game will likely be:

    - Every single thing in this game is a recap of things you have done in other Ubisoft free roamers like AC and Far Cry. Capturing watchtowers, taking camps, time trial races, and a crapload of collectibles that have no impact on the game in any way.

    - Every bit of creativity that could go into hacking is lost due to the incredible lack of skill needed to do so. Hit Q to hack world, really.

    - With hacking being repetitive and overly simplified, all this game has going for it is cover-based gunplay and driving vehicles.

    - Driving vehicles is not too bad, but even on PC will work far better with a gamepad. I played this game with a dualshock PS3 gamepad, and it felt like the way it should be played. Keyboard/mouse driving is horrible, overly responsive and poorly implemented.

    - Shootouts are only challenging if you choose to use the cheapest weaponry and stay off the 'Focus' button. What 'Q' is for hacking, 'Focus' is the shortcut to facerolling every encounter in combat.

    At its core, Watch Dogs feels like a complete rinse-and-repeat of other Ubisoft titles and game concepts. Lazy, boring, repetitive and an utter waste of such a promising setting and game world.

    Watch Dogs could have been, should have been so much more than this.    … Expand
  73. RinShibuya
    Aug 23, 2014
    4
    +Good graphics
    +Car dashboard camera view is cool
    -Terrible driving mechanics -AI is dumb -Hacking is dull and too simplified -Game world is dull looking and isn't really lively -Crashing to desktop too often -Combat isn't engaging Official game critics gave this game a very high score?? Seriously? I thought this game was for hardcore gamers...but sadly, its aimed towards    +Good graphics
    +Car dashboard camera view is cool

    -Terrible driving mechanics
    -AI is dumb
    -Hacking is dull and too simplified
    -Game world is dull looking and isn't really lively
    -Crashing to desktop too often
    -Combat isn't engaging

    Official game critics gave this game a very high score?? Seriously? I thought this game was for hardcore gamers...but sadly, its aimed towards casual gamers... Even the huge attraction of Watch Dogs which is the so called "hacking" is far TOO simple, dull and NOT even fun. The "big game of 2014" is a big fat disappointment.    … Expand
  74. NickPreveza
    Aug 23, 2014
    1
    Is this game bad ? No .
    Does it deserve 1/10 ? Hell , no - its a 6 .
    Is the pc version any good ? No , NOPE , NO .
    There is nothing to talk about this , just dont buy it for pc - go console or just dont . Even the ridiculous amound i paid for it ( 15 ) is not worth it .
  75. TUHD
    Aug 23, 2014
    4
    Do not come ANYWHERE near this game yet.
    As of 23/8/2014, the game is still about unplayable with medium-end AMD systems. The GPU use is horrendous, even at the lowest settings possible. Try to launch at 1920x1080, and chances are high your system will just crash due to an infinite memory crash loop. I doubt even an 4GB GPU will handle that with ease.
    As of now, Watch Dogs is an far cry    Do not come ANYWHERE near this game yet.
    As of 23/8/2014, the game is still about unplayable with medium-end AMD systems. The GPU use is horrendous, even at the lowest settings possible. Try to launch at 1920x1080, and chances are high your system will just crash due to an infinite memory crash loop. I doubt even an 4GB GPU will handle that with ease.
    As of now, Watch Dogs is an far cry from optimized - it's still as bugged as it can be. Optimisation isn't there, and still feels like béta-state.    … Expand
  76. NeedForsleep
    Aug 19, 2014
    3
    Such an awful game. So i wonder what ubisoft were doing in those extra months to "Polish" The game? Well i know what they were doing **** IT ALL UP this game is so so so overhyped when i saw the trailer i was amazed on how good the game looked alot of action. And what do we get? **** is what we get the characters in this game are so cliched and badly acted its almost funny aiden pierce isSuch an awful game. So i wonder what ubisoft were doing in those extra months to "Polish" The game? Well i know what they were doing **** IT ALL UP this game is so so so overhyped when i saw the trailer i was amazed on how good the game looked alot of action. And what do we get? **** is what we get the characters in this game are so cliched and badly acted its almost funny aiden pierce is as dull as can be it's like Aiden and Conner from ac3 are related because they are so **** boring i can go watch the ants on the ground and get more entertainment. The gamplay is not the greatest but its alright the cover system is a great feature in the game. I certainly love the whole hacking thing where you can use your phone to stop your pursuers or use for a distraction to slip past guards without knowing. There are these radio tower things which act like assassins creed synchronization points which you have to unlock the tower to be able to access some things that i cant even remember and when get to the box thingy to unlock it you have to play some sort of mingame sometimes which can be very very annoying at times. he multiplayer is pretty fun roaming Chicago with your friends causing mayhem is very fun to do. And holy **** is this game badly optimized for pc! I have the Asus G750JM and this game runs like crap on ultra settings with AA off And Ubisoft has had a history of ****ty pc ports barley and pc optimization. And if you think that watch dogs looks like a ugly game try the Worse mod for watch dogs it makes the game look so much better! So if you are going to go out and buy this game for 60$ dont your wasting your money until ubisoft optimizes this game with patches and makes it less buggy dont buy it!… Expand
  77. Perigorn
    Aug 19, 2014
    4
    I suppose at this point I dont really need to "Pile on" the bad reviews, BUT this game was very disappointing. It has such potential on the PC but fails with all the graphics issues and bugs.
  78. elterifico
    Aug 18, 2014
    3
    I had hope whit AC Black Flag and Far Cry 3, but it seems Ubisoft needed to rape PC gamers one more time...

    Graphics optimization is **** PC version is not at all what we should expect from a PC game.
  79. darkknight1577
    Aug 16, 2014
    1
    This game makes me mad . Bad graphics , unoptimized , and stupid NPC .Why i can't run this game even on high settings with my R9 290x OC it crashed after 5-10 minutes and there are so much glitches and bugs . Worst game on PC
  80. MooseSpoon
    Aug 15, 2014
    4
    I'm generally a fan of Ubisoft. Splinter cell and Assassin's creed have recently wowed me so I decided to give this game a try. I saw the reveal and demo for this and it looked amazing. I liked the idea of a vigilante character dishing out his own justice because of some vendetta. Enter Aiden Pearce.

    The graphics, though less than I expected were good. The open landscape and    I'm generally a fan of Ubisoft. Splinter cell and Assassin's creed have recently wowed me so I decided to give this game a try. I saw the reveal and demo for this and it looked amazing. I liked the idea of a vigilante character dishing out his own justice because of some vendetta. Enter Aiden Pearce.

    The graphics, though less than I expected were good. The open landscape and architecture gave me enough of a feeling of chicago although it is quite hard to compare to the real thing. The cars, though unlicensed nonsense names, were neat. The weapons were interesting enough. People having real conversations was great. The idea of hyper connectivity and the flaws of technology was a great idea. Hacking though oversimplified was mild fun.

    However, I found some things rather disturbing...

    Driving. An open world game like this has driving. Great. I hate driving. In watch dogs I often found myself choosing to run or take a train rather than drive. If I did drive, I often found myself drinking myself to blackout because it was dreadful. Every vehicle has three speeds: stop, go, and reverse. That is all. There is no driving like a normal person. Tap the accelerator and the tires squeal. I like that for when I have to get going quickly for chases, but that is it. Vehicle handling was so bad I felt like it was a government concept. Turning was often difficult unless you came to a dead stop at each intersection. You can't do that when someone is driving away from you and has a two hundred meter head start.

    Stealth. Considering I'm a big fan of Splinter Cell and Assassin's creed, I figured there would be an element of stealth and I was not wrong. However, stealth is limited to sitting in a corner while you step away from the PC to take care of something. Very few weapons are silenced. Enemies often found ways to walk on top of you and call for help. This frustrated me deeply as going loud and proud generally lead to death.

    Survival. I never noticed an actual health bar, but that is fine. I felt you were often gunned down way to quickly. An enemy with a basic bullet resistant vest can somehow live through a full magazine without being knocked down but being shot at for three seconds was the end for me. I understand the character doesn't wear armor but this is ludicrous. Even more so on missions where your target is in the middle of a five vehicle motorcade with heavily armed guards.

    Online. Dreadful. Annoying. Not balanced.

    Citizens. I cannot count the times citizens actually ran in front of my vehicle or stood in the middle of the road when I was driving. Even more bothersome was how some people would see my weapon from the next city block and call the police on me.

    Character development. More of it or any development at all would have been nice. Aiden's past and present felt disconnected. His contacts often made no sense. A romance with Clara would have been nice.

    I could go on for a while. Instead, I will leave it at the game had amazing potential. Sadly, that potential was not reached or even glanced at. I will finish the game as I tend to dislike not finishing things I start. I'm disappointed in Ubisoft. Instead of a dynamic story with thrilling action, we got a flat story with a shaky plot. This is not the quality I expect from Ubisoft. If I were them, I would be ashamed my name was on this.    … Expand
  81. SimpleGamer
    Aug 11, 2014
    4
    The game was supposed to be one of the best games of 2014 but the game disappointed me big time. The graphics were okay but it downgraded a lot from the e3 2012. For me the stealth part was really boring after a few hours. It just got repetitive. The voice of Aiden sounds like Batman and the main character doesn't have much of a personality. The storyline is pretty bad. It's just about aThe game was supposed to be one of the best games of 2014 but the game disappointed me big time. The graphics were okay but it downgraded a lot from the e3 2012. For me the stealth part was really boring after a few hours. It just got repetitive. The voice of Aiden sounds like Batman and the main character doesn't have much of a personality. The storyline is pretty bad. It's just about a guy named Aiden who's daughter was killed because of his hacking for money. But he decides to keep on hacking things and trying to get revenge on the guy who ordered a guy to kill Aiden's daughter. I mean, that's it. Also, when i decided to take a break from the story and decided to do some side missions and activities. The side missions were all just stealthing and hacking. (which got boring after a few times of doing the same thing) There weren't many good activities either. (Except for the phone games.) So I DON'T recommend this game. Just get gta 5.… Expand
  82. rudiedirkx
    Aug 9, 2014
    2
    The 'hacking' is horrible, the health/hurt is horrible, the driving and cars are horrible. After a while, everything's the boring same. The AR mini games are fun, thank god for those, but only once or twice. The problem isn't just not living up to the enormous hype, it's just not a good game. The story is ridiculous and I can't help but HATE the very self absorbed, annoying main character.The 'hacking' is horrible, the health/hurt is horrible, the driving and cars are horrible. After a while, everything's the boring same. The AR mini games are fun, thank god for those, but only once or twice. The problem isn't just not living up to the enormous hype, it's just not a good game. The story is ridiculous and I can't help but HATE the very self absorbed, annoying main character. Zero replay value.… Expand
  83. Dralidan
    Aug 1, 2014
    2
    There's hardly anything good about this game. The AI is absolutely horrid, the hacking isn't even all that interesting, and nearly all of the missions are the same. It's kinda fun for about 2 hours, but then things get repetitive. The city isn't that interesting and doesn't look that good either. It's a good game to pick up if you manage to find it for $5 or less.
  84. Pushistick
    Jul 23, 2014
    0
    One of the most boring games i've ever played. Primitive and boring story, boring hacking, repetitive and uninteresting missions, boring characters. Very poor optimization. Very bad physics.
    If you want to have wasted $47 - buy it.
  85. Dareviewer12
    Jul 22, 2014
    4
    this game is dumb and not next gen AT ALL
    -it is completely downgraded form GTA 4
    -worst physics ever
    -stupid reputation system
    -no encrypted data mode on 360/PS3
    -hacks get boring
    - missions are so repetitive
    - and graphics have been downgraded from the e3 2012
    EVEN GTA SA IS BETTER THAN THIS. DONT BUY IT
  86. Sinuage
    Jul 22, 2014
    0
    Game could be decent, no where near 2014 AAA standards. Pretty far from it actually. Ubi will burn for this one, such a bad PC port when PC was supposed to be the lead platform. Many users on high end rigs are still waiting for optimization patch from UBI. As other reviews have said some people are dumb and don't know how to use their computers. However that user is on a 660 and there areGame could be decent, no where near 2014 AAA standards. Pretty far from it actually. Ubi will burn for this one, such a bad PC port when PC was supposed to be the lead platform. Many users on high end rigs are still waiting for optimization patch from UBI. As other reviews have said some people are dumb and don't know how to use their computers. However that user is on a 660 and there are no issues with that card. Easy to say it is user issue when your card isn't one that has issues. Cards in the 700 series and especially the 780 ti and titan are having issues.

    Such a fail game.    … Expand
  87. Shpongle
    Jul 22, 2014
    0
    Abysmal performance for a game that looks nothing like what we were shown two YEARS ago. The game play is original and intriguing however it's impossible to enjoy it when the game stutters like Jimmy Vulmer. The driving mechanics are even worse than GTA IV and the "Ultra Quality" reflections are still the same pre-rendered crap but with a higher resolution texture. Even with a GTX 780 ti IAbysmal performance for a game that looks nothing like what we were shown two YEARS ago. The game play is original and intriguing however it's impossible to enjoy it when the game stutters like Jimmy Vulmer. The driving mechanics are even worse than GTA IV and the "Ultra Quality" reflections are still the same pre-rendered crap but with a higher resolution texture. Even with a GTX 780 ti I get stutters that range anywhere from .1 seconds to a ridiculous 3 seconds along with textures that flicker through walls. The stuttering occurs even more frequently when driving fast which only adds on to the horrible driving mechanics. I've tried downclocking everything and I've tried the latest WHQL and Beta drivers to no avail. Two months after release and they still haven't fixed the stuttering. What a joke, Ubisoft. Too bad we're the butt of that joke. If you haven't bought the game yet, don't. Even for $5 this game isn't worth it with all of it's atrocious performance issues.… Expand
  88. E71
    Jul 22, 2014
    1
    Very poorly optimized for PC:

    - It doesn't allow binding of certain keys (backspace, enter, pgup, pgdn, etc) so if you're an old-school gamer using arrow keys, you may need to resort to clumsy solutions like AHK (allows you to rebind but it won't change in-game on-screen prompts). - Runs poorly even on high-end systems with the most annoying stuttering (sinuous frame rate). Tested    Very poorly optimized for PC:

    - It doesn't allow binding of certain keys (backspace, enter, pgup, pgdn, etc) so if you're an old-school gamer using arrow keys, you may need to resort to clumsy solutions like AHK (allows you to rebind but it won't change in-game on-screen prompts).

    - Runs poorly even on high-end systems with the most annoying stuttering (sinuous frame rate). Tested both "High" and "Ultra" @ 1080p on a Core i7-3770K with 32GB DDR3 memory, R9 290 4GB GPU, HW RAIDED SSDs, felt like my computer was seriously outdated.

    - Uninnovative control scheme... One too many individual binds. For example, the cover system is a frustratingly awkward mess -- press one key to take cover, another to exit?! Why not a single key for both, like Mass Effect 3's cover system? This is only made worse by the inability to bind other keys in that area of the keyboard...

    - Forced (negative) mouse acceleration... when you're trying to "fine aim" the crosshairs at your target, it feels like you're moving your mouse in thick mud. The GamerProfile.xml "fix" doesn't really help that.

    - Can't adjust/change mouse wheel up/down ("next weapon"/"previous weapon"). I use the mouse wheel too but I need it inverted.

    At least it never crashed on me, for which I give it 1 point out of 10.

    All in all, games are supposed to be fun but I experienced frustration for much of the play through so...

    TRY HARDER UBISOFT!!    … Expand
  89. Kittensausage
    Jul 20, 2014
    2
    This game is the reason nobody should trust the hype. The game could have been so much more, but it turned out to be simply awful. Here's why :

    The game looks like a AAA game from two or three years ago. Some people often compare it to another GTA-like with a neat but underdeveloped gimmick that also happens to have "dogs" in its name... And that also happens to look better. However,    This game is the reason nobody should trust the hype. The game could have been so much more, but it turned out to be simply awful. Here's why :

    The game looks like a AAA game from two or three years ago. Some people often compare it to another GTA-like with a neat but underdeveloped gimmick that also happens to have "dogs" in its name... And that also happens to look better. However, the optimization was left to two starving interns to do and the game suffers from every optimization problem you could imagine : a whole lot of input lag, a huge memory leak on most configs, lots of stutter, terrible FPS even at the lowest settings, no DX9 support...

    The game itself is an average GTA-like built around a gimmick that is very limited in use. Whereas the game could have been an open-world Hitman with lots and lots of ways to get around an enemy or kill them directly using your environment as a weapon, most of the hacking is either mandatory or unnecessary (because a run and gun approach is just much simpler). You can't use a combination of hacks to kill an enemy (say, reversing the escalators time and time again to make him panic before he decides to take the elevator that you then proceed to drop a few hundred feet). It just ends up feeling like an other way of killing civilians when you get bored looking at the amazing trench coats physics.

    It's overall a very shallow game with a badly integrated gimmick that is just gonna end being a dumb franchise that will slowly die off.    … Expand
  90. deweee
    Jul 20, 2014
    4
    While first impression of the game makes it look like a rip-off of GTA IV, side missions an arcade games makes it a little bit fun. But that fun ends when game becomes unbelievably repetitive. Also story is not fun after couple missions, hacking is absurdly easy. AI is not fun to play with. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS GAME.
  91. uforoboso
    Jul 19, 2014
    1
    Ok, I am giving a 1. The game itself is rubbish. Except 2 things: 1) the graphics. The city is awesome, it is a pleasure to randomly wander around and discover all the nice places. it's much better than GTA V for this aspect, and I even did not have tech issues to run it at ultra even on a poor 660M GPU. 2) a few of the missions (and side activities) are actually good, the ones where youOk, I am giving a 1. The game itself is rubbish. Except 2 things: 1) the graphics. The city is awesome, it is a pleasure to randomly wander around and discover all the nice places. it's much better than GTA V for this aspect, and I even did not have tech issues to run it at ultra even on a poor 660M GPU. 2) a few of the missions (and side activities) are actually good, the ones where you have to use strategy, hacks and stealth to get to the objective. All the rest.. is just a pain in the a**, and you can't skip it. So.. I think you should actually play this, but only when it's 80% discounted on Steam, as there is so much good stuff in life than this game (even other games, for instance).… Expand
  92. TheAlgerian
    Jul 18, 2014
    4
    I really have a hard time understanding how anyone could think this game is anywhere near good.
    I gave it a try twice, one or two months appart. One after intensively playing "Volgarr The Viking", a magnificient old school arcade game, and one after beating "Max Payne 3" several times.
    Watch dogs looked already pretty bad the first time, but after "Max Payne 3", wow. If the driving    I really have a hard time understanding how anyone could think this game is anywhere near good.
    I gave it a try twice, one or two months appart. One after intensively playing "Volgarr The Viking", a magnificient old school arcade game, and one after beating "Max Payne 3" several times.
    Watch dogs looked already pretty bad the first time, but after "Max Payne 3", wow.
    If the driving looks horrendous by itself, the gunplay is really put to shame by this game. And it really didn't even need MP3 for that.

    Ubisoft should stop with the lazyness and the re-branding of their Assassin's Creed games.
    They should, will they though? No. Why would they? They still manage somehow to trick a lot of people into thinking their game is good and still manage to make money out of it.    … Expand
  93. triplex01
    Jul 17, 2014
    0
    1) The most over hyped game ever? Yes, it is! 2) Next Gen graphics? No, it is not here. 3) Realistic physics? LOL, physics is the same as in Sleeping Dogs. 4) Interesting story? No, the story is very boring and full of clichés. 5) This game is good polished? No, it's not. Bugs and glitches everywhere! 6) Interesting missions? No, they are not. There are just boring and1) The most over hyped game ever? Yes, it is! 2) Next Gen graphics? No, it is not here. 3) Realistic physics? LOL, physics is the same as in Sleeping Dogs. 4) Interesting story? No, the story is very boring and full of clichés. 5) This game is good polished? No, it's not. Bugs and glitches everywhere! 6) Interesting missions? No, they are not. There are just boring and repetitive. 7) This game is well optimized for the PC? No, damn it! It is a console port! Bad console port! This is one of the most poorly optimized games!
    Conclusion: 0/10
    Ubisoft fu*ked us. Again.    … Expand
  94. chazmire
    Jul 15, 2014
    3
    I got a quest to stop a villain. I was told I would get extra credit for not killing him. I thought to myself "This is an advanced game, surely it has some kind of advanced body targeting." I shot him in the calf...he kept running completely unhindered...I shot him in the calf again...he fell over dead. I stopped playing the game. Just one example of unrealisticness that ruins games forI got a quest to stop a villain. I was told I would get extra credit for not killing him. I thought to myself "This is an advanced game, surely it has some kind of advanced body targeting." I shot him in the calf...he kept running completely unhindered...I shot him in the calf again...he fell over dead. I stopped playing the game. Just one example of unrealisticness that ruins games for me. Add to this all the other bugs and lameness and you get a pretty lame game....but I guess hacking was kinda cool for the first 4 minutes.… Expand
  95. mwak
    Jul 15, 2014
    4
    This is not a very bad game. It's just like if the developers tried to make something and then switched to make something else. There are plenty of things to do but nothing feels like it's completed. For example the cars physics are terrible but the crs acceleration feelings are great. The background story seems deep but the campaign scenario and the characters are so B-movie like ... InThis is not a very bad game. It's just like if the developers tried to make something and then switched to make something else. There are plenty of things to do but nothing feels like it's completed. For example the cars physics are terrible but the crs acceleration feelings are great. The background story seems deep but the campaign scenario and the characters are so B-movie like ... In fact nothing intends you to stay in the game, it's not serious, it's not funny, it's repetitive. Passed the 3 first hours of fun and discovery you will be bored.
    The most impressive is the city, it's big, but yet you don't fell atracted to play in it. The game felt a little like "infamous" for me but really more boring.
    There are some good ideas (the prison for example) but yet ... it's only some minutes of fun in hours of game ...
    Moreover if you want to play an ethical hacker forget about it, you will take gun and shoot people ... ho and the police doesn't care, so ...
    This game is a good concept, had a very impressive commercial team and finally is disappointing.
    Buy it when it will be around 20/30$ else is too much expensive.    … Expand
  96. TheBlastPassage
    Jul 14, 2014
    3
    At first seemed like an amazing concept, but was disappointing and poorly executed. I really looked forward to this game but it failed to deliver.

    The NPCs aren't that great
    The vehicle physics feel very clunky and off
    The game feels quite boring and fails to grip the player
  97. ogower
    Jul 13, 2014
    4
    This game looks pretty good but that is about where the positives end for me. I wanted to like this but after playing the Saints Row and GTA games I found this lacking. The cut scenes are long and dull, the back story daft and out of context with a lot of things the character does and the missions and core game concepts are poorly explained, poorly executed and ultimately just pureThis game looks pretty good but that is about where the positives end for me. I wanted to like this but after playing the Saints Row and GTA games I found this lacking. The cut scenes are long and dull, the back story daft and out of context with a lot of things the character does and the missions and core game concepts are poorly explained, poorly executed and ultimately just pure frustrating. Nothing is fun, not driving, shooting, stealth, any part. I find myself playing this because it looks amazing before quitting in annoyance. As a last point, U-Play...why? Just go with Steam and make it so much easier.… Expand
  98. domadordepollos
    Jul 13, 2014
    3
    THIS LOOKS AMAZING! in the trailer ;)
    Graphics are sincerely dreadful, unfinished edges, unpolished textures... lacking detail.
    Its true that you can hack, but its not worth for the 60 bucks you spend on it.
  99. BoltarCavanaugh
    Jul 12, 2014
    0
    The story and the characters are made on a OK-quality level, the graphics are OK too, the gameplay is working, so are the mechanics. Its a bit like GTA, but in a hippster-dress. There are some annoying bugs and the physics are just..funny.
  100. lolmaster3267
    Jul 11, 2014
    0
    Hmm........Needs MoreHmm........Needs More Dogs................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................… Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 10 out of 18
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  1. Pelit (Finland)
    Sep 3, 2014
    79
    Ubisoft's flagship title has a really, really repulsive protagonist. The entire storyline feels like it was cranked out of a automated story generator. On the positive side, Watch Dogs looks really good on PC, especially after modding the graphics to match the visual splendor of the early E3 demos. [Aug 2014]
  2. PC PowerPlay
    Jun 29, 2014
    70
    There are some strong gameplay elements in Watch Dogs, but overall it's merely an adequate open world game. [July 2014, p.46]
  3. GameCritics
    Jun 23, 2014
    80
    Nothing could have realistically lived up to the immense level of hype that Ubisoft stirred up for this game, and while I value strong narratives and envelope-pushing technological advancements, I place just as much importance in the ability to enjoy the gameplay that's being offered to me. Watch Dogs is one of the more exciting sandbox games of the last few years, and if this is to become Ubisoft's next big franchise, I'm excited to see where they take it.
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