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
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  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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