Watch Dogs

 PC
User Score
6.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 5182 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,662 out of 5182
  2. Mixed: 913 out of 5182
  3. Negative: 1,607 out of 5182
Buy Now
Buy on

Review this game

  1. Your Score
    0 out of 10
    Rate this:
    • 10
    • 9
    • 8
    • 7
    • 6
    • 5
    • 4
    • 3
    • 2
    • 1
    • 0
    • 0
  1. Submit
  2. Check Spelling
view
per page
  1. semperfi1503
    May 27, 2014
    2
    All in all, this is a freaking abomination. The graphics looks nothing like the 2012 trailer, with all the poor texture and visual effects. Hell, they said that this game's engine got some parts of Assassin's Creed IV and FarCry 3's visual combined, but I'd rather play FarCry 3 or Assassin's Creed IV for better visuals. Also, the driving mechanic is a huge train wreck that I'd rather walkAll in all, this is a freaking abomination. The graphics looks nothing like the 2012 trailer, with all the poor texture and visual effects. Hell, they said that this game's engine got some parts of Assassin's Creed IV and FarCry 3's visual combined, but I'd rather play FarCry 3 or Assassin's Creed IV for better visuals. Also, the driving mechanic is a huge train wreck that I'd rather walk or run most of the time. The acceleration and turning performance is super sensitive that it's so hard to drive straight. And the cover system, I love that I could stick myself to any piece of cover I could find and then switch cover quite easily. But press C to enter cover and press V to leave cover?? What the hell is that? Ubisoft has released many games utilizing cover mechanic, and some worked really nicely and here I thought they would have taken adventage of that, but no. And the main event - hacking is needless to say, disappointing. All you have to do is press and hold one single button on your keyboard and "boom!", whatever you were aiming to hack is taken care of. No deep hacking mechanic whatsoever although it was the one thing Ubisoft has been talking about a whole lot. And performance is also a pain in the ass. When I first played this game, it reminded me of Total War Rome II on its release. It's just so bad...all around.… Expand
  2. Cepheid46e2
    May 27, 2014
    2
    i7 4930k OC 4.6
    780ti OC 1300 on Water
    ASUS Black motherboard 32GB 2100 RAM Now if you'll note my computer specs above you'll see that I am WELL above what's recommended for the game and yet it's still unplayable. On a single monitor FPS drops down to 20-30FPS (major hitching, game looks like **** even with these low FPS and unable to connect to any multiplayer functions) which is    i7 4930k OC 4.6
    780ti OC 1300 on Water
    ASUS Black motherboard
    32GB 2100 RAM

    Now if you'll note my computer specs above you'll see that I am WELL above what's recommended for the game and yet it's still unplayable. On a single monitor FPS drops down to 20-30FPS (major hitching, game looks like **** even with these low FPS and unable to connect to any multiplayer functions) which is sad because consoles (with lower specs) get 30FPS. All I can say is that I will NEVER, ****ING EVER buy a Ubisoft game again. I was even looking forward to the Snowdrop engine and "The Division" but it's obviously smoke and mirrors the same as Watchdogs. Ubisoft is apparently competing with EA for worst software company in the world. This must be their DRM tactic, make games unplayable so nobody will pirate them. Good riddance.

    Game is also very boring with predictable and dumb AI.

    /goodbye Ubisoft    … Expand
  3. monxide
    May 28, 2014
    2
    So, i bought PC verison of Watch Dogs, but i barely able to launch it on high-end spec - uplay connection issues, multiple crashes to desktop within first 10 minutes of play, weird tooltip symbols while using localization - that game simply is not worth it.
  4. victorator
    May 28, 2014
    0
    Repetitive, too easy, boooring. Lots of technical issues. Skip this title. It was overhyped and it is a sh itty GTA wannabe clone that doesn't come close to the original. Boycott ubisoft.
  5. Ulysse
    May 27, 2014
    2
    A des années lumières des promesses faites à l'E3 2012, en plus d'être assez moche, le jeu est injouable sur PC, que celui ci soit puissant ou non. Le gameplay est finalement assez basique : un GTA like avec un bouton A pour pirater et influencer un peu l'environnement. Le scénario est aux fraises chantillis et n'a finalement rien pour lui, seuls restent les bruitages et le doublageA des années lumières des promesses faites à l'E3 2012, en plus d'être assez moche, le jeu est injouable sur PC, que celui ci soit puissant ou non. Le gameplay est finalement assez basique : un GTA like avec un bouton A pour pirater et influencer un peu l'environnement. Le scénario est aux fraises chantillis et n'a finalement rien pour lui, seuls restent les bruitages et le doublage anglais d'assez bonne facture.
    Rien que le fait d'avoir menti aux joueurs me déçoit énormément d'Ubisoft, mais le jeu n'est au final meme pas fun a jouer et c'est encore plus regrettable, dommage car l'ambiance et le trip des premières annonces avait de quoi faire un jeu phénoménal/    … Expand
  6. kryator
    May 27, 2014
    4
    No feeling in this game, its doesn't pull you, everything around you feels detached, the driving is bad, mini-games are boring and after a couple of hours you're really bored. For example AC 4 was much more fun that this. This game is only worth with a discont of 75% or more.
  7. nidvar
    May 31, 2014
    0
    It is a smaller version of GTA 4 with the ability to hack traffic lights and set off circuit explosions on the side of the street.

    Getting a bridge to rise and fall does not mean hacking a city. You can hack people but those 'people' are just randomly generated profiles that have no real significance. The city looks beautiful but you cannot enter into 98% of buildings so it is    It is a smaller version of GTA 4 with the ability to hack traffic lights and set off circuit explosions on the side of the street.

    Getting a bridge to rise and fall does not mean hacking a city.

    You can hack people but those 'people' are just randomly generated profiles that have no real significance.

    The city looks beautiful but you cannot enter into 98% of buildings so it is just a nice view.

    Enjoy 5 minutes of playing with traffic lights.    … Expand
  8. TheGhost001
    May 29, 2014
    4
    Bad GTA clone that does very few things right.

    -Super bad optimization (2500 dollar pc, cant get above 40fps maxed out) -Insane amount of bugs and glitches, youtube it I dare you -Cars feel like they are toys with 0 character -Hacking is fun for about 10 minutes -No rewards what so ever for playing stealth and non lethal (in fact you get no exp at all compared to just mowing down    Bad GTA clone that does very few things right.

    -Super bad optimization (2500 dollar pc, cant get above 40fps maxed out)
    -Insane amount of bugs and glitches, youtube it I dare you
    -Cars feel like they are toys with 0 character
    -Hacking is fun for about 10 minutes
    -No rewards what so ever for playing stealth and non lethal (in fact you get no exp at all compared to just mowing down everything with an assault rifle and raking in massive exp)
    -Cover system is very poorly presented and if you hack the enemies cameras you can even see that 50% of your body is sticking out but they just walk by.
    -All in all poorly programmed Ai
    Massive letdown and got bored playing it after just 3 hours.    … Expand
  9. Lysh
    May 30, 2014
    4
    Basically GTA: Near Future Edition, with a some ideas borrowed from AssCreed and Dark Souls series. Unfortunately the much hyped 'hacking' is basically an afterthought. Not an entirely bad game, but disappointing.
  10. phukubi
    May 28, 2014
    0
    Not a Review, more of a warning. If you are one of the large amount of gameplayers who have noticed the decline of quality with ubisoft titles(happening since Chaos Theory & GRAW, when Ghost Recon was tactical and the Tom Clancy name meant something), your concerns are warranted. Ubisoft ONLY make nice videos of products they can only dream of making. Stop being burned by this company
  11. Klun
    May 27, 2014
    0
    Watch Bugs 60$

    I was so hyped for this game and its so bad and broken that im going to roll back the charge on my cc. I upgrade my old card for a r9 290x and i cant pass beyond 30 fps in high setting, so i can only say that this game is highly highly unoptimized or its probably another lame/console port. If you want to put ports do it right or at least don't rob people with 60$    Watch Bugs 60$

    I was so hyped for this game and its so bad and broken that im going to roll back the charge on my cc.

    I upgrade my old card for a r9 290x and i cant pass beyond 30 fps in high setting, so i can only say that this game is highly highly unoptimized or its probably another lame/console port. If you want to put ports do it right or at least don't rob people with 60$ for this buggy piece of trash.

    In short bugs bugs and more bugs.
    Game features are lame and get old quick.
    Awful Ai
    Did i mention the bugs ? dont pay for this joke... time to talk with my bank ...    … Expand
  12. user82
    May 27, 2014
    4
    Story: Actually the best thing about the game. Complex enough to be a little unpredictable, simple enough to follow
    Controls: Walking and going into cover works well, Aiming is unprecise
    Graphics: Medium at best, nothing fancy Free Roam: Very Repetitive Other: Buggy and laggy, not enjoyable at all on a system better than recommended specs Total: While the concept of hacking and the    Story: Actually the best thing about the game. Complex enough to be a little unpredictable, simple enough to follow
    Controls: Walking and going into cover works well, Aiming is unprecise
    Graphics: Medium at best, nothing fancy
    Free Roam: Very Repetitive
    Other: Buggy and laggy, not enjoyable at all on a system better than recommended specs
    Total: While the concept of hacking and the story are ok, the experience diminishes due to the poor performance and the poor graphics in daylight.    … Expand
  13. hein
    May 29, 2014
    0
    General Problems: Problems with ubisoft servers, problems connecting to them, problems just logging in...problems just logging in...problems just logging in...PROBLEMS F****** LOGGING IN...
  14. macishiryu
    May 27, 2014
    0
    They must be kidding. So much hype on this game visuals and no crossfire support?? Texture flickering? No Dynamic lightning? Static shadows? And the textures, were made in 2005? The game sttuters like hell. The fps goes down from 60 to 11 in 1 second. Same in AMD 14.6 beta driver. Remind me Assassins Creed 3 optimation.

    Only two police models. The helicopter and the generic vehicle.    They must be kidding. So much hype on this game visuals and no crossfire support?? Texture flickering? No Dynamic lightning? Static shadows? And the textures, were made in 2005? The game sttuters like hell. The fps goes down from 60 to 11 in 1 second. Same in AMD 14.6 beta driver. Remind me Assassins Creed 3 optimation.

    Only two police models. The helicopter and the generic vehicle. Many bugs and stupid AI. Very repetitive.

    The game is mediocre at best.    … Expand
  15. estoufarto
    May 30, 2014
    4
    Worst pre-order ive ever spent money on i was truly disappointed, i could not believe that this much hype and 4 or 5 years of development plus 8 months delay would end up in this unpolished, unfinished and sub-par game. But i want to be fair so it gets 4/10 it pissed me off more then i enjoyed it.
  16. FogCityRoller
    May 27, 2014
    0
    I'm an NVIDIA user and I still hate this game. It's another boring, derivative entry in the Rockstar library of games for 15 year olds. I'm not going to pull out my nerd card and crap on this game's sad presentation of hacking. I mean come on, even Titanfall's "hacking" is minimized to a knife being jammed into a computer's circuit. Who really gives a crap if the hacking is accuratelyI'm an NVIDIA user and I still hate this game. It's another boring, derivative entry in the Rockstar library of games for 15 year olds. I'm not going to pull out my nerd card and crap on this game's sad presentation of hacking. I mean come on, even Titanfall's "hacking" is minimized to a knife being jammed into a computer's circuit. Who really gives a crap if the hacking is accurately portrayed. The bottom line is the story is boring, the characters are uninspired, and the hype/advertising this game received was WAY beyond measure. It falls flat on its face. Thank god I got this game for free with my new card, not that I would have paid for it anyway. Avoid this poop.… Expand
  17. Hydrus
    May 28, 2014
    0
    This is unacceptable. The game doesn't even start! It's not a problem of my computer, the issue is common among many gamers on Ubisoft forums. And this isn't the first time neither.
    Really, someone at Ubisoft needs to be fired. As soon as possible.
  18. Ihuarraquax
    Jun 2, 2014
    4
    Watch Dogs looks pretty nice only when in the game is rainy night. Reflections of lights and buildings are really awesome. Everything else is awful. Unplayable type of driving cars and cars are indestructible. AI is extremely stupid. This game is full of bugs. I don't recommend Watch Dogs.
  19. Repulsive
    May 28, 2014
    0
    his game deserves a 4-5/10 at most, the city feels so damn lifeless, the car physics are worse than Sega racing games from the 90's, the story is generic at best, the characters are poor, its dumbed down, the hacking is done with just a tap of a button not in depth hacking like Ubisoft said there'd be, the 'hacking' (pressing a single button) while fun for 20 minutes or so just feels likehis game deserves a 4-5/10 at most, the city feels so damn lifeless, the car physics are worse than Sega racing games from the 90's, the story is generic at best, the characters are poor, its dumbed down, the hacking is done with just a tap of a button not in depth hacking like Ubisoft said there'd be, the 'hacking' (pressing a single button) while fun for 20 minutes or so just feels like a tacked on gimmick, the visuals are bland, the animations are horrible, the AI is terrible, the game is CHOCK full of bugs, the pop-in is insanely terrible even on PC and last but not least Uplay. They pretty much lied to their customers through false advertising and what they delivered was FAAAAAAAAAR from what they promised. Remember it was Ubisoft that set the bar. The fact that they lied gives this an instant zero.… Expand
  20. nlmike
    May 31, 2014
    0
    Just a call to metacritic to try and stop these very obvious FAKE reviews to try and get the score to a positive number. people are pissed of because we are getting RIPPED OFF yet again by the likes of Ubisoft

    I am beyond rage about these horrible media campaigns and the unfortunatly expected crappy console ports. What a bad day for gamers.
  21. MidnightsFX
    May 27, 2014
    4
    Leading up to watch dogs I was very excited to see a hacking game which would allow you to interact with a huge portion of the world. After playing for four hours I am thoroughly disappointed. Here is a quick break down of what I noticed.

    Pros: - The world is generally very detailed, which is great for a feeling of immersion. - The Skill tree does open up a number of new options for    Leading up to watch dogs I was very excited to see a hacking game which would allow you to interact with a huge portion of the world. After playing for four hours I am thoroughly disappointed. Here is a quick break down of what I noticed.

    Pros:
    - The world is generally very detailed, which is great for a feeling of immersion.
    - The Skill tree does open up a number of new options for your approach.
    - There is a good amount of variety in the missions available to play, but mimics Saints or GTA.
    - There is a distinct lack of obnoxious mini-games, which for a hacking eccentric game, is nice.

    Cons:
    - Within the first 20 minutes, you will notice the driving is absolutely god-awful, it gets a little better, but every car feels like driving a tug-boat on wheels with balded tires and an super sensitive gas pedal.
    - The skill tree is pretty disappointing, it opens up new options, but nothing is going to make you go "Ohh! that is so cool!" Its more like, "whoooh I can open gates now..."
    - The side missions, are either super freaking easy, or uncontrollably hard and obnoxious, but not the challenging hard you would get from playing dark souls, no its the challenge you get by having dial-up when playing BF4.
    - The hacking is all press and hold, which is a little too simplistic, and excessively boring, there is no simulated or other 'hacking' in the game. Just a simple mini-game to build a hacking program or hack complex devices would of been nice.

    And the controversial one.
    - Its not optimized for **** My friends who have Nvidia cards are able to run the game fine, assuming 2G of Vram and 8G+ of ram. However, having an AMD card, I can't run the game past low, even though I can run all of the other recent games at high or very high... This would be due to Nividias 'Gameworks' Libraries. Personally, if Ubisoft chooses to use this library which employs some nasty tricks I will not be buying those games, even if I end up having an Nividia card. I would like to support a competitive market.    … Expand
  22. incarno
    May 28, 2014
    0
    Verbosity aside, don't believe the hype.

    I'll put it concisely: it's nigh-impossible to get running and to get running well (I have a GTX Titan and a monster processor; 'nough said), its story is neurotypical revenge flick fare, its driving is just **** neurotic overall (think of driving in DarkRP, but double the rage inducing factor), hacking is a wishy washy gimmick that gets stale    Verbosity aside, don't believe the hype.

    I'll put it concisely: it's nigh-impossible to get running and to get running well (I have a GTX Titan and a monster processor; 'nough said), its story is neurotypical revenge flick fare, its driving is just **** neurotic overall (think of driving in DarkRP, but double the rage inducing factor), hacking is a wishy washy gimmick that gets stale after the first few car pileups and random explosions, gameplay is poorly optimized (mouse sensitivity as well as mouse smoothing is just wack, and there's no way to modify it in game, but it's easily mended with some edits to the .xml file), and combat overall is actually not fun at all, even with strong auto aim on, AND with the mouse fixes. AI is just plainly and simply completely down syndrome ridden, even on hard, and the NSA-esque digital prying becomes irking and never gets any funnier than stupid allusions to NPCs' sexual preferences. The only mildly entertaining character here was the azn with the funny hair, and even he wears thin quickly. Textures pop in and out constantly, yet this is merely a tidbit of what I've been hearing about the more common technical difficulties my brethren have been experiencing (RANDOM CRASHING; need I say more?).

    And the worst aspect of it all: even on Ultra with every setting cranked up to the max, the game looks NOTHING like the E3 2012 tech demo that we've been salivating over for 2 years. We were brokered a fairy tale by snake oil salesmen, yet again. When will we learn?    … Expand
  23. GamingApple
    May 29, 2014
    0
    I bought the game, on the release day things went bad.

    Uplay site was horrible to get on, lags and unable to connect. Took me 1 day to try and download "Uplay" and the download was corrupted. Then i restarted and tried again. Then finally after 5 hours i could "start up the game" but when i tried to play CRASH I had 5 crashed before i could even go further then the intro movies.    I bought the game, on the release day things went bad.

    Uplay site was horrible to get on, lags and unable to connect.
    Took me 1 day to try and download "Uplay" and the download was corrupted.
    Then i restarted and tried again.

    Then finally after 5 hours i could "start up the game" but when i tried to play CRASH

    I had 5 crashed before i could even go further then the intro movies. And you can't skip.
    After awhile I could but then CRASH.

    I gave up and tried to do everything possible to fix it. Re-download, install all drivers etc.

    Still no luck, this is day 3 and i still can't play this game. 2 of my friends could play it and they say it's horrible. Multi-player takes 1/2 hours before you can invade random people. Then it's broken.
    Game-play issues etc.

    for a game that got delayed for nearly 2 years you would expect them to FIX and bring a STABLE game out. where did 68 Mil $ go? how can a game that cost that much be SO horrible.

    here's a vid about the crash I'm getting

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnThC_6nKVA

    Bad launch, reminds me of Rome 2, Siims city 2013 and X rebirth. BAD and horrible launch. Great PR but did not live up to it's expectation.    … Expand
  24. sapuramura
    May 29, 2014
    3
    No physics!
    Fake dynamic lights!
    Poor/fake reflections in mirrors/glass!
    Boring story!
    Cardboard city and npc's(trying to look alive but it's fake)!
    Too repetitive!
    Hacking in WD isn’t really hacking! More like 80's movie about hacking, witch is just a joke to what hacking really is!

    But good overall concept(poor execution) and fun DRUG missions.
  25. Pier
    Jun 8, 2014
    4
    I can play this game at ultra, but the controls are simply horrible, even after semi fixing the mouse modifying a config file. It doesn't matter how good is the story if you can't play it or the games crashes.
  26. 4demon
    Jun 1, 2014
    3
    I hate this game. I'd love to rate it lower, but technically speaking, it's quite impressive.

    Pros • It's pretty looking • It's quick to load • The story is pretty good... thought admittedly, inconsistent. Cons • Randomly generated elements - This I only noticed when I died. So here's the breakdown. I get on a motorbike, ride over to a building, look around for a camera and    I hate this game. I'd love to rate it lower, but technically speaking, it's quite impressive.

    Pros

    • It's pretty looking
    • It's quick to load
    • The story is pretty good... thought admittedly, inconsistent.

    Cons

    • Randomly generated elements - This I only noticed when I died. So here's the breakdown. I get on a motorbike, ride over to a building, look around for a camera and start the hacking process. I eventually scan the entire mission area, picking up all of the enemies on my HUD. The man at the gate has explosives on him, so I hack that, he blows up, I move onto the next one. At some point, I am spotted, I get shot, and I die.

    So I reload. Suddenly, I'm in a completely different place. I turn around, and I'm stood next to a van. What happened to my bike?!?! Ok, so I hack into the camera, and... darn... I need to scout the area again, as they've all come off of my HUD. Doing this twice gets boring... let alone if you die a lot. So I have everyone in my HUD, hack into the guy by the gate again without paying much attention, only to find out that he no longer carries grenades, but is now distracted by a text message. So yeah, the game randomly chooses these characters. This means that you can't learn by your mistakes, and each mission isn't unique. You're just fighting a random array each time.

    I should point out that this also is the same for some boss fights. The boss will suddenly spawn behind you and kill you, so you reload and take cover somewhere else. Finally, after the boss has finished saying his long LONG monologue for the 5th time, he spawns in again, somewhere random, and all your planning is to waste. Rinse and repeat. DULL!!!

    • Controls - I'm using a gamepad on my PC, so this might be different for others. For me, run is Right Trigger. The thing is, shoot is also right trigger... this starts getting confusing. Also, your character cannot jump on command. He can climb over small obstacles, but that's about it. If you press A, your character will take cover by a wall. Now, this may be my fault, but I'm used to using A to run. So when I'm attacked, I instinctively press A, and my character sticks to a wall, gets shot, dies... and see the point above for what happens next.

    • Next Gen - This is NOT a next gen game. Nothing new is here. It looks worse than GTA5, in my opinion (which I also didn't care much for, I should add). I'm playing on Ultra settings on my PC, and I'm underwhelmed. When cars smash into things, whether they deform appears to be entirely random. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. You can't buy cars, as far as I can tell.

    I just feel as though this game is a poor man's GTA.

    I've just had to shelve it for a while, because I'm fed up with it. My current mission is to chase down a van... however, when I start the mission, it spawns in a random location. I should point out that this is a main campaign mission. I'm confused, because having a randomizing mission is more difficult to program than a pre-set mission. I can't see why on Earth they would do this intentionally. It means that I can't learn from my mistakes, and I can't plan a strategy. I just have to hope for the best each time.

    I've put quite a few hours into this... but I'm not going to waste my time for much longer. I only wish I bought it on a console rather than digitally, as I can't sell it anymore... and oh, how I wish to be rid of it!    … Expand
  27. bjaz
    Jun 2, 2014
    1
    biggest flop game ever
    simply waste of money and time
    gta is way faaaaaarrrrr better than this ****
    i'll play gta sa or 4 again but not this ****
    ubi down after as4 release....
  28. Diablo92
    May 28, 2014
    3
    Why both to buy this? Can't even be played at ultra high settings on a high end pc gaming rig. 8GB of ram are recommended but 6 is needed just to run it. Not as expected, expected a little more fun and the driving feels like crap (its not the lag).

    Whoever pre ordered this and then found out they don't even have enough specs to run it and not as expected should feel bad.
  29. Nexion36
    May 27, 2014
    1
    This game ended up being a total let down. After all the hype it just turned out to be a very unpolished GTA 5 clone. The car handling is terrible, the frame rate drops kill the game, and the open world movement is very boring and uninteresting.

    I'm running 2 gtx770's and a i5-4670k, plenty fast enough for this game and i still get giant frame rate drops at medium settings. This    This game ended up being a total let down. After all the hype it just turned out to be a very unpolished GTA 5 clone. The car handling is terrible, the frame rate drops kill the game, and the open world movement is very boring and uninteresting.

    I'm running 2 gtx770's and a i5-4670k, plenty fast enough for this game and i still get giant frame rate drops at medium settings.

    This game was released unfinished. Take your $60 and go buy Wolfenstien The New Order.    … Expand
  30. Temannopellaria
    May 28, 2014
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Incredible stuttering with i7 2600 k 4.8 ghz,8 gb ram g.skill sniper and msi gtx 690 overclocked 1250 mhz LOL.
    Ubisoft develops games on consoles only please!    … Expand
  31. Jonathan117
    Jun 5, 2014
    4
    Honestly; The biggest waste of money so far this year, also an awful disapointment.
    Pros:
    -Voice Actors are fairly good, although a bit stiff at times. -Hacking works fairly well, even though it is fairly limited to the press of a button and really requires no skill what so ever. -Story is ok, although a bit hard to get into. -Fairly cool mechanism where you can see everyones    Honestly; The biggest waste of money so far this year, also an awful disapointment.
    Pros:
    -Voice Actors are fairly good, although a bit stiff at times.
    -Hacking works fairly well, even though it is fairly limited to the press of a button and really requires no skill what so ever.
    -Story is ok, although a bit hard to get into.
    -Fairly cool mechanism where you can see everyones background by hacking their phone.
    Cons:
    -Performance wise this is the worst I have seen in years (a patch is incoming so this might be addressed)
    -Boring side missions, ''shoot this'', ''identify that'', ''catch that car''. Not. Fun. At. All.
    -Way, way worse graphics than what we originally saw at E3
    -Only a few types of enemies, doesn't help that they are extremely easy to deal with.
    -Lack of customization in every aspect.
    -Skills you can unlock are extremely limited in scope and rarely does anything epic.
    Summary:
    The game seeks to be an original, hacking game. This however failed miserably, the hacking is decent but far from what we expected, pressing a button and ♥♥♥♥ exploding everywhere is only enjoyable for a short time. Other than the hacking this game is pretty much a scaled down version of GTA, Mafia, Saints Row. No customization, few enjoyable weapons, boring vehicles, no interesting character interaction. Want realism, great action, a decent story? Play GTA (Once, if ever, it comes out on PC #RockstarHatesPCgamers. Want fun, a great story and loads of weapons, customization, funny dialogue etc... Play Saints Row. Want a great story, great atmosphere and extremely enjoyable albeit linear gameplay? Play Mafia 2!
    This game is not recommended, waste of 70€, regretting the purchase more every second I think of it.    … Expand
  32. TwwiX
    May 27, 2014
    0
    Sloppy port is sloppy.

    Who cares about eye candy when the game runs and plays like ass? Win7 x64, i7 920 @ 3.8GHz, GTX 660 SC and 6 GB DDR3 Ram Performance has been very inconsistent for me so far. Memory leaks, maybe? Probably. Framerate drops from 80 to practically 0, especially during driving sequences. I've tried various graphics settings. It makes minimal to no ****    Sloppy port is sloppy.

    Who cares about eye candy when the game runs and plays like ass?

    Win7 x64, i7 920 @ 3.8GHz, GTX 660 SC and 6 GB DDR3 Ram

    Performance has been very inconsistent for me so far. Memory leaks, maybe? Probably. Framerate drops from 80 to practically 0, especially during driving sequences. I've tried various graphics settings. It makes minimal to no **** difference. Meanwhile i can run and play graphical, sandbox behemoths like Planetside 2 and Just Cause 2 without any **** hiccups whatsoever. The latter, albeit an older game, looks vastly superior compared to this consolified piece of **** Even on Ultra settings, it's vastly inferior compared to older titles. Anyway. This ****'s unplayable for me in this state. As if the terrible draw distance and constant pop in wasn't annoying enough. The mouse acceleration is less noticeable in-game but it's a pain in the ass when it comes to navigating the games menus. Yes, there's mouse acceleration. That alone is sufficient proof that this is a ****ty port. The car handling is floaty and the controls feel unresponsive. There's quite a delay when making turns and the cars end up sliding all over the place. Can't hit **** without starting to spin out like a carousel. I expected better from Ubisoft Reflections in terms of vehicle handling. As far as i know, they've contributed to the development and worked on the game's car physics. I just hope that they put more care and effort into The Crew than they did into this. It reminds me of the awful car handling of All Points Bulletin. It's as if you are ridding on a sluggish, clunky block of ice regardless of the car's size or type you commandeer. It's just awful. And this is coming from a long time fan of the Driver games. Do i need to even rant about Uplay?

    Good luck even launching the game if you're a ATI/AMD user! That's when happens you reward developers/publishers who are more concerned about the well being of their rich **** financiers than they're about the state of their games or their consumers.

    Downvote away, fanboys and astrosufers!    … Expand
  33. DireMelon
    May 28, 2014
    3
    Very boring missions, terrible car handling and bad performance sums this game up.

    When I played some of the missions I was like uh **** I don't want to do that let me do something fun. When driving the cars they handled horribly. The handling is comparable to that of saints row 3. When driving at high speeds my game would stutter and the game looks ugly as hell on max settings.    Very boring missions, terrible car handling and bad performance sums this game up.

    When I played some of the missions I was like uh **** I don't want to do that let me do something fun.

    When driving the cars they handled horribly. The handling is comparable to that of saints row 3.

    When driving at high speeds my game would stutter and the game looks ugly as hell on max settings.

    Overall don't buy this game. You could obtain it from elsewhere if you want to give it a try.    … Expand
  34. Repression
    Jun 1, 2014
    1
    This game is a huge letdown for what initially looked like the first real "next gen" experience at the E3. In reality this game looks and plays like something out of 2005. I'll give them that the game looks nice in the rain, but apart from this it is a huge letdown.
  35. hayungs
    Jun 4, 2014
    4
    Such a nice game concept so poorly executed. The graphics are nice, but not optimized and laggy. The Gameplay is repetive and over simplified. After a few hours of gameplay you are just frustrated with all the lost potential.
  36. Kategaru
    May 27, 2014
    1
    Ubisoft made a huge mistake backing up on Nvidia and dumping the AMD graphic card users, after trying to play this game the whole day i am very pissed off at it, i recommend to people not to buy this game, at least for now because you will only get pissed off and will probably end in reseting your PC, 10 times every 1 hours of trying to play this garbage
  37. sandstormcomes
    May 27, 2014
    1
    This game doesn't get optimizing process?
    Require PC Spec is suck.
    And have some blocking issues.
    I should bought PS4 version.
    I'm very regret about buying this game...
  38. Piratoz
    May 28, 2014
    3
    Let me start by saying I wanted to love this game, I really did.

    As far as game design goes watchdogs is a solid game but fails to make many innovations. The hacking in this game is undercooked and oversimplified and the combat plays out like any other typical third person open world shooter. The story is decent and many of the characters have fleshed out dialogue and colorful    Let me start by saying I wanted to love this game, I really did.

    As far as game design goes watchdogs is a solid game but fails to make many innovations. The hacking in this game is undercooked and oversimplified and the combat plays out like any other typical third person open world shooter. The story is decent and many of the characters have fleshed out dialogue and colorful personalities.

    If there were no other problems with this game I would recommend it. Sure, the hacking mechanics that were supposed to set it apart from other GTA-esque games were rather lacking and some strange design features such as other players being able to intrude on your single player session were incorporated. But at the end of the day this is a solid game with a decent story and interesting characters. However the thing that makes me not reccommend this game are the frustrating and clunky controls, constant crashes, poor optimization for PC, and game breaking bugs that occur constantly.

    As soon as I started playing it was evident how clunky the controls in this game felt. Mouse acceleration makes aiming difficult and slow. It is a constant fight with the game to make Aiden use the right object as cover. No, I do not want to crouch on the side of the vending machine as cover, I want to crouch behind it. The UI in this game was clearly designed for controllers, everything from the inventory wheel to Aiden's smartphone interface is very clunky to use with a mouse and keyboard. There is also a gamebreaking bug that when more than one directional key such as 'A' and 'W' are pressed when aiming at a target with your weapon, your character will not stop moving in that direction after you stop aiming which results in a retarded looking jog into walls and enemies resulting in a death. This bug occurs constantly in combat.

    Watchdogs also suffers from extremely poor GPU optimization. My machine is getting old but with 2xHD6950's and an i5 2500k I expected at least smooth performance on medium-high. Instead on medium-high settings at 1080p resolution the game stutters along sub-30 fps in outside environments. When driving there are also extremely annoying instances where the fps will spike down to 10 or so every few seconds. In addition, Watchdogs randomly crashes to desktop every so often.

    If it wasn't for these extremely frustrating control issues, optimzation issues, and random crashes I would have recommended Watchdogs, but because these exist: please please please do not buy this game until these issues are sorted out. It will only result in hours of frustration.

    Without bugs and Issues: 7/10
    Final Score: 3/10    … Expand
  39. Revelati
    May 28, 2014
    1
    Broken DRM software makes the game unplayable. Was told by support to play in offline mode, cant get offline mode until you log in online. Maybe in an alternate dimension this makes sense...

    Its just Sim City all over again, apparently Ubisoft and their non functional DRM/Spyware "UPlay" are giving EA a run for their money in the "Worst Company In America" catagory. Well guys you won    Broken DRM software makes the game unplayable. Was told by support to play in offline mode, cant get offline mode until you log in online. Maybe in an alternate dimension this makes sense...

    Its just Sim City all over again, apparently Ubisoft and their non functional DRM/Spyware "UPlay" are giving EA a run for their money in the "Worst Company In America" catagory.

    Well guys you won the prize as far as I'm concerned!    … Expand
  40. kabalneto
    May 28, 2014
    1
    Promessas não compridas ! jogo enjoativo e mal otimizado ! não vejo como uma nova franquia ! pois e jogo e muito superficial sem falar na física que não existe .. em fim jogo chato e sem graça, não da vontade de continuar jogando.
  41. EagleTiTi
    May 31, 2014
    1
    Maybe this game is good on consoles and some supercomputers, but in current state it's unplayable on many (powerful) PCs. Game have great potential but doesn't live it's potential.
  42. splitforces
    Jun 1, 2014
    0
    I registered on metaritic just so I can state my frustration with this game. Ubisoft clearly does not care about its PC consumer base as this game is barely functional with very little thought put into the PC port. Also hacking is not very fun when it boils down to a point and click QTE. Characters were not interesting. Overall an over-hyped disappointing game.
  43. FarLong
    Jun 1, 2014
    0
    Facts about Watch Dogs:
    - Stupid NPC
    - Woods cars
    - Not interesting player's company.
    - Nothing to do in city
    - Static shadows
    It is game not about hacking. One button click is not hack. It is game not about freedom. You have only few opportunities which stay so boring after 2 hours
  44. templar2143
    Jun 1, 2014
    3
    Poor optimization
    Stupid AI
    Boring gameplay
    GTAV with one button hacking and without flying
    And Where the **** is the multiplayer in singleplayer without loading screens?

    A huge disappointment i was really looking forward for this "next gen" game.
  45. Tzikas
    Jun 4, 2014
    3
    Caveat: My PC runs Watch_Dogs without crashing, and it runs it at good graphics with a good frame-rate, so this is not a "technical review".

    In other words, the low score is because the game brings nothing new to the table. Walk/run/drive around, shoot people, do random/disconnected side-missions, press a button whenever you're in the vicinity of a bridge, door, phone, grate, vent, sign    Caveat: My PC runs Watch_Dogs without crashing, and it runs it at good graphics with a good frame-rate, so this is not a "technical review".

    In other words, the low score is because the game brings nothing new to the table. Walk/run/drive around, shoot people, do random/disconnected side-missions, press a button whenever you're in the vicinity of a bridge, door, phone, grate, vent, sign (etc) to "hack" it. Oh, and the vehicle physics is horrible and makes you feel like Bambi on ice.

    It feels like someone tried to make a game, but couldn't quite decide if they wanted it to be GTA, Infamous or Assassins Creed. Then they realized they needed to make it unique, so they added "hacking". True, not all hacking is as simple as clicking a single button. For some of it you actually have to play a mini-game where you, by clicking a single button, rotate breaker switches to lead electricity from A to B.

    Gimmicky, boring, and after haven given it three serious attempts (which have taken me about 5-6 hours into the game) I find absolutely nothing that makes me want to boot it up again.    … Expand
  46. scotto808
    Jun 4, 2014
    0
    OK, so lets begin, we start the game with some guy stealing from everyday people, then move on to a scene where you learn his daughter got killed. Firstly, he deserved it, and his entire rampage is unjustified. besides a poor story, the characters are all poorly designed, the physics makes me want to cut myself, everything is the same, you are not a hacker, you simply have an app, thisOK, so lets begin, we start the game with some guy stealing from everyday people, then move on to a scene where you learn his daughter got killed. Firstly, he deserved it, and his entire rampage is unjustified. besides a poor story, the characters are all poorly designed, the physics makes me want to cut myself, everything is the same, you are not a hacker, you simply have an app, this isn't special or even feel good. Honestly, worst game i've ever played...… Expand
  47. clarky
    Jun 2, 2014
    0
    Cannot Skip Cut Scenes = Cannot Play The Game. So I give it zero for violating a core mechanic of the game development bible. If I want to watch a bad movie, with a plot, characters and lame story, ill rent one.
  48. Hckngrtfakt
    Jun 30, 2014
    0
    As other user critics have said, this game is boring and repetitive,...
    Graphics are sub-par, and the game play is... missing, there's just none.

    Bought the game played it for a good 3 days to give it a good chance but had to re-sell it on cragislist.
    Not.Worth.The.Money !!!
  49. BENZIN124
    Jun 3, 2014
    0
    Самая провальная игра года. Физики нет, оптимизации нет, завышенная цена, графика 2010 года. При убогой графике игра супер-гипер-мега требовательная к железу. Юбисофт, вам не стыдно? Где то что вы обещали в 2012 году? У вас было полно времени, куча денег и вы дали нам ЭТО? Вы наплевали на своих фанатов. Обманули их показав одно а выдав убожество 2010 года.Самая провальная игра года. Физики нет, оптимизации нет, завышенная цена, графика 2010 года. При убогой графике игра супер-гипер-мега требовательная к железу. Юбисофт, вам не стыдно? Где то что вы обещали в 2012 году? У вас было полно времени, куча денег и вы дали нам ЭТО? Вы наплевали на своих фанатов. Обманули их показав одно а выдав убожество 2010 года.
  50. inverguy
    Jun 5, 2014
    3
    Firstly I need to say that I got this game with my new graphic card for free as such enjoyed it as a free product, although as something most ppl need to pay for I would be extremely annoyed with. This is pretty much a copy of GTA5 but it is much worse. Cars drive like crap, but you can get used to this. Feels like more of a shooter with one magic button to hack stuff.

    I think the    Firstly I need to say that I got this game with my new graphic card for free as such enjoyed it as a free product, although as something most ppl need to pay for I would be extremely annoyed with. This is pretty much a copy of GTA5 but it is much worse. Cars drive like crap, but you can get used to this. Feels like more of a shooter with one magic button to hack stuff.

    I think the biggest disappointment is multiplayer (hacking and following). If you get some basic ideas how the game works there is no way for someone to successfully complete one of these successfully. Although the reward system is constructed the way you will always level up over time.

    In my humble opinion you can get more fun out of £7 indie games than this so unless the price is dropped to around £20, don't buy it.

    PS: don't get into this internet hype about this game... you will be disappointed if you expect too much.

    PS: the trailer of this game is VERY misleading. Watch some "gameplay" videos first !!!!    … Expand
  51. Wolfgrin
    Jun 5, 2014
    3
    Sadly a very boring game after you played if for a hour or two, it almost feels like that's when the developers also gave up on the game and just used copy and paste to finish it. Worse game so far I have bought from Ubisoft, feels like a EA game with all that comes with that......
  52. yY2
    Jun 6, 2014
    2
    One of worst games i ever played:

    -Story is dumb
    -Side missions have 0 creativity and are all the same
    -Gameplay is boring

    +Only interesting thing was hacking, but it got old very fast too.
    DONT BUY THIS
  53. Jonno_scout
    Jun 19, 2014
    4
    I absolutely refuse to support this game after the way ubisoft sold everyone on the games graphics last year, only to fail to deliver them. On top of which, it was recently discovered that the graphics for PC were limited on purpose - this is completely unacceptable, and I will not support a company that abuses its fan base so readily.
  54. Neromaz
    Jun 4, 2014
    1
    Firstly, this GAME is like GTA, Sleeping Dogs & maybe a few others, people saying it's nothing like these games are idiots, as it has a closer relation to these than phucking PAC-MAN.

    So what does this game DO others didn't? well it would be easier say what the other DID that this didn't. Well, this is a new game so its obviously going to look better, but only by a few degrees, I    Firstly, this GAME is like GTA, Sleeping Dogs & maybe a few others, people saying it's nothing like these games are idiots, as it has a closer relation to these than phucking PAC-MAN.

    So what does this game DO others didn't? well it would be easier say what the other DID that this didn't.

    Well, this is a new game so its obviously going to look better, but only by a few degrees, I would actually say Sleeping Dogs in some way looks better.

    Things to do, well the main point of Watch Dogs is your phones ability to hack stuff.

    Like phone junctions boxes outside peoples houses, for which you then can spy on them earning some XP while watching some cute cut scene, this was relatively amusing,but very basic. Some had a little puzzle to complete, similar to them pipe puzzle where you need to get water from one end to the other by moving the pipes, but this was electricity.

    you can also hack -

    CCTV camera: This makes sense, these are used to move around inside buildings and getting up to higher places.

    Traffic lights: This is somewhat amusing the first few times watching cars smash into each other- Dumb idiots. OK this makes sense, and its used to stop people chasing you, police and bad guys.

    Bollards: Which comes up blocking roads, also to stop cars, this also made sense.

    Drains:? or Gas Mains or 15 Pounds of C4 buried in the road? Not too sure about this one, its nice to trigger, but makes no sense seemed like a lacking in things to hack imo.

    Bridges, phuck it why not.

    Forklifts & Cheery Pickers? what? just getting stupid now desperately adding things to hack, Oh and apparently you can only make them hackable to move up and down?

    And some explosive floor bombs, wall circuit boxes and & other pointless stuff.

    ALSO, you can hack the pointless & moronic citizens of Chicago, listen in to their text and phone conversions, which is amusing but after 200+ its gets pretty dull, furthermore you can steal their bank account details and take some of their saving, but after reaching about 300k you can pretty much buy everything that can be bought, so money is useless, this is just a gimmick and a game filler, I can see people doing this for ages like it did, then release it was all for nothing.

    The Campaign or main story is OK nothing great, and the protagonist is a total arse. Most unlikable character in any genre, be it movie, books or games, his reasons & action are so poorly written, it feels so cobbled and rushed together.

    Game play: Comparing this to the other open world GTA style games, this is by far the worst, the City is open straight away which leads little to no discovery, buildings and just closed lifeless boxes, apart from the odd news stand, café or bar where you can buy a drink/snacks that fills your bullet time thing, which I never used.

    The main Campaign is 90% chase that guy or follow this guy, and escape the bad guys or police, these type of mission were the worst parts of the other games, I hated them and GTA only used them to add filler to the their games, and Sleeping Dogs never used them at all. But Watch Dogs is mainly these, and these are awful- Reason! the driving is nasty.
    Well part from those terrible missions, the other few consist of get in/out without being seen, tad like Metal Gear solid style, they see you and bam, start again time, these mission were even worst then the driving ones, and finally a very basic but and probably the best part of the game, cover shooting which worked fine, but pretty easy if you took your time.

    Side mission, were basic and dull, the gang hide out is basically a cover shooter, where you attack some goons then hit their boss with a stick, you kill him its start again time, but you can kill his goons np, this one one was ok the other 2 pretty Crappy..

    NOW THE WORST PART OF THE GAME: Wow the driving, omg, For example the boats actually handle better than the cars, absolutely awful & just embarrassingly bad.

    So Watch Dogs? An awful, cheap and hurried game, that actually takes the genre back to 2004. From the lies about the visuals in the 2012 E3 Trailer and the nasty PC optimization, and the fact that the last 2 bosses are basically QTE, or the fact that you character can't do anything in the city, apart from bump into the citizen steal pointless money, or play dull chess. or even the terribly coded Hulk mentality of the police-POLICE SMASH -. wow they literally have one line of code those guys.

    But that fact they have Released DLC for $5 without fixing Uplay or stabilizing the game for people that have paid upwards of $70    … Expand
  55. ROBerttt7567
    Jun 4, 2014
    2
    Watch_Dogs would be a pretty cool game if it was made around 2006. The game needs to be run with Ubisoft's terrible Uplay system. The visuals aren't impressive and you get terrible performance with nothing to show for. The story is boring and uninteresting. There is barely anything to do after you finish the campaign. This is a pretty big disappointment after seeing the e3 2012 gameplay.Watch_Dogs would be a pretty cool game if it was made around 2006. The game needs to be run with Ubisoft's terrible Uplay system. The visuals aren't impressive and you get terrible performance with nothing to show for. The story is boring and uninteresting. There is barely anything to do after you finish the campaign. This is a pretty big disappointment after seeing the e3 2012 gameplay. But then again, it's Ubisoft.… Expand
  56. DragonBall89
    Jun 5, 2014
    3
    The game is a major disappointment and although i can't say that there aren't any things that i like, those are nothing comparing to those that i dislike.

    I can't shot from either car or motorcycle, the driving is..... it's hard to get use to it, if its even possible. If you're playing in multiplayer and the other player has a controller you are doomed. You can practically fly    The game is a major disappointment and although i can't say that there aren't any things that i like, those are nothing comparing to those that i dislike.

    I can't shot from either car or motorcycle, the driving is..... it's hard to get use to it, if its even possible.

    If you're playing in multiplayer and the other player has a controller you are doomed.

    You can practically fly through the entire game with a silenced pistol.

    and other smaller things like crashes and so on.

    I won't get into the story but let's say it really ain't worth the money, i bought watch dogs but no way in wherever that i buy any dlc, actually i just finished the story part of the game 2 days ago and didn't even touched the game since.    … Expand
  57. DatTriple
    Jun 6, 2014
    3
    Repetitive, extremely dumbed down and over all boring game. "Hold X to hack"? Could they at least have made a mini-game sequence like in the Mass Effect series? The game is full of clichés and uninteresting characters.
  58. Temoari
    Jun 8, 2014
    1
    My score could be higher, if Ubi-soft didn't advertised this game that much.
    Ubi-soft sad that this game would be a REAL next-gen game, greater than any other sand-box game.
    And what the hell is up with the system specs? I don't even understand why they are so demanding.
    Graphics are mediocre. World is empty. Main character is a disaster. Car physics are awful.
  59. Goombaka
    Jun 9, 2014
    0
    The game doesn't even work, the lack of respect from Ubisoft is remarkable, a lot of people have the 90% bug and were left with a broken game.

    That's why people stop buying things...that's why people pirate things, because of the lack of the respect for the consumer. Sorry but this is what i'm seeing through all of this..This is my opinion, Ubisoft doesn't care about us, they already    The game doesn't even work, the lack of respect from Ubisoft is remarkable, a lot of people have the 90% bug and were left with a broken game.

    That's why people stop buying things...that's why people pirate things, because of the lack of the respect for the consumer. Sorry but this is what i'm seeing through all of this..This is my opinion, Ubisoft doesn't care about us, they already got their money...they will do the fix whenever they want.    … Expand
  60. IcyTorrent
    Jun 13, 2014
    0
    Cannot play because of uPlay (what an irony). When uPlay is up it wants to do a perpetual cycle of updating and when it isn't it just won't log on. Ubisoft support is terrible. Impossible to get a refund even though I haven't got the opportunity to play the game. Never going to buy another Ubisoft game until this terrible service is removed.
  61. reviewguyhere
    Jun 14, 2014
    0
    Never has a game ever been such a chore to finish.
    -clunky floaty controls
    -ridiculously boring plot progression -boring combat -repetitive 'hacking' -invincible super cops This game sucks and it's poorly optimized for PC. I wouldn't even rent this. Borrow from a friend or watch a let's play if you want to see what it's all about. This is not a 'game.' At best it's a buggy proof of    Never has a game ever been such a chore to finish.
    -clunky floaty controls
    -ridiculously boring plot progression
    -boring combat
    -repetitive 'hacking'
    -invincible super cops
    This game sucks and it's poorly optimized for PC. I wouldn't even rent this. Borrow from a friend or watch a let's play if you want to see what it's all about. This is not a 'game.' At best it's a buggy proof of concept. Ubisoft, if you want to make a game about hacking then make a game about hacking not an inferior GTA clone with an extra feature that amounts to nothing more than a single button press.    … Expand
  62. Natejka7273
    Jun 17, 2014
    0
    Game literally has to be hacked to play correctly. You know you're looking at a disturbingly unethical company when you can edit a few lines of code to make the game look better and run better. Use Far Cry 3's SLI profile, theworse's patch, and disable the page file to make the game play like it should rather than how Ubisoft wants to make "next-gen" consoles look good. Until UbisoftGame literally has to be hacked to play correctly. You know you're looking at a disturbingly unethical company when you can edit a few lines of code to make the game look better and run better. Use Far Cry 3's SLI profile, theworse's patch, and disable the page file to make the game play like it should rather than how Ubisoft wants to make "next-gen" consoles look good. Until Ubisoft changes its anti-PC strategies, I suggest avoiding future titles, even if you, like me, own a PS4/XOne.… Expand
  63. Apac
    Jun 18, 2014
    0
    This Game îs a LIE. The PC version has been downgraded (Bad graphics, teribble controls etc.)
    so it looks worse and makes the console users think their console worth buying.
    The E3 graphics can be unlocked (search theworsemod on Google) thing with makes it look better , but dosen't improve the overall performance. I would strongly recommend not to buy this game because you will be    This Game îs a LIE. The PC version has been downgraded (Bad graphics, teribble controls etc.)
    so it looks worse and makes the console users think their console worth buying.
    The E3 graphics can be unlocked (search theworsemod on Google)
    thing with makes it look better , but dosen't improve the overall performance.
    I would strongly recommend not to buy this game because you will be giving money away two big liers,
    Sony and Ubisoft, who made a deal to downgrade the PC version( the PS4 version has extra content and
    the Watchdogs movie will be made by Sony Pictures).
    I think the ALL the critics wich rote the Metascores review WERE bribed!    … Expand
  64. FantasicGamer
    Jun 29, 2014
    0
    It seems Ubisoft never make a game with a charming story. This game is just like AC4, in which the story should be great, if it follows the way of what is depicted in the trailer. Unfortunately, this game fails in the same way as AC4, with a poor story completely deviated from the one mentioned in trailer.

    Lazy works can be clearly observed in this game. There are great deviations in    It seems Ubisoft never make a game with a charming story. This game is just like AC4, in which the story should be great, if it follows the way of what is depicted in the trailer. Unfortunately, this game fails in the same way as AC4, with a poor story completely deviated from the one mentioned in trailer.

    Lazy works can be clearly observed in this game. There are great deviations in lighting from various environment, either too dark or bright. Vehicles or NPCs get jammed in street. Crazy physic like people or vehicle flying like a rocket when being hit, is also present in this game.

    The game mechanic is also an epic failure. The character animations and control are apparently direct clones from AC4 and Splinter Cell Blacklist. The hacking and driving mechanics are both laughable, you can just play the game as a mediocre TPS without any compromise in mission objective, in the ways limited by the developer, e.g. can't shoot when driving vehicle.

    I won't talk more about the technical issues of this game, as it is mentioned by other reviewers many times already.

    Basically, PC players are doomed due to some "nice" works by their "beloved" developers.

    A game of such low quality with intention to play trick on PC players, can even break the sales record of the developers. Do you think that it is ridiculous? This presents a serious problem in the game community. Buyers, please learn to read the reviews, don't believe the trailer blindly and just pre-order. And most importantly, do not forget what the unethical companies have done to you, and boycott them in future.    … Expand
  65. xTobyMc
    Jun 27, 2014
    4
    The game is okay, but the poor optimisation has ruined it for so many people. Running a GTX 780 the game barely keeps a stable frame rate on the lowest settings. There's also frame stutter at all times when driving and the game keeps crashing. In fact, I'm about 10 hours into the game and I can't continue the main storyline because it crashes every time. I'm thoroughly disappointed withThe game is okay, but the poor optimisation has ruined it for so many people. Running a GTX 780 the game barely keeps a stable frame rate on the lowest settings. There's also frame stutter at all times when driving and the game keeps crashing. In fact, I'm about 10 hours into the game and I can't continue the main storyline because it crashes every time. I'm thoroughly disappointed with Watch Dogs as it was looking to be one of the best games of the year. The game isn't even that exciting either. The story gets fairly boring, enemies are extremely weak, whilst the police are ridiculously hard to get away from. The whole idea of hacking everything around you isn't that much fun either. I'll be honest, I'm not even that annoyed that the game crashes so much that I can't play it any more. I'd probably stop playing it anyway, it doesn't excite me at all. I look forward to GTA V coming to PC, it will be much better than this for the genre.… Expand
  66. justhepark
    Jul 3, 2014
    1
    Oh look! Another GTA V clone! Watch Dogs, with all this hype, you gave this piece of garbage, what a waste of money. Do not buy this game, it is totally not worth your money.
  67. Mortvicr
    May 29, 2014
    2
    Foremost, before you buy this game I would like to warn you of the terrible car handling, as with most of these type of games from GTA, Just Cause 2 and Sleeping dogs the driving is one of the main part of the game. GTA driving mechanics weren't great, but Watch Dog are just awful, bordering unplayable.

    The cars slip and slid around like that the ice part in Zelda: ocarina of time, -    Foremost, before you buy this game I would like to warn you of the terrible car handling, as with most of these type of games from GTA, Just Cause 2 and Sleeping dogs the driving is one of the main part of the game. GTA driving mechanics weren't great, but Watch Dog are just awful, bordering unplayable.

    The cars slip and slid around like that the ice part in Zelda: ocarina of time, - Don't turn enough and the car doesn't turn, turn too much and its slips'n'slids and fish tails around like crazy, hitting every, lamp post, car, fence, wall, pedestrian and building, which makes those - Chase guy mission frustrating, or tail that guy and invade the goons are just plan unenjoyable. And there are loads of these, the main campaign is mostly tail this guy, chase those guys oh and the terrible sneak into the build or sneak out without been seen, and if they catch you it's right back to the beginning again.

    It take all the worst and annoying elements from other open world games, the parts that are just filling to add more packing to the game, Watch_Dogs is that, filler.

    This is a god awful game, and a nasty little PC port..    … Expand
  68. kstud1
    Jun 1, 2014
    0
    Bait and switch from E3, playing watch dogs I jumped into the river to escape cops, the water disappeared and i was running on the bottom of the river ground with no water and looking up I could see boats but sense there's no water I could not swim up to them, what was the extra six months for?
  69. DNGrigorov
    May 27, 2014
    0
    Quite possibly the most overhyped blunder of the new-gen. Horrible optimization, horrible graphics that we were outright lied to at E3, AI is abysmal, gunplay is abysmal, the list goes on if you want just scroll down and read through the negative reviews. They're mostly all true.
  70. kartana
    May 27, 2014
    4
    Overrated and badly optimized console port. There is nothing new here. The hacking is mostly a gimmick. It's the standard "go here, go there, click that and now escape the bad boys chasing you".
  71. Synt0xx
    Jun 7, 2014
    2
    Just bugged, the game is nice, but you cant play infact of a bug which lets you stuck in the loading screen since release and ubisoft cant find that issue
  72. MetalDude185
    Jun 29, 2014
    3
    Let's start with the bloody obvious. The state of the PC version is a joke. The lighting is hideously flat and a filthy monochrome in most scenes, as opposed to what we saw at E3 two years ago. It has hideously outdated particle effects and shadows. Yes, the water looks great, but that doesn't count when there is no setting in the entire game that makes it run at at least 60fps on myLet's start with the bloody obvious. The state of the PC version is a joke. The lighting is hideously flat and a filthy monochrome in most scenes, as opposed to what we saw at E3 two years ago. It has hideously outdated particle effects and shadows. Yes, the water looks great, but that doesn't count when there is no setting in the entire game that makes it run at at least 60fps on my high-end PC. In some places I felt like I was playing GTA IV. The pop-in in the open world is so terrible that it interferes with gameplay, especially when driving at high speeds. Weeks after its release there's still no patch out.

    Now for the gameplay, the hacking is has turned out to be a gimmick that becomes tired in the first few hours you actually get to play with it. There are some interesting things you can do with it but those become boring after you've seen them a few times and most things you do with it are executed by just holding down a button for a second. Other than that, there are serviceable driving mechanics in place, but there's very little to do with it, as everything in the gameworld just has nothing interesting to offer you, not to mention that the graphics are so bad that it doesn't even have the entertainment value of just looking at the scenery, like you could do if it was just a boring game with great visuals.
    Also it has semi-cover-based shooting mechanics, but there's just no punch to it and it's usually just frustrating to "play", especially when the framerate runs like a turtle.

    The story is clichéd and the main "character" is not even just unrelatable, he's boring and hasn't got a single sign of a personality or character trait, but it's not presented in any way in which we could roleplay as our own. The game clearly thinks it's got an interesting character loaded with personality and a heavy emotional story, but it just falls flat on its face, because there is no character or actual strong emotional development to any of it.

    This game would have been a huge dissapointment, if I would have been invested in the hype, so at least it didn't hurt me there, but what we have is still a hugely boring and noticeably overhyped "Triple-A" game, with a terrible PC version.    … Expand
  73. Loyen
    May 27, 2014
    3
    plain boring, forced mouse acceleration and plenty of unoptimization issues, Uplay sucks and the graphics are nowhere near what they showed at E3, just a pile of garbage.
  74. Mamurai
    May 28, 2014
    3
    Ubisoft didn't bother optimizing this game for PC at all, which means it will poorly at the moment on any system. Combine that with graphics which do not look next gen when it comes to PC and you have an overhyped game that is a GTA clone with better graphics, yet runs poorly. It certainly doesn't look better than Battlefield 3 for PC and that game is hardly new anymore. Uplay doesn't workUbisoft didn't bother optimizing this game for PC at all, which means it will poorly at the moment on any system. Combine that with graphics which do not look next gen when it comes to PC and you have an overhyped game that is a GTA clone with better graphics, yet runs poorly. It certainly doesn't look better than Battlefield 3 for PC and that game is hardly new anymore. Uplay doesn't work very well either and you will find yourself wishing you didn't have to go through that program to play a singleplayer game.

    The game is overhyped, but seems to be an ok GTA clone if they can sort out all those optimizing issues. Unless you have a high-end PC then stay far away unless they fix any of the current issues, and you want a modern GTA clone.    … Expand
  75. Bleuzarro
    May 27, 2014
    4
    So here's the thing, the game is simply horrifically optimized. They said the 2012 e3 version everyone saw was actually running on a gtx Titan. So it looked great, but clearly not everybody has a Titan. Even if you can run all other games these days on ultra, you prob will barely get by on medium unless you have a 3k$+ rig. It's sad. And AMD users are horrifically screwed over.

    Anywho.    So here's the thing, the game is simply horrifically optimized. They said the 2012 e3 version everyone saw was actually running on a gtx Titan. So it looked great, but clearly not everybody has a Titan. Even if you can run all other games these days on ultra, you prob will barely get by on medium unless you have a 3k$+ rig. It's sad. And AMD users are horrifically screwed over.

    Anywho. Aside from that, which to me really ruins the experience. The controls are terrible. It was meant for a controller. If you use a mouse you get terrible lag until you manually change the settings in the file. Thank reddit users for that info.

    The driving made me so angry at first, because the game didn't seem to take into account anything I was telling it to do. Pretty much any game ever has better driving in it. Sleeping dogs, gta, saints row. The controls are just terrible. But I eventually got the hang of it several hours later, although it certainly isn't an enjoyable experience.

    The reason I started with these things is because sure, the story may not be great and hacking is cool sometimes, but ultimately if I can't even play the game and enjoy it, all the little things about gameplay don't even matter.

    TL:DR.
    Graphics are a huge let down. Most people wont be able to run it on max settings to get it to look good. Mouse settings are finicky and driving is horrendous. GTA V is a better game to me simply because all the controls and optimization were so polished that you didn't have to worry about it and could enjoy the game and story and characters for what it was.

    PS. the story was clearly an afterthought. The idea came first then they meshed splinter cell and infamous and whatever other story they could find and tacked it on. Also another disappointment.

    Oh one other thing, game looks great at night in the rain. Put on some cheats and run wild with a grenade launcher and destroy the cops. Most fun I've had in the game.    … Expand
  76. MateusRoscoe
    May 28, 2014
    0
    It looks like a game from 2008, it doesn't respect ANY physics... Driving is the most terrible thing I've ever seen, you can "crash" with your bike into a car and you don't fall, you can drive your car into another and nothing happens, there's a lot of bugs too... The game's optimization for PC is a crap, you can't play with the recommended settings, AMD graphics cards ? Forget it, itIt looks like a game from 2008, it doesn't respect ANY physics... Driving is the most terrible thing I've ever seen, you can "crash" with your bike into a car and you don't fall, you can drive your car into another and nothing happens, there's a lot of bugs too... The game's optimization for PC is a crap, you can't play with the recommended settings, AMD graphics cards ? Forget it, it won't run well... It was about 4 years of development and this game seems like a crap indie game... Smaller map than GTA 4... If you buy it, you will see bugs, every **** moment. They're selling a unfinished game just that... Hyped us with something real good, they delayed it to finish, but they didn't finished anything, I rather wait more 4 years than buying this ****… Expand
  77. Vicodine
    Jun 6, 2014
    0
    Even If I started at 10/10 and deducted .1 point for every single thing that is so horribly wrong with this game, I would still reach 0.

    The long version, 20 things I hate about this overrated, overhyped piece of crap: -Horrible port -Stupid handling of cars, barely controllable with keyboard -Never even think about touching a mouse while driving. The camera gets **** up so fast    Even If I started at 10/10 and deducted .1 point for every single thing that is so horribly wrong with this game, I would still reach 0.

    The long version, 20 things I hate about this overrated, overhyped piece of crap:

    -Horrible port
    -Stupid handling of cars, barely controllable with keyboard
    -Never even think about touching a mouse while driving. The camera gets **** up so fast
    -The story gets from dumb to stupid to i don't care so fast
    -The AI is so stupid
    - Pedestrians try to look clever with scripted stand there/talk/talk on the phone... but the reactions to any action you take are so stupid. I tried to play as a Protector but killing them was a bigger pleasure. Such stupid AI doesn't deserve to live
    -Not to mention how bad drivers they are
    -The AI characters/cars spawn and despawn like 10 meters from you. It's the **** that GTA 3 did, that cars behind you despawn instantly, and a few meters ahead also. Same goes for any AI that is not story driven. Shame.
    -The combat is unfair. The tips say that when you move, the AI will lose track of you. Ok, but when they know where you are, they see you and shoot at you through anything you are hiding behind. Succesfully
    -The 1 button to hack is mediocre at best. Not many things at all you can do with it, and it gets boring. You can get rich by spending 5 minutes at a highly populated square and then you just don't care
    -Side missions are repetitive as **** and appear way too often. I don't even bother anymore, stopped doing them after 2 hours of gameplay
    -The mini games ,,, well good to have them, but they are not "that" great. Slot machines, poker, trips, AR game... boring.
    -No matter what I do I cannot find anything to do while I'm not in a mood of going through another painful and stupid part of the main story. I just end up killing everything that moves or ramming a truck full speed into incoming traffic, watching the bad physics handle the crash
    -Yeah, physics aren't that great either. Gravity works, sometimes, but that's probably it...
    -If it ain't a sniper rifle, you won't hit anyone that is further than 5-10m from you. No chance. Well, a bit but not in a combat situation while covering.
    -Yeah the cover system. I expected and still expect "Press C to cover, C to exit cover", but no, you have to walk away from the surface you are covering behind to "uncover". And it takes a few seconds of holding the right directional key for it to really work and unstick you from the wall.
    -Weapon wheel is bad. I get killed so many times while switching weapons, just because after each load of game it puts a sniper rifle as my selected weapon. I really don't know why.
    -Who thought of putting character progression into an open-world action game. And levels. And skillpoints. Why ? Why ???? Just teach me how to do what in the process. Gain "skills" by going through the story, completing objectives, not by spending ****ing skillpoints and leveling up.
    -The mouse. Oh the mouse. That's the first thing that **** me up. It acts just silly, it starts as if you are moving through maple syrup, then it starts responding lightning fast. Really great in combat.
    -The damage to the cars is stupid, except for blown tires which are awesome, i mean look awesome, the physics are broken on that one more than anything else.

    The short version:
    Don't you dare buy it. Don't support Ubisoft for developing and releasing a game that had so much potential, yet still managing to **** it up so bad. If you want to play it, just pirate it. Please. Don't give them a single cent for this.    … Expand
  78. 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
  79. MrBrioche
    May 29, 2014
    0
    Two words describe this piece of crap : SCRIPTED EVENT!
    They said we could choose how to do the mission... **** if you do a perfect stealth mission at a point some guard/car will pop out of nowhere and charge like you have some kind of GPS on you.
    Another thing I had to get closer of my tv, the game was giving me headache. I played for 30+ hours and so far the most ''fun'' thing I've    Two words describe this piece of crap : SCRIPTED EVENT!
    They said we could choose how to do the mission... **** if you do a perfect stealth mission at a point some guard/car will pop out of nowhere and charge like you have some kind of GPS on you.
    Another thing I had to get closer of my tv, the game was giving me headache.
    I played for 30+ hours and so far the most ''fun'' thing I've done is the Spider-tank mini game and it wasn't that fun...    … Expand
  80. Loucetios
    May 31, 2014
    3
    Horrible game, amazing engine.

    I flat out refuse to believe they have been working on this game since 2009. The engine for the game? Sure. The entire game can be summarized in one sentence "Press Y to hack." The music is **** and the gameplay is like a dumbed down GTA5 with terrible controls. All vehicles handle like go-karts, and they all handle exactly the same. The    Horrible game, amazing engine.

    I flat out refuse to believe they have been working on this game since 2009. The engine for the game? Sure.

    The entire game can be summarized in one sentence "Press Y to hack."

    The music is **** and the gameplay is like a dumbed down GTA5 with terrible controls.

    All vehicles handle like go-karts, and they all handle exactly the same. The motorcycles are a complete joke.

    I appreciated the unix nods in the intro and stuff like that but ultimately the game has absolutely nothing to do with network security or "hacking". It may as well be magic.

    The story is garbage, complete and utter trite.

    The only redeeming feature of this game is the engines ability. There seems to be amazing A.I in the game, and bullet/particle/physics effects are all very cool. They slapped a very ****ty game onto a very cool engine by the looks of it.

    Wait for the sequel.    … Expand
  81. Dhrall
    May 27, 2014
    0
    Can't even launch the game because of Uplay, until Ubisoft gets rid of the idiotic 'service' don't buy anything from them. This isn't the first time Uplay has caused issues for me either, having previously deleted 6 hours of game progress in AC4.
  82. silenterfox
    May 29, 2014
    0
    i had 2 gb nvidia 540m and i cant play this **** .producers use nvdia in ads that so funny. this is a fraud. this is a shame. we are aggrieved. im so sad.
  83. Weiker1
    May 28, 2014
    2
    Tris game is broken. Is not normal with a pc gamer with hi specs the FPS goes 15 on ultra. Many people with 780Ti with 6gb vram watch dogs runs 20 FPS.

    Very bad optimization. The last game that I buy from Ubilol. Never again.
    Que te den Ubilol.

    Sorry for muy poor english.
  84. Mel2387
    May 28, 2014
    2
    - Stupid AI
    - Basic shadow
    - Poor graphics
    - Bad shooting system
    - Hacking system not interesting
    - Game full of bugs
    - Copycat of GTA
    - Just boring !
  85. mrklotz
    May 27, 2014
    0
    This game has 9 different editions and the season pass doesn't even cover all the available DLC, to add insult to injury it also uses uplay DRM on top of steam. I guess you can view those points as problems with the publisher instead of the game's fault - that's why I didn't factor those into my score, nonetheless they are here so you can make an educated purchase or not.

    Now about the    This game has 9 different editions and the season pass doesn't even cover all the available DLC, to add insult to injury it also uses uplay DRM on top of steam. I guess you can view those points as problems with the publisher instead of the game's fault - that's why I didn't factor those into my score, nonetheless they are here so you can make an educated purchase or not.

    Now about the game itself. Ubisoft has promised us a true next-gen experience (whatever that actually means) but Watch_Dogs fails to deliver in almost every regard.

    - The PC Version is very unoptimized and is crash prone, there are also crashes related to AMD AND Nvidia drivers but you can't fully blame them for this.
    - Graphics on ultra doesn't look that good yet the game requires big hardware for it (see point above for why)
    - Car Handling is really bad
    - AI is overly scripted and generally bad; Examples: When you are in a vehicle and drive onto the rails the trains will do a full stop for you - even if they have just 4m to hit you which brings us to the next point
    - Physics are very, very bad. Generally the game feels like GTA on training wheels, Cars and trains will do physical impossible full stops to get out of your way, there is no real deforming/damage models on vehicles, you can hop out of moving trains without any injury, drive your bike with full speed into a wall and it just stops, then you drive backwards against a pole and your car is flung 100m into the air.
    - Missions are repetitive and not fun after a while, the story is also a kind of hit and miss. There is really no character development
    - The most notorious flaw however is lazy developers/ Lack of detail: Poor Water detail (no spray when you shoot it, static waves etc), static shadows, reflections are phony - they only reflect static images no cars, NPCs or even the protagonist, lack of vehicle damage model, most decorations are static and can't be destroyed by driving your car into it, no scratching walls with your vehicle, invisible walls everywhere, overdone minigames with little to no change to them, shooting civilians always kills them with a single bullet even if you hit their pinky. Hacking is very boring after 1-2hrs in the game, always the same pattern (very much like a problem with the AC series), speaking of Assasins Creed: They even copied the run animation for Watch dogs, do some sprinting and you will recognize it.

    There really is no excuse for all that laziness for a game that promised a nextgen experience and even went so far to compare itself (in it's own ads) with GTA. GTA4 does everything in the detail category better and was released 2008! Also it's highly modable which can put it above this game graphic wise and still perform better.
    I'd give this 3/10 but as so many idios give it 10 to "even out" the bad reviews, well I'm doing that too.    … Expand
  86. static1990
    May 27, 2014
    3
    Sadly this game is really unplayable at this stage,it is very bad optimized i have a high end rig and i got 15-35 fps on ultra and like 45-50 fps on low and even then it sutter.
    PS: Intel i5 Haswell 2.8ghz,gtx 780 and 8gb ram yea...shame ubisoft.
  87. Rewind84
    May 28, 2014
    2
    Fast Facts about Watch Dogs:
    1st- CONSOLE PORT !
    2st- you can not drive with out game pad
    3st- plot is average
    4st- The game is unoptimize for PC's
    5st- Gta IV can beat watch dogs !
    6st- Its not A NEXT GEN game is an old gen game !
  88. johnnyjoint
    May 27, 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!!!
  89. metaduke
    May 27, 2014
    0
    Ubi$oft really dropped the ball on this one. I guess the delay didn't help at all.

    The game launched with many bugs and complaints. One of the biggest ones is the need to install uPlay and launch it through steam everytime before you play as a sort of middleman who really hates you.

    The game crashes constantly, if you can even get in the game that is.
  90. easy91
    May 27, 2014
    0
    Brain dead AI!
    Carton cars!
    Cliched and boring story lane!
    Boring City!!!!!!!!!
    You cant fight!!!!
    Nothing to do in this game!!!
    Worthless game!
  91. ablindpoet
    May 27, 2014
    0
    Uplay and optimization needed? These are just some of the many complaint I have about Watch Dogs. I hated it. I really did. Hoping from the very beginning that it was going to be a great science fiction action game, I was generally let down. Only positive critique I can give this CASH GRAB from Ubisoft is that that water is alright. These developers expect all of us to hype up about theirUplay and optimization needed? These are just some of the many complaint I have about Watch Dogs. I hated it. I really did. Hoping from the very beginning that it was going to be a great science fiction action game, I was generally let down. Only positive critique I can give this CASH GRAB from Ubisoft is that that water is alright. These developers expect all of us to hype up about their games. Make the trailers and "game play" trailers not exactly fact. Then we pre-order the **** out of it. This needs to stop.… Expand
  92. killazz2630
    May 27, 2014
    0
    It starts out really promising, but of course this game is utter **** Read all of the other reviews, and you'll understand.

    Even a game from 2008 could beat this.
  93. Phatsnake
    May 27, 2014
    0
    Ubisoft just gave the middle finger to 40% of the PC community who use AMD Radeon cards like myself. I won't blame Nvidia for ruining the industry with their proprietary crap and closed environment. I'm blaming Ubisoft for ignoring us. I'll update my review once the game gets patched, and if not I'll be requesting a refund.
  94. SethEvandor
    May 27, 2014
    0
    Those people voting low are not just voting low for no reason. When you pull out a gun, people will suddenly turn around and look at you and people will see you take it out through a wall. When you shoot at a vehicle window, it doesn't do anything if you're not fairly close to it... When you're driving, people will just run out the way without turning their head, it's so incrediblyThose people voting low are not just voting low for no reason. When you pull out a gun, people will suddenly turn around and look at you and people will see you take it out through a wall. When you shoot at a vehicle window, it doesn't do anything if you're not fairly close to it... When you're driving, people will just run out the way without turning their head, it's so incredibly unrealistic. Damn we're talking about a game which fails on a basic level. There are a plethora of problems, stated already in the other reviews here.… Expand
  95. Silverqt
    May 27, 2014
    2
    That game - garbage! Cant even play it.
    Reasons:
    1. The framerate is absolutely **** it lags on the same place where 2 sec ago was stable fps without **** reason. 2. Why everything so stupid? That side missions are absolutely without motivation and clear reason. Its level of SEGA mega drive 1990 year. 3. Hacking looks like big **** joke for 15 years imbeciles and everywhere with that    That game - garbage! Cant even play it.
    Reasons:
    1. The framerate is absolutely **** it lags on the same place where 2 sec ago was stable fps without **** reason.
    2. Why everything so stupid? That side missions are absolutely without motivation and clear reason. Its level of SEGA mega drive 1990 year.
    3. Hacking looks like big **** joke for 15 years imbeciles and everywhere with that freaking phone like idiotic ****.
    4. Visuals Ok, but its not that level what we saw on e3 2012. And its about technical. Grand Theft Auto 4 better in details, like crush the wall, hydrant etc. Car physics cant even compare. In details gta better in 1000 times.
    5. So i cant even fight in game? or what the **** cant kick someone ass.
    Thats only 10% of my claim, cos game is really idiotic. They fool everyone once again.    … Expand
  96. albertoberto
    May 27, 2014
    0
    Ubisoft is not giving a shiet about PC and thats enought for me to give it a big fat zero. Also the graphics are awful and this is important in a game that was marketed as "next-gen". What a load of bull crap.
  97. Bob-_-
    May 27, 2014
    3
    Watch Dogs is really nice looking, but still doesn't live up to the E3 footage - there are no impressive wind effects, light doesn't cast any shadows and there are no working mirror effects in the game. Pretty much the best looking things in the game are puddles at night. The gunplay works, but is nothing special and so do the ragdoll physics. That said, physics in general (collisions,Watch Dogs is really nice looking, but still doesn't live up to the E3 footage - there are no impressive wind effects, light doesn't cast any shadows and there are no working mirror effects in the game. Pretty much the best looking things in the game are puddles at night. The gunplay works, but is nothing special and so do the ragdoll physics. That said, physics in general (collisions, environment destruction) are just broken - bus stops completely fall apart at the lightest impact, but every vehicle in the game is just about indestructible and no damage is shown to occur to it. In addition to that, the game has invisible walls, as well as trains clipping through bridges and other very noticeable bugs. The hacking mechanics are simple button prompts and honestly don't go further than that. They're a gimmick put in to make Watch Dogs stand out, but fail, since they're not integrated into the gameplay enough. The AI is plain stupid - civilians don't react to the player shooting, even if they're just on the other end of the street and could clearly notice that; the police are blind and hiding behind the dashboard of your car in the middle of the street is enough to throw them off your tail and there is no way to be harmed if you run into traffic or in front of the train, since cars and trains just stop immediately if you step in front of them, regardless of the speed they were moving with. The story of the game is pretty decent and really well acted, but nowhere near the 40 hours the developers talked about (it took me around 14 hours to get through and I see people having similar times online).… Expand
  98. nebz
    May 27, 2014
    2
    I don't recommend this game. It was nothing but average and over hyped. Ubisoft sure know how to **** people off with their DRM. I have no idea why I even bothered buying this on steam, when I have to use Uplay too, what a friggin joke! The driving controls are so god damn sensitive I feel like I am in a damn car with schizophrenia. The movement controls are so clunky and thisI don't recommend this game. It was nothing but average and over hyped. Ubisoft sure know how to **** people off with their DRM. I have no idea why I even bothered buying this on steam, when I have to use Uplay too, what a friggin joke! The driving controls are so god damn sensitive I feel like I am in a damn car with schizophrenia. The movement controls are so clunky and this optimization is a total farce! If you can't help yourself and must play this, pirate it. Don't give them a cent more.

    THIS IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK IT IS MADE OUT TO BE. DO NOT BUY.    … Expand
  99. Onikami
    May 27, 2014
    0
    Don't buy this!! The game might be great but we'll see if you can run it. Many people are complaining that the game can't run on AMD cards, which is a very valid complain, however I own a top line Nvidia card (GTX 780) and I still can't play this.

    It may very well work better on any console but for the PC this port is a joke; the port of Dark Souls one ran better than this. First    Don't buy this!! The game might be great but we'll see if you can run it. Many people are complaining that the game can't run on AMD cards, which is a very valid complain, however I own a top line Nvidia card (GTX 780) and I still can't play this.

    It may very well work better on any console but for the PC this port is a joke; the port of Dark Souls one ran better than this.

    First off, for whatever reason the moment I loaded the game the camera zoomed in to about twice what it should and made cutscenes akward and gameplay unplayable. PC gaming is more complex than console but I have no idea how slipped Ubisoft by.

    Second off, I own a GTX 780 and computer to use it and I can't run this game on ultra. I've even seen reports of people with the same high end card having trouble running the game on low. Not only are the graphics lower than what was shown in trailers but it's optimized like a joke. If you have a high end pc don't think this is another great game for you.

    You may have noticed my review had nothing to do with the game and that is true. This is because I cannot play the game!! I can't even speak of the controls, story, or system of the game as I can't get to them in a manor that they were meant to be played. How can a game that achieved gold before relasing and had this much hype fail harder than the PC port for Dark Souls or even Battlefield 4?

    It's very rare I preorder a game unless the compnay or ip has proven to be worth it (aka Valve or Bioshock) but this has taught me a lesson I should have already guessed. Never preorder anything from Ubisoft because I never will again after this failure.    … Expand
  100. VoxPaladin
    May 27, 2014
    0
    Worst game of 2014? Could be. I thought Thief was bad but oh man, this game thinks way too much of itself as being the coolest open world action game out there. For a "next-gen" game, it lacks detail, reflections and atmosphere. The downgraded graphics aren't even the worst part... The game suffers major slowdowns, especially while driving and even on the lowest settings you'll be sittingWorst game of 2014? Could be. I thought Thief was bad but oh man, this game thinks way too much of itself as being the coolest open world action game out there. For a "next-gen" game, it lacks detail, reflections and atmosphere. The downgraded graphics aren't even the worst part... The game suffers major slowdowns, especially while driving and even on the lowest settings you'll be sitting around 15-30 fps, and this is all on a high end system.. The controls aren't any better, with forced mouse acceleration, smoothing and lack of cursor in certain menus for navigation.

    What about game play? Hahahahaha, you must be joking if you think there's anything to do in this maze-like city they call an "open world". Driving is the worst of any open world game I've played. Car physics are so bad, it feels like you're driving a slab of concrete on ice. And the profiling crimes that take place are a joke. It's so repetitive and stale: Go help the woman being harassed, go chase the criminal with string A.I. No thanks.

    Digital trips are probably the worst aspect of all this. Cause mayhem with your spider tank! Run over demons with your car! But why? To compete in online leader boards. These side activities have nothing to do with the game itself and feel tacked on more than anything else. They are stupid, uninspired mini-games trying to be over-the-top and whacky just for the sake of it, without giving you any real benefit. I'd rather play Mario Party.

    Then there are the bugs and the horrible A.I. I just don't know what to say about this game anymore. It's a joke that's asking you for $60 and a few hours of your itme, a pathetic attempt at trying to be something profound and unique that just ends up embarrassing itself for all it's shortcomings.

    Avoid. Like. The. Plague.    … Expand
Page:

Awards & Rankings

2
#2 Most Discussed PC Game of 2014
20
#20 Most Shared PC Game of 2014

Critic Reviews

All reviews »
Metascore
77

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.
    Read full review
See all critic reviews »