Watch Dogs

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  1. iansarmy1
    Oct 25, 2014
    3
    A terrible, broken, downgraded PC port that Ubisoft simply walked away after only a paltry effort of trying to fix it. Even it runs smoothly on your system you're really just buying a very mediocre GTA clone. Don't reward Ubisoft for dumping this clunker on PC gamers.
  2. Leon354
    Sep 6, 2014
    5
    Very boring and not interesting, crazy story, the game boring 5 hours of play. Played 2 days in 2h 30m then threw boring, boring ... (Ubisoft forgotten how to make games !!!)
  3. rootz
    Aug 30, 2019
    10
    1554 negatives about this game ?? Amazing…
    You f*cking baby whiners !
    You depressed baby gay s&*ckers ...nothing is good enough for you ? Disgusting people !! whiners . Better Kill Yourself than . Nobody will miss you … 1554 negatives about this game ?? Amazing… You f*cking baby whiners ! You depressed baby gay s&*ckers ...nothing is good enough for you ? Disgusting    1554 negatives about this game ?? Amazing…
    You f*cking baby whiners !
    You depressed baby gay s&*ckers ...nothing is good enough for you ? Disgusting people !! whiners . Better Kill Yourself than .
    Nobody will miss you …

    1554 negatives about this game ?? Amazing…
    You f*cking baby whiners !
    You depressed baby gay s&*ckers ...nothing is good enough for you ? Disgusting people !! whiners . Better Kill Yourself than .
    Nobody will miss you …
    Your parents will be very happy if you kill yourself
    Than they will give a big party hahahaha :)
    Your parents will be very happy if you kill yourself
    Than they will give a big party hahahaha :)    … Expand
  4. lunaticfish
    Aug 28, 2015
    10
    Absolutely solid game and I don't understand the negative reviews. Perhaps I was lucky, but I started out playing this on a 4 year old Intel i3 with a budget Nvidia card and it looked good and ran well on Medium settings. I finished playing it on a different system (loving cloud based saves) where I was able to max everything out. Visually the game looked great on both systems, theAbsolutely solid game and I don't understand the negative reviews. Perhaps I was lucky, but I started out playing this on a 4 year old Intel i3 with a budget Nvidia card and it looked good and ran well on Medium settings. I finished playing it on a different system (loving cloud based saves) where I was able to max everything out. Visually the game looked great on both systems, the storyline is pretty solid and kept my attention and it brought some interesting new mechanics to a very tired genre.

    My only negative was the car driving as others have commented, took a little getting used to, especially coming from GTA V ... but no worse than Saints Row mechanics. Oh and the soundtrack has a pretty strange selection of tunes (although great use of Ministry's Jesus Built My Hotrod).

    I was fortunate though to pick this game up on a deal for under 10 euros, I'd held off buying it before due to the negative reviews. In hindsight, I would have quite happily paid full price.    … Expand
  5. casualgamer11
    Jun 28, 2015
    8
    I have got to admit; I've played this through a couple of times on pc and ps4 (pc version better IMHO (graphics etc)) and I really like it. The story and characters are really good contrary to what many people say in these reviews. Sure the car mechanics vs something like GTA aren't great but the novel gameplay mechanics (hacking), mission structure, large open world, complex NPCs areI have got to admit; I've played this through a couple of times on pc and ps4 (pc version better IMHO (graphics etc)) and I really like it. The story and characters are really good contrary to what many people say in these reviews. Sure the car mechanics vs something like GTA aren't great but the novel gameplay mechanics (hacking), mission structure, large open world, complex NPCs are really very accomplished. I'm not normally a fan of ubisoft games which often lack substance but this I really enjoyed. The highlight for me is the dark story of vengeance which isn't clichéd and is really quite though provoking and mature. I think this game has ultimately suffered from unrealised hype pre release otherwise I think generally the review scores would be higher. I would definitely recommend giving this a go; you might like me be pleasantly surprised… Expand
  6. Decaymoss
    May 27, 2014
    6
    Very hyped and overall shallow game despite it being a sandbox. Controls are awkward and most of the missions are not impressive. There is nothing new here that you have not done in GTA. Multiplier is interesting for the first few hours but the fever dies down really quickly as there is little replay value.
  7. Mahdiar
    Dec 12, 2015
    7
    Gameplay : 7
    Graphics : 8
    Story : 6
    Sound : 9
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    Overall : 7
  8. braindamage
    May 18, 2015
    6
    its not the worst game Ive ever played, and im not sure what people are complaining about I got it for free and it was something that kept me entertained back in the summer of 14
  9. cristiadu
    Sep 16, 2014
    5
    Honestly, it does give you the feeling of "I wish I could do more". All the hacking is a little bit repetitive, and you cannot have most of the things you can get on GTA V. It was supposed to be a open world game with unlimited possibilities, but in fact the game just always sound a little bit annoying, and with the same AI GTA Vice City had. The car accidents fade away in the moment youHonestly, it does give you the feeling of "I wish I could do more". All the hacking is a little bit repetitive, and you cannot have most of the things you can get on GTA V. It was supposed to be a open world game with unlimited possibilities, but in fact the game just always sound a little bit annoying, and with the same AI GTA Vice City had. The car accidents fade away in the moment you change streets (literally, you just go to the other street, go back, and everything disappeared). The voices are repetitive, the character is not so enjoyable, etc... It is all about playing 30 minutes, and already getting sick of the game.

    Worst 50 dollars product that I've ever paid.    … Expand
  10. Amitashi
    Apr 12, 2015
    7
    Most realistic open world game I played. Car driving is smooth. Music is very good. Characters that won't leave you indifferent. Beautiful city, weather changes, daytimes change. Hacking features are really special thing of this game.
  11. jelikey
    Sep 12, 2015
    9
    A great game, with good story line, good characters, and a lot of realism, where the enemies kill you with 4 or 5 shoots, Not another GTA or another Saint Row, where the only grace is to kill anyone in an easy way.
  12. lonewolfs2
    Sep 29, 2014
    5
    le jeu n'est pas mauvais, mais il n'est pas bon non plus... il est moyen en tout sauf pour les graphismes qui sont horriblement moche, sauf avec le fameux mod qui ameliore tous cela MAIS au prix oú on achete le jeu j´aurais voulu avoir ce resultat au debut lors de l´achat, sans mod...

    j´ai abandonner apres 20 h de jeu . j´espere qu´il se rattraperont pour le numero 2, mais hors de    le jeu n'est pas mauvais, mais il n'est pas bon non plus... il est moyen en tout sauf pour les graphismes qui sont horriblement moche, sauf avec le fameux mod qui ameliore tous cela MAIS au prix oú on achete le jeu j´aurais voulu avoir ce resultat au debut lors de l´achat, sans mod...

    j´ai abandonner apres 20 h de jeu . j´espere qu´il se rattraperont pour le numero 2, mais hors de question de precommander encore cette serie, j´attendrai la sortie et les avis !    … Expand
  13. iropan
    Apr 22, 2015
    5
    This game is made to look good in screen-shots, but the game mechanics are very clunky, combat is frustrating and jerky, and so is driving. Watch Dogs doesn't bring anything new to the table. Everything here has been done better by other games, and what's worst of all, Watch Dogs is never fun.
  14. PJChem
    Oct 4, 2015
    8
    Great game, love it :) Funny but with so many bugs that sometimes is a little frustrating. It's a good ideia, with lots of funny things to do, the graphics are OK, and the gameplay os good.
  15. renogza
    Dec 27, 2015
    5
    Horribly unoptimised for the PC. Chugs along like a fat guy with asthma. Add to that the horrible police rubberbanding (which makes it utterly impossible to ever, EVER lose the cops unless you have a gadget to prevent them spotting you in the first place. Just not fun.
  16. MrRino
    Mar 4, 2016
    7
    The game is good, graphics are ok, I liked the story and the abilities of hacks, but driving is really bad in all vehicles, shooting is not bad too, so generally it's not bad
  17. Para_Normal
    Jul 12, 2021
    10
    game super sangat bagus akan bermain lagi dan juga merekomendasikan kepada orang lain
  18. coldblueyes
    Jul 12, 2021
    10
    lojë super shumë e bukur do të luante përsëri dhe gjithashtu do t'u rekomandonte të tjerëve
  19. Rondalh
    Sep 18, 2021
    10
    Watch Dogs 2 was absolutely awful and i was really disappointed in basically everything they did with Watch Dogs 2. But Watch Dogs 1 is absolutely amazing and one of the most enjoyable games Ubisoft has ever made. Highly recommending, if you like GTA 4 or GTA 5.
  20. Krysen
    May 28, 2014
    6
    Again Ubisoft showed us that they can't produce an open world game.

    You just have a few oppurtunities and after 4 Hours playing, i had every hacking skill. The story is boring, protect your sister, save the child, take revenge. Just like a bad movie, it feels like ubisoft took the easiest reason to kill people, REVENGE in a bad way. The Graphics is good at night, but i hate the    Again Ubisoft showed us that they can't produce an open world game.

    You just have a few oppurtunities and after 4 Hours playing, i had every hacking skill.

    The story is boring, protect your sister, save the child, take revenge. Just like a bad movie, it feels like ubisoft took the easiest reason to kill people, REVENGE in a bad way.

    The Graphics is good at night, but i hate the plastic Faces of most of the characters, it should be better for a new generation game.

    The driving mechanics also feels terrible, and if u want to adjust the camera, sometimes it just jumps way too far.

    The killing animation with the baton is always the same and sneaking feels terrible because of it. I dont think hitting someone with a baton is silent and you can't stranglehold someone for a shooting. Its not much but it should be possible.

    There are plenty good open world games, which have more to do, better animation even if they are some years older. I just dont understand why Ubisoft isnt able to make a game with penty more features. Like every other game of ubisoft u can discover everything in Act 1 and test every hacking skill.
    And after that there is nothing more to discover    … Expand
  21. lolmaster3267
    Jul 11, 2014
    0
    Hmm........Needs MoreHmm........Needs More Dogs................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................… Expand
  22. Jezzer1801
    May 27, 2015
    10
    I don't get why all the reviews are so bad. Yes I know it didn't live up to it's expectations and hype, but what can you do. You can do so many fun things and haven't you wanted to do this stuff in a game?
    It's still a good game, but everyone is fussing too much about the graphics not being the same as at E3 2012.
    Just get over it, it's still one of 2014's best games (in my opinion).
  23. MajikkijaM
    Jul 3, 2015
    10
    For me, this was the best game of 2015. I finished it on X1 and now playing it on PC using high settings, and let me tell you, it's the best looking next gen open world game I have played. The multiplayer is really fun and there are alot of ppl playing(7-2-15), I find matches instantly. The 1v1 hacking is soooo fun, it's like hide and seek with guns!! Tons of sidequests. Very destructableFor me, this was the best game of 2015. I finished it on X1 and now playing it on PC using high settings, and let me tell you, it's the best looking next gen open world game I have played. The multiplayer is really fun and there are alot of ppl playing(7-2-15), I find matches instantly. The 1v1 hacking is soooo fun, it's like hide and seek with guns!! Tons of sidequests. Very destructable environment where everything smashes to pieces in a realistic way. Keep in mind there are very realistic adult things in this game. My only gripe....no planes or heli. 10/10… Expand
  24. cobblers76
    Dec 6, 2015
    0
    The developers spent their money on marketing rather than making a good game.

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

    DO NOT BUY THIS GAME.
  25. SuperkenGaming
    Sep 29, 2016
    9
    Watch_Dogs
    A Great game with inexcusable flaws
    Watch Dogs unfortunately suffers from hype... It promised amazing graphics and a deep open world, this is never achieved, but the 18 hour campaign featured here is one of the best open world campaigns I’ve played in a while.. Watch Dogs is a 3r5d person open world shooter game with a dash of puzzle… You play as Aiden Pierce trying to get    Watch_Dogs
    A Great game with inexcusable flaws
    Watch Dogs unfortunately suffers from hype...
    It promised amazing graphics and a deep open world, this is never achieved, but the 18 hour campaign featured here is one of the best open world campaigns I’ve played in a while..
    Watch Dogs is a 3r5d person open world shooter game with a dash of puzzle…
    You play as Aiden Pierce trying to get to the bottom of his Nieces murder…
    The story telling in Watch Dogs is great… Especially when your focus changes from your niece to someone else that I won’t mention to prevent spoilers, but I feel like the transition was perfect due to that connection… it makes you care... it keeps you pushing forward… but at the same time you’re still going after everyone involved in the initial hit…
    And again the writing and introduction to each character in the story is so great that you’ll either really love or really hate someone… you feel pierces emotion personally which creates a great deal of immersion in this story..
    To get information on locations you have to hack into buildings and severs…
    And there’s freedom in the way you can approach this…
    Watch Dogs works great as a 3rd person shooter with an intuitive cover system… an easy to access weapons wheel, tons of weapon variety, a great amount of ammo and crafting parts for bombs… a great stealth system to silently take enemies down or take them out with a silenced pistol…
    Or you can hack cameras and explosives…
    I personally had the most fun jumping from camera to camera, waiting for opportunities to explode fuse boxes, trigger alarms for a takedown set up… activating the grenades inside of enemy pockets…
    Many times during the story I didn’t have to fire a single bullet to get everything I came for..
    I hopped from camera to camera hacked into the system and left…
    Hacking here is very simple and comes down to a pipe type puzzle of feeding a blue line into other pieces and unlocking them. And these sections are the only mandatory hacking sections as again you can just play as a third person shooter if you’d like…
    Outside of the 18 hour campaign though is the open world of Chicago and unfortunately the open world is the weakest aspect in the entire game…
    Think of this more as a hub world to extend play time by spreading out mission locations, because ubisoft took 0 note in crafting this open world as it has issues in its open world I haven’t ran into since the PlayStation 2….
    Cars will disappear from where you left them if you run into a building to start a mission and come back out…
    During chases you have to ram cars to stop them or hack the world around you... which is actually a great deal of fun during intense chases, to blow up streets, raise bridges and road blocks while youre chasing or being chased by the police…
    But you cant shoot out of your window to shoot out tires despite enemies being able to shoot while driving…
    Another annoyance with these chase missions is that if you do get the person youre chasing stuck, you cant just pull them out of the vehicle theyre in… the only way to continue is shoot them through the window or get back into your car and ram them until they get out…
    This isn’t too annoying in story, but is highly annoying in online play when you have a random player trying to hack you…
    You can turn this feature off, but anyone at any time can enter your world and you can do the same entering there’s for rep, or co-op and competitive fun like races…
    But again these are real people... not ai controlled enemies, so trying to get a head shot on someone in a vehicles is much harder to do in this instance…
    And then theres hacking npcs to profile them…. To stop crimes from happening before they happen... I personally didn’t enjoy this aspect at all, I found it to be shallow filler and had no interest in doing random chases as again the campaign created such a great deal of urgency that it created tunnel vision for me…
    While Wacth_Dogs didn’t deliver the ground breaking experience it promised.. If you can look past those promises for what it actually is, it’s a great game with a great story.
    I give Watch_Dogs
    an 8.5/10    … Expand
  26. mcplums
    Dec 21, 2014
    9
    I am a bit confused about the generally negative response of this game. I absolutely loved it. As far as I could tell, it was am improved version of GTA5, which was unanimously adored.

    Reasons I enjoyed it more than GTA: 1) The hacking is AMAZING. Completely innovative and completely fun at the same time. Raising bollards so a chasing car smashes into them was incredibly satisfying.    I am a bit confused about the generally negative response of this game. I absolutely loved it. As far as I could tell, it was am improved version of GTA5, which was unanimously adored.

    Reasons I enjoyed it more than GTA:

    1) The hacking is AMAZING. Completely innovative and completely fun at the same time. Raising bollards so a chasing car smashes into them was incredibly satisfying. Scouting an area by going camera to camera was a genius idea. Playing GTA after getting used to the hacking felt like playing with a hand behind your back.

    2) I actually liked Aiden, he felt like a good guy, unlike Trevor who was a dick. I don't like playing as the bad guy.

    3) The raw gameplay was simply more fun, I think largely due to the hacking mechanic. Whether driving through the city or in a shoot out, this game was simply more enjoyable. I will admit that the gameplay was less varied in this game compared to GTA5 (many of the campaign missions were simply repackaged side quests), but I value fun more than variety.

    4) My favorite part were the hideouts (like outposts in Far Cry 3+4). They were absolutely fantastic, and there is no equivalent in GTA5. They were so good it seemed a shame to relegate them to side quests to be honest. I also enjoyed the CTOS towers bits (similar to towers, again in Far Cry) they were similar to hideouts except more puzzle based than shooting based. Brilliant.

    5) Learning the career and salary of everyone you walked past was another genius touch, and really made it feel more immersive.

    The reason this isn't a ten is due to the plausible complaints that the PC graphics were held back to stop showing up the consoles. This isn't cool. Hopefully Ubisoft have learnt from the negative feedback and won't do it again.    … Expand
  27. gamer888
    Apr 18, 2015
    10
    One of the best games out there, maybe most similar to Deus Ex HR or Splinter Cell.Choice of how to play missions, both shooting and stealth gameplay are good and you can customize your character according to your gameplay style. Has some GTA style car chases but much more complex and challenging, where you hack into stuff to take out your pursuers, and yes at the touch of a button whichOne of the best games out there, maybe most similar to Deus Ex HR or Splinter Cell.Choice of how to play missions, both shooting and stealth gameplay are good and you can customize your character according to your gameplay style. Has some GTA style car chases but much more complex and challenging, where you hack into stuff to take out your pursuers, and yes at the touch of a button which some people have a big problem with. Story is ok, mainly about someone who wants to get revenge on a killer and ends up killing a fair few people himself, partly depending how you play him. Maybe the dialogue and characters aren't that great but it's better than some movies.

    Some good mini games that are like separate Android phone games , and other side missions that are more about game play than story.And the graphics are fine, I also only encountered one major bug that didn't affect the game at all.

    I don't understand the hate this game gets, seems like people felt for some reason that they had been promised a perfect game and got upset when it wasn't, just ignore them and get it, if you like games there is a lot to enjoy, I think in the end it has turned out to be a very underrated game, can't wait for WD2.    … Expand
  28. Masterhummel
    May 27, 2014
    6
    There's not that much to say about the graphic controversity. The game looks good, no doubt, but not nearly as good as in the E3 Trailers, Launch Trailer or Steam Shop Page Screenshots. By all means, this form of false advertising has to stop. Also, getting hours less of playtime because i didnt bought the "Digitale Deluxe" Edition is just wrong and should not be supported.

    For the game    There's not that much to say about the graphic controversity. The game looks good, no doubt, but not nearly as good as in the E3 Trailers, Launch Trailer or Steam Shop Page Screenshots. By all means, this form of false advertising has to stop. Also, getting hours less of playtime because i didnt bought the "Digitale Deluxe" Edition is just wrong and should not be supported.

    For the game itself, its your average GTA style game. The story is very odd and inconsistent. The one moment i beat someone up with a basbeall bat, then i'm visiting my nephew, then i'm suddenly Badass McBadBat again. The side Missions are extremly dull and usually consist of dozens of heavily armed dudes getting thrown at you. You have whole military-like mob convoys driving trough the city. Whoever runs the city is probably the worst police state in the history of gaming.

    The gameplay is uber-realistic. You have a three meter turn radius, every car handles like a formula one car that has tanked cerosine and the gunplay is quite odd. That said, there are good things in watchdogs and its fun to **** around with the city, but its not enough to keep me want to play it.

    In the end, Watch_Dogs is not a bad game. Its just extremely average.    … Expand
  29. Pickle-Tickler
    May 27, 2014
    6
    Does this game live up to the hype? No. Does it deserve a zero score? Absolutely fu**ing not.
    People giving this game a zero score need to go have a cry, this game is still a fairly decent game, it's no GTA by a long shot, but still one of the best games this year. Is it downgraded since the 2012 E3 footage, yes. But im'm not one to care too much for graphics. I must admit the driving is    Does this game live up to the hype? No. Does it deserve a zero score? Absolutely fu**ing not.
    People giving this game a zero score need to go have a cry, this game is still a fairly decent game, it's no GTA by a long shot, but still one of the best games this year. Is it downgraded since the 2012 E3 footage, yes. But im'm not one to care too much for graphics. I must admit the driving is god awful and I get constant frame skips whilst driving so I had to lower the texture quality from High to Medium even though the game runs really smooth whilst on foot. Controlling driving is probably the worst I have seen in a third person open world game ever, EVER, even with a gamepad. Besides driving, the game is really solid, the world feels alive, and with the help of the profiler gadget, it really helps humanise the NPC's. The hacking game mechanic is a really nice feature and can cause some really amazing action sequences and cop chase strategies. Stealth is really fun, gunplay is nice and smooth, haven't finished the story mode yet but from what I've played it's not too bad. Do I recommend you get this game? Probably not. At it's current price of $75 (Australia), wait for the price to go down, or save your money for the upcoming steam sale.    … Expand
  30. JaydenPickens
    May 22, 2019
    5
    The game isn't bad, but it isn't good either. It lacks identity, the only thing, that Watch Dogs has that is original is the hacking stuff... and yeah it was fun, but the game is really boring. Like, I finished it few months ago and I can't recall almost anything from it... the game is just average. Heard the sequel is better, gonna play it in 2022 when I'll have time. Pickens yawns.
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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.
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