Watch Dogs

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One-button hacking might be overly simplistic, but it does give you abilities that make playing through Aiden’s story feel powerful and fun. Doing side missions and multiplayer as you make your way through the dark and lengthy story makes it feel like a huge adventure, and stealth options let you play smart if you prefer. Car chases aside, Watch Dogs is fundamentally very well made, and has more than enough unique ideas to make it a great and memorable open-world action game.

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Despite the fact that Watch Dogs hasn’t made any meaningful impact on the genre, I found myself having a ton of fun with it. Between the deep levels of customization and the sheer breadth of content, there’s no shortage of things to do. If Ubisoft can take the game’s core fun factor and marry it with an actual “next-gen” experience the next time around, they’ll have something truly special.

Watch Dogs on PS4 executes fresh gameplay ideas with aplomb, marking one of the first games of this new generation of consoles to innovate within its genre. It's a slower, smarter sandbox shooter with an astounding degree of content, but despite resonant themes of technological overbearance, its poorly handled story likely won't grip you.

If you were expecting Watch Dogs to take the genre in new directions then you’re going to be sorely disappointed. With that being said, Watch Dogs is still an engaging and often times surprising action game. The hacking component doesn’t offer a lot of depth despite it being such a big theme in the game, but there are plenty of moments where it adds a refreshing spin on a few of those same old, open-world tropes. It’s well-crafted, highly polished and a very strong debut for a new franchise. We’re going to be seeing a lot of Watch Dogs in the future, and that’s a far more exciting prospect tha...

Ever since its announcement and reveal back at E3 2012, Ubisoft's Watch Dogs has ironically been held under close inspection. A sandbox adventure with a focus on hacking, it's an ambitious game that's chocked full of ideas and mechanics taken from some of the publisher's other properties and various open world titles. If you took Assassin's Creed and mashed it together with Splinter Cell before adding a hefty dollop of Grand Theft Auto, you'd essentially end up with Watch Dogs – but is this Chicago-based romp better or worse than the sum of its parts?

It's been a long time since any game caused so much controversy before its premiere as Watch_Dogs. We take Ubisoft's sandbox to the workshop and check whether unleashed dogs really deserve such frothing at the mouth.

The core gameplay of Watch Dogs is very entertaining (and relatively unique), but the overall package is harmed by numerous detractions.

“Watch Dogs makes up for a snooze-worthy story with heaping amounts of smartly designed diversions scattered around its gorgeous open world.”

Undoubtedly enjoyable, but it won't linger long in the memory.

Watch Dogs shines when it relies on its own ideas, but is ultimately held back by its more conventional approach.