{"id":3106,"date":"2014-07-01T14:36:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T21:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cpgaming.gg\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2023-11-30T17:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T01:22:30","slug":"watch_dogs-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/watch_dogs-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch_Dogs Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ubisoft set the bar incredibly high when they first showcased Watch Dogs back in 2012. Gamers everywhere were jumping on the hype-train expecting this to be one of the biggest games of the year. Therefore it was natural for the gaming community to have high expectations for the game. The real question is, did the game live up to its hype?<\/p>\n

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Watch Dogs is an action-packed, role-playing adventure game that would be the perfect offspring of Assassin\u2019s Creed and Grand Theft Auto. You play as middle-aged hacker, Aiden Pearce, a vigilante in the city of Chicago, fighting crime while working to discover the conductors behind the murder of his niece. Throughout the storyline, Aiden has trust issues and struggles to find an area of balance where he can be involved in his remaining family\u2019s life while putting them out of harm\u2019s way. Though his origin story touched my heart, it was honestly non-unique to that of a common comic book Batman. Pearce acts as a typical Byronic hero refusing help from everybody and acting above the law to achieve his goals. Aiden’s character makes him both easy to hate and easy to love, forcing you, the player, to get emotional at times when he hurts the most.<\/p>\n

It appears that Ubisoft wished to produce a modern-day Assassin\u2019s Creed, but couldn’t just give their protagonist a gun and a knife (honestly, that\u2019d be pretty stupid). Therefore they gave him a weapon that provided for both a realistic and futuristic feel: a cell phone.<\/p>\n

Ubisoft’s choice of main weaponry acts as a double-edged sword. I love the ability to utilize modern day weapons, instead of just having the typical pistol\/bayonet offered to me in previous Assassin\u2019s Creed games. I especially relished in the use of the cell phone bringing a plethora of abilities to the table. However, it made the gameplay incredibly linear throughout the main story. Hacking acted as a one-trick-pony impressing me the first time using it, but became incredibly standard, and almost tedious, throughout.<\/p>\n

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Then we have the car scenes, which is where GTA comes in. Having the protagonist drive throughout a large bulk of your gameplay, the game does an excellent job adding features and keeping consistent every time you jump into a vehicle. Be it a motorcycle, a sport\u2019s car or an ice cream truck, the driving parts of the game were seldom boring. However, the only time it did get tiresome was when the game had pursuit missions or escape objectives that, I personally, would prefer the game without. Having said that, the ability to operate on your phone and hack into the environment around you while being in your vehicle presents a new twist to the driving sequence that I argue overshadow any negatives anybody could have with the motorized portions of the game.
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\nWhen we talk about the graphics, the game looks visually sound on the PC. There were some initial complaints about the graphics looking better during the gameplay at E3 in 2012\/13, but after installing patches that would mirror the expectations gamers had after the 2012 debut, there wasn’t an insane amount of difference. Yes, the new patched version of the game looked a lot more realistic and the detail was on point, but personally gave me more of a headache than anything else that I found myself switching the graphics back to the original version to finish the rest of the game. Perhaps it\u2019s because of my lack of experience playing on a PC but hey, to each their own.<\/p>\n

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The plot was overall very well-designed. Each character had their unique look making all of them memorable in the eyes of the players. The Chicago setting was at first incredibly questionable to me, but after playing the game, it made perfect sense that a city with high-levels of crime be involved in this game. After all, who’s to say cyber-crime can\u2019t be involved with all the violence? (Aiden can back me up on this). Furthermore, the city is lurking with dark secrets that one can only unravel if they really dive into the personality of each bystander, something that Aiden\u2019s phone does for you. The storyline, though engaging and addictive, was also incredibly predictable. Because of it being the first of its series, Watch Dogs has an excuse for having an incredibly clich\u00e9 playthrough. I was able to predict the entire story layout and conclusion by the end of the First Act. I can only hope the second installment will have a plot that truly throws the player off-track.<\/p>\n

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All-in-all Watch Dogs is an amazing game to purchase and I would recommend for anyone to give it a shot. It\u2019s a fresh, original concept that allows the player to experience a current setting with a not-so-average perspective. The gameplay itself doesn’t have enough features to matchup to most crime-fighting RPGs, but is unique and different to the point where getting consecutive headshots still gives the gamer that satisfying feeling. The characters are easy to fall in love with and are all memorable even when your eyes aren’t glued to the screen, and although each of them are predictable, they\u2019ll be kept on your mind until the entire 40 hour ordeal is finished. The game is graphically amazing with a butt-kicking soundtrack to back it up, and if you\u2019re somebody who respects the realism in games, Watch Dogs is a must play for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ubisoft set the bar incredibly high when they first showcased Watch Dogs back in 2012. Gamers everywhere were jumping on the hype-train expecting this to be one of the biggest games of the year. Therefore it was natural for the gaming community to have high expectations for the game. The real question is, did the… Read More »Watch_Dogs Review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2732],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3106"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3231,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions\/3231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}