Following its announcement in June , Watch Dogs was widely anticipated. Upon release, it received a mixed reception; praise was directed at the game's hacking elements and mission variety, while criticism was expressed concerning the discrepancy in graphics quality between marketing and the real game, plot, and protagonist. Watch Dogs was a commercial success, breaking the record for the biggest first-day sales of a Ubisoft game and becoming the biggest launch of a new intellectual property in the United Kingdom at the time. The game has shipped over 10 million copies; its sequel, Watch Dogs 2 , was released in November Watch Dogs is an action-adventure game , played from a third-person view.
The player controls hacker Aiden Pearce, who uses his smartphone to control trains and traffic lights, infiltrate security systems, jam cellphones, access pedestrians' private information, and empty their bank accounts. Pearce can scale vertical surfaces, hack forklifts and aerial work platforms to reach places otherwise unreachable, [14] and can crouch behind walls to hide from enemies. A good reputation may be gained by detecting and stopping crimes, and a bad reputation results from committing crimes.
The player can also be hacked by others, who will perceive the target as an NPC leaving the target to find the perpetrator. In-game invasions can be disabled, but this will reset the multiplayer skill rank to zero. In October , hacker Aiden Pearce and his mentor and partner, Damien Brenks, conduct an electronic bank heist at the high-end Merlaut Hotel in Chicago and trigger a silent alarm set by another hacker. Brenks tries to find the hacker, giving himself and Pearce away. Fearing for his family, Pearce drives them to safety in the guise of a surprise trip to the country. On the way, hitman Maurice Vega fires a gunshot which crashes the car; Pearce's niece lapses into a coma and dies.
After a fruitless interrogation about Vega's contractor he leaves Vega in the hands of his partner, Jordi Chin. While investigating, Brenks approaches Pearce with a request to find the other hacker from the Merlaut job. Pearce refuses, and Brenks retaliates by kidnapping his younger sister, which forces Pearce to comply with Brenks' demands.
With the help of Clara Lille, a member of the hacking syndicate DedSec, Pearce tracks down the second hacker—gang leader and former soldier Delford 'Iraq' Wade—and obtains a data sample from Wade's servers. He and Lille discover that Wade has information on almost every citizen of Chicago, protecting his gang from the authorities. When they come across encrypted data beyond Lille's ability she tells Pearce to find Raymond Kenney, whose hacking caused the Northeast blackout of which led to the implementation of the ctOS operating system.
After meeting Pearce and completing several tasks for him, Kenney agrees to help decrypt the data. Pearce assaults Wade's compound, and downloads its server data. Wade confronts him, but Pearce kills him and leaves the compound. Another hacker, JB "Defalt" Markowicz, infiltrates their system, steals the information and deletes it from their servers. Markowicz leaves a recording that discloses Lille's involvement in locating Pearce and Brenks during the Merlaut job, which resulted in the death of Pearce's niece.
Pearce angrily tells Lille to leave. When the authorities later confront Brenks about the loss of the server data, he tells them Pearce's identity. Pearce and Kenney find and take down Markowicz, retrieving the data in a car chase. Pearce discovers where his sister is being held, frees her, and they drive to nearby Pawnee for safety.
Kenney finds the contractor who ordered the hit on Pearce's niece: Dermot Quinn, owner of the Merlaut Hotel. Pearce confronts Quinn, shutting off his pacemaker by hacking it. The dying Quinn says that he ordered the hit because he thought Pearce was searching for secret video footage of Mayor Donovan Rushmore with whom Quinn is associated , who accidentally murdered his secretary when she threatened to expose his dealings with Quinn.
After Quinn dies, Pearce races to Lille who is ambushed and gunned down by Brenks' men. Pearce uploads the video of Mayor Rushmore. He tries to find Brenks, who has unlocked ctOS giving him access to the city. Pearce infects ctOS with a virus which shuts down the system, causing a citywide blackout. He thus reaches Brenks, who is hiding in a lighthouse. Chin arrives, saying that he has switched allegiance, but Pearce injures him and kills Brenks. Chin calls Pearce one last time to tell him where Vega is kept; Pearce heads there, and decides his fate. Watch Dogs runs on the game engine Disrupt, which developer Ubisoft Montreal created for it [29] although it was originally intended for another game in the Driver franchise.
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Regional colloquialisms specific to Chicago were added to give the game authenticity. The developer traveled to the city several times for field research, photos, recording audio, meeting people, and interviewing the Chicago Police Department to gain insight. Landmarks were designed to only resemble their real-life counterparts, because their artistic rights would have tripled the budget. Fictionalizing Chicago allowed them to fit several district themes on one map. The developers noted that character movements in games like Assassin's Creed were the same in every situation, and attempted to rectify this in Watch Dogs to contextualize protagonist Aiden Pearce.
Grand Theft Auto and Saints Row were studied to develop complex controls, so the core hacking mechanic was limited to a single button. Four collector's editions were available, [43] and the GameStop pre-order version contained a poster by Alex Ross. Watch Dogs ' graphics and innovation impressed after the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
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According to Ubisoft researcher Thomas Geffroyd, studies and quantitative analysis indicated that about sixty percent of gamers changed their view of technology after playing Watch Dogs. His favorite feature was the extra content, like collectibles and minigames. He found that the variety of gameplay and environments in the campaign missions provided an "entertaining" experience.
VanOrd said that the story only flourished when it left behind the "revenge-story cliches", and he felt more attached to supporting characters than to Aiden Pearce.
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He praised the game's open world, particularly its extra content. At GamesRadar , Andy Hartup said he enjoyed the set pieces and individual missions: He praised the setting's details which he thought revealed "the city's true beauty" , and called the combat and hacking "satisfying". He also enjoyed the combat: Carter was dissatisfied with the story, citing "lifeless" characters and calling the plot's events "fairly predictable and cliched"; the graphics were thought inferior to the game's marketing footage.
Hartup criticized the main character, calling him "a bit of a dullard", and faulted the story for its reliance on "unimaginative stereotypes ". Watch Dogs was Ubisoft's most pre-ordered new intellectual property IP , their second-highest pre-ordered title, the most pre-ordered game of the year more than , copies , and the most pre-ordered game for the eighth generation of video game consoles.
The company's executives predicted over 6. The day it was released, Watch Dogs sold the most copies of any Ubisoft title in a hour period.
Most sales were for PlayStation 4, whose hardware sales increased by 94 percent because of Watch Dogs. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the video game. For other uses, see Watchdog. November 18, AU: November 20, EU: Archived from the original on October 1, First interview with the Ubisoft studio's new MD". Archived from the original on February 26, Archived from the original on October 12, Ubisoft Reveals Watch Dogs". Archived from the original on May 17, That man is Don Nico Moretti, the head of the Moretti crime family and the deadliest Mafioso Chicago has ever cowered to, and his carnival ride of terror has just begun.
No one is safe from his twisted games. Those caught in this deadly game must turn to the police for salvation. But who do the police turn to when something so deadly stalks the night? They turn to the only man who can walk that grayish line between good and evil. They turn to a man who dines with the saints by day and sips wine with the sinners by night. They will turn to Detective James McCoy, an infamous detective with alleged mob ties and a bloody chip on his shoulder for a district attorney who has done him wrong.
With the mafia forging a trail of blood and District Attorney Calvin Flynn's murder case against Moretti falling apart limb by bloody limb, something must be done. Nico Moretti must not win again. He must not skate on the charges brought against him in a court of law.
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