If the player steals a car, its driver can summon the police if the player has a good reputation, the driver may acquiesce. The car radio is customizable, with about fifty songs.
The player has an array of vehicles with which to navigate the setting, including motorcycles, muscle cars, off-road vehicles, SUVs, luxury vehicles, sports cars, and speedboats. Pearce can scale vertical surfaces, hack forklifts and aerial work platforms to reach places otherwise unreachable, and can crouch behind walls to hide from enemies.
Lethal and non-lethal mission approaches can be enacted. There is a slow motion option for gunplay, and the player can use proximity IEDs, grenades, and electronic lures. For melee combat, Pearce has an extensible truncheon other combat uses handguns, shotguns, sniper rifles, machine guns, and grenade launchers. It has a day-night cycle and dynamic weather system, which changes the behavior of non-player characters (NPCs). The game is set in a fictionalized version of Chicago ("Windy City"), an open world environment which permits free-roaming. System hacking involves the solving of puzzles. 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. Watch Dogs is an action-adventure game, played from a third-person view. A third game, Watch Dogs: Legion, is in development. The game has shipped over 10 million copies its sequel, Watch Dogs 2, was released in November 2016. 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. Upon release, it received a polarized reception praise was directed at the gameplay, mission and open world design, combat system, hacking elements and mission variety, while criticism was expressed concerning the discrepancy in graphics quality between marketing and the real game, along with the plot and protagonist being less well-received. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Wii U in 2014. The score was composed by Brian Reitzell, who infused it with krautrock.įollowing its announcement in June 2012, Watch Dogs was widely anticipated. Hacking features were created in consultation with the cyber-security company Kaspersky Lab, and the in-game control system was based on SCADA. The developers visited Chicago to conduct field research on the setting, and used regional language for authenticity. Duties were shared by many of Ubisoft's studios worldwide, with more than a thousand people involved. An online multiplayer mode allows up to eight players to engage in cooperative and competitive gameplay.ĭevelopment of the game began in 2009, and continued for over five years. The game is played from a third-person perspective, and the world is navigated on foot or by vehicle. Set in a fictionalized version of Chicago, the plot follows hacker Aiden Pearce's search for revenge after the killing of his niece. Watch Dogs (stylized as WATCH_DOGS) is a 2014 action-adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.
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