It's attitude is interesting and not nearly as shallow as it appears from the marketing, but it's never as cool as Mr Robot or as cynical as The Circle. There are other features that are either over or under developed. Hey, at least you can stick meme decals on them. You want to bring down The Man by hacking into corporate websites, by stealing music and setting it free, and by, err, shooting hundreds of cops and guards dead with 3D printed machines guns. I'd incapacitated a few guards with a taser on the way, but when they saw me with my laptop out? They threw hand grenades at me. On my very first introductory mission in Watch Dogs 2 I had to hack a mainframe computer (or something). This is compounded by the fact that the AI in Watch Dogs 2 is so comically aggressive. Stealth is rarely a viable option in Watch Dogs 2. The more guards you knock out, the higher the chances of being discovered, and more guards are called in. And as soon as one is discovered the guards go full-on alert.

I wanted to go the stealth route but just like the first game you can't hide bodies. But the actual game? It's clunky as hell. I've had fun wandering around messing up the city, causing chaos, exploring, listening to the mad locals. The open world of Watch Dogs 2 is excellent. Why not wait until the inevitable and almost immediate price cuts?Īll the above are interesting little theories, but may I present my own? The game isn't very good. The market is saturated, games are expensive and less people are buying games on day one. Was it the fact that AAA games are dying for other reasons? Sales have been low for Dishonored 2, Titanfall 2 and now Watch Dogs 2, and as everyone knows, three is a trend. Maybe those loons on Kotaku in Action are right: Ubisoft shouldn't have bowed to SJWs and feminist agendas, injecting politics into our hobby. Here's a bunch of millennials flipping the bird at pretend-Facebook while 3D printing their own weapons, running their own social media revolution armed with lethal Nerf guns. Out go the dark conspiracies and in come the dayglo self-referential hipster gags. Or is it the change of tone over the original, as Watch Dogs 2 finds some much-needed humour. Was it due to the seemingly broken promises of the first Watch Dogs, which many expected to be the first 'real' Xbox One and PS4 game of the generation, only to believe that Ubisoft had 'downgraded' it from its rapturous E3 reveal in time for release day? Gamers won't be fooled again! Uh-oh, there goes any chance of Watch Dogs 3.

There's been a fair bit of soul-searching about the poor initial sales of Watch Dogs 2 this week, as news filtered out that it sold 80 percent less than the first game in its first week. 'Here’s a bunch of millennials flipping the bird at pretend-Facebook while 3D printing their own weapons, running their own social media revolution armed with lethal Nerf guns'

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