Has anyone played Watch Dogs? If so, what did you think of the game?

Overall fairly enjoyable but it did suffer a little from the Ubi "collect em up!" mentality.

Combat was satisfying, driving was good and the snooping on peoples phones made walking about quite interesting.

Id give it a 7 out of ten.

It's open-world driving with a car radio, my favorite kind of game for relaxation, but now with traffic-hacking so any cops who don't like how I drive can get into car crashes of their very own.

The story is an edge-lord garbage-fest where no-chemistry hack-boy is on a generic vengeance streak. All the most fun Ubisoft games have shite stories, but at least this one dodged the undeserved good reputation of Far Cry 3.

It is like a bland Ubisoft GTA clone with a neat one-button-hack feature. I like it.

WD1 was good, but not great. Gameplay's a blast w/ its mixture of GTA-Like (open-world 3rd person action/adventure/shooter with vehicles to drive); UbiSoft open-world stuff; and some stealth type of gameplay & hacking stuff - but the rest is a mess in the non-gameplay dept.

Story, narrative, plot, and the cliches of it all are all kinds of "meh" - and Aiden's a not-so-good 1-dimensional Batman wannabe. I don't know - but UbiSoft was somewhat on a roll w/ "meh" characters w/ Connor from AC3, Jason Brody from FC3, and Aiden from WD1. They also don't do much w/ a lot of aspects and things they present, but should be commenting on here - i.e. piracy, hacking, mistreating people, and other stuff.

Bad Blood DLC was good though; T-Bone and his friend are WAY more interesting than Aiden.

WD2 was awesome and is a major improvement in a lot of my complaints about WD1 - characters are way more interesting; more dimensions to them; game can be very funny and not as serious. Also, you can now to non-lethal attacks and takedowns, too - which is great. San Francisco's also a really cool place for this game to be set in, also - easily the best WD game.

WD: Legion's a mess. Story and plot's even worse than WD1, since you can recruit anyone. Game's very repetitive for many characters since you can recruit anyone and for their "special" missions too & whatnot. Worst game in the franchise by far. It's okay, but you're even better off w/ WD1 here IMHO.

IMHO: WD2 > WD1 > WD: Legion.

All of the game's required when they launched a beast of a PC to run and for them to look amazing - so make sure you're well beyond what the game's requirements, when you run them. They are were demanding upon release and are VRAM-hogs, especially at higher settings. For example, expect to eat 3-4GB VRAM or so at 1080p on WD1 maxed-out and WD :Legion eats all of my 8gb VRAM on my 3070 at 1080p...and that's not maxed-out. To max that out, I'd likely need 10gb+ of VRAM, as the in-game indicator suggests when I throw it to max. RIDICULOUS.

I've never been that wild about Watchog

I don't think WD1 was very good. The gameplay is okay, but it has some pretty poor driving imo. Can't say much about it. I dropped it after a few hours.

But WD2 is great, and I did play it to the end, along with some of its DLC missions. Overall much better gameplay in all aspects, and the world is a lot more colorful and vibrant compared to the more dark and serious tone of WD1.

I thought it was supposed to be Chicago?

Nope, it's called Detroit all throughout. The giant shiny donut gives it away too.

Edit: For those of you too stupid to scroll down, I already addressed my falsehood here.

I played Watch Doge 1 and 2, the second one is the superior game with better story and characters. The first one is mostly dull, taking itself too seriously, and eventually trying to create "emotional" scenes with boring characters you barely interacted with throughout the game and with the main character that's the most bland angry man in history lol :D

Watch Doge 2 is actually fun

oh yeah and in the first game you have an option of like three styles of clothes of varying colors and mostly boring too, the wardrobe is also better in the second game

The game was enjoyable. I sank a few weeks into it when I got it several years back, but alive felt little desire to revisit it. Honestly, I liked Skeeping Dogs more. Better combat and a much nicer story that I could really enjoy over the emotionally crippled Aiden taking vengeance on the world due to his own bad life choices.


The first watchdogs game takes place in Chicago. You can even visit Chicago landmarks like the giant silver bean and Sears Tower.

I'm a Sleeping Dogs fan as well.

One of my big draws to Watch Dogs is the Chicago setting.

Watch Dog 1 is one of the greatest open world games I played. It's certainly not perfect, It has the typical Ubisoft problems, but it's definitly worth to take a look at.
It has strong Noir vibes and a good settings, controls are ok as well.
ps: Grab it at Ubisoft, not on Steam, since it would require you to load Uplay anyway, but even if it shows up in Uplay, you have to download it through Steam. That agreement between Valve and Ubisoft really sucks, it's the same for Far Cry 3.

Watch Dogs 2 was meh, too much hipsters and overly cool kids. I still finished it tho.
Watch Dogs 3-whatever-they-call-it is not worth touching. I have it sitting on my hard drive for years now. After playing for about two hours and seeing some of the activities off the main quest, I could not take it anymore. Since I am a bit of a completionist, I usually play every piece of junk that is present in an open world game and what they have is just too stupid.

Now that I remember mentally linking the in-game museum with my mom and uncle visiting the Natural History Museum in real-life, I must concede the shame of a Mandela Effect.