We know that Watch Dogs will be an open-world adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal, the same folks who make Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow 6, and Far Cry. Our character is named Aiden Pearce, he appears to be a genius who can hack into most, if not all, of the cities online inferstructure allowing us to access peoples personal and criminal histories, shut down cell phone and electronics, and control the cities traffic.
To be more specific, the press release tells us that, “In Watch Dogs, players enter the dangerous world of Aiden Pearce, a new class of antihero whose ability to hack into any connected system could be his most powerful weapon. Whether it’s triggering a 30-car pileup by manipulating traffic-lights to trap an enemy during a downtown shootout or tapping into the city’s omnipresent security cameras to access anyone’s personal information, Pearce is capable of coercing and controlling almost every element of the world around him.”
Watch Dogs appears to have cover-based third person shooter elements, as seen in the gameplay videos contained in this story.
In the trailer we also saw a robotic waiter carrying drinks with a large QR code on it’s head, if you follow that code you’re led to dotconnexion.ubi.com, the man at that website, DeMarco, appears to play a very significant role in the game, and may be the person your story revolves around.
In the trailer we also saw a robotic waiter carrying drinks with a large QR code on it’s head, if you follow that code you’re led to dotconnexion.ubi.com, the man at that website, DeMarco, appears to play a very significant role in the game, and may be the person your story revolves around.
While no release date was given for Watch Dogs as of yet, I think it’s safe to assume we can look forward to it hitting sometime in 2013, or Spring 2014 at the latest.
We're still guessing about whether Ubisoft's highly impressive Watch Dogs is in fact one of a few of E3's stealth-reveals of the next generation of gaming.
What we saw sure seemed too intricate and advanced to run on current gaming consoles. But Ubisoft has remained cagey about when and on what platforms the game will be released.
On the 5th, however, the official Watch Dogstwitter feed tweeted the following:
What we saw sure seemed too intricate and advanced to run on current gaming consoles. But Ubisoft has remained cagey about when and on what platforms the game will be released.
On the 5th, however, the official Watch Dogstwitter feed tweeted the following:
So, "consoles," eh? That's as cagey as Face/Off, is what that is. That's Cagier than Leaving Las Vegas.
It is highly unlikely that any next-gen consoles will be out in 2013, of course. Then again, the game could be released for PC and then later on whatever the next Xbox and PS3 are. Or, a watered-down version could be released for current ports. Or, or, or...
In other words, other than that 2013 bit, we don't really know anything new. But hey, that's something.
It is highly unlikely that any next-gen consoles will be out in 2013, of course. Then again, the game could be released for PC and then later on whatever the next Xbox and PS3 are. Or, a watered-down version could be released for current ports. Or, or, or...
In other words, other than that 2013 bit, we don't really know anything new. But hey, that's something.