Watch_Dogs was created and published by Ubisoft on the 27th of the year 2014 for the new generation platforms such as PC, Playstation 4 and Xbox one, but something that was also surprising is that those of us who still owned the consoles of the seventh generation (Playstation 3, Xbox 360 ) we could get a version of this video game that would be released on the same date. However, since its presentation, a Wii U version of this game was also released, which was rumored to have been canceled because it wasn´t published yet and Ubisoft was silent about it, but finally and against all odds, Watch_Dogs was released on the Wii U on November 21 of the same year.
In its time, this video game gave a lot to talk about, this mainly due to Ubisoft's commitment to create an open world where everything could be hacked and cause consequences within the fictional futuristic city of Chicago where this game is set. Another point that also stood out was the great graphics shown in a Demo of E3 2012, with all of this the game was received in its presentation with mostly positive reviews.
The story centers on our protagonist Aiden Pearce. With his friend Damien Brenks, hack into the bank accounts at the Merlaut hotel in order to take all the money they can. Everything seemed to be going very well to our protagonist, but just when our Aiden wants to leave, his partner continues to carry out hacks in search of something more than just money, and it is at that time that he gets an encrypted video of an important person in the city of Chicago committing a serious crime.
Aiden manages to escape from the scene, but they could not erase their trace, so some time later, Aiden is chased when he was taking a ride in the car with his niece and they hit him causing her to die, since there, our protagonist swears revenge. Aiden through the story will try to ally with powerful hackers who can provide him with information to find the true culprit of the murder of his niece.
In Watch_Dogs we will have a cell phone available which will be our main weapon, since with it we can hack everything in the city from traffic lights, cameras, ATMs, cell phones, interconnected networks, vending machines, lights, bridges, garages, trains, elevators, explosives, a cardiac pacemaker and much more; with this, it could be said that in Watch_Dogs the entire city could be hacked to our benefit and it is that we are in an open world game in 3D that through the hacks we make, we can create chaos and confusion in the streets of Chicago, either to escape or to kill our enemies, by hacking traffic lights we can make the cars collide, if we hack the lights we can create blackouts so that they cannot detect us so easily, additionally we will have a bar to hit our enemies and a gun to be able to kill them.
As if that were not enough, Watch_Dogs has been endowed with different minigames that we can access, among them are, chess, Shell Game, NVZN, Cash run, Spydertank and many more. In NVZN we will immerse ourselves in an alternate reality game where Chicago is being attacked by strange beings and it will be up to us to eliminate them with our blaster weapon.
In the Cash Run minigame we will have to run around the stage collecting coins while avoiding the ghosts, all of this has a limited time which we can extend if we collect the clocks that we see when advancing.
When playing Spydertank we will control a drone in the shape of a cybernetic spider to kill the invaders that hide among us, to detect the invaders we will have to use our phone.
As we will have noticed, Watch_Dogs has innumerable ways to complete a mission due to hacking, but additionally we have Online mode with several aspects, one of them is online hacking, in which we can invade the game of other players and hack them and cause them some problems, but nevertheless if we have the invader roll we cannot kill them but they can kill us.
Another aspect is the online career mode, which as its name indicates is a racing mode within the video game in which we must compete to stay with the first place. This game mode is available only on PC, Playstation 4 and Xbox One. A very pleasant aspect that unfortunately is only available for PC, Xbox One and PS4 is the free mode in which we can roam throughout the city of Chicago to sow chaos or murder other players.
A very pleasant aspect that unfortunately is only available for PC, Xbox One and PS4 is the free mode in which we can roam throughout the city of Chicago to sow chaos or murder other players.
This is a videogame when presented at E3, showed such realistic graphics and a detailed Chicago city that made our eyes hallucinate with hype with such delight, but when the game came out it suffered a downgrade in its graphic section that however despite this the game looks excellent with quite detailed textures, a quite successful Ambient Occlusion that is capable of making the city and its inhabitants feel really alive, the shadows are quite detailed and its anti-aliasing is capable to correctly eliminate all the saw teeth, so we can say that this is a game with a great graphic quality for its time that however could have been more amazing.
This downgrade on the graphics are probably due to Watch_Dogs being an intergenerational game, these amazing graphics would have been too much difference in its versions of the past generation with the current one and with it more problems to get a more stable version in consoles of the last generation. After its launch a user noticed that there were hidden graphic effects on the game with the label "E3" and when unlocking them the game looked exactly as in the E3 and even better.
In Watch_Dogs we have at our disposal 13 musical tracks that will be heard during our adventure, these musical pieces were composed by Brian Reitzell, and although there are only 13 different melodies that we will hear and they may seem few compared to other games, we could say that it has the amount of music tracks necessary according to the moments that we will be living in each mission of the game.
Watch_Dogs is a fairly innovative game that seeks to give us freedom at the time of tackling the missions and making us have control of our environment, adapting it to the situations we are experiencing, in its graphic section it looks great although it could have been better than not having been an intergenerational video game, in the musical section it does not have too many melodies, however it has the necessary amount of them. Thank you so much for reading until the end, see you next time!
