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what's up internet Kevin here bringing guys a review a little bit later than I originally planned III really derailed a lot of my other work but I'm really stubborn better late than never so finally here is my full review of watchdogs available on ps3 ps4 xbox 360 xbox one Wii U and the pc all the gameplay are going to be seeing here as well as my personal experience on the game is based on the pc version so let's draw for getting the one really big obvious elephant in the room out of the way about this game watch dogs looks nothing like what we originally shown or promised back in III of 2012 and in fact there's even mods coming out already making use of unused files in watch dogs to make it look like it was originally promised to look like while those of you on console are basically stuck with what they gave you there has been talk of performance updates for the console versions as time goes on but the fact that matter is that as the game ships watch dogs is nothing like what we originally promised as far as it goes visually and even for how it looks the frame rate and just how it runs overall is just really sluggish that being said a belief that I've always held for myself is that at the end of the day visuals and graphics alone do not make the game it's not the reason why I'm picking up in the first place it's definitely a really big plus when it actually is done correctly and it's what we were promised in the first place but it alone will not destroy the game so let's take a look at how watchdogs itself actually plays so as far as the core gameplay itself goes the easiest way to sum up watch dogs is grand theft auto Assassin's Creed the gore gameplay is pretty familiar to anyone that's played a grand theft auto title or a similar Open City focused game but the one thing really setting watchdogs apart is focus on hacking which really comes down to just pressing X while looking at something and interact with it in some way whether it's steal money from a person's account interact with an object at range or hack from camera to camera otherwise this is all pretty much very familiar territory gunplay is decent making use of cover controls at a focus mode to make lining up headshots super easy stealth gameplay is actually pretty good up until you figure out how abusive some powers are namely blackout and driving is by far the game's weeks link featuring vehicles with awkward handling ridiculous collision physics and some of the most aggressive insane cops I've ever seen in a game like this even buy GTA standards this wouldn't be that big of a problem if it wasn't for the fact that a lot of the mission end up relying a lot on car chases either by you hounding down a single guy which really isn't that bad since your car is almost always unstoppable or having you run away from thugs or cops the first of which is usually better solved by just getting out of your car and killing everyone while the latter is easily solved by just going to the nearest body of water and swimming out because apparently Chicago has no police boats and helicopters don't believe that people can actually swim so everything involving cars is pretty much terrible but as far as the actual gun plane stealth goes as I said earlier is actually pretty solid and its really helped out by the game's hacking mechanics while it is possible to shoot or sneak your way out through most situations hacking free making you see the environment really is one of the game's most satisfying feelings taking out enemies that are hanging by some sort of explosive raising a protective barrier to hide behind or even just using cameras to scope out enemy locations and remotely take them down before even setting foot on restricted territory cameras are actually some of the most interesting parts of the game for me using them to scope out enemy bases or leading other characters to safety or just figuring out really complex ways to find a switch you need to hit to move on now where Assassin's Creed comes into play in all this is basically just how the gameplay flows and watchdogs there's a certain formulaic pattern we're seeing a lot of Ubisoft's action games with free roam elements in which you have to go to a tower or some kind of central point to unlock the rest of the side quests and abilities you can use and then you just take part in really really repetitive side quests what watchdogs does though to make these more appealing is the game's progression system there are a lot of different things you can do on the side in this game and pretty much all of them can end up rewarding you in some way whether it's unlocking a vehicle or a gun or unlocking a talent you can purchase that's really useful like upping reload speed or lengthening focus time and this is where my main overall issue really comes with watchdogs it feels like there's just so many different ideas and so many different types of content the developers really wanted to cram into this game but they just made it all fit in without really taking any time to polish any of them individually some of them are genuinely really fun but others are just really painful for instance most of the vigilante quests like stopping crimes or destroying gang hideouts are just incredibly repetitive once you've done one of them you've done them all and you just feel zero impulse to keep doing them unless you really want to get a certain weapon or talent unlocked which just ends up feeling tedious on the other hand though you have stuff like the digital trip it's especially spider tank which are really fun fully developed side minigames that actually found more enjoyable than most of the core game then there's the game's multiplayer modes which were really hit and miss for me the main multiplayer option is invasion and hacking in which a player can invade another one's world quietly and they can start tailing or hacking into the other player system forcing a cat-and-mouse situation where the invader tries to hide but stay in range while the home player searches for them there's other modes to like racing featuring the use of hackable obstacles 3v3 competitive matches focused on decryption and even the ability to just have multiple layers share one world to free roam around in free options are great for doing things with friends but honestly I didn't care that much at all for the main hacking minigame especially as the invade II mostly just because whether you win or lose it just feels like it was an interruption to what you were trying to do in the single-player game and wasn't even that interesting of an interruption because now you just have to spend time running around and just look at the right person or if you're in the invader just find a stupid easy spot to hide in plain sight and just watch while the other person runs around blind I can see what they were trying to do here in terms of trying to make a sort of spy vs spy minigame which is really cool sounding in concept but the way it was implemented in a free roam open world just didn't really work in my opinion in the end my final thoughts on watch dogs is exactly what I said earlier there's just a lot of stuff crammed in here all at once some of which works some of which doesn't it just doesn't feel like any of it got the full degree of attention it needed I don't want to give you guys an overall super- look at the game it's still fun to play and the single-player story was a lot better than I expected it to be and some of the game's side content is really enjoyable and worth playing if you're looking for a game to do some fun silly free roam stuff in then there's other games in this genre that have handled it better but if you want a free roam game with a solid story mode and a handful of solid minigames then watch dogs is worth playing at least some point down the road by no means is it the must by blockbuster Ubisoft built it up to be but at the same time it still has its strong points and fun bits to experience well that was my review of watchdogs if you guys are interested in trying out the game for yourself I do have a link posted down to the description with pricing and availability and while you're down there there's this little button shaped like a thumbs up symbol you might be familiar with if you enjoy the video make sure to hit that button as well I always appreciate it and if this is your first time seeing my channel and just happen to stumble upon it and you like what you saw make sure to hit that subscribe button as well because I've got more great content on the way you can also follow me on twitter at kevin kinson we can find out what videos i'm uploading when and where as always guys thank you so much for watching the channel until next time I'm Kevin Henson and I'll see you later you