![]() San Francisco and the surrounding Bay area on show are spectacular. Essentially an office building full of cubes, it's the equivalent of an FPS game using its sewer or warehouse level right at the start, a handshake with a joy(less) buzzer.Īs soon as you get out into the wider world, with a first mission objective to buy some trousers after a drunken hook-up that leaves you in pink shorts decorated with poo emojis and unicorns, the corridors and gray blocks are quickly forgotten. Given how little time it takes – half an hour TOPS – it's not worth dwelling on, but I feel it's important to point out that server farms are among the most boring locations in the world. It's a pre-credits tutorial-type mission that teaches you the basics of hacking in-world objects and using stealth to infiltrate secure locations. ![]() Marcus, a black man in his mid-twenties, has an unearned criminal record and DedSec's test will see him breaking into a server farm to eliminate all traces of that record. As well as denying credit card, mortgage and health insurance approval based on data checks and future projections of wealth and social mobility, governments and corporations predict criminality by analysing behaviour and identity. Watch Dogs' world has a little of Minority Report baked into its hack-happy counter-corporate tale. He's taking part in a trial to join the underground hacking group DedSec, but the objective they've set him has personal meaning as well. ![]() Before you can drive across the Golden Gate Bridge and dig into the sights and sounds of Oakland and San Francisco, you'll need to play through an opening mission that introduces new protagonist Marcus Holloway. ![]() Whatever else it might be, and I'll cover as much as I can below, Watch Dogs 2 is a more thoughtful, brighter alternative to Rockstar's take on the open world urban action adventure. The game's recreation of San Francisco and outlaw protagonist make Grand Theft Auto the obvious point of comparison, and while it's certainly possible to take the ultraviolence and careless crime route in your travels around the city, stealth infiltration and surveillance are much more suited to the game's toolset and mood. I've been playing Watch Dogs 2 for most of a day and a night, and I haven't killed anyone yet. ![]()
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