While driving to one of the many missions scattered throughout Watch Dogs 2 's San Francisco Bay Area setting, young hacker Marcus Holloway kills time by asking one of his cohorts an important question: Who would win in a fight, Alien or Predator?

N.B: All of the seamless multiplayer modes for Watch Dogs 2 , where players dynamically appear in your game, are offline at present due to major performance issues. Ubisoft is actively working to fix the problems, but we currently don't have a date for these fixes.

By expanding on a lot of what the first game and its expansion got right and mixing action, stealth, and puzzle gameplay with handy remote-control drones, Watch Dogs 2 impresses with open mission designs with multiple ways to reach your objective and some great toys to find them with.

Watch Dogs 2 was announced by Ubisoft all the way back at E3 this year, and once word of it had gotten out, there were mixed feelings. On the one hand, the concept of the series had always been good and this looked set to introduce a new approach to the world of hacking, however, there were also...

Watch Dogs 2 is the sequel to the 2014 original, and is set in a fictional version of San Francisco. You take the role of Marcus Holloway, a young hacker who is part of a collective hacking group called DedSec, who are tasked with bringing down the city's advanced surveillance system ctOS 2.0, which...

Watch Dogs 2 is arguably one of the most anticipated games of 2016. The reveal of the original Watch Dogs promised a fully hackable open world where players could bend the city of Chicago to their will.

Large open world; Flexible gameplay opportunities; Engaging storyline

Occasional bug or glitch; Some repetitive mission designs; Nothing breaks the mold

The original Watch Dogs was seen as the poster child for the PS4 and Xbox One upon release. For many years until release, with each passing trailer, our hopes and dreams for the original sky-rocketed.

Watch Dogs 2 is meta at its best. Here you are, the player, controlling a hacker, hacking a game's open set of systems as dynamically and as haphazardly as you please. You could say you're almost a hacker yourself, with Marcus Holloway -- the game's hacktagonist -- your backdoor into Watch Dogs 2's...

The original Watch Dogs was a polarising game. Personally, I thought it was fantastic, but it was massively crippled by Ubisoft's antics and the fact that the main protagonist had as much personality as a wet piece of cardboard.

The new tone is incredibly captivating | Interesting and fun characters | New hacking options open up a lot of gameplay possibilities | Massive amounts of content with a sizable main story | San Francisco is a wonderful setting | The pop culture art and design direction is wonderful | Buttery smooth...

The driving is a tad wonky | Massive ludonarrative dissonance | Visuals of some assets feel cartoony and on the wrong end of realism | Combat encounters can become repetitive after a while | Some references and imagery are a little heavy handed

The hero of 'Watch Dogs 2' is Marcus, a young hacker who wants to prove himself to the hacktivist collective DedSec. He physically infiltrates a Blume server facility to hack ctOS 2.0, the citywide digital infrastructure that connects nearly everything with a computer chip.