A game about a man who is trapped in a foreign embassy, hiding between two rooms without windows, and in constant fear of assassination would make for a pretty crap game. Thankfully for us, Ubisoft have taken their Julian Assange simulator series and pumped it full of personality and panache for the...

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...

"We've finally arrived." The highly touted reinterpretation of the smart city of Chicago became a marketing disaster, the ones that take anyone's attention to the rating screen. [...]

Greatly improved core gameplay mechanics; Fun and Realistic San Francisco; Creative and Strategic freedom to players including Skill Tree; More meaningful hacking; Interesting Side quests; Interesting NPCs - Wrench and Miranda Comay; A Visual Treat

Cover Mechanics; Soundtrack; Vehicle Gameplay

Ubisoft Montreal attempted to create a bold new IP with 2014's Watch Dogs, incorporating unique hacking mechanics into an open-world setting similar to Gra

Fantastic hacking mechanics; Interesting cast of characters; Well-designed and feature-rich game world; Fun side content

Weak story; Combat isn't as appealing as other playstyles

The original Watch Dogs had a disappointing release on PC, with sub-par GPU performance (particularly on AMD GPUs at launch) and disappointing visuals when compared to the game's earlier trailers and tech demos.

When the first Watch Dogs came out, I wasn't thrilled. But when I tried out the sequel for the first time... It was amazing!

I wondered if they'd be able to top the original Watch Dogs, but I can safely say that they have done just that. Watch Dogs 2 surpasses the original with it's improved setting, characters, story and activities.

Hackers are often portrayed as computer savants hunched over a keyboard, sucking down a Diet Coke, and writing script faster than the characters can appear on a dirty CRT. They're performing sorceries a half-step removed from actual magic, exploiting people and systems without leaving the house.

We've already looked at Watch Dogs 2's [ official site ] multiplayer , which is seamlessly stitched onto the game's open world singleplayer shenanigans, and I've written about my first few hours with the game .

It took Tim quite a few hours before he realised that he was meant to be hacking things instead of actually watching dogs in Watch Dogs 2. Watch Dogs was depressing. I'm not talking about the stinging disappointment of the actual game after that astonishing reveal (as depressing as that was); I mean...