In today's hyper-connected world, Chicago operates under ctOS, the most advanced computer network in America.
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Release Date: 27 May, 2014

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Includes 5 items: Watch_Dogs - Access Granted Pack, Watch_Dogs - Bad Blood, Watch_Dogs - Conspiracy, Watch_Dogs™, Watch_Dogs™ - Season Pass

 

WATCH_DOGS™ COMPLETE EDITION


Experience Watch_Dogs - the phenomenon of 2014 - with the biggest edition ever!
As Aiden Pearce, a brilliant hacker, turn Chicago into the ultimate weapon in your quest for revenge.
In this Complete Edition, including the game + Season Pass, access a new game mode, weapons, outfits and missions and plays as T-Bone, the legendary hacker in a brand new campaign!

About This Game

All it takes is the swipe of a finger. We connect with friends. We buy the latest gadgets and gear. We find out what’s happening in the world. But with that same simple swipe, we cast an increasingly expansive shadow. With each connection, we leave a digital trail that tracks our every move and milestone, our every like and dislike. And it’s not just people. Today, all major cities are networked. Urban infrastructures are monitored and controlled by complex operating systems.

In Watch_Dogs, this system is called the Central Operating System (CTOS) – and it controls almost every piece of the city’s technology and holds key information on all of the city’s residents.

You play as Aiden Pearce, a brilliant hacker and former thug, whose criminal past led to a violent family tragedy. Now on the hunt for those who hurt your family, you'll be able to monitor and hack all who surround you by manipulating everything connected to the city’s network. Access omnipresent security cameras, download personal information to locate a target, control traffic lights and public transportation to stop the enemy…and more.

Use the city of Chicago as your ultimate weapon and exact your own style of revenge.

KEY FEATURES


HACK THE CITY
Watch_Dogs takes place in a fully simulated living city where, using your smartphone, you have real-time control over the city’s infrastructure. Trap your enemy in a 30-car pileup by manipulating the traffic lights. Stop a train, and then board it to evade the authorities. Narrowly escape capture by quickly raising a drawbridge. Anything connected to the city’s CTOS can become your weapon.

STREET JUSTICE
Living in inner city Chicago where violence is best answered by violence, you have the skills to take the fight to the streets. Take down enemies by delivering devastating blows with your baton, or experience a shoot-out like never before with a physics simulation that rivals anything in the shooter category. Use a combination of shooting and hacking to gain advantage in any given situation. The streets are designed for you to create your own plan of attack. Overall, you will have access to more than 30 traditional weapons.

HIGH OCTANE DRIVING
Ubisoft Montreal has partnered with studios such as Ubisoft Reflections, the acclaimed studio behind the award-winning Driver series to bring you a game bursting with horsepower. Get behind the wheel of more than 65 vehicles, each with state of the art physics and handling, and explore the massive city while completing missions.

EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL
Disrupt, the all-new game engine dedicated to Watch_Dogs, uses advanced processing and graphics to deliver a stunning visual and an incredibly realistic experience. Disrupt gives you the power to affect the story, the city and the life of the population with your choices creating a ripple effect throughout the city.

DYNAMIC NAVIGATION
Watch_Dogs gives you the ability to not only use the city’s ctOS to your advantage, but the streets as well. In real-world Chicago, cut through buildings or climb to the rooftops to catch your target.

SEAMLESS MULTIPLAYER EXPERIENCE
Discover new levels of interaction, cooperation and confrontation between players thanks to a brand new multiplayer game system that links the single and multiplayer modes into one seamless experience. That means no menus, no loading screens, just instant open world multiplayer action.

STAY CONNECTED WITH A NEW WAY TO PLAY
Take your experience beyond the console with a groundbreaking, real-time, companion game. This innovative mobile platform allows players to connect and compete with friends, even when away from their home console. The Watch_Dogs companion game delivers revolutionary dual-screen gameplay that enables you to play from anywhere, at any time.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows Vista (SP2), Windows 7 (SP1) or Windows 8 (Please note that we only support 64 bit OSs.)
    • Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 @ 2.66Ghz or AMD Phenom II X4 940 @ 3.0Ghz
    • Memory: 6 GB RAM
    • Graphics: DirectX 11 graphics card with 1 GB Video RAM - Nvidia Geforce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD 5770
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 25 GB available space
    • Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c Compatible Sound Card with Latest Drivers
    • Additional Notes: Broadband connection and service required for multiplayer mode. Supported Video Cards at Time of Release: nVidia GeForce GTX460 or better, GT500, GT600, GT700 series; AMD Radeon HD5850 or better, HD6000, HD7000, R7 and R9 series Intel® Iris™ Pro HD 5200
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows Vista (SP2), Windows 7 (SP1) or Windows 8 (Please note that we only support 64 bit OSs.)
    • Processor: Eight core - Intel Core i7-3770 @3.5 GHz or AMD FX-8350 X8 @ 4 GHz
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: DirectX 11 graphics card with 2 GB Video RAM - Nvidia Geforce GTX 560 ti or AMD Radeon HD 7850
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 25 GB available space
    • Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c Compatible Sound Card with Latest Drivers
    • Additional Notes: Broadband connection and service required for multiplayer mode. Supported Video Cards at Time of Release: nVidia GeForce GTX460 or better, GT500, GT600, GT700 series; AMD Radeon HD5850 or better, HD6000, HD7000, R7 and R9 series Intel® Iris™ Pro HD 5200
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fdaroczi
( 403.5 hrs on record )
Posted: 9 August
This is a great game where you have to watch your back every minute and penalized when you act like a lunatic serial killer. I cannot wait for Watch Dogs 2 to come out!
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mooghar
( 5.2 hrs on record )
Posted: 9 August
Started off pretty promising but became boring pretty quickly.
I might had to put some more time in it but i just couldn't bring it up.
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Caboose.exe
( 2.0 hrs on record )
Posted: 8 August
Avoid!

This game does not run smooth. I actually had to buy it on console to play it and after playing through it all I can say is that it is Assassin's Creed. There are some differences but the similarities are clear. I will admit I did enjoy some things like the mini games, the info on random people was always funny with a wide variety and the hacking gameplay was a good idea. But overall Watch_Dogs was lacking. The hacking was the core gameplay mechanic that could not hold the game up. There wasn't much variety in its capablities and should have been paired up with something else to help fill the gameplay void that Watch_Dogs has. It lacks life! It feels formulaic and dull after a few hours.

The worst part was when the enjoyment dropped off for me. For a while I was having fun playing around with the toys but then after I had unlocked all the major stuff I wanted, like guns and abilities, I was about 25% to 40% through the story. That's when you realize that the game threw stuff in to make the game seem longer. The main story took a long time because you'd have to drive literally cross map. Long distances with nothing in between. At least in GTA you can take a taxi but in Watch_Dogs you have to drive as collectables and other things that you NEED to get some upgrades pop up even though the upgrade may not be great.

As for the story, it's dumb and your character shouldn't be mad at anyone but himself. It's hard to like anyone when rice cakes have more flavor. There are parts in the plot where it seems that the script or story boards got out of order as somethings are mentioned once then not heard about for several missions only to be brought up as the sudden explaination for what you were doing.

I'm writing this now because since teh sequal is coming out I felt that it was important to say something. The sequal is like the sequal to the last airbender movie, no one was really asking for it and others just want to forget the the first one was even a thing.
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ArmyDude6
( 40.2 hrs on record )
Posted: 8 August
its fun just laggy times 10x for me but worth the lag
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leviathan678
( 4.0 hrs on record )
Posted: 8 August
just play grand theft auto.
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Josh
( 4.9 hrs on record )
Posted: 6 August
Daimien dies
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amc215
( 13.5 hrs on record )
Posted: 5 August
-Graphics/Performance
-Story
+Action/Fun
Rating: 7/10
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john.louis.scheurer
( 0.3 hrs on record )
Posted: 5 August
this game doesnt even work it is awful and not worth the 30 dollars
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Bot Jason
( 53.6 hrs on record )
Posted: 4 August
Its a fun 3rd person game that will make you play as aiden pearce and his path to evenge his neice the graphics are pretty good especially for a game that was made in 2013 but i do occur on quite alot of glitches when i play in openworld but i was very happy with the gameplay and played many hours with a friend on online co op
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Most Helpful Reviews  In the past 30 days
41 of 53 people (77%) found this review helpful
67 people found this review funny
Recommended
8.9 hrs on record
Posted: 18 July
You may think he's hacking on that phone of his, but really, he's playing Pokemon GO.
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3 of 3 people (100%) found this review helpful
2 people found this review funny
Recommended
24.7 hrs on record
Posted: 31 July
So I took my dog to the "Dog Park" today, I watched him play with all kinds of dogs from Golden Retrievers, Hounds, Bull Dogs, Poodles, German Shepherds, Chihuahuas, Pugs, Boxers, Rottweilers, Pinchers, a Great Dane, and an Australian Shepherd. We we got home my mom asked, "What did you do today?" I replied, "Watched Dogs"
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2 of 2 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
25.9 hrs on record
Posted: 22 July
very fun to play but i'd wait to get the new watch_dogs2 when it comes out
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3 of 4 people (75%) found this review helpful
7 people found this review funny
Recommended
38.5 hrs on record
Posted: 2 August
Police tell me to pull over
I pull over like a good citizen
they shoot me to death.

911/10 Realistic Police Brutality
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
21.6 hrs on record
Posted: 23 July
Game isn't as bad as I thought it would be.Graphics are amazing with the help of The worse mod.Gameplay is pretty solid.I found very little bigs/glitches during my gameplay.





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAlG2HocGfs
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Not Recommended
155.7 hrs on record
Posted: 31 July
Ultra textures still stutter even with 6gb of VRAM.
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
58.8 hrs on record
Posted: 31 July
*insert "hilarious" and "original" joke about inability to watch dogs*
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
42.4 hrs on record
Posted: 2 August
The game is fun. Aiden is pretty cliche, but there are other characters (Tbone and Tobias) that I enjoyed immensely. The Bad Blood addon is pretty fun, but short.

The major crimes of the game is basically because of Ubistench.

Low under 30 FPS on a pretty good machine, regardless of settings.
Standard Ubisoft gameplay, climb tower, unlock stuff, etc, youve played one Ubisoft game, youve played most of them.
The driving is BAD..I just couldnt stand it, and ignored a pretty large chunk of content due to it, easily the worst part of the game.
The hacking is nothing more than turning knobs around, simple but pretty repeatative.
The "morality" system is pretty wonky too. Ill be running from the police, and a cop would hit me into a pedestrian and IM the bad guy? Wat? Oh but carjacking someone, then blowing up a steam pipe and killing a bunch of people when i turn all the lights green at an intersection is a-OK.


Buy is on sale.
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
13.5 hrs on record
Posted: 5 August
-Graphics/Performance
-Story
+Action/Fun
Rating: 7/10
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
27.4 hrs on record
Posted: 2 August
PC Specs:
Alienware 15 R2 Laptop
Intel Core i7 6700HQ CPU @ 2.6 ghz Turbo Boosted at 3.5 ghz, 4 Cores, 8 Logical Processors
8gbs RAM
Nvidia Geforce GTX 970M 3gb
Windows 10 Home
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Watch_Dogs takes place in a not-so-distant future version of Chicago. The whole city is wired up by a very vulnerable system called ctOS. ctOS is connected to everything, traffic lights, steam pipes, trains, you name it. There are many hackers that take advantage of the vulnerability of ctOS and use it for their own good. Aidan Pierce is the protaganist, his story is about him trying to find the killer of his neice, Lena Pierce. He goes on an adventure where he meets friends, makes rivals, and makes a name for himself as the Vigilante in the big city of Chicago. And Aidan will do anything to find the killer of Lena, who he loved so dearly.
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Pros:
Beautiful Graphics (especially compared to console versions)
Great Story
Hacking
Mission Variety

Cons:
Bad PC Port
uPlay
Uneeded/Useless Nudity
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Aidan Pierce:
Many people dislike the protaganist, Aidan. I've heard people say many different reasons as to why they dislike him such as how grim he is or just him being straight up unlikeable. I personally like him because he fits in with the grim and scary world that he lives in. His story is a good one that many people can relate to (Loss, losing someone).

Poor Performance:
This is a bad PC port, but it's playable at least. With the GTX 970m 3gb I had frame dips down to 25fps sometimes. It was able to keep to 40fps most of the time though but it never ever went to 60fps, no matter what setting I had put down. uPlay also causes problems with my computer or other games. uPlay made my cursor stop working when trying to play Payday 2, a game that Ubisoft has no involvement with whatsoever. uPlay is also just a piece of crap all around.

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In conclusion, Watch_Dogs is a great game that focuses on the topic of loss and a man that wants to avenge the death of his neice. I would rate this game 7/10 on PC. Playable, but could've used more work.
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