Watch Dog - 2 is a hacking game
It is an action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the sequel to 2014's Watch Dogs and was released worldwide for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows in November 2016.
The original Watch Dogs squandered this premise. Despite all of the cool hacking powers at your disposal, missions often boiled down to tedious shootouts and prolonged car chases. This happens occasionally in Watch Dogs 2, but it’s exceedingly rare. Thanks to a combination of a more open mission design philosophy and a greater number of tools and powers at your disposal, Watch Dogs 2 feels a lot more fluid and playful. There are almost always multiple ways to tackle a mission, and when I found myself stuck, a change of tactics was usually all I needed to get past the problem.
The game also takes a page out of GTA V’s playbook and features plentiful clothing shops around the city so you can make sure you look good while hacking. In fact, overall Watch Dogs 2 is a significantly more stylish game than the original.
Watch Dogs 2 makes good on the premise of its predecessor. It’s an open world action game where the focus on hacking makes it feel unique, instead of yet another third-person shooter. It’s full of thrilling escapes that will make your heart race, and moments that make you feel like a Hollywood vision of a hacker, able to bend the world to your will using just a few lines of code. And it does all this while presenting a world and characters that make you want to push forward to find what’s next.
The first Watch Dogs used hacking as just another weapon. The sequel turns it into something much more important — and fun.