It’s not often we see games set in Northern California, particularly the San Francisco Bay Area. With such an expansive population and a deep history encompassing the artistic and counter-culture movement, you’d think there’d be more games mining the history of the tech capital of the world. And yet, besides Driver: San Francisco and the close-but-still-fictional city of San Fierro from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, I can’t think of any.
Thankfully, Ubisoft is about to set things right.
With the upcoming release of Watch Dogs 2, the Bay Area set open-world action title aims to recreate San Francisco and the surrounding areas in vivid detail. But instead of just taking some panoramic shots of the Golden Gate Bridge and tossing in some cable cars, they’re showing a different side of the city – the one that’s currently experiencing a clash of cultures. Here in SF one group is slowly phasing out the other in favor of the tech revolution pushing gimmicky start-ups, egomaniacal billionaires, and tech-bros looking to prove themselves.
With the city and its culture in flux, the city’s underground hacker movement is aiming to take some cues from the counter-culture of the past and use their cutting …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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