By Steve Boxer
Setting a videogame in the murky world of hacking is quite brave in this day and age: real-life hackers, one suspects, wouldn’t constitute the most sympathetic and likable of characters.
So, with Watch Dogs 2, Ubisoft has taken a fantasy approach which doesn’t skimp on the comedy and requires a fair amount of disbelief-suspension.
If you can manage to stomach that conceit manage that, you’ll find a game which is very entertaining, has a big, seductive personality, makes some good points about big data and, in its virtual San Francisco, provides a great-looking, sprawling open-world playground that might not quite match the likes of Grand Theft Auto V but is definitely up there.
DedSec (but not dead serious)
Anyone who played 2014’s original Watch Dogs could be forgiven for approaching Watch Dogs 2 with caution. Thanks to its premise – the ability to hack anything in a virtual Chicago – it attracted a lot of hype, which it signally failed to live up to.
The main gripes levelled at it included a central character it was impossible to warm to, dreadful vehicle handling compounded by an overabundance of vehicular missions and that in general, despite its subject matter, it managed to …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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