Behind the technological marvels of an interconnected city the Central Operating System, known as CTOS. This system collects information about the city and its inhabitants it also, manage traffic, public transport, road communication, energy resources, water and assist in surveillance and security. This network has a number of control centers throughout the city, as well as an intricate network of surveillance cameras covering nearly every inch of the city.
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however can manipulate this system will have the city in their hands. That is precisely what happens in Watch Dogs: You will be taking the place of Aiden Pearce, a criminal who becomes a vigilante and using the CTOS system to fight crime. Since virtually all citizens are part of the system, no one is exempt or safe.
The story begins, a year after Aiden’s niece was killed. Now we are looking to protect all that remains Aiden’s sister and nephew, while we are haunted. The story is told through a campaign divided into acts, which will progress one after another. Gradually, we will learn more about Aiden and his past, and personality psychology. Now your able to rest in any of the hideouts to restore health and sleep, and even see Aiden’s dreams.
Aiden is a hacker who spends all day at a computer locked up, but moves through the streets with the help of his most powerful weapon, the information. To control information through CTOS, Aiden uses a smartphone, which leads us to the central point of the game.
CTOS If the system is made to control virtually every aspect of the city, once we access and manipulate this system, we can have the city at your feet This is the main concept in Watch Dogs: use your phone to access all the information you need, and all the devices connected to the host system: doors, elevators, bridges, cameras, vehicles, computers, phones, etc..
When we run loose in the city, we really do what we please; if we wish, we can even postpone the campaign and mandatory missions, which means you won’t be bored because there is always something interesting to do. How many games-whether or not open-world would like to keep our attention for at least five hours without getting bored? Watch Dogs achieved that and more, not only entertain us, but also amuses us.
By exploring the possibilities offered by the city, we begin to feel powerful, that’s where the skill tree game branches. with our phone we can change traffic lights, steal bank accounts, cause blackouts, intercept telephone conversations, see Security cameras, move bridges and much more.
The dream of every open world game is to turn your city or area in a living body; and Watch Dogs achieves that. every NPC (non playable character) we meet in the street is unique, with a profile and unique features , which we can also access and make decisions for them. For this we use an application called Profiler, which displays the information of every citizen in real time; this will help us determine if it’s a “good” or “bad” person, if we should hack them or not, or even if they should live or die. Every time we come across a civilian, we know information such as their occupation, if they are addicted to a substance, how much they earn, if they have debts or even the type of things they look on the internet. Unfortunately-or fortunately, as it would be an overwhelming amount of information-each NPC shows a portion of this information and all.
Their is tremendous amount of recorded dialogue within the game. When walking down the street you can listen to citizens talk or discuss many things, and not only in English: a good part of the NPC speaking in Spanish, as we would expect from the city of Chicago. Just to see the reactions of the way the people recact to violence or when we pull out our gun out is invaluable; In this we see we are dealing with a living organism rather than a predetermined number of lines.
We can always find something fascinating to do, whether legal or illegal, although in most cases it will be the second option. the gaming system assigns objectives we have progressively enforced through missions and with the assistance of our phone , which can gradually do more and more tasks.
With a button in our phone we can see the map of the city, where we can find points of interest for the game, such as quests, shows hotspots, important sites for Aiden, hiding places, shops, and more. With another drop down in the menu button we can see the weapons we have, including the option of making objects by combining parts called crafting. We are also able to ordering a car or monitor the activities of rival hackers, we can even turn on the music player, which includes artists such as: Elmore James, Kidz in The Hall, Danny Chaimoson, Vanattica, Alkaline Trio and many others.
Watch Dogs has a skill tree that touches different areas, including hacking, driving and combat . Since the game has an action storyline, we will be constantly struggling to escape from the police or to clean the streets of Chicago at any cost.
It’s amazing how CTOS can be used to cut our way through history as the hacks can be combined with each other and with other skills , giving enough creative solutions to certain situations. And that’s why the game becomes a puzzle with many solutions as you always have to consider multiple options. For example, as in Deus Ex you could solve missions violently or stealthy, everything here can be carried too far, to the point of solving a mission without touching a single enemy, moving through the circuit cameras to get what you seek. We may also use distractions as remote explosions, alarms or lights to break through and escape unnoticed.
Wherever you seek, there is always something to do. Watch Dogs dose not leave us a minute of boredom, completing the game can take us hours and hours of gameplay. Still, the game manages to be entertaining and show some challenge. We’ve spent hours playing and it seems that the fun don’t stop.
Indeed, the aspect that leaves more to be desired in Watch Dogs is the graphics. Being a multiplatform game we understand we can’t achieve the likes of Infamous Second Son , which is also open world and continues to surprise with its detailed Seattle. Chicago in Watch Dogs is immense and with a thousand things to do, but actually delivers on the promise of nextgen. Versions of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are not far from their younger sisters, the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, for which the game is also available.
The city of Chicago in Watch Dogs is filled with aisles and alleys to explore and clean up the crime. We can use the CTOS system to detect potential criminals-bit style Minority Report- and stop them before it’s too late.
The game raises a moral conflict that involves our use of the power of information. This is where the public is the judges because depending on our actions will determine their reaction, we can take the place of a careful watcher admired by children or a sick crusader who always uses violence as a solution. Depending on our reputation, the public may call the police or be forgiving of our sins.
The campaign and its storyline are very well made, If we decide to complete the campaign directly, we can spend many hours on storyline, but if we are sufficiently dispersed, we can also find thousand of activities to do in the city, including a sort of mini-games which we access through digital thrips , which are some sort of traveling trips that puts us into absore scenarios of the likes we can find in video games.
In general, Watch Dogs is a game that serves only itself. It would be impossible to deal with the expectations that the public has formed on the game in the two years since its announcement. Although graphically it leaves much to be desired and the car handling system is rather crude, overall, Watch Dogs is an excellent title that illustrates how surprisingly a virtual city can become our daily addiction.
