Watch_Dogs|COP3

Watch_Dogs is a new IP developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. Action takes place in Chicago and, since it's an action-adventure game, story is very interesting. As a player you get many opportunities to learn a bit more about the main character, Aiden, as well as about other events.

 

For this module I'm looking at the games that have an online multiplayer mode, which is available in Watch_Dogs and allows up to 8 players to cooporate or compete in different tasks. There are some standard modes, typical for open world games, like car chases, but what's really unique for this title are the hacking missions. Depending on the mode, players can hack each other to retrieve information or steal each other files (which can be also done in a bigger co-op mode). Hacking is a one-to-one mode and as long as a player is connected to the internet, others can hack him/her. So if you just want to enjoy a single player mode and explore Chicago (which was done beautifully) in peace, better disconnect your modem ;).

Those hacking missions provided a lot of frustraction among the gamers, especially 'hide and seek' as sometimes people hide in most obvious places, but are still extremly hard to find.
Another interesting part of the hacking was the amount of people that used to stream (either on Twitch or Ustream) playing this particular mode. And some of those streams had a quite a few viewers and stayed on top of the PS4 Live list of streams.

 

Ofcourse, as in any other game, Watch_Dogs couldn't stay away from bugs and glitches and floating/stuck NPCs are somehow normal. Nevertheless, it didn't impact the gameplay that much.