E3 2012: Watch Dogs Demo

Game of show for me

Yeah, it looks pretty good.

this looks pretty awesome. cant wait for it to come out...in like two years.

also look both ways before you cross the street, even if you control all the traffic lights.

edit: also someone needs to scan the QR code on the drink server's heads to see if it actually does something (i has no smart phone).

This closely followed by The Last Of Us, impressed me the most.

Hell of a demo, nothing more. Completely controlled and guided the whole way through, full of promising ideas that will either be impossible to implement as shown, or will lose their impact by the fourth or fifth time you hear/see the NPC do the routine. Anyone expecting the game to be even close to the experience they showed should remember that E3's main purpose is as a hype-machine.

This is a nice little surprise.

@artfuldodger: It leads to www.dotconnexion.com

It's a viral site, for the club that the character went into. Interestingly, there is an email address, where you can "Request an update when tickets are available"

I sent an email yesterday. I hope something comes from this.

Game of the show.

Looks great. I guess this is the year of the 3rd person shooter though.

Definitely my favorite of e3.

impressed! maybe it's because I just read like three cyberpunk novels in a row, but still.

Looks like a Hitman-esque game with some pretty cool hacking stuff. I just wonder if it's open world and how deep the hacking goes!

best game ever

This game was the best looking of EVERYTHING shown by any company. Halo, NSMB, whatever all sucked compared to how this one looked.

Hell of a demo, nothing more. Completely controlled and guided the whole way through, full of promising ideas that will either be impossible to implement as shown, or will lose their impact by the fourth or fifth time you hear/see the NPC do the routine. Anyone expecting the game to be even close to the experience they showed should remember that E3's main purpose is as a hype-machine.

This game looks so awesome!

Best thing I ever did see.

Voice acting in this actually sounded like a natural conversation. Something out of an oceans 11 or the like.

Really neat demo. Looking forward to see more

Can't wait to see how this pans out.

@HerbieBug said:

@Buckydude said:

Hell of a demo, nothing more. Completely controlled and guided the whole way through, full of promising ideas that will either be impossible to implement as shown, or will lose their impact by the fourth or fifth time you hear/see the NPC do the routine. Anyone expecting the game to be even close to the experience they showed should remember that E3's main purpose is as a hype-machine.

Even so, this is exactly the kind of new ideas I want to see being put together in future. Love slow, deliberate, and tactical gameplay. Even if it plays a quarter as well as this demo suggests, it will still be a great game. Game of show for me as well so far. ♥

Yeah, I much rather see fascinating failures than competent clones of successful games.

Coolest game I'd ever seen right up until he started shooting people. Bah, I've kind of lost interest now.

QR Code directs to www.dotconnexion.com

Also, this looks cool as balls.

Really weird that Jeff is not into this game.

This looks like "The adventures of the Laughing Man".

@fisk0: Oh yeah cause this is so a direct clone of GTA... or is it Hitman... or is it Deus Ex? There's a lot we don't know about the game so I think everyone is quick to judge this amazing looking footage. Is it really a clone or do just not know much of the game so you think its exactly like GTA? You know whats a clone? Metal of Honer: War Fighter. It's using the Frost Bite 2 engine for Gods sake. You know why that game is being made? Because EA is trying to get on those COD bucks. You know why this game is being made? Because a group of people at Ubisoft wanted to make a freaking awesome game! Its been in development for 2 years. Its not like there throwing something together and marketing it as a GTA clone... or is it Hitman, or Deus Ex? Oh I don't know or care! I just want this game and The Last of Us badly!

@AlexanderSheen said:

Really weird that Jeff is not into this game.

This looks like "The adventures of the Laughing Man".

He's not? That's crazy. I thought Neuromancer was his bible.

@Olivaw said:

@AlexanderSheen said:

Really weird that Jeff is not into this game.

This looks like "The adventures of the Laughing Man".

He's not? That's crazy. I thought Neuromancer was his bible.

He said it looked neat, but not made his heart skip a beat.

I'm really impressed by this footage.

This is the one I want.

the wonders of what a game made for DX 11 can do. Curious if this is actually next generation or not console wise.

Cyberpunk Assassins Creed. I'm in.

He seemed to hurt a lot of people just to get that one guy. JUST SAYIN'! Looked cool though

Wow, those graphics plus what seems to be a Dark Souls type multiplayer integration makes this one of the best games I have seen so far at E3.

Also goes to show you the power of a well thought out and well produced original ip will do for creating hype. I mean this, 1313, and Last of Us has made a pretty good case for developing original ideas in games.

A lot of emotion driven games at the show this year.

Most interesting game of the show so far. That said, Ubi is "cheating" since there is no way this is a 360 or PS3 game.

@BlatantNinja23 said:

the wonders of what a game made for DX 11 can do. Curious if this is actually next generation or not console wise.

PC, PS3, and 360. Demo was on PC. (via Yves Guillemot on spiketv)

@n0nametaz said:

@fisk0: Oh yeah cause this is so a direct clone of GTA... or is it Hitman... or is it Deus Ex? There's a lot we don't know about the game so I think everyone is quick to judge this amazing looking footage. Is it really a clone or do just not know much of the game so you think its exactly like GTA? You know whats a clone? Metal of Honer: War Fighter. It's using the Frost Bite 2 engine for Gods sake. You know why that game is being made? Because EA is trying to get on those COD bucks. You know why this game is being made? Because a group of people at Ubisoft wanted to make a freaking awesome game! Its been in development for 2 years. Its not like there throwing something together and marketing it as a GTA clone... or is it Hitman, or Deus Ex? Oh I don't know or care! I just want this game and The Last of Us badly!

Wait. What? That's pretty much what I meant, and I'm kinda surprised my post could come off as anything else. Watch_Dogs is pretty much the only game this year that really stands out. My point is that we really can't tell by what we've seen so far if it will be successful or not - but whether it is a failure or success, it will certainly be an interesting attempt. And I'm not strictly speaking gameplay wise, where we certainly have seen most of the parts before - but thematic, it is a cyberpunk game that tries to take the cyberpunk themes into the future as we can expect it today rather than 80's or 90's visions of the digital future (where Deus Ex and most other recent Cyberpunk games still rely on the visual style of Blade Runner and works from the late 80's and early 90's).

@BlatantNinja23 said:

the wonders of what a game made for DX 11 can do. Curious if this is actually next generation or not console wise.

It isn't.

Me Gusta.

Ubisoft at E3: Come for the train wreck, stay for the car crash.

(I am so excited about this)

This is PC footage, it's been confirmed.

This is pretty darn impressive.

@TheDrewggernaut: @AlisterCat: No release date, just makes it a prime candidate for one of those nextgen port for launch types of deals.... thats all.

@BlatantNinja23: Yea, I just wanted to share what I saw on twitter because I thought it was NextGen too and was pretty surprised to hear 360 and PS3

Looks pretty amazing. Kinda reminds me of "Person Of Interest" tv show.

@Robopengy: Yeah, that's what stood out to me too, especially when the guy was reacting to his wife/gf/whatever not being conscious in the car. Liked nearly everything else, but for me, that kind of put me off a bit, but I assume one could do cleaner kills in the final game.

surprise and game of the show right here

@Evil_Alaska said:

Most interesting game of the show so far. That said, Ubi is "cheating" since there is no way this is a 360 or PS3 game.

I guess, I actually play as many games as I can on my PC with a 360 controller so if this is what this demo is, which is what it looks to be, than it's not cheating for someone like myself it's exactly what I should be looking forward to.

That said this doesn't look especially 'not for consoles' to me, everything looks in line with what can be delivered from both the 360 and PS3.

I thought the lighting in the rain after he exits the exhibit was amazing.

This reminds me of the show Person of Interest (great show by the way). It also says something of this game when it gets my room mate, who isn't much of a gamer, excited for it.

Easily the most interesting thing from E3 for me.