Here Is the Entire Watch Dogs Demo Shown at Sony's PlayStation 4 Conference

Incredible

@shimmy: Console Next-Gen, PC this gen.

Is anybody getting a sick idea such as stopping a train, pushing a bunch of people onto the tracks then switching the train back on?

Because that train hacking is giving me those Red Dead Redemption vibes.

That was pretty damn impressive. When will devs realise actual in game footage is so much more captivating then CGI cutscenes.

When you can show how impressive your game is going to be, I will salivate a hell of a lot more then you dusting up a pretty cinematic, Dead Island style.

It's that janky PhysX cloth tech that they kept putting into a bunch of PC ports a couple years back good god is that shit obnoxious as ever, having clothes react to movement and wind subtlety goes a long way.

You sick, sick man.

I'm with you.

The Sleeping Dogs, Alex.

I just want to point out that Alex has made the "who watches the_____?" joke in the headline before. That's really all I've got.

I got the achievement for that one.

@hashbrowns: You're right it would have been much better if they hired a PR person to talk loudly and obnoxiously about something they have no direct input in, rather than someone who works on the game, with the TENACITY to speak with a FOREIGNERaccent! SHEEEEESH!!!.......

Man, practically nothing stood out to me during that conference. Watch Dogs started off promising at E3, but now I can even be arsed to care.

The Witness and Media Molecule dicking around were the most interesting things about the whole thing, and Ono being an adorable little man.

Not sure I could be more excited for this game. Outstanding.

That is one hell of a phone that he has.

I am down for an assasin creed style of game set in the modern times or in the future.

Actually ubisoft would be wise to maybe do a futuristic setting for the next assasins creed game. Another possibility could be game set during world war 1.

Then again Napoleonic wars would also be an interesting period of time to cover along with the russian revolution (the one where the czar got overthrown).

The water looked amazingly impressive, and the detail of the bricks and stones on the ground is really something else. Reflections in the puddles, the cloth tech on the trenchcoat (the distinct lack of clipping, to be precise), the smoke and sparks from ruptured pipes and electronics, it all looks very good.

so this guys some sort of vigilante using surveillance equipment to catch criminals and what not, but disables the squad cars that were going to pick up the criminal he knocked out and making them agro him instead? this dude is worse than fucking Batman ><

Why were the cops chasing him if he helped apprehend a criminal? Also, why did he just flip from helping take down a bad guy to shooting at cop cars?

The game looks great. Of course, it's multiplatform and wasn't even playing on a PS4 for the demo. Sure, the hardware is "close" to a PS4. Alright. Whatever.

I'm just a little frustrated that there was some misleading on this one. Be up-front in the moment. Especially for what turns out to have been the best game demo in the whole set.

Nevertheless, if this is pretty much what it's going to look like on the console, then the PS4 is going to be decent hardware. But I'm too used to seeing PC visuals. There was nothing about it that really screamed next-gen to me. You've ruined me, PC hardware. I may switch back.

Wow, I didn't realize this wasn't playing on a PS4. That's a bit of a let down, honestly. Not that I won't be picking it up on the PC anyhow.

Feed that watch dog a big steak and he becomes a sleepy dawg!

This game is really ambitious. I hope that we get to move from character to character to character like we did in the E3 deom.

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God damn it I already love this game, I'm getting a real Robin Hood\Batman vibe from this.

2013 High End PC = PS4

The graphics don't look that intense but the animations and the ideas of the game are really good and sound fun I hope they will polish the game a lot, so it will have as little open world jank as possible.

I am extremely interested in this. I am just a little worried the dynamic content might simply devolve into something extremely repetitive, kind of like the random events in Red Dead. However if I could somehow destroy the life of a pro-life tobacco executive (other than just ripping off his bank account for $400) that'd be rad!

Game looks amazing. Stopping the train like that and riding it to escape. That was some slick shit.

The early (pre-conference) talk about the hardware of the next gen systems sounded like they would just be an $80-150 upgrade for my 2010 PC. The rumored CPU didn't sound all that impressive (and they didn't talk about what clockrate or how many cores it had during the conference), but after it became clear they use 8GB's of GDDR5, I'm not so sure about that. That stuff is expensive and I don't know about any consumer grade motherboards that use or even support that, so that'll probably keep up with high end PC's for several years. Obviously we'll be in the same situation we're in right now in another 7 or so years, but I don't think the memory will be the issue with this machine (like it was throughout the entire cycle of this generation - 512MB wasn't much even in 2005 and the PS3 could only use 256MB out of those 512 if I recall correctly, that shit's been devastating to developers), but the CPU worries me a little, 1.6 ghz doesn't sound like much, even if it is 8 cores. That sounds like a potential issue down the line, it's not like consumer grade 3ghz 8 core CPU's are prohibitively expensive today.

Clock speed isn't the best measurement of CPU power -- the efficiency of AMD stuff has always let it hang around Intel, even with lower clocks.

I'm getting a real rougelike sense out of this game, based on how all the different systems interact with each other.

ugh. i wanted to watch this in glorious HD, then the developer started talking over it. couldn't make it more than 30 seconds in. sigh.

Sold.

This looks so good. Cant wait to get this. Im assuming the PS4 version will look quite similar to this. Or at least I expect it to.

This game looks fantastic

Man, I hope this game doesn't freeze at 2:58 like the trailer does... this new video codec sucks!

That clean look.... it's all I want from next gen.

It actually started out as Driver 5.

I saw that too, except it made me wonder if the game's writing was going to be that cliched all the way through. It could only have been more cliched if he'd gotten into a Hummer. Hopefully the writing will be more subtle than that.

Let me tell you about foot chases.

This looks so awesome.

As a completely trivial aside, that site http://www.chicago-ctos.com/ that's supposedly hacked by DedSec is using a Google Analytics account id of UA-1575735-4 (see the javascript at the bottom of the page source).

That account id has definitely been used by Ubisoft in the past:

http://www.sitetrend.info/analytics.info/UA-1575735-4

dis is jus ay taste av wat we 'av een day-veloment.

I'm into it, this looks rad.

Kind of funny that this guy uses his amazing athletic ability and technical skills to beat up muggers. Shouldn't he be taking down banks or something?

Oh man, I'm still digging this.

you'd think they'd pick someone to do the voice over who doesn't have an unusual accent/speech impediment, deciphering what he's saying detracted from the trailer.

@mattschwabby: Because he was wielding a gun in broad daylight in Chicago, shots were fired, and if you were a cop and you saw him running away from the scene of a potential crime, you'd do the same thing.

About the shooting cop cars thing, the guy's clearly both an assassin and an identity thief. Not exactly citizen-of-the-month material.

I seriously hope that was actually a random event, and not a scripted scene like most other games. It looks interesting nonetheless, but I just hope we get ACTUAL random events for once.

You don't play games on a PC, do you?

are they really asking for people to preorder for a game for a console that is not out yet

Nobody really plays games on a PC. They spend all of their time buying new hardware, adjusting the settings, downloading mods, and then complaining on Internet forums about console ports and technical settings.

PC gaming!

On topic, what's up with that cover art? Man with gun in open-world: The video game. I could totally see this game ending up being another shooting and killing thing, with a few interactive world elements thrown in.