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Watch Dogs Has a New Release Date, May 27

And we're finally learning what the heck is going on in the game, too.

Mar. 6 2014

Posted by: Patrick

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my best friend's mother makes $64 every hour on the internet . She has been out of a job for five months but last month her pay check was $14367 just working on the internet for a few hours. website link........................www.Works23.us

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@bbk: Errr what? AC is super combat heavy. It's a melee murder simulator.

Anyway, Person of Interest: The Video Game. I'll take it!

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Not that I ever thought this looked good but man, what a mundane story conceit for such a potentially interesting premise.

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Man the story looks stupid as hell. Hopefully it is still fun to play and isn't a half-baked mess like AC1.

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its like if max payne was a hacker

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@oursin_360 said:

Wait, did he always sound like mcgruff the crime dog mixed with christian bale??? I could have sworn he had a regular voice before, or maybe i'm making it up in my head.

The longer they take on this game, the less interested i am in it tbh. Should have used the new console launch to push the franchise while they could instead of pushing this back to promote black flag (which would have sold the same regardless IMO)

In the 2012 E3 debut trailer he totally sounded like a normal fella, with none of this faux-rorschach bullshit. In fact he sounded like another Nolan North/Troy Baker sorta character candidate; and while we've already got plenty of those, they're still a sight more preferable to gruff Gravel Man.

Skip to about 3:40 to hear his original voice.

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"I'M SO ANGRY AT THIS CORKBOARD! NYYEEEHHH!"

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i slowly lost interest in this game with this trailer.

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@minivan: If that six year old girl was really his lover, than this would indeed be very original, and disturbing.

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GTA V was so good they delayed it. Ubisoft should go out of business for how they fucked Patrice Desilets and so many other people.

Don't buy Watch Dogs, play more GTA V.

Screw Ubisoft.

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@white said:

Does Aden have throat cancer or something?

Man, Batman really needs to work on his costume...

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Wait, did he always sound like mcgruff the crime dog mixed with christian bale??? I could have sworn he had a regular voice before, or maybe i'm making it up in my head.

The longer they take on this game, the less interested i am in it tbh. Should have used the new console launch to push the franchise while they could instead of pushing this back to promote black flag (which would have sold the same regardless IMO)

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This trailer makes me think they're trying to reboot Hackers as a video game.

Reading the comments, I'm surprised how much people vary on what this game is. It looks like there's climbing up specified box like areas to higher ground. Contextual AC like opportunities to start sidequests and activities(hopefully on a larger scale than catch/kill that guy). Driving, shooting and police attention of GTA(Escape detection to continue playing the game normally). We don't know how far the story will skew because trailers emphasize a style and cut from all over. Most likely(Ubisoft) it'll be missions like Splinter Cell Blacklist but in a modern setting, emphasizing side objectives and environmental attacks/distractions to help you get through missions and feel a diverse level of interaction. However, I think the story will divulge into action at points and also allow you to take most missions head on again like Splinter Cell Blacklist.

Anyway that's my conjecture for now.

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awesome.

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Yyyyyeah, why have y'all been talking about this game forever again? Not that it doesn't look, hrm, movie-ie? It just looks like a movie I'd never want to watch.

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I dont like this Community much anymore after reading comments. I liked GB prior Gamespot and CBS...... But enough about your problems, The game trailer looks like a movie trailer which has no impact on me buying this game... I will buy it no matter how the trailers are. Also, to be like everyone else who posted before me.. This game is Super original and we all totally have not seen anything like this done prior. That Main characters voice is So Cliche and batman like it might as well be the next Arkham game. I hope I fit in with prior comments here.

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With the mainstream still being so in love with Hollywood and this game looking as it does, I can't image how gaming en masse won't be popular this generation. Looks epic!

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I hope this is 360/PS3 footage, but it seems slightly better than what those machines are capable of....but not by very much. It will be VERY disappointing if this is next gen footage.

This one trailer has gone made my stance on Watch Dogs go from being a day one PC purchase to a wait and see if the final PC graphics look shitty like the 2014 footage, or awesome like the 2012 stuff. Ubisoft would have been better off (with me at least) not showing ANYTHING new on the game as opposed to showing this crummy trailer.

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I'm still not too interested in playing this, but I still wanna walk around Chicago (despite doing it every day).

I hope it's good, with a decent enough story to get me to buy in.

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Ok so it's gonna be out when it's done. I don't mind.

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What happened to the graphics? All the lighting is gone!

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Born June 4 2006

Died October 26 2012

AT AGE 6

I didn't know they were focus testing gravestones now. "Studies show that mourners weren't clear about the age of the deceased, we recommend an addendum to the gravestone as follows..."

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Watch_Dogs: Vengeance and the Magic Phone

I can't really say that this trailer did anything for me.

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That is the best trailer I've seen for a video game. I am so excited for this game and have been for a long time. I can't wait!!!

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Now I wonder which version this is. This look suspiciously like the level of detail shown in the Aisha Tyler trailer (which is the last-gen version).

If this is the Next-Gen version, that's massively disappointing. Still interested if the gameplay is good, but may not immediately get it as it's no longer even close to the technical showcase it was. (If this is indeed the next gen version)

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This trailer pretty much unsold me on preordering the game. Will have to wait for the quicklook and reviews now.

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What the hell happened to this game?! 2012 watch dogs all BS 2013 360 version or really the base for next gen versions.

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Still looks like a Person of Interest spin-off. Which is a very good thing.

Convoluted nonsense and bad characters incoming then.

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@ripelivejam: sales wise, i think so. But it may be a better game. Im skeptical, but lets wait and see shall we? At least we have a release date now.....lets just hope ubi sticks to it.

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@leebmx said:

Watching that trailer has made me the least interested I have been in the game so far...too much shooting and exploding, hope the game is more stealthy than this made it look.

The characters looked very cliched as well, tattooed goth cyber-hacker, evil old man media overlord, I really hope the game isn't as dumb as this trailer made it look.

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Graphically went from looking like a "next-gen" title to looking slightly better than a 360 game. Disappointed. Graphics isn't everything, but it's definitely part of setting the atmosphere.

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(stolen from NeoGAF 2013 footage from the Aisha Taylor promo Ubi sent out. Yes it's completely unfair, but it highlights the problem. Compare the 2012 with the video posted today. The lighting is gone. The dynamics of the scene, evaporated.. just, you know, without the fog.)

Glad I'm not crazy for noticing this myself. This trailer looks like a last-gen game, while the release stuff looked extremely impressive. I'm hoping it's a matter of showing the console version in this trailer vs the PC version being shown for the announcements.

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I'm still looking forward to it. Though I'm starting to wonder if it's going to have a good ratio of sneaky "hacker" stuff to EXPLOSIONS! involved.

Time will tell I guess

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It still looks like it's going to be fun no matter how it all turns out.

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Compare this to what was shown at E3 (I think it was E3) and this looks like a pretty massive downgrade in graphics. Anyways, haven't really been very interested in this game since day one, and it now looks more generic than ever. For as much as I like Person of Interest, and this sure does seem to take some cues from that show, I think I'll pass.

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@leebmx said:

@bbk said:

@leebmx said:

Watching that trailer has made me the least interested I have been in the game so far...too much shooting and exploding, hope the game is more stealthy than this made it look.

The characters looked very cliched as well, tattooed goth cyber-hacker, evil old man media overlord, I really hope the game isn't as dumb as this trailer made it look.

I chalk it up to stealth not playing very well in a short trailer, especially one marketed to a wide audience. Even the Assassin's Creed trailers skew combat-heavy, and combat plays even less a role in that game than I assume it would in this one.

Yeah that's what I am hoping. Trailers normally go for the lowest common denominator or just show the whizziest, explodingest parts of the games so I hope you are right. It is the characters and plotline which worried me the most though. I know not to expect too much from videogames but this looked a little lazy...

Still hopeful though, the gameplay videos they released previously looked promising. On a wider note, it seems that a great deal of the time trailers just don't show a lot of the aspects of games which gamers really enjoy and it makes me wonder who they are for exactly, and whether they serve any purpose. I'd say most of the reaction to this trailer has been negative, but I guess advertisers and marketers know their demographics, and maybe all it is about is getting the word out, rather than explicitly selling the game.

Big game trailers always seem to be either CG or cut scenes and explosions from the game which don't tell anyone what the game is really like and most of the time make it either seem shallow and dumb or present and exciting but unrealistic spectacle (see new Batman trailer). It just can't be good if Ubisoft are releasing promos which lower excitement.

After reading the hands-on writeup on Polygon, I'm pretty optimistic that you can play this game any way you desire. Sounds like one hell of a fun sandbox.

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About time something was shown for this game I was getting worried and I won't have to wait too long to play.

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I normally don't care about graphics, but it's kind of disappointing how this went from a next gen showpiece that was talking me into buying a new console to looking on par or worse than the most recent PS3/360 releases. If the delays were to rework the game to actually run on the new consoles, that'd be really sad.

Also generic explosions/shooting/fighting trailer with generic revenge plot are not doing this game any favors. I still might get a PS4 soon with Infamous coming out, but I dunno. I'll normally wait till there's at least a few must buys, and that's not looking to happen until fall at this rate.

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So its Burn Notice + Person of Interest + Taken? I'm sold.

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@bbk said:

@leebmx said:

Watching that trailer has made me the least interested I have been in the game so far...too much shooting and exploding, hope the game is more stealthy than this made it look.

The characters looked very cliched as well, tattooed goth cyber-hacker, evil old man media overlord, I really hope the game isn't as dumb as this trailer made it look.

I chalk it up to stealth not playing very well in a short trailer, especially one marketed to a wide audience. Even the Assassin's Creed trailers skew combat-heavy, and combat plays even less a role in that game than I assume it would in this one.

Yeah that's what I am hoping. Trailers normally go for the lowest common denominator or just show the whizziest, explodingest parts of the games so I hope you are right. It is the characters and plotline which worried me the most though. I know not to expect too much from videogames but this looked a little lazy...

Still hopeful though, the gameplay videos they released previously looked promising. On a wider note, it seems that a great deal of the time trailers just don't show a lot of the aspects of games which gamers really enjoy and it makes me wonder who they are for exactly, and whether they serve any purpose. I'd say most of the reaction to this trailer has been negative, but I guess advertisers and marketers know their demographics, and maybe all it is about is getting the word out, rather than explicitly selling the game.

Big game trailers always seem to be either CG or cut scenes and explosions from the game which don't tell anyone what the game is really like and most of the time make it either seem shallow and dumb or present and exciting but unrealistic spectacle (see new Batman trailer). It just can't be good if Ubisoft are releasing promos which lower excitement.