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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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bout time

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Hmm..hope the extra time was worth it.

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Is it me or does this look better than it did the last time we saw it?

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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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can this be more cheesy ? ... mheee

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Does Aden have throat cancer or something?

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Please be good

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First?

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SO it's Batman game ?

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Waited so long only to feel apathy. Bummer.

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I am convinced that the developers of this game watch the show Person of Interest and just copied everything and made it into a game.

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Oh a brooding protagonist with a gravelly voice! This is original.

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Looks like I'll enjoy this game in spite of the story.

Assuming the gameplay comes together like they are promising, of course.

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What is up with his voice? Unless he smokes 10 packs a day and is an alcoholic to boot, that's a really gravely sounding voice from a relatively young and dandy looking guy.

Also for a dude who was a hacker all his life up to this point, he sure seems to be really fit, nimble, with great hand to hand combat skills and a pro with a gun to boot. Before this reveal it was kinda plausible he was a ex-mil dude or something who just got a sweet phone from his hacker buddies.

I'm just getting complete dissonance as to his character. It just seems silly all over the place.

This trailer just made me way less interested in the game.

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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.

yea pretty much the same here

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@tennmuerti: He's like Hugh Jackman in swordfish. Super cheese.

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I really hope they're only playing up the shooty-ness for the sake of the trailer. I don't want another shooter. Please.

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I can't help but think that checking every little detail in the environment gets tedious after a while.

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Looks like dead daughter, evil old man controlling the city, his first henchman controlling an army and a secret underground rebellion that mostly sits in front of computers.

And the award for most generic videogame story of 2014 goes to...

I still may be getting it. Maybe it's going to be a semi-competent stealth game?

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Hmmm. Well I'm still excited. But not like I was back when new consoles were right around the corner. This was THE game that would have first gone into my shinny new system. Delay knocked the wind out of my hype sails. Hope the delay was worth it.

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Yeah...The story doesn't seem like anything to write home about...But it does look pretty....

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I don't know about this one.

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@brendan said:

@tennmuerti: He's like Hugh Jackman in swordfish. Super cheese.

Even Hugh Jackman in Swordfish while looking incredibly well build and hot (somewhat plausible), still didn't run around being some super ninja cop.

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We already knew about the story: it will be dumb. Just play the super fun game and do not think about any of the characters or plot for a second, cause it's soooooooooo dumb.

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Story looks serviceable. So long as it's as action-packed and fun as the trailers have lead to believe, I have little trouble believing this is a good game.

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so the delay will probably end up hurting them in the end huh?

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@sasnake 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.

Or maybe you should stop being as intellectual as you think you are.

Touché.

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No one understand....

It's in fact, Batman: Arkham True Origin this time (title to be renamed shortly before release I guess). And in a shocking turn of event we will discover that the Joker was the ennemy since the beginning!

Well, no one understood except @hiczok, good detective instinct there.

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Releasing on so many platforms plus open world game equals that is some hard ass programming to program, yo.

Bet they're in the Red Dead Redemption "horses halfway in the ground vibrating" mode as we speak.

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Edited By billyok

@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.

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Holy shit yes, this looks incredible. Also, is that DMX?

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Soooo everytime he turns off ALL electricity in Chicago he potentially kills hundreds of patients in hospitals, is the course of car crashes, he kills cops because all cops are "crooked" apperently... And we're supposed to root for the guy?

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This is gonna eventually get pushed to fall.

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Is it me or does this look better than it did the last time we saw it?

Indeed, also my first thought! Not looking as "polished" as the very first reveal trailer, but looking way sharper than the last gameplay videos. Guess it's the PC version running on a pretty high resolution?

But i don't get why people hate so much on the revealed story/characters?
This is exactly what i was expecting: GTA in a somewhat futuristic setting, with a "hacker" protagonist
The revealed characters exactly fit that bill, some of that stuff from the trailer, i consider pretty witty/funny.

Could have held up on revealing too much of that pretty cheesy story so soon tho. Might have worked as a better surprise if people just experience the cheese for themselves, at least if it's delivered in a competent way.

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@leebmx: Remember that debut trailer that had cars crashing and a gunfight in an intersection?

Why did people get the idea this would be a stealth game?

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@civid said:

Soooo everytime he turns off ALL electricity in Chicago he potentially kills hundreds of patients in hospitals, is the course of car crashes, he kills cops because all cops are "crooked" apperently... And we're supposed to root for the guy?

Look man, he misses his girlfriend, all right.

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

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Is it weird that the first thing i thought off while watching this was 'The Net'.

does that make me a bad person?

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Oh man if this comment section got any edgier it'd cut through its own ego.

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@leebmx: Remember that debut trailer that had cars crashing and a gunfight in an intersection?

Why did people get the idea this would be a stealth game?

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@bbk said:

@civid said:

Soooo everytime he turns off ALL electricity in Chicago he potentially kills hundreds of patients in hospitals, is the course of car crashes, he kills cops because all cops are "crooked" apperently... And we're supposed to root for the guy?

Look man, he misses his girlfriend, all right.

Her grave says she was 6, and she has his last name. I'm gonna go with "daughter".

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@civid said:

Soooo everytime he turns off ALL electricity in Chicago he potentially kills hundreds of patients in hospitals, is the course of car crashes, he kills cops because all cops are "crooked" apperently... And we're supposed to root for the guy?

But that's the thing.

There's a reputation system in the game where the population grow to like or hate you based on your actions. So those "collateral damage" effects would probably earn you the displeasure of the populace.

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Get back to me when the Wii U version launches because from the start that seemed like the version to play.

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Yeah, story bits dropped here all sound very cliche, but that wasn't really the thing that drew me in the first place. Still looks pretty good, and I'm wondering now how the multiplayer aspect will work with this plot.

Definitely still getting this, but I'm kind of torn about which platform to get it on. No plans at all to buy a PS4 this year. I'm getting a new PC, but that won't be until around October. Will also be missing out on that hour's worth of content exclusive to the Sony consoles. I can get it on the PS3, but I'm also thinking that it's probably not the best platform to play it on. Gah.

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Looks like a late birthday present for me. :)