Watch Dogs

[GONNAFISTYA]

The Rainbow6 Patriots project I was working on is getting retooled and most of the team, including myself, were reassigned to other projects here in Montreal. So...I'm now working on this, which was officially announced at yesterday's E3 Ubi press conference.

The basic idea is a large, GTAish open world game - set in near-future Chicago - in which you can hack the city and fuck shit up.
Here's more info and a trailer which explains the background of the game.

Kotaku link





Here's the gameplay vid. It's all in-game from the playable demo, so nothing's pre-rendered. If you ask which generation of consoles it'll be on, my answer is, "yes".





[edit] Reorganized to make sense. fuck u...

[Captain]

A perfect example of what Deus Ex should've been like. Can't wait to try it

[Transient]

Looking forward to this.

[TruthfulLiar]

GTA, max payne, matrix. etc

[Tsakali]

oh wow, that looks AAAA good. This is how games should look like these days dammit!
fuck u console.

[Eraser]

Saw the gameplay video yesterday. It looks truly awesome. For a racing game.

[Mogul]

When he walked past that tv news reporter, I immediately felt an urge to attack her, gta style.

[Ryoki]

That looks fucking cool!

[MKJ]

i knew you were working on Patriots, no idea you were involved in this project.

a step up, I'd say.


you know you cant call Ubi the devil and greedy whores and whatnot anymore, rite?

[seremtan]

looks pretty awesome, apart from the 3rd person viewpoint. cue lots of watching yourself run into walls

also, bladerunner

[Eraser]

looks pretty awesome, apart from the 3rd person viewpoint. cue lots of watching yourself run into walls

Learn how to use a controller.

[seremtan]

i should have clarified: watch other people run into walls on Alan Wake/LA Noire gameplay footage

i don't do 3rd person

also, get off my cock, jerry

[Therac-25]

Looks awesome.

There's already some people interpreting stuff in that trailer as an ARG, though. Sigh.

[Don Carlos]

Fucking aye that was good...next xbox FTW!!

And while that did look amazing, I would be interested to see how it actually plays in the real world.

[Captain]

It's almost too good to be true. Part of me wonders if it was just a scripted stage demo and the final game will be nothing like it.

[Psyche911]

Depends if they shit DRM all over it

This is the first thing I thought of too.

At what point will you know if they're using their bullshit always-on DRM, with server-side saves, etc. in this single player (I assume?) game? Or is that some shit they spring on you last second?

[losCHUNK]

Depends if they shit DRM all over it

This is the first thing I thought of too.

At what point will you know if they're using their bullshit always-on DRM, with server-side saves, etc. in this single player (I assume?) game? Or is that some shit they spring on you last second?

Shit like this deserves to be pirated

A perfect example of what Deus Ex should've been like. Can't wait to try it

this looks pretty impressive

[ToxicBug]

GONNAFISTYA, how do you like Montreal?

[Κracus]

Jesus that looks freaking awesome, I'll definitely be buying this.

[plained]

looks like a fun game!

[-Replicant-]

That looks amazing. If the whole game is like that, I'm in.

[Κracus]

The car accident was fucking amazing. What I'm wondering though is if it's a scripted accident. If you can cause accidents and pileups like that at will then that's an amazing game mechanic. If it's scripted not so much.

In GTA you can cause pileups but they don't have that believable feel to them in Crackdown 1 you could snipe car tires on the highway and produce fairly impressive crashes and pileups but again, the ai in the cars had none of that believable reaction to an accident.

Any comments GKY or is this non disclosure material?

[Don Carlos]

Ubisoft Montreal producer Dominic Guay feels flattered by the whispers of suspicion surrounding Watch Dogs, a new third-person, open-world action game from Ubisoft. After an impressive debut at Ubisoft's E3 2012 press conference, Watch Dogs left viewers questioning whether its sophisticated environments and lighting (among other things) are a realistic match for current consoles. The official line is that it's coming to PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.

Speaking to Joystiq, Guay confirmed that the E3 demo is running on PC, but emphasized that Ubisoft Montreal is interested in getting Watch Dogs on "all the platforms we can." That means Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions "for sure," Guay said. A Wii U version is still up in the air.

It's easy to imagine Ubisoft releasing a scaled-down, optimized version of Watch Dogs, positioned to take advantage of the large, established audience on current consoles. It's even easier to envision the futuristic property popping up in Ubisoft's typical barrage of launch games for a new system. Both scenarios could play out by the time Watch Dogs ships, sometime after 2012.

[Don Carlos]

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/06/watch ... ucer-says/

[xer0s]

I guess I missed the point of the game. It looks cool, but what's the overall objective?