Watch Dogs - Ubisoft's Third Person Shooter

Using Focus mode to t-bone cars is my newest fave thing to do, and hope they slide enough to smack into a predestrian or maybe roll over, having a hard time getting them to roll.
 
got a key from a retailer yesterday, activated on uplay and almost 24 hours later I'm still waiting on the game showing up on the bloomin thing so I can download it. Annoyingly it's listed as one of my activated games, but doesn't appear next to my other games so I've no way to download it.

Uplay, how I hate thee!
 
I bought this yesterday, I really need to check retailers Facebook page for codes when I buy a game, and I do like the look and gameplay so far. Only thing I don't like is driving as its so poor though it got a little easier when I connected my XBox One controller. Though I can control motorbikes with the keyboard and mouse very well, just not cars.

One thing that feels a bit weird is controlling the main character, it just feels slightly detached, like I'm controlling another person who's then controlling the main character. That really doesn't explain how it feels to me but there's a slight strangeness to it for me.

Other than that the graphics are very nice and gameplay, except for driving, is good. For me its no GTA V beater but it's still a damn good game.
 
Completed this today although I did enjoy it, I have a couple a major niggles.

The voice acting is atrocious, they could have used Microsoft's text to speech engine and got more feeling out of it.

The story/campaign is very weak and must have been an afterthought after the initial game design, probably thought up in someones tea break and everyone went with it.

But played it to completion, so can't be all that bad, or did I just want my moneys worth?
 
hyperseven said:
Completed this today although I did enjoy it, I have a couple a major niggles.

The voice acting is atrocious, they could have used Microsoft's text to speech engine and got more feeling out of it.

The story/campaign is very weak and must have been an afterthought after the initial game design, probably thought up in someones tea break and everyone went with it.

But played it to completion, so can't be all that bad, or did I just want my moneys worth?
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Kudos to you buddy done well to complete 100% ... I get bored after an hour or just wait for it to crash and don't bother restarting
 
Anyone that's got crashing problems, set the screen to borderless window.
I was having crashing soon as my 6gb gpu mem was full.
No problems now
 
Fun game, but towards the end of the main plotline, I found myself hating Aiden "Personality of a brick" Pearce so much I started shooting as many many random pedestrians in the face as I could :)
 
i completed this today (well yesterday now). Got to say i did enjoy it the longer it went on the better it got. I looked at it like a poor film but had to get it sorted. I'd stick it up there with Sleeping Dogs, yeah some of the acting was rubbish and so was the animations but there was a lot of good stuff.
The water and rain looked amazing. Running on my Nvidia card driving was fun.
I like the online play it can be very tense would be better to have some friends on uplay though!
Story line went here there and everywhere but thats expected as they wanted to draw the game out. As a new IP i thought it was good and its a great basis of a game to start from. Literally everyone on the streets had something to do if you wanted to, or just kill everyone.
Man it even had doggy style and blow jobs :P what more can a game need??????
 
deblow said:
Anyone that's got crashing problems, set the screen to borderless window.
I was having crashing soon as my 6gb gpu mem was full.
No problems now
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6GB vram...... full..... wow this game is really ****ly optimised then! how can a game that doesn't have great textures or realtime reflections take up so much damn vram!!! absolute joke as 6gb is extreme enthusiast level..... where most of us will have 2-4GB cards....
 
Was planning on getting this the other day, but thought against it (with the news of GTA V only being around the corner).

Can anyone tell me how long it takes to complete?
 
Murray said:
Damn, they managed to make it look even worse.
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Wut, this game looks great and those screenshots even better.

Sasso said:
6GB vram...... full..... wow this game is really ****ly optimised then! how can a game that doesn't have great textures or realtime reflections take up so much damn vram!!! absolute joke as 6gb is extreme enthusiast level..... where most of us will have 2-4GB cards....
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Yep and that's at low settings!!!!

/facepalm

Game uses just over 2GB for me with everything at ultra and Termporal AA or whatever it's called in the game. I gather Mr 6bg above is running with some form of "extreme enthusiast settings". Also, this game has great textures, like, really good for an open world game.

I really do like this game, I lost my save saturday night somehow. Entire game was gone and somehow uplay cloud backup was useless. What's the point in backing up to the cloud if it doesn't function in the event of some kind of loss.

Either way I started again and still really enjoying it. Spider tank is much fun and I love the implementation of stealth mechanics. You can literally engage objectives in many different ways from hacking people and stuff, running in all guns blazing or just stealth around capping people with a silenced weapon.

I guess this game just clicks with me, one minute I can be walking around just hacking people for their money the next I've just rammed someone off the road with a truck and am taking out 4 or 5 pursuit cars with a grenade launcher then two minutes later I'm stealthily infiltrating a CTOS center.

As an open world game it gets all of this stuff right, the city is very well built and populated too, there's a few things here and there that are a little off but for the most part this is a great open world game that also brings a lot of elements from non open world games seamlessly together.

Another thing it does really well is the online stuff, jumping into other people's games and others jumping into yours is fun and it feels right, it even makes me paranoid.

It is sad to see that some people seem to be having real problems with crashes and performance. I feel that the game is pretty well optimized the level of graphics and detail give about the right FPS and very importantly stable FPS compared to other contemporary games.

I will say this, watch dogs seems to use a lot of CPU, I don't think my PC has ever churned out so much heat!
 
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ClubFoot said:
Was planning on getting this the other day, but thought against it (with the news of GTA V only being around the corner).

Can anyone tell me how long it takes to complete?
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GTA won't be out until December according to pre order sites
The main story took me about 6-8hrs but I bypassed all the mini games and side missions same as I did on GTA
I will do all the extras when they patch the game and finish GTA properly when out on pc :)
 
Skyfall said:
Wut, this game looks great and those screenshots even better.

Yep and that's at low settings!!!!

/facepalm

Game uses just over 2GB for me with everything at ultra
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ultra setting full screen , game starts of using around 2gb then after about 30mins it's at 5gb and keeps rising until it crashes

playing in full screen window stops it

But there's definitely something wrong with the mem usage and needs patching, can't believe it's taking them so long

Definitely not the worst game iv spent £22 on but not the best either
 
With a 295x2 i run Watchdogs on Full Ultra @1440p 8xMSAA and its a mess screens all shakey and a stuttery mess!
Knock down to 4xMSAA and its playable but still Stuttering

The game annoys me lol
 
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