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On this occasion I will review one of the Playstation 4 game with entitle Watch Dogs : Marketing Bumerang .
Before discussing this game further, I will introduce Watch Dogs to you who are not too familiar with it. Watch Dogs is an open-world action adventure game developed by Ubisoft. This game was first announced two years ago and was promoted as one of the next-gen games that was first shown to the public.
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Full of Hollywood Action Cliches
Watch Dogs tells the story of Aiden Pearce. A criminal who launched his action by utilizing a city infrastructure called ctOS. By hacking on ctOS, Aiden can steal things from money, information, to access to various forbidden things. This football caused him to become a fugitive of a mysterious organization that eventually resulted in the death of his niece.
This incident made Aiden decide to pursue and take revenge on the people responsible for the fate of this family. From there your adventure as Aiden begins.
Watch Dogs has a very interesting theme, which is about surveillance, technology, and crime. This game has tremendous potential to be a game with a unique story and social criticism, but often it is covered with action scenes that are too full of testosterone.
Even so, this game has a unique feature that is extraordinary. As Aiden Pearce, you have the ability to hack anything, including stealing information from people roaming the city of Chicago. Sometimes the information that comes out of that section is very interesting and can give its own effect to some players like me.
For example like on a mission where Aiden must sneak into a human trafficking organization. In that place I read the descriptions of some human trafficking victims like a kidnapped female lad for trafficking, to the immoral that shows a woman the mental retardation involved in prostitution. These things are very controversial, but on the other hand these simple sentences are able to make me hate the antagonist characters in the game, while making me a little aware of the dark facts in our world that we may never care about.
In addition, this game also criticized the issues of privacy that usually appear to be a hot topic on the internet last few years. This criticism Ubisoft conveyed through various scenes taken from the camera that you can hack on various servers ctOS scattered in the city.
The Enthusiasm of Excessive Gameplay
Above I have touched on the magnitude of the hype that Ubisoft got up to welcome the presence of Watch Dogs, unfortunately it can be spelled out to be something that makes many fans disappointed. Anticipation gamers are very high on this game, so high-quality gameplay was still considered less by many people.
On the face of it, the feeling I feel playing Watch Dogs is very similar to when I play Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V). This game is an open-world action adventure game that allows you to circumnavigate the city, drive various types of vehicles, do side missions, and also of course the main mission.
The difference, in Watch Dogs you can hack to various facilities in the city. This hacking is actually not a special thing, just an additional sweetener that if eliminated will make Watch Dogs into other ordinary open-world games.
One thing that I really love from Watch Dogs is the action scene you can find here. Despite having a very selling hacking feature, Watch Dogs can be said to kill a bit of this feature feature. Ubisoft promises that in this game you can choose various ways to solve problems, such as by way of live firefight, stealth, or do not need to move at all and just take advantage of hacking technology alone to complete a mission. While this is half the truth, the mission at Watch Dogs remains designed in a style that forces players to depend on the firefight.
In other games that promise the same thing as Deus Ex: Human Revolution or Dishonored, I can complete a mission without killing a single person, but in Watch Dogs, Ubisoft seems to force you to experience the shooting action commonly found in game covers other shooter. This is very unfortunate because to be honest, can finish off the enemy without having to move places and just use the environment is a very pleasant experience. Just as fun as when Batman frightened his opponents with full stealth action in the Arkham series.
At least in the environmental utilization section, Ubisoft has been successful in making Watch Dogs fun, although this is undermined by standard shoot-out action.
One thing I do not like about Watch Dogs is that not only do many repetitive missions in this game, but the level of difficulty you will find in missions is also quite difficult. Fortunately you are a little helped with the skill system that is commonly found in RPG genre games. Each time you complete a mission, you will get XP which if collected will turn into skill points that can be used to buy various skills. This part I think is a pretty unique piece that you can find on Watch Dogs.
Although the missions at Watch Dogs are dominated by chase or shoot missions, you will still find delightful variations in this game. There's even a mission in the game that has a cool gameplay like the iPad game titled Republique.
Unique variations in Watch Dogs I also found in the multiplayer part of this game. You will not find a direct multiplayer feature like games like Call of Duty. In this game that you will find are moments of surprise when other players suddenly appear in your game in the form of another NPC and start stealing data from your character. At times like this you must play hide and seek to find another player, then finish him off before he leaves.
Do not stop there, Watch Dogs also allow you to play games using Aiden's smartphone. Games that can be played was very fun and unique. You can find exciting gameplay and visual games like Carmageddon, a game that allows you to ride spider-shaped tanks, to games that simulate the circumstances when you're tripping and hallucinating by jumping over the flowers.
In short, Watch Dogs are filled with lots of fresh and new things in the gameplay it has. Unfortunately many aspects of the game, and more unfortunately again it is a major aspect, which impressed imitate more popular games like GTA V and make Watch Dogs just a shootout game for other macho men. This is further exacerbated by the crazy marketing that Ubisoft is doing to promote this game that even gives hope to gamers.
Problems I Do not Worry, But Crowded People Talked
If you are quite active in outside gaming media or follow social media accounts related to the game, you may often hear an uncomfortable joke about Watch Dogs.
The most talked about is how this game can not be run by many gamers. Although it has paid the full price for this game, many gamers claim to be unable to access Watch Dogs. This happens especially on PC gamers. The reason even though they have bought the game with Steam, they still have to login other DRM from Ubisoft that is Uplay.
Uplay itself does not have a good history with gamers. Uplay first forced gamers to always be online even though the game they play is a single player. Now even though it is not mandatory, you still have to login once before you can access the games you buy. The problem with the game of Watch Dogs, it is not surprising that Uplay can not bear the burden of gamers who want to play, as a result even so a lot of gamers who do not have the opportunity to enjoy this game.
I myself played PS4 version had a problem to access the game that I got. Only after reporting, Ubisoft finally send a new digital code that can run smoothly without any obstacle at all even if not using internet connection.
The second issue we talked about was about character drawing. As I mentioned above, Watch Dogs has a good way of telling stories through passing NPC information. Although this game has an unusual main story, this NPC information section provides its own experience in conveying narratives.
Unfortunately there seems to be a bit of a stereotypical problem found here. Games often portray black characters as addicts or drug dealers. In addition, many also protest about the depiction of female characters that usually only serves as an object to be saved alone.
I personally do not know if this is a mere coincidence because the information is merely the result of a computer random calculation, or indeed deliberately created like that by Ubisoft.
I myself do not mind this at all, but it seems out there are a lot of people who do not like the stereotypes at Watch Dogs. Things like this can only be judged by each person, whether this is something that will bother you or not, but I think this will not be too disturbing to you in enjoying Watch Dogs.
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It is very difficult to decide whether Watch Dogs is a game worth having or not. If I value one by one theoretically what is offered by Watch Dogs, maybe I will not suggest you to buy this game. Standard gameplay with an additional sweetener that is still good quality, a story like action movies that have been very market, and many other standard things.
But if we talk about practice, honestly every time I play Watch Dogs I always forget the time. I started playing during the day, but suddenly the sun had started to set in the west. Not infrequently I also have to go home, but I delayed my time home for "one Watch Dogs mission again" which turned out to actually make me complete three more missions.
Because our life is a practice, not just theory, I definitely recommend you to try this game. Especially if you have a new generation console that is a bit of AAA game drought. But if you play with PC, maybe you should wait until there is a discount just buy this game. Anyway, whenever you plan to buy Watch Dogs, you must try this game before taking a decision only from the comments of the people alone (including from this review itself).
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