When you have more time to talk about games, than actually play them.
Watch Dogs 2 is the 2nd game in Ubisoft’s hacker series to give their unique take on an open world game. You play as hacker Marcus Holloway, aka Retr0. He joins DedSec to take on Blume, an evil tech company that is like a mix of Facebook and Amazon on steroids. It is big and little brother combined. Your data sold to the highest bidder.
Following the social media trend, Watch Dogs 2 sets your goal in missions to impress the public enough to increase your follower count for the DedSec app. The more followers, the more power your botnet has to take on Blume. This is a unique game where hacking is more important than shooting. It is actually more fun when you take the non-violent approaches.
There are plenty of weapons to play with, but the main tools to have fun with are the jumper bot and aerial drone. The Jumper bot is basically a specialized Watch Dogs 2 RC car with a camera and a robot arm. You use it for many missions to sneak into places to connect to USB ports where a remote hack cannot be completed. It has a jump function to get over barriers and can be upgraded with a boost, as well. The aerial drone is your basic quad copter variated with a camera that can be used to scout an area and perform remote hacks, but it cannot plug anything into USB ports.
The Watch Dogs 2 hacking tools you have allow you to control so much, including: cars, cranes, lifts, doors, gas mains, electrical boxes and much more. It was definitely better than the first and a recommended game for any geek.
My son started playing Watch Dogs Legion and is loving it. That made me super anxious to get into it too, but I promised myself I would finish Watch Dogs 2 first. To speed things up, I put any VR or Switch games on pause to finish up. This time around, I’ll summarize days worth … Read moreWatch Dogs 2 Hacking my way to the End
In this play session, I start out with a fun side mission to spread DedSec graffiti around the city and wrap it up with completing the Watch Dogs 2 Haum set of missions. Haum is basically an Amazon Alexa/Google Home hybrid. Spoilers ahead. Playing at Graffiti Art To start, I met up with Sitara on … Read moreBreaking into the Watch Dogs 2 Haum
This play session the mission was to take down a scientology like cult in Watch Dogs 2 New Dawn. Jimmy Siska, the star of Cyber Driver that was the main theme of last session is basically their Tom Cruise. We end up working together to take down the fake church. Spoilers ahead. Protest at New … Read moreTaking Down Watch Dogs 2 New Dawn Cult
This game is fun. I wish I had started it sooner, because it’s making me even more hyped about Legion. Last play session, I picked up a Cyber Driver mission and this time I found it was basically their version of Knight Rider. Once I saw the car, I knew at some point I would … Read moreKnock Off Knight Rider in Watch Dogs 2
I still remember the hype from the original Watch dogs game. The preview graphics looked amazing and they made it seem like you can hack anything, then reality met the release date. The graphics in the final release were definitely not as impressive as the preview trailers and hacking was fun, but limited in scope. … Read moreGetting Ready for Legion by Finally Playing Watch Dogs 2