Watch Dogs 2 (2016 Video Game) User Reviews

Grand Theft Auto...But You're a Hacker!

[thescholar22 · 8/10 · 3 October 2019]

Playing this it just felt like Grand Theft Auto, but your a hacker, though I understand what this series is about, corporations using your identity online to judge you before they even actually meet you. After that explanation and how a bunch of these hackers called DedSec unite to stop the corporations. The game actually starts in San Francisco, and there's all these side missions with the guy you play to help you gain experience points.

Some of these side missions feel like just dumb pranks but there was a few side missions where these hackers showed humanity. Like this one side mission where you save a business guy from committing suicide since people said they found pictures of him cheating on his wife online. The guy you play finds out that was just Photoshop and they save the business guy before he actually ends it all. Seeing that I just felt like "More of that please!" since hackers get attacked for being trolls and deviants. Thinking since they can understand computers very well they think they have ultimate power. Even though someone else could just take the ultimate power if someone gets cocky or clumsy from the ultimate power. Power corrupts is all I'm saying.

That also reminded me when some hackers saw animal abuse on one of those 4Chan websites and they were able to zero in on where they lived and they called the cops on them. That just taught me that some hackers have humanity in them and aren't just a bunch of trolls and deviants. You can correct me if I didn't get that quite right.

Along the way you infiltrate "not Google", "not Scientology", and encounter another hacker that kind of looks like Kimdotcom. There's also some missions were you meet another hacker as well as losing someone in these "Info Wars", as I like to call this at times.

In the end level it made me think the hackers won, but the corporations might of just pressed the reset button on all of it. Just because Watch Dogs: Legion will come out soon and I just think it will be Watch Dogs in Britain. The multiplayer for Watch Dogs 2 was okay when I was playing it. Some people pop up every now and then but it feels like it didn't last very long. This is also another reason at times I just watch those game movies instead. Just so you want to just see how the story goes since the game play might be pretty bad. Here's the game movie to the game in case you just want to see how the story goes.

Great Improvment

[amirfuture57 · 9/10 · 3 February 2018]

Pros: +Good Gameplay +Good Graphics +Open World +Great improvment over the first installment +Awesome NPCs (LifeLike!) +Great Online Activities

Cons: -Funny physics! -Not very good Soundtracks (but mediaplayer is great!)

9/10 Definitely Recommended!

This game does not deserve all the hate

[maisterjamie · 7/10 · 10 January 2017]

I really like this game, and I don't know why other people hate it so much. I really like the online aspects, and I think they are handled really well. The dialogue is a bit cringe sometimes, but over all the missions are fun, even if they are all very similar. I still love hacking everything, and pulling of awesome hacks still feel satisfying.The shooting could use some tweaking. But all a great game.

I really like this game, and I don't know why other people hate it so much. I really like the online aspects, and I think they are handled really well. The dialogue is a bit cringe sometimes, but over all the missions are fun, even if they are all very similar. I still love hacking everything, and pulling of awesome hacks still feel satisfying.The shooting could use some tweaking. But all a great game.

Superb fun

[851222 · 10/10 · 25 July 2018]

Greetings from Lithuania.

I loved "Watch Dogs" 2 (2016). That said, this game offered for me even more then i expected. And i did not expected very much knowing (but not playing) how disappointing 1st game was considering how hyped it was by Ubisoft by its fake trailers at E3 back in the day.

"Watch Dogs" 2 is a superb open world game, aka GTA 5 style but with a twist - instead of gun blazing every mission you must relay on your hacking skills - sure you can also go gun blazing here as well, but its more fun to use environment to create distractions, traps, or even a gang wars (and i used a lot of those) to achieve your objective. There are also a tons of fun activities in this world. You can play co-op - which is very fun, but there isn't that much of variety in co-op. Dialog were clever and also funny - this game is funny and its approach is very lighthearted.

Overall, "Watch Dogs 2" is a very fun game. It has great and involving open world with fun activities, good story and superb game play. Hacking itself was very creative and overall experience felt like a breath of fresh air. Highly fun and addictive game overall.

Still a great game in 2019

[AOGameNuts · 9/10 · 23 October 2019]

I would argue that "Watch Dogs 2" is one of the best open world games to pick up at the moment. Despite the terribly disappointing launch of "Watch Dogs" the sequel makes huge improvements to the overall game.

One thing I have always adored in watch dogs is the hacking and this game does that perfectly. Every single hack feels relevant in a way and can be used to finish the mission your way. If you want to go guns blazing but find you need to retreat there is a mass com disruptor hack to let you flee. Or want to take it stealth, you can distract enemies using their phones to pick them of one by one. As well with the addition of drones and RCs, the game has a whole new area of driving around a little robot to go hack the enemies form a safe distance or even to give support for a team mate.

Another thing I really enjoyed about the game were the missions with each character, well, having a character. Wrench being the Deadpool of the game and wanting to destroy everything. Sitara being the graffiti artist and media worker. Josh the awkward kid that has his skills in coding and other areas. Horatio, with not enough character development and a rushed death, had his quirks. As well as ray who seems like the old man in the group and well acquainted with the past.

The level design, despite the hacking puzzles that are thrown at you every two missions or so, is unique every time with there own story that really can actually interest unlike the ones in the first one did for me. And many of the missions are challenging especially on higher harder difficulties but don't feel impossible.

The multiplayer was slightly improved although if you have played the first game then you already know what it will be like.

Although one place I think the game truly shines is map design. The maps, although rather small, feel open and expansive yet memorable enough that if you revisit the you will think to yourself' "Hey I went here for that one mission". Combined with the way the NPCs react and interact with each other as well as the player makes the world truly come to life compared to other open world games like "GTA V", "Red Dead Redemption 2" and "Assassins creed Odyssey".

All in all I think of the game as I must have even in 2019 especially as you can often get the gold edition with many of the DLC's for the game for about £16.00 on sale (which it is often).

Masterpiece

[muamba_eats_toast · 10/10 · 5 March 2020]

Probably enjoyed the individual stories merging into one larger more than the directly following story of the first the only problem I had was with the driving in the first and that was fixed also absolutely superb and loved every second playing it!

Amazingly fun

[nicovault-67872 · 10/10 · 3 April 2018]

I have had this game for about a 1 day and I am already addicted. It is amazingly fun and so open and hilarious. The graphics are amazing and honestly breathtaking. Would recommend 1000 times over Watch Dogs 1. 10/10

Gameplay vs story

[residentgrigo · 7/10 · 13 April 2017]

The 1st game had a slightly slugging first half but I ended up liking it a lot overall. The often ridiculed and deliberately unlikable Aiden Pearce and the near nihilistic story stood out to me. The game had an identity, plain and simple. I only need a bit more gameplay variety for a sequel and I certainly got that… but at what cost! The admittedly more involved hacking is now suddenly Pipe Mania and the overall game fully transformed into Ubi-Collect-a-Thon No.X. It work fine, most Ubi-games do, but what makes this one special? I am willing to praise the variety of ways missions can occasionally be solved and the involved multiplayer component is downright fascinating. What can't get my blessing are the story and characters. This is basically Lizard Squad "The Video-Game" and a Best Memes of 2015/16 collection. A rarely skip cutscenes but I ended up being physically incapable of watch this rubbish. The tone is quite broken too. The game is about these oh so "diverse" 20-something hackers and their PC Culture enforcement adventures but multiple trophies demand to kill, despite most enemies being simple security guards. The protagonist even carries a gun on the cover and his stealth attacks only kills too. Again, nothing makes sense and diversity ain 't a checkbox dear developers. I myself am half black and the well done San Francisco setting is appropriately chosen but I abide no pandering, which this 100% is. I ultimately finished the campaign, these Ubi-games tend to work well after all, but the devs need to go back to the drawing board. They made 2 steps forward and 4 steps back. 7,5/10

Fun Game

[GrantMoyer23 · 8/10 · 22 April 2019]

I would agree the story is not as powerful as the first games was but I would say this game is more fun than the first game. Gameplay amazing, story somewhat weak.

Well..

[ad-63312 · 7/10 · 6 August 2021]

For starters the game is is slight improvement from the first example driving, graphics, open world. But the story is kinda boring in a way. The game has a more lighter and happy tone than the first game some of lines are a little like cringe I guess. Dusan Nemec wasn't really a great villain in my opinion. He was basically head of BLUME and dedsec wanted to expose him for his crimes like fraud and thats kinda it. Now the characters are okay but horatios actually didn't really have such character development to his character and just had a quick death instead. And also the games ending kinda felt well disappointing, dusan nemec basically gets arrested and that's basically it, and honestly the game is not bad I rate it 7/10 because well story is weak but there were alot of improvements so yeah sorry if my review sucked.

Underrated

[ghees-24837 · 9/10 · 22 March 2021]

I cannot believe how underrated this game is. I've had an absolute blast playing this. GTA but you're hacking. One of my favorite games i've played.

Definitely Funnier Than The First One.

[colorthekid · 7/10 · 19 August 2019]

Seriously, the random dialogue you hear out in the street are freaking hilarious. I mean, if you just roam around the city and stand next to people, you're bound to have a damn good time.

Not worth it

[Mynameisroman · 5/10 · 1 April 2023]

To be fair i only played for maybe 4 hours. So maybe its getting better later in the game. But its really just the same stuff over and over again. Gameplay is like in the first game. So far so good. But even the first game was very repetitive. You walk around and hack NPC phones and pretty much anything that has ctOS installed. You follow the instructions of your mission to hack something and then you do it again for hours. And its not really fun. The characters are not interesting. Storywise there is not much going on so far. Very early you get a mission to steal 10M! You dontate that money, sounds fine... but why not fund your "operation"? I still have to steal little sums by phone from normal people to buy stuff? Also i'm supposed to be a hacker. But i have a gun! I can pretty much shoot every NPC and go through all levels no problem. So you are actually just a villain who thinks he is above the law? I think a lot is wrong with the game in this form. Overall it doesn't pull me into the game and there are so many other better games out there so don't worry if you skip that one.

A step up from the first game

[vincent-22692 · 8/10 · 9 August 2020]

Starting with the character you play as, Marcus, he immediately has more emotion than the first character, Aiden. Next, San Francisco is alive and it feels incredibly immersive. You can witness crimes going down, people getting sick of one another and fighting, etc. The missions are fun and the hacking aspect is fun. I would definitely recommend this game to people

Great game

[jgrall515 · 10/10 · 6 January 2022]

I had bought the first Watch Dogs for $60 and never really got around to playing it but when the second one came out I bought it and did play it and was instantly hooked. I liked it because it was similar to GTA but it seemed a little more advanced and how when your playing you are still online but there isn't someone always trying to blow up your vehicle like it seemed in GTA V online but I bought it for Xbox One first and PS4 after I got a PS4 and beat both the series of missions.

This video game is really a 😎 GAME experience!

[aryannagaraju · 10/10 · 1 October 2017]

(SPOILER WARNING : For the lovers of Watch Dogs and Ubisoft, This review may contain spoilers (or it doesn't contain). Please see this whether it has spoilers or not, Thank you)

This game is rated: M (Mature) ⚠️ Contains blood, strong violence, drug use, sexual references, nudity, drug reference (as a cigarette) and strong language. Viewer discretion is advised.

I played this game at Plug and Play Gaming Center, Selected this game, and sat back to play this awesome game, I really liked this game.

Here are some reason agreement to Watch Dogs 2.

📝 PLOT - It is a story about Marcus Holloway, A hacker of Dedsec, Who is wrongly accused by the updated version of ctOS (central Operating System), ctOS 2.0, Marcus and his partners will have a tons of missions and DLCs as well in San Francisco, New York City, and also he must hack the system and the building of Blume and ctOS, It is the second sequel of Watch Dogs, A famous game by Ubisoft Corporation and Ubisoft Monteral.

Great, So that is the story!

🕶 CHARACTERS - Characters are pretty okay, nothing happened, I'am okay with Marcus.

🛣 GRAPHICS - It is really awesome, It is Realistic and the advertisements and the environment is also realistic.

👨🏼‍💻 GAMEPLAY - Also awesome, too.

🎮🎮 CO - OP AND MULTIPLAYER - It is difficult to get players to play with you, The answer is yes, You will have multiplayer on this game.

💻 REVIEWS - There are a tons of reviews for this awesome game. Also, I do not like Watch Dogs haters, because they hate the first game of the series

☠️ BLOOD AND GORE - Has a little bit spots, It is for all ages, They can play.

🚶🏼ANIMATION, GUN SOUNDS AND PARKOUR - It is okay, I liked it.

This game was an awesome game, I know the Rayman series and the logo, The voice actors are good, script is okay, Everything is okay yet. Can't understand these hate reviews in this game and the first one, It has awesome graphics in this game, Rockstar Games is not better than Ubisoft, because Ubisoft is founded in 1986, and Rockstar is founded in 1997 as DMA , I enjoyed it because it is not a bad game, Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto is more popular for the gamers to enjoy yet, But this game was a great gaming experience!

Thank you Ubisoft for this awesome gaming experience! 😎

Great game!

[matthewleighton · 8/10 · 25 July 2020]

After getting PS Now and playing this game I fell in love with it, I haven't played the 1st, but I am now a fan of the series. The story/missions where great they was very fun to play some of the hacking puzzles I enjoyed a lot. The characters was my favourite part they are entertaining, likeable and you get attached to them. I hope they get another story but I highly doubt it. 8/10 would have rated higher but the npc's are very annoying especially the police.

Better gameplay but no story

[darkwizard404 · 6/10 · 7 August 2018]

This one definitely has better gameplay and equally interesting missions compared to the first one however the story is quite weak in this one. In fact this one has no story at all.

The characters are very poorly written especially the character of Marcus. The jokes are lame and what made it even more annoying was that every few minutes someone was cracking a joke.

Amazing Game

[connorjpaul-54161 · 10/10 · 15 August 2022]

I highly recommend this game. The map is so big that it feels like you're really in San Francisco.

The characters are really likable and fun, and that is why you should definitely get the game.

A sequel with improvements and flaws

[mathieudufault · 6/10 · 29 April 2019]

Watch Dogs 2 decides to go far a more light hearted and humorous route rather than the dark tone of the first game. Most of the time I would be fine with this if the humour in the game wasn't so bad. Most of the jokes fall flat and the characters seem to be forgettable excluding Wrench. The game has many improvements over the first. The Driving for one is greatly improved and hacking has much more importance unlike the first WD. Though due to Watch Dogs 2 being an online game even when playing single player has its problems. Due to this, slow mo shooting has been completely taken out. This was a pretty essential gameplay feature that was very fun to use in the 1st WD. Watch Dogs 2 seems to be a downgrade in gunplay which is sort of a problem but at the same time not, as watch Dogs 2 makes u rely more on hacking then shooting but it's still an obvious downgrade. I have a problem with the story line as the characters will kill countless innocent people/guards for their cause which is not major enough to excuse their actions. In the game you'll go from murdering 20 innocent guards at a corporate office to making jokes and laughing with your buddies in the next cutscene. It just doesn't work for me. Depends on how much you care for stories in games. But if you play games solely for the gameplay aspect this probably won't bother you.

Great

[jakeholko-70441 · 10/10 · 10 May 2022]

Best watch dogs game, i would go as far to say best Ubisoft game. The world is so beautiful and realistic, sometimes i just load up the game to go exploring. Definitely recommended by me.

So many glitches

[glasimonix · 6/10 · 28 September 2020]

No wonder why Epic Games gave this game for free, it's full of bugs and glitches, AI is dumb asf they literally start fighting in front of you and get you killed. Graphics are great but then again a lot of bugs especially playing on 3 monitors

Disappointment

[AloneOliver · 1/10 · 28 June 2021]

I really liked the first game, but the second game was not developed. Car driving is the same as in the first game, too many bugs, boring game atmosphere, stupid AI, repetitive missions. This game is a complete fiasco.

good game bad story (major end spoilers)

[tntchema · 7/10 · 14 November 2017]

OK so this game is the POLAR OPPOSITE of WD1 it's cheerful and has more than 1 likable character story-wise is not that great but the standing points of this game are the characters (especially wrench) and the dumb stuff you can do an example is calling the mafia to kill a person that called you stupid OK now to break down the story in 3 or more lines (you join Dedsec and go hunt for CTos and his president a Hipster) so you and edgy (adult) TEEN group go to destroy CTos with T-Bone and at the end you slap the bad guy and the police arrest him

Incredible but the story is kind of bad

[Severinplates853 · 7/10 · 17 January 2022]

B tier, 7/10. I hate dead sec and their edgy hacker theme. They are memorable but definitely are really over the top and trying to be edgy. The main character isn't that Interesting or memerable either, I don't even remember his name. The story was really basic and just a typical bad big business guy.

Despite these major flaws I stole enjoyed the game. The shear over the top chaos you can cause by hacking is really fun. You can get the police to arrest strangers, blow up has vents, control cars, controll a drone and all kinds of robotic equipment I remember simply modifying the traffic lights to cause chaos.

Just experimenting with this stuff is really fun. The world of San Francisco in the game is really detailed, It looks incredible and just exploring it was enjoyable to me. I love the sightseeing things where you had to take a photo of a landmark.

The customisation is very limited, with clothes feeling like they were very pre set, some outfits looked really cool and the suits were great, I just wish you could have more freedom in choosing what you wear. I distinctly remember the guns in this game being really realistic, shooting a civilian felt awful, a bit to realistic. The customisation for them was just ok but the noise and how everyone reacts to them was shockingly real.

Honestly I really did enjoy the game, despite a weak story I found it really fun. Just messing around and exploring the city was great. The story was basic but was serviceable and I didn't mind completing it to unlock more things. One of the first games I got on PS4 and I just think it gets a bad rep. Had a great time with this game, definitely weak from a story perspective but found it enjoyable.