Watch Dogs 2

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Watch Dogs 2

Studio

Ubisoft Montreal

Publisher

Ubisoft

Erstveröffent-
lichung

15th November 2016

platform

Microsoft Windows
PlayStation 4
Xbox One

Game engine

Disrupt

genre

Action adventure , open world game

Game mode

Single player , multiplayer

language

Audio : German , English , French , Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , Russian , Japanese Subtitles : German , English , French , Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , Dutch , Polish , Hungarian , Czech , Russian , Japanese , Chinese , Korean

Age rating

USK

PEGI

Watchdogs 2 (own spelling WATCH_DOGS 2 ) is an open-world - action-adventure game from Ubisoft and the successor of watchdogs . The game was released on November 15, 2016 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One and on November 29, 2016 for Microsoft Windows . In a fictionalized version of the San Francisco Bay Area , the game is played from the perspective of a third person and its open world can be explored on foot or by vehicle. Players control Marcus Holloway, a hacker who works with the hacking group DedSec to take down the city's advanced surveillance system called ctOS .

action

After the Chicago events , San Francisco will be the next city to install the ctOS (Central Operating System), which connects everyone to everything. The hacker Marcus Holloway is being punished for a crime he did not commit with the updated ctOS (ctOS 2.0) that categorizes him as a suspect. As the system secretly harms the innocent citizens of San Francisco, he decides to work with the hacking group DedSec to shut down ctOS 2.0 and the company Blume , which is behind it. Marcus joins the hacking group DedSec and works with the hackers Sitara, Wrench, Horatio and Josh and uses their skills to expose corrupt organizations and companies that are using the stolen data of the ctOS staff for their own purposes. The game begins with Marcus, also known by his hacker alias "Retr0", running a test that requires him to delete his own ctOS profile. In DedSec , he is made aware of a church called New Dawn, which operates as a criminal organization, after which Marcus mainly serves to raise awareness of the goals of the hackers through social media and hacks in order to get enough computers to flower to bring down. Eventually, they stumble upon the existence of a subliminal message and Bellwether , a data manipulation program fed ctOS data by Dušan Nemec, Flower's CTO , to manipulate world finances and politics. DedSec later succeeds in recruiting Raymond "T-Bone" Kenney, who is determined to fight Blume three years after the attack on the ctOS in Chicago.

With his help, DedSec succeeds in uncovering the corruption of the FBI and numerous Silicon Valley companies by hacking their data facilities. When he learned that Blume wanted to install a satellite network that would bypass underwater data cables, giving Blume a monopoly on all of the world's electronic data and exchanges, they infiltrated the launch area of one of the satellites to install a back door. In order to bring down Blume and Dušan for good, Marcus breaks into all of Blume's international headquarters and ultimately into their headquarters in San Francisco. There he hacked their servers to expose the existence of Bellwether and Dušan's corruption. Dušan is arrested for fraud and Blume is under investigation, while DedSec decides to continue their fight against Blume . In an expanded ending scene added in a post-release patch, two unidentified individuals discover that more DedSec cells and hacktivist groups have emerged worldwide in response to the Blume scandal, and it is time to make their own plans put into action.

synchronization

role	German voice actor
Marcus Holloway	Ricardo Richter
Wrench	Tobias Diakow
Sitara	Sara Kelly-Husain
Josh	Maximilian Belle
T-bone	Matti Klemm
Horatio	Jan-David Rönfeldt
Dusan	Stephan Schwartz
Miranda	Tobias Kluckert
Lenni	Martina Treger
Jimmy Siska	Tim Moeseritz

Game principle and technology

Similar to its predecessor, Watch Dogs 2 is an action-adventure game with stealth elements. The game is played from a third person perspective as the protagonist Marcus Holloway, a young hacker. Watch Dogs 2 is set in a fictionalized version of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Bay Area is made up of four different areas: San Francisco , Oakland , Marin and Silicon Valley , all of which have different characteristics. Marcus has improved acrobatic skills and the ability to run parkour around town . The player can use different methods to approach the game's missions, choosing between the aggressive approach, where they defeat opponents with weapons that can be made with a 3D printer , or the player can use the stealth approach where he can evade enemies or temporarily paralyze them with a taser .

Multiplayer

Multiplayer returns in Watch Dogs 2 . The game features a seamless cooperative multiplayer mode where players can meet and interact with other random players. You can explore the open world and complete missions together, which will also help players gain followers. The game has an emote system that allows players' characters to communicate with each other through simple gestures. It also offers four competitive multiplayer modes:

Co-op: In co-op mode, you can explore the world together with a fellow player and complete special co-op designed side missions. The orders are generated randomly, so that different goals have to be fulfilled and other opponents have to be fought. The main story cannot be played in co-op.

Bounty Hunter: In this mode, the bearer of the bounty is hunted by the police and up to two other players. The goal is to escape while the hunters must try to eliminate the target. The hunted can be supported by a co-op partner.

Hacker Invasion: In this game mode, a player gets into another player's game and tries to secretly hack him. Meanwhile, the session player must find the intruder and kill him.

Race: This mode was added in an update. Here, four players compete against each other in order to reach the finish with drones, e-karts, boats and bicycles.

Development and release history

content	default	Deluxe	gold	San Francisco	Wrench Jr robot	The return of Dedsec
The game	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Digital content	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Season pass	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Lithographs	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
Map of San Francisco	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
Dedsec laptop sticker	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
Marcus figurine	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
Marcus' And Replica Foulard	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Exclusive 64-page artbook	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Dedsec Marcus figure	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Wrench Jr robot	No	No	No	No	Yes	No