However much like many modern open world games, Watch Dogs 2 too struggles to keep its focus on the story. In the past many years I haven’t played a game from Ubisoft that is so bold in its vision and yet so light hearted and simplistic in its narrative direction. The game’s story does not even shy away from tackling heavy topics and I am surprised how smartly it manages to handle all of these subjects through some excellent voice acting and beautifully crafted in-game cutscenes. As our lives become more and more digitally dependent, a lot of that data is becoming exposed to outsiders who either exploit to control the masses or sell them to bigger companies for profiling. Watch Dogs 2’s story borrows a lot from the current social climate and issues. But don’t take them for granted…they are a talented bunch whose ultimate goal is to stop the exploitation of the common public by taking down the city’s ctOS 2.0, and Blume, the company behind ctOS. Whether it is Wrench, the most notable member of Dedsec or Sitara, the group’s public image specialist, each of them have a unique trait that sets them apart and yet makes them feel that they are a single, unified part of this crazy secret hacking collective. "In the past many years I haven’t played a game from Ubisoft that is so bold in its vision and yet so light hearted and simplistic in its narrative direction."
Perhaps what makes Marcus such a colorful character are his several off the beat and crazy bunch of hackers that are always head and shoulders above even the most daunting situation.
Watch_Dogs, although a good game in its own right, had a few shortcomings which pushed the developers back to the drawing board for a couple of years and the result of that is Watch Dogs 2, a new entry in the series starring Marcus Holloway, a much more agile, athletic, flamboyant and interesting character that Aiden Pearce could ever be. Both were undoubtedly good games at their core but the controversy surrounding them resulted into a negative spin, downplaying the intriguing gameplay both games presented, especially Watch_Dogs since it bought something really unique to the table. The original Watch_Dogs’ graphics downgrade drama and the disappointing technical glitches of Assassin’s Creed Unity almost butchered Ubisoft’s reputation as a leading games developer and publisher. Back in 2014, Ubisoft were in a bit of a mess.