Watch Dogs

[iVhyn]

Erstes Review (stammt zwar von der Xbox One, Ergebnis ist vermutlich aber übertragbar):

Spoiler öffnen

We are all slowly making our way from GTA V to Watch Dogs, the next generation open world experience. Watch Dogs has a lot going for it – from an extensive story to interesting characters. Singleplayer shines while multiplayer seems a entirely lackluster and disposable. Even then, Watch Dogs is a title which most people will find themselves exploring for hours on end even if part of it is disappointing.

In Watch Dogs you play Aiden Pearce, a vengeful hacker against the new ctOS system in place within Chicago, painting a closer look into the real-life city where cameras dominate every street corner. His family has been murdered and he is out to get revenge on the powerful and corrupt. But Aiden is not quite a protagonist, he is something in the middle of antagonist and protagonist. He’s a guy with no real claim to good or bad, just grey.

The storyline mission structure is split into V acts, each with their own storyline flow and various quests. You can be a driver, assassinate some poor/not so poor guy, blow things up, whatever suits your fancy to get the job done of a rogue fixer. All missions take place in different districts which include the central city, the Mad Mile, scenic Pawnee, and the lowly Wards. Side-quests involve stopping crime, interfering with drug cartels, or just something easy and relaxing as playing chess with an old man or poker with a bunch of beer gutted people.All these quests get you skill points used for upgrading the 4 skill trees: Hacking, Driving, Combat, Crafted Items.


The main weapon of choice for Aiden Pearce is his ultimate cell phone, which is the central thing to his power. The whole city is linked into ctOS and Aiden can gain the power over a certain district by hacking the local ctOS terminal. The phone also provides digital trips/city hotspots, Car On Demand, and minigames that make the city a real-life video game. Once this is done, he can gain access to ATMs, street lights, steam pipes, hard stripes, L-Train hacking, power terminals to blackout the city, the works. Aiden Pearce also has weapons of course such as the IED and guns, but players can choose to be glued to their phone or just use a method of direct brute attack. These are the only two methods that work in tandem for combat mechanics and is something which Ubisoft Montreal did very nicely.

The Multiplayer
Multiplayer is where this game has its fun moments, but also lacks sorely in and one where Ubisoft misses the mark. There are virtually no cooperative game modes (like shown during E3 2012) and this is such a sad thing. We were able to play Invasion, Decryption, Online Tailing, Free Roam, and Car Races. All these modes were generic to a level. Multiplayer modes are accepted through the single-player profiler or can be launched directly through the phone layout screen. Invasion has two players, one who will enter into the other persons game and invade their phone’s database. The other player does not know someone is in his game until a “backdoor” is planted, then they are alerted. The hacker’s job is to hide and remain undetected until the backdoor is fully installed and they get away with the data of the other player. This mode was fun for a while, but even this slowly started to get repetitive even with online skills being unlocked.Decryption mode features 8 players split into two teams similar to a team deathmatch style. These eight players fight over a nearby computer file and decrypt it. Once a player has the file above his head, it decrypts slowly but can only decrypt very fast if the team stays together (something hard to do). Once the file is 100% decrypted, the team wins.
watch-dog

This mode itself felt too similar to team deathmatch and was not nearly as fun to play considering it seemed reminiscent of a capture the flag type mode. Watch Dogs also comes with Online Tailing, which is simply observing the other player. This is a mode we had a lot of fun in because it was not so hectic like the other modes, but this one also lacked a lot and had a short timer which ruined the experience. Car Races were also generic and Free Roam had nothing going for it other than an Adverserial Mode, which is simply players flagging themselves to be PVP on the server. The 5 minute limit timer on Invasion Mode and Online Tailing also feels like something which the developers have artificially placed on the experience – and the lack of true cooperative modes makes the multiplayer a hit-and-miss. Ubisoft Montreal really create a multiplayer which is seamless, but with lack of cooperative efforts it is just no good with zero ingenuity.
Conclusion
One huge caveat/punishment Ubisoft implemented is when you do turn off the Online Option, all your skills accumulated are reset to zero. You read that right. They all get reset to zero. All the online-specific skills reset to zero as punishment for not wanting to play online, something which is entirely disappointing. Either you keep getting invaded, or you get punished for wanting to play sometimes and not other times with the online mode. In our exclusive gameplay look, we show you the visual fidelity of Watch Dogs, which is something a lot of people want to see and the developers have kind of remained silent about. But not us here at WCCFtech quite simply because we got our own copy!

The visual fidelity is definitely not on point to E3 2012 – without big explosions which make sense – and the daytime looks bland and equivalent to Grand Theft Auto V (a last generation title which was highly optimized). Keep in mind, this is just on consoles after all. PC will perhaps match the E3 2012 footage, which was stated to have been run on a PC originally. Watch Dogs is a beautiful singleplayer experience with a lackluster multiplayer twist. The game is fun and has a lot of things to do for a free roam, but it just lacks as a title which delivers it all. People will want to just stick to Grand Theft Auto V on May 27th and stay in Los Santos just a little bit longer.

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Riecht ein wenig nach gebrochenem NDA...

[Patr0n]

gebrochenes NDA?

[Cinnalemon]

gebrochenes NDA?

23:55:42 [Cem] iVhyn was ist ein "gebrochenes NDA" ?
23:55:59 [iVhyn] nda ist ein geheimhaltungsabkommen
23:56:10 [iVhyn] das bekommen reviewer damit sie nichts zu früh verraten
23:57:09 [iVhyn] angeblich wird das wd NDA erst am release tag aufgehoben


Jetzt wissen wir mehr.....

[Refizul]

One huge caveat/punishment Ubisoft implemented is when you do turn off the Online Option, all your skills accumulated are reset to zero. You read that right. They all get reset to zero. All the online-specific skills reset to zero as punishment for not wanting to play online, something which is entirely disappointing. Either you keep getting invaded, or you get punished for wanting to play sometimes and not other times with the online mode.

Wie bitte!? Leute, die nur ab und zu mal den MP zocken wollen und im SP nicht von irgendwelchen Eindringlingen gestört werden wollen, indem sie offline gehen, werden bestraft, indem man sämtliche onlinespezifischen Skills resettet?
Der MP scheint aber ansonsten wirklich eher lahm zu sein. Keine Coop-Missionen, so wie es damals der E3-Trailer von 2012 suggerierte.

Mal gucken was andere Tests so dazu sagen, aber wenn dies stimmen sollte, hat Ubisoft den Unmut der Gamingcommunity mehr als verdient.

[RikuValentine]

Hier noch ein HQ Video der PS4 Version. Auch zum Download



https://mega.co.nz/#!nYR0BQyR!pqoHAK...-tridudrOvMhxM

Weiteres Gameplay:

LiveLeak.com - WatchDog Game Play - Leak

LiveLeak.com - WCCFTech Xbox One Retail Watch Dogs Gameplay - 2

[Anarky]

Ok... ich denke ich werde bei den 9.99ern zuschnappen. Werde wohl AC4 und DBZ Ultimate Tenkaichi verkaufen. Nur muss ich das 2. noch besorgen.
Hoffentlich keine Fehlentscheidung

[Batman94]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJNOaPfw-q0

Hahaha wie geil das ist.

[daywalker2609]

Erstes Review (stammt zwar von der Xbox One, Ergebnis ist vermutlich aber übertragbar):

Spoiler öffnen

We are all slowly making our way from GTA V to Watch Dogs, the next generation open world experience. Watch Dogs has a lot going for it – from an extensive story to interesting characters. Singleplayer shines while multiplayer seems a entirely lackluster and disposable. Even then, Watch Dogs is a title which most people will find themselves exploring for hours on end even if part of it is disappointing.

In Watch Dogs you play Aiden Pearce, a vengeful hacker against the new ctOS system in place within Chicago, painting a closer look into the real-life city where cameras dominate every street corner. His family has been murdered and he is out to get revenge on the powerful and corrupt. But Aiden is not quite a protagonist, he is something in the middle of antagonist and protagonist. He’s a guy with no real claim to good or bad, just grey.

The storyline mission structure is split into V acts, each with their own storyline flow and various quests. You can be a driver, assassinate some poor/not so poor guy, blow things up, whatever suits your fancy to get the job done of a rogue fixer. All missions take place in different districts which include the central city, the Mad Mile, scenic Pawnee, and the lowly Wards. Side-quests involve stopping crime, interfering with drug cartels, or just something easy and relaxing as playing chess with an old man or poker with a bunch of beer gutted people.All these quests get you skill points used for upgrading the 4 skill trees: Hacking, Driving, Combat, Crafted Items.


The main weapon of choice for Aiden Pearce is his ultimate cell phone, which is the central thing to his power. The whole city is linked into ctOS and Aiden can gain the power over a certain district by hacking the local ctOS terminal. The phone also provides digital trips/city hotspots, Car On Demand, and minigames that make the city a real-life video game. Once this is done, he can gain access to ATMs, street lights, steam pipes, hard stripes, L-Train hacking, power terminals to blackout the city, the works. Aiden Pearce also has weapons of course such as the IED and guns, but players can choose to be glued to their phone or just use a method of direct brute attack. These are the only two methods that work in tandem for combat mechanics and is something which Ubisoft Montreal did very nicely.

The Multiplayer
Multiplayer is where this game has its fun moments, but also lacks sorely in and one where Ubisoft misses the mark. There are virtually no cooperative game modes (like shown during E3 2012) and this is such a sad thing. We were able to play Invasion, Decryption, Online Tailing, Free Roam, and Car Races. All these modes were generic to a level. Multiplayer modes are accepted through the single-player profiler or can be launched directly through the phone layout screen. Invasion has two players, one who will enter into the other persons game and invade their phone’s database. The other player does not know someone is in his game until a “backdoor” is planted, then they are alerted. The hacker’s job is to hide and remain undetected until the backdoor is fully installed and they get away with the data of the other player. This mode was fun for a while, but even this slowly started to get repetitive even with online skills being unlocked.Decryption mode features 8 players split into two teams similar to a team deathmatch style. These eight players fight over a nearby computer file and decrypt it. Once a player has the file above his head, it decrypts slowly but can only decrypt very fast if the team stays together (something hard to do). Once the file is 100% decrypted, the team wins.
watch-dog

This mode itself felt too similar to team deathmatch and was not nearly as fun to play considering it seemed reminiscent of a capture the flag type mode. Watch Dogs also comes with Online Tailing, which is simply observing the other player. This is a mode we had a lot of fun in because it was not so hectic like the other modes, but this one also lacked a lot and had a short timer which ruined the experience. Car Races were also generic and Free Roam had nothing going for it other than an Adverserial Mode, which is simply players flagging themselves to be PVP on the server. The 5 minute limit timer on Invasion Mode and Online Tailing also feels like something which the developers have artificially placed on the experience – and the lack of true cooperative modes makes the multiplayer a hit-and-miss. Ubisoft Montreal really create a multiplayer which is seamless, but with lack of cooperative efforts it is just no good with zero ingenuity.
Conclusion
One huge caveat/punishment Ubisoft implemented is when you do turn off the Online Option, all your skills accumulated are reset to zero. You read that right. They all get reset to zero. All the online-specific skills reset to zero as punishment for not wanting to play online, something which is entirely disappointing. Either you keep getting invaded, or you get punished for wanting to play sometimes and not other times with the online mode. In our exclusive gameplay look, we show you the visual fidelity of Watch Dogs, which is something a lot of people want to see and the developers have kind of remained silent about. But not us here at WCCFtech quite simply because we got our own copy!

The visual fidelity is definitely not on point to E3 2012 – without big explosions which make sense – and the daytime looks bland and equivalent to Grand Theft Auto V (a last generation title which was highly optimized). Keep in mind, this is just on consoles after all. PC will perhaps match the E3 2012 footage, which was stated to have been run on a PC originally. Watch Dogs is a beautiful singleplayer experience with a lackluster multiplayer twist. The game is fun and has a lot of things to do for a free roam, but it just lacks as a title which delivers it all. People will want to just stick to Grand Theft Auto V on May 27th and stay in Los Santos just a little bit longer.

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Watch Dogs Review: Not Quite The Hacker We Hoped

Riecht ein wenig nach gebrochenem NDA...

Der Test ist katastrophal geschrieben und nicht neutral von daher.... Genau man verliert sofort jeden Skill im MP wenn man nicht online playen will. Woher will der das wissen, denn online dürfte eh nichts los sein, wahrscheinlich ist es eher eine Bestrafung weil man das Game zu früh hat. Dazu seine extremen Lobeshymnen auf GTA 5, lassen eine Neutralität vermissen.

[MenocidiX]

Wie bitte!? Leute, die nur ab und zu mal den MP zocken wollen und im SP nicht von irgendwelchen Eindringlingen gestört werden wollen, indem sie offline gehen, werden bestraft, indem man sämtliche onlinespezifischen Skills resettet?

Hat meine Vorfreude gerade auch weit zurückgeschmissen.

[iVhyn]

Wobei man WCCFtech im Endeffekt nie glauben kann... gab hier schon eine Reihe an publizistischen bzw. falschen News/Reviews und der Reviewer bezieht sich anscheinend auf eine alte Multiplayer Beta, seriösere Informationen bekommen wir wohl erst später.

Abwarten und Tee trinken!

[wheelz]

Hoffentlich stimmt das nicht. Ich hasse wenn ein Spiel mir versucht den MP aufzudruecken. Ich spiele ja gerne mal Multiplayer aber ich entscheide wann. SP kommt bei mir immer zuerst durchgespielt um mich eben mit allem vertraut zu machen, Steuerung, Ablauf, ect. Da kann ich nicht brauchen das mir dann vieleicht noch irgendwelche Kiddies im SP rumfuhrwerken.

[Nightmare86]

Ne Frage, wann taucht die Watch Dogs Digital Gold Edition bei Playstation Store? Finde es irgendwie net.

[KUV1977]

Für PS4? Vermutlich am Tag des Releases (wenn wir Glück haben). Digitale PreOrder und SONY-Europe sind zwei Sachen die sich nicht so gut vertragen. Für PS3 geht es ja inzwischen, aber PS4... Trotz der schlechten Erfahrungen hoffe ich auch noch auf ein PreOrder vielleicht am Mittwoch vor Release.

[Sn@keEater]

Erstes Review (stammt zwar von der Xbox One, Ergebnis ist vermutlich aber übertragbar):

UbiSoft Kontert mit das der Test falsch & verlogen sei
Watch Dogs: Erste Testwertung: 7,2 von 10 Punkten; Ubisoft reagiert und bezeichnet den Test als falsch - 4Players

Selbst wenn das SPiel nicht Final ist, wo wird das Spiel wohl kaum 100% anders sein was die Tester da vorliegen hatten. Und UbiSoft Reaktion, gleicht einer Panik mache das WatchDog wohl den Hype nicht Gerecht wird von den Wertungen her. Ich bin auf jeden Fall auf weitere Tests gespannt. Jetzt Grafisch mal abgesehen, ich will wissen ob das Spiel spielerisch was taugt.

[iVhyn]

UbiSoft Kontert mit das der Test falsch & verlogen sei
Watch Dogs: Erste Testwertung: 7,2 von 10 Punkten; Ubisoft reagiert und bezeichnet den Test als falsch - 4Players

Selbst wenn das SPiel nicht Final ist, wo wird das Spiel wohl kaum 100% anders sein was die Tester da vorliegen hatten. Und UbiSoft Reaktion, gleicht einer Panik mache das WatchDog wohl den Hype nicht Gerecht wird von den Wertungen her. Ich bin auf jeden Fall auf weitere Tests gespannt. Jetzt Grafisch mal abgesehen, ich will wissen ob das Spiel spielerisch was taugt.

Hat nicht Gamepro vor einiger Zeit mal ein paar Stunden mit WD verbracht und dann gemeint, dass das Gameplay uneinheitlich ist (manchmal viel zu schwer, manchmal zu einfach)?
Ich gebe nie viel auf Reviews, ich hoffe, dass die Verschiebung dem Spiel gut getan hat, ansonsten kann man bei Ubisoft nur hoffen, dass nicht zu viel Geld beim Fenster raus segelt.
Mich lässt das Spiel beispielsweise nach der frühen Ankündigung, den Verschiebungen und Ubisofts Geldmacherei mittlerweile sowas von kalt.

[daywalker2609]

UbiSoft Kontert mit das der Test falsch & verlogen sei
Watch Dogs: Erste Testwertung: 7,2 von 10 Punkten; Ubisoft reagiert und bezeichnet den Test als falsch - 4Players

Selbst wenn das SPiel nicht Final ist, wo wird das Spiel wohl kaum 100% anders sein was die Tester da vorliegen hatten. Und UbiSoft Reaktion, gleicht einer Panik mache das WatchDog wohl den Hype nicht Gerecht wird von den Wertungen her. Ich bin auf jeden Fall auf weitere Tests gespannt. Jetzt Grafisch mal abgesehen, ich will wissen ob das Spiel spielerisch was taugt.

Hast du dir mal den Test durchgelesen? Der ist unglaublich schlecht und schwach geschrieben, und diesen Test der Online ist kann man nicht ernst nehmen. Woher wollen die Tester wissen, dass wenn man nicht online spielt alle Skills verloren gehen? Bei einen Spiel wo die Server noch gar nicht oben sein konnten.

Sicherlich wird Watch Dogs gemessen an den Erwartungen von einigen floppen, aber bisher sieht es sehr vielversprechend aus.

[US110]

Das Spiel wird 100% nicht floppen und Ubisoft wird auch kein Geld zum Fenster raus werfen. Das Spiel wird ein nicht zu knapper Erfolg werden.
Ich denke mindestens 85% aller PS4 und One Inhaber wird das Spiel innerhalb der nächsten 14 Tage kaufen. Fast jeder lechzt nach neuem Futter für seine Konsole. Es gibt zur Zeit wenig Alternativen oder diese sind bereits durchgespielt.
Das Spiel hat seit Wochen genug Publicity, ob gut oder schlecht, um in aller Munde zu sein. Besser kann es doch garnicht für Ubisoft laufen.

[Patr0n]

Floppen wird es garantiert nicht! Die Frage ist viel eher kann es seinem bisherigen Hype gerecht werden bzw. wird es ein gutes Spiel. Ich hör' jetzt garnicht mehr auf irgendwelche Reviews oder Comments, hab das Spiel bei Gamestop vorbestellt und gut ist's. Kann doch gar nicht so schlecht werden, nach so langer Entwicklungszeit, gemessen Anhand anderer Titel von Ubisoft, fallen mir in den letzten Jahrzehnten keine bis kaum Spiele ein welche floppten. Daher: Wird schon gut gehen!

[wheelz]

Geht mir genauso. Ubisoft ist eigentlich immer eine Firma der ich da auch vertraue. Ob es jetzt der Ueberflieger wird, keine Ahnung...so viel Hype, das schafft ja wahrscheinlich kein Spiel das nicht am Ende wieder gemosert wird aber ich denke es wird was solides bei rauskommen. Habe es auch vor paar Wochen vorbestellt.

[Patr0n]

Gibt es eigentlich schon Anhaltspunkte oder Spekulationen wie schwer oder wie langwierig die Platin-Trophy wird?