Aiden Pearce and his iconic cap are out; Marcus Holloway and his skinny jeans are in. The smooth moving, Timberland wearing, wrongly accused Californian crim was announced as the protagonist of Watch Dogs 2 earlier today, and let's not beat around the bush: he's an instant improvement over his distinctly vanilla predecessor.
The story goes that Holloway has "fallen victim" to ctOS 2.0's predictive algorithms, and is accused of a crime that he didn't commit. So, just like any other rational person on the right side of the law, he decides to hack San Francisco to bits and shoot his enemies in the head with 3D printed weapons. It's not illegal when you're acting out of principle, right?
Because of the game's setting, you'll be breaking into the systems of several firms from Silicon Valley, undergoing missions for vengeance and – we quote – "the lulz". Completing missions will increase Holloway's follower count, which… Oh, God! Look, we get what Ubisoft's trying to do, and we actually think that Watch Dogs 2 looks cool – but some of these sentences are making us cringe!
[source youtube.com]
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This seems to be getting so hard to be the next san andreas.
Trying
So lame......trying so hard to be trendy.
Honestly I'm kinda turned off on this title, Watch Dogs was decent as a GTA knock off......but if I have to spend 20 hours with some whiney millennial punk hipster in the most hipster city of the United States.....no, give me Dishonored 2 or something.
This game has a chance to be pretty good but follower counts? Lulz? Get it together, Ubisoft!
I thought Aiden was a really good character. I'm not quite sure about this one.
Marcus Holloway at his DJ gig.
@sub12 It's quite amazing how hard they really are trying, to the point where it gets goofy
Down with this sort of thing
I already don't like this protagonist. He's everything I dislike about my generation.
A chill went up my spine haha.
they really should have gone for a Jet Set Radio vibe instead of 2012 memes and twitter references.
@Mergatro1d as in "Down with this sort of thing!!!" Or "Dayymmm, I'm down with this sort of thing!"
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@Mergatro1d Careful now.
The parkour looks decent enough but everything else looks exactly the same as the first game.
He sure looks like a 'hip cat' to me!
You lost me at skinny jeans.
Gimme back the android.
I think he looks cooler and more interesting. For some reason, I feel like he was modeled after Pharrell Williams lol.
Barf.
Ubisoft are actually a very cringe-worthy company.
They forget to mention that he owns a socialist and anarchist pages on ubiplaybook, "he is so cool" says a 13 years girl, "he's kind of pathetic" says everyone else.
I did not like the first protagonist also but what exactly makes this new protagonist a clear improvement over the old one? Color of his skin? Maybe the next problem that Ubi should be addressing is the protagonists gender? Instasuccess? Here's the thing Ubi - I dont care what is the protagonists gender or race, just make us care about him/her.
Jeez Uncle Ubi is trying so hard to be down with the kids, I think they might be going through a mid life crises.
You'd think by looking at cringe inducing games like sunset overdrive and splatoon, they'd know not to create a game like that. If you force me to listen to punk, pretend i'm in a 90's TV commercial, or wear skinny jeans, i'm not playing your game.
Well, it's official: people will complain whether a character is white or black.
game looks great, but to those that don't like it give it chance. Day 1 for me , 0 for wallet :{
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