[Review] Watch Dog 2

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Watch Dogs 2 (stylized as WATCH_DOGS2) is an open-world and action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and distributed by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One platforms. It is the sequel to Watch Dogs that was released for sale on November 15, 2016.1 2 It is open-world, stealth and third-person shooting being set in the city of San Francisco. The player embodies Marcus Holloway, a hacker who joins the DedSec hacktivist group to discover and reveal to the public the management of the ctOS Operating System and investigate how the State and companies use the information collected to control the po[CENSORED]tion.

Launching
On June 8, 2016, Ubisoft revealed that the game would be released on November 15 of that year for the PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4 and Xbox One platforms in six different editions.5 In September 2016, it was announced that Watch Dogs 2 would have improvements for PlayStation 4 Pro.6 In October 2016, Ubisoft announced that the PC version was delayed until November 29, 2016 to ensure its optimization for Microsoft Windows was good.7 Two Weeks from Launch, Ubisoft and Samsung partnered to offer a downloadable copy of Watch Dogs 2 for free with the purchase of a solid-state disk or curved gamers monitors.8 Amazon Prime copies that were released before the general release date , showed problems with the integration of the multiplayer in the game. Ubisoft promised to correct the problems of that modality in time.9 but on the day of the launch, the company said it was defective, citing lag and Crasheos.10 The multiplayer cooperative mode was enabled one week after the launch of the video game. 11

A free trial version that lasted three hours was released for PlayStation 4 on January 17, 2017; the Xbox One version could be downloaded starting January 24.12

Advance orders of the "Gold Edition Collector's Edition" version include additional content such as weapons, skins, vehicles and drones; The "Deluxe Collector's Edition" contains the same, but excludes the Season Pass. Each of these, such as the generic "Collector's Edition", contains a robot called "Wrench Junior", which is controlled with a mobile application on a smartphone or tablet. The "Gold Edition" brings the aforementioned items and the "season pass", and although the "Deluxe Edition" version omits the "season pass", it contains all the other extras.13 The mission "Zodiac Killer" is also exclusive for purchases in advance orders. This is the protagonist Marcus Holloway chasing a criminal impersonator who emulates the same modus operandi that the killer of the Zodiac used. Amazon and Twitch Prime members get access to free content such as XP enhancers and Skins packs. "ScoutXpedition", a bonus mission for pre-order buyers on PlayStation 4, was made available for free to download since January 2017.