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Happened as dated, per hexus.net[1]: "…h Dogs senior produced told them a 2014 ship date for the next-gen Nintendo console is still a "poss…"- Start
- May 26, 201490% CONFIDENCEsource
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- May 27, 201490% CONFIDENCEsource
Watch Dogs confirmed for 27th May launch ñ except for Wii U
Main competitors
- Grand Theft Auto V · Rockstar Games
The open-world benchmark of the era; reviewers judged Watch Dogs' smaller Chicago map against GTA V's world.
Source - Infamous Second Son · Sucker Punch Productions
PS4 open-world action game with city-wide powers, released in March 2014 two months before Watch Dogs.
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Originally expected to be released as a launch title on the next-gen Microsoft and Sony consoles before Christmas but was delayed until this spring so the developers could "polish and fine tune every detail"
- Ubisoft confirmed on 6 March 2014 that Watch Dogs would release worldwide on 27 May 2014 for PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One[1][5][6]
- The Wii U version had no date; it later released on 18 November 2014 in North America[1][2][6]
- The game had been delayed from a pre-Christmas next-gen launch so the team could "polish and fine tune every detail"[1]
- The date came after a leak on Xbox.com; PS3 and PS4 buyers get 60 minutes of exclusive extra gameplay[5][6]
Notable features
- An action-adventure game played from a third-person perspective, developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft, the first in the Watch Dogs series; it runs on Disrupt, an engine Ubisoft Montreal built for it[2]
- Players control Aiden Pearce, a hacker and vigilante in a fictionalised Chicago run by the ctOS system[1][2][6]
- Aiden's smartphone controls trains and traffic lights, infiltrates security systems, jams phones and reads pedestrians' private information and empties their bank accounts; system hacking is played as puzzles[2]
- The open-world Chicago is free-roaming on foot or by vehicle, with a day-night cycle and dynamic weather that change how non-player characters behave[2]
- Online multiplayer takes up to eight players in co-operative and competitive modes, and a player can be hacked by others, leaving the target to find the perpetrator[2]