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Some of these early missions are kind of stupid in their self-parody, with one about pharma-bro Martin Shkreli buying the secret Wu-Tang album (with the names changed, of course) and one essentially taking down the Church of Scientology that’s a little on the nose. But eventually, things get more serious as they tangle with Silicon Valley giants and the FBI themselves. I can’t say similarly good things about the horribly awkward controls given to forklifts and cranes which you also control remotely, but I suppose we can’t have it all.ĭedSec’s mission roster is interesting, starting out doing totally goofy stuff like hijacking a talking car being used in a movie, spray painting it with their logo, and riding around town to make the news.

Both will be absolutely essential to most missions, and while they could have been a chore, in my mind, they’re one of the best aspects of the game, and one of the primary differentiators from GTA, given how so many missions are crafted around using these tools. The RC car can travel through vents and perform physical hacks to unlock data or open doors, as well as make guards deviate from their set paths. The quadcopter drone lets you scout out an area from on high, showing you ways to approach or setting up hacking traps remotely. Now, anyone who has played GTA missions with tiny remote control vehicles may hear that and shudder in fear, but don’t worry, both control very, very well, and are key in order to make your way through the game’s increasingly complicated missions. The hacking focus is channeled into two new tools especially, the RC car and the drone. I suppose that’s not exactly “non-lethal,” but it’s incredibly fun and satisfying.

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You can clear out an entire enemy base by calling the cops on a gang member and have the two groups shoot it out until you’re home free to collect whatever you need to. There are far, far more tools available for hacking this time around, from the ability to remote control any car, to setting up proximity booby traps all over a level, to my favorite, how you’re able to forge evidence against a person and leak it to either the cops or gang members who will descend on the target (and their friends) while you sit in the shadows laughing maniacally. The stun-gun is essentially a one-hit kill weapon, although enemies will eventually wake up again. The hacking/stun-gun combo is where I found the game’s sweet spot. Nor does killing legions of security guards and police officers make much sense narratively, given the aims and stated goals of DedSec as an organization. Frankly, I don’t even know why the game has a more traditional collection of guns, because if you just go that route and try to play it like GTA, killing waves of enemies and their reinforcements, you’re going to have a bad time. Probably 9/10ths of the unlockable skills in the game have to do with hacking, not open combat, and between hacks, a stun gun and a billiard ball on a bungie cord (Marcus’s melee weapon), you finally can play this game focusing mainly on stealth and non-lethal takedowns.

The crazy guy in the emoji mask is essentially a metaphor for this entire new concept, and yes, you’ll even like him by the end too.Ī change in tone wouldn’t make a difference without a change in gameplay as well, and Watch Dogs 2 purposefully focuses much, much more on hacking than its predecessor. There is almost nothing very grimdark about Watch Dogs 2, a far cry from the original, and that’s because the game really does not take itself seriously more often than not, which is perfect given how fundamentally goofy DedSec and most of their operations are. And characters like Wrench, the guy with the emoji mask, are actually key for establishing this new tone of the series. The DedSec crew are nearly all irritating millennials in their purest form, and you will probably think they’re exceptionally lame for a good long while, from the girl with the purple hair and shredded sweatshirt to the guy with the spiked mask that has emojis for eyes.īut slowly, you’ll learn to like this little group, and Marcus especially, who has ten times the personality Aiden Pearce ever did, even if the game still is frustratingly light on backstory for both him and the rest of the crew. Let me be clear, it is more than a little likely that you will hate the core cast of this game for the first few hours.

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