Watch Dogs

+Ubisoft the studio that brought us the highly acclaimed +Assassin's Creed franchise.  Has another title due to arrive later this year called "Watch Dogs".  This game has a lot of the things that made Assassins Creed work so well, with the free-run system, multiple side missions, and a light dusting of GTA style carjacking.  What makes this game really stand out and already a fan favorite amongst most of my geek friends, is the ability to hack any device connected to the M.A.N (Metropolitan Area Network) or the city wide electrical power grid.  Players can cause power outages, use the police departments own city wide defenses, traffic cams, vehicles, just to name a few items.  The game also allows for players to seamlessly jump into another players game and hack them for intel.  +Ubisoft released a 14 minute game demo displaying a lot of the features we'll find once the game has been released.   The video can be found at a number of different sites however, I'm a fan of +GameTrailers and they have it as well.  The nice people at +GameTrailers were even kind enough to supply a link to the video for streaming.  

Watch Dogs

     It's a 14-minute gameplay demo showing you what you're able to do in the game.  In the video you learn that the game takes place in Chicago.  A new computer system ctOS, has been put in place to assist the city in well, just about everything.  From surveillance to traffic cams this new technology has access to everything and that means you as the player do as well.  Watch Dogs will be available on Playstation 3, XBOX 360 as well as the next-gen systems, XBOX One, Playstation 4,  and possibly the Wii-U.  This is one of the games on my personal wish-list and I'm gearing up to get this on one of the next-gen systems.  The release date has been set for November 19, 2013.  You can pre-order the game at either GameStop, BestBuy, or Amazon.  There are a few other places to pre-order however, I only trust one of the three I named.  There is also a limited edition version of the game that include exclusives such as a statue of the main character, soundtrack, art-book, and other game related elite swag. 

You can venture over to the official site for the game here Watch Dogs Official Site.  Thus far from everything I've seen, this is going to be a fairly good game.  I just hope it lives up to the hype and as this could be the next big thing in video games.