Watch Dogs 2 features Marcus Holloway (left) as the hero hacker.
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Hands-on with co-op and single-player in the hacker’s world of Watch Dogs 2

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The first thing I did when I started playing a preview of Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs 2 was to search for the VentureBeat office in San Francisco, where the fictional game about vigilante cyber hackers is set. Alas, I couldn’t find it. But it was reminder once again at how well this franchise does at blurring reality and fiction.

At Ubisoft’s preview event ahead of the Gamescom 2016 game show in Germany, I was able to play hands-on with the new co-op play in Watch Dogs 2. Dubbed Bounty, you can set yourself up to invite other players to invade your single-player campaign or just play around with other players.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.