Watch Dogs 2 blends cyber crime and the hacktivist community.
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Watch Dogs 2 lets you drive a talking car similar to Knight Rider’s K.I.T.T.

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The original Watch Dogs sold more than 10 million units when it debuted in 2014, and Ubisoft’s sequel to that game arrives on Tuesday on the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. The first entry was a revenge story that offered a warning about the threats that hackers pose to smart cities.

Watch Dogs 2 is set in San Francisco (the original took place in a gloomy Chicago), and it has a lighter tone. It is a celebration of the hacktivism subculture rooted in the tech capital of the world. One example of that is a mission where the hacktivists, known as DedSec and led by protagonist Marcus Holloway, steal a talking smart car from a film dubbed Cyber Driver. The mission is a clear reference to Knight Rider and the K.I.T.T. smart car from the real television show.

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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.