Watch Dogs really lets you hack your way through a smart city (hands-on preview)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 23, 2014
Updated June 18, 2025
8 min

This preview has some plot spoilers.

SAN FRANCISCO — Ubisoft’s designers have succeeded in creating an immersive open world with Watch Dogs, a video game set in a smart city where a hacker takes control in order to inflict his own brand of personal vigilantism.

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