The iconic locations of San Francisco look authentic and easily recognizable to everyone familiar with the city.

Watch Dogs 2 takes place in San Francisco, a sunny city bursting with life. As a third person shooter, Watch Dogs 2 offers a variety of options for both non-lethal and lethal resolutions of challenges offered to the players. The player becomes Marcus Holloway, a young man living in the sunny San Francisco, allied with DedSec to take down ctOS 2.0, the successor of the invasive operating system known from the previous game. Be sure to keep your eye out for more Uplay surprises as well, as Ubisoft says the giveaway is just the start to the gifts they plan to give this holiday season.Watch Dogs 2 is a sequel to Ubisoft's first open-world hacker-vigilante simulator Watch Dogs. Ubisoft’s free Watch Dogs promotion will run from November 7, 2017, to November 13, 2017, and only applies to the PC version of the game. Like other clients though, its seen a lot of improvements in the last five years, so downloading Uplay to get the free game may not be the burden it once was for players. Amongst many concerns, players complained that games were broken and never fixed, library’s lacked organization tools, and logins were way too inefficient (in either loading times or password resets).

Introduced in 2012, Ubisoft’s proprietary game client faced the criticisms that many digital distribution services ( Steam, Origins) had problems with at their outset. Though there are plenty that would argue that, as Uplay hasn’t always been a fan favorite service. Is it worth being free though? Absolutely. Personally, I still enjoyed the game when I purchased it, much later, but would agree that it wasn’t worth the full $60 price tag. While the game featured interesting mechanics, like utilized an in-game cell phone to tamper with the city’s infrastructure in destructive ways, many found the game didn’t meet the high expectations that had been set at previous events showing off the game.

The only catch? Simply sign up for a Uplay account.Ĭentering around a skilled hacker named Aiden Pearce, set in a near future Chicago, the originally Watch Dogs was met with mixed reviews. Starting today, Ubisoft is running a weekend promotion where players can get Watch Dogs on PC for free.

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