Caltrops - Watch Dogs

Forum Overview :: Watch Dogs

by Roop 06/20/2014, 4:51pm PDT

Commander Tansin A. Darcos wrote:

It is more-or-less what I expected, you get to switch things to assist your attempts to commit various actions. It also reminds me so very much of Grand Theft Auto, with the police chasing you, you having a wanted level, and if you get killed you just restart where you were when that happens (GTA3 sends you to a hospital instead). You can also run over pedestrians, either injuring or killing them, and when you're on the street you get to act like a sociopathic slime and shoot people.

Let's hope the anti-video game people don't hear about this or they'll start talking about how horrible this genre is and it will lead to the corruption of America's youth. Same thing they said about Jazz in the 1920s, cars in the 1930s, drive-ins in the 1940s, Rock-and-Roll in the 1950s...

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David: Is this real life or is this a game?
WOPR: What's the difference?
- Wargames

I also have enjoyed myself. Sure, it's derivative. The plot can be painfully melodramatic.

The Wanted Level system which you mention is clearly based on GTA, but the changes to it are quite clever, I think. This is GTA + Stealth, and the new system does allow for stealthy car action as well. Unlike GTA, when too many cops swarming around you with a helicopter overhead, you shouldn't kill everybody like usual. Hack the helo and hide from the cops. Police have telepathy in GTA, but not here, here they expect you to hide. After enough time, cops start running CTos scans, and then you have to haul ass. Avoiding scans, sometimes you come to screech in the middle of a highway, waiting... waiting, then slip through the scans. Can be fun. I've been chased down and stuck to alleys--never seen by the cops, then outrun the CTos and it's quite satisfying. Of course you can always cheese the game and just jump on a boat where the AI gives up.

I probably just enjoyed creating mayhem with familiar scenery--but the midwest doesn't have mountains. There was a glacier flattening everything recently. We have dunes and tree-lines, not mountains--even in Wisconsin. But holy hell if the game doesn't go and rewarded the player with a custom hot-rod station wagon later. It's like a gift just for me; I can relive the early nineties!

Watch dogs is fun by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/18/2014, 9:00pm PDT NEW

Re: Watch dogs is fun by Eurotrash 06/19/2014, 12:12am PDT NEW

Yes by Roop 06/20/2014, 4:51pm PDT NEW