If you’re like me, you were probably shouting at your screen to take your money by the time Ubisoft’s press conference had finished. There’s no question that Watch Dogs stole the show at E3 last week, and the big question on everyone’s mind remains, “When do I get to play it?”
The bad news: not until next year. The good news, however, is that it could be primed for next-gen consoles as well as current generation.
Watch Dogs is Ubisoft Montreal’s latest open-world action title, and based on our Watch Dogs E3 preview, there is little doubt that it will stand along side the Assassin’s Creed franchise as a powerful new series for the award-winning developer. Instead of retracing ancestral memories, however, this new independent product introduces players to Aiden Pearce, an expert in information warfare, hacking, and blowing things up. Pearce is a classic anti-hero with a chip on his shoulder for the Central Operating System — “ctOS” for short. From what we have seen so far, players will be using the system against those who depend on it, to access information, blackmail powerful people, and start large firefights in the middle of busy intersections.
Could Aiden Pearce be a new household name for Ubisoft’s impressive franchise list? Only time will tell.
While Watch Dogs hasn’t received a concrete release date, its official Twitter account wrote, “The game will be released in 2013 and will be on released on PC and consoles.” Interestingly enough, the original Twitter status has since been removed; however, the game was also confirmed for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 by CEO Yves Guillemot – who, when asked about the possibility for a next-gen release, simply said, “We’ll see.” While this is a typical response for such a loaded question, luck shone on players awaiting PlayStation: All-Stars on the PS Vita, who only a few weeks ago heard a very similar answer.
Ranters, I don’t think I need to ask if you’re excited for Ubisoft’s new title, but is it possible we will see a next-gen release in 2013?
Watch Dogs is currently in development by Ubisoft Montreal, and is set to release sometime in 2013 for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360… so far.
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Source: VG247
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Sorry Ubisoft, someone wrote a book about a hacker who uses a PDA to “stick it to the man” already, inform your legal team…
This game looks great and I’d gladly shell out $60 day 1 based solely on that gameplay demo. I do believe it’ll be on next-gen but I’ll be getting it on my PC. Seeing as how I have to decide: next-gen console vs upgrade PC, since both will probably run upwards of $500, I’ll take the latter. Ubisoft and Watch Dogs stole the show IMO.
Anyways, to release a new IP this incredible looking at the end of a current cycle and NOT have it on next-gen is basically Franchise-suicide! Surely Ubisoft knows better.
This should be PC and next-gen only. I feel it’s going to be over ambitious for the current gen. I hope I’m wrong bc the demo was unbelievable.
HAHA, I see what you did there. But let me ask you this, does THAT book have an Animus in it?
Doesn’t have to have an Animus, they still have a pretty solid case with the PDA alone…
Most interesting game of E3 imho.
This game didn’t stole the show it might have better have better visuals but the butter game has to Assassin’s Creed I wish they would have worked better on the graphics, one of reasons I didn’t like the is that it was fully scripted there isn’t free game play and it was running on high end pc it wasn’t anything we haven’t seen before Ubi work harder on aciii it has lots of potential already!