Post by Anthony on Apr 6, 2016 14:58:04 GMT
PS4 and Xbox One owners can now pre-order the game from GameSpot and despite Ubisoft keeping tight lipped about the game, all signs suggest a 2016 release
Watch Dogs 2 is now available to pre-order from GameStop, despite the fact that Ubisoft has failed to officially reveal anything tangible about the game.
The listing itself (which you can see below) doesn't even have any official box art yet, let alone a release date.
Ubisoft bosses have only gone as far to say that the follow up to the popular third-person hacking game will arrive in shops no later than March 31 2017.
But many expect we'll see the game before Christmas. Possibly taking up the vacant slot relinquished by the company's yearly Assassin's Creed release which is instead taking a break.
In its latest financial report, Ubisoft listed its fiscal 2017 (April 2016-March 2017) line-up as including: "For Honor, South Park: The Fractured but Whole, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: WildLands, the next instalment of Watch Dogs, and a new high-potential AAA brand with strong digital live services."
So it's possible we could see a reveal for the game at E3 this year
None of this should however come as much of a surprise.
Anyone and everyone seemed to know that Ubisoft were working on a sequal to Watch Dogs.
It was first mentioned in an interview with CVG over a year ago, when Vice president of creative at Ubisoft, Lionel Reynaud, stated that Watch Dogs established a “brand and a promise”
Reynaud then went on to say: "There are flaws, obviously. We absolutely want to tackle these flaws and surprise players, and the way to tackle some of those flaws is going to be quite radical. There are parts of the game that will need to change."
"This is quite a high ambition and will require us to develop technologies that we didn't have for Watch Dogs 1, but this combined with fixing and refining what worked well is probably the way to go for Watch Dogs 2."
Then a few months later Watch Dogs 2 was spotted on a senior gameplay programmer's Linkedin profile.
Yet despite knowing a sequel is on the cards, very little is known about the games actual story.
The ending of the original game already provided the set up, as the dialogue running during the credits hints that the next game could be taking place anywhere in the country - implied by the news that CtOS (the network you hack within the game) has been expanded to many other major cities.
Vice president of creative at Ubisoft, Lionel Reynaud, previously stated that Watch Dogs established a “brand and a promise”.
Speaking frankly about the first Watch Dogs release Reynaud said: "There are flaws, obviously. We absolutely want to tackle these flaws and surprise players, and the way to tackle some of those flaws is going to be quite radical. There are parts of the game that will need to change.
"This is quite a high ambition and will require us to develop technologies that we didn't have for Watch Dogs 1, but this combined with fixing and refining what worked well is probably the way to go for Watch Dogs 2."
There's also a major question mark over who will be the games main character.
Many audiences didn't take to growly main character Aiden Pearce and Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has already acknowledged this: "Some people loved the characters and some didn't. It was difficult to please everybody with that character.
"Now, having seen the reaction, we know what we will do next to improve that.
"I can't say [if Aiden will return as the lead character in Watch Dogs 2] because I don't know actually," Guillemot said. "We'll see."
Watch Dogs 2 is now available to pre-order from GameStop, despite the fact that Ubisoft has failed to officially reveal anything tangible about the game.
The listing itself (which you can see below) doesn't even have any official box art yet, let alone a release date.
Ubisoft bosses have only gone as far to say that the follow up to the popular third-person hacking game will arrive in shops no later than March 31 2017.
But many expect we'll see the game before Christmas. Possibly taking up the vacant slot relinquished by the company's yearly Assassin's Creed release which is instead taking a break.
In its latest financial report, Ubisoft listed its fiscal 2017 (April 2016-March 2017) line-up as including: "For Honor, South Park: The Fractured but Whole, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: WildLands, the next instalment of Watch Dogs, and a new high-potential AAA brand with strong digital live services."
So it's possible we could see a reveal for the game at E3 this year
None of this should however come as much of a surprise.
Anyone and everyone seemed to know that Ubisoft were working on a sequal to Watch Dogs.
It was first mentioned in an interview with CVG over a year ago, when Vice president of creative at Ubisoft, Lionel Reynaud, stated that Watch Dogs established a “brand and a promise”
Reynaud then went on to say: "There are flaws, obviously. We absolutely want to tackle these flaws and surprise players, and the way to tackle some of those flaws is going to be quite radical. There are parts of the game that will need to change."
"This is quite a high ambition and will require us to develop technologies that we didn't have for Watch Dogs 1, but this combined with fixing and refining what worked well is probably the way to go for Watch Dogs 2."
Then a few months later Watch Dogs 2 was spotted on a senior gameplay programmer's Linkedin profile.
Yet despite knowing a sequel is on the cards, very little is known about the games actual story.
The ending of the original game already provided the set up, as the dialogue running during the credits hints that the next game could be taking place anywhere in the country - implied by the news that CtOS (the network you hack within the game) has been expanded to many other major cities.
Vice president of creative at Ubisoft, Lionel Reynaud, previously stated that Watch Dogs established a “brand and a promise”.
Speaking frankly about the first Watch Dogs release Reynaud said: "There are flaws, obviously. We absolutely want to tackle these flaws and surprise players, and the way to tackle some of those flaws is going to be quite radical. There are parts of the game that will need to change.
"This is quite a high ambition and will require us to develop technologies that we didn't have for Watch Dogs 1, but this combined with fixing and refining what worked well is probably the way to go for Watch Dogs 2."
There's also a major question mark over who will be the games main character.
Many audiences didn't take to growly main character Aiden Pearce and Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has already acknowledged this: "Some people loved the characters and some didn't. It was difficult to please everybody with that character.
"Now, having seen the reaction, we know what we will do next to improve that.
"I can't say [if Aiden will return as the lead character in Watch Dogs 2] because I don't know actually," Guillemot said. "We'll see."