Watch Dogs

Wow, this sounds pretty shocking, particularly the story bits. I tend to have a higher tolerance for stories than you, but this made even me look puzzled.

Now excuse me while I weep for some genuinely great new IPs that would have been a big success with merely a fourth of this game's sales to date, but weren't because they didn't have an insane marketing push behind them.

SirLink said:
Now excuse me while I weep for some genuinely great new IPs that would have been a big success with merely a fourth of this game's sales to date, but weren't because they didn't have an insane marketing push behind them.

This isn't good news for Wii U. The combination of the game coming out months after the other versions and the mediocre reviews is just going to lead to poorer sales for the Wii U version and not help the third party cause.

I was looking forward to this game and have it preordered, but I'm almost certainly going to cancel. Had the game come out with the other versions I would own a copy (for better or worse). But now I'm no longer very interested and a bunch of other games were just announced that I want a lot more.


( Edited 22.06.2014 03:36 by Sonic_13 )

Sonic_13 said:
This isn't good news for Wii U. The combination of the game coming out months after the other versions and the mediocre reviews is just going to lead to poorer sales for the Wii U version and not help the third party cause.

And let's be honest the chances of that are.. not high. ):

Sadly, i called it. ZombieU gave a similar vibe to me where it had alot of good ideas when trying to impliment different ways to use the game pad but didnt quiet execute them well and ended up being rather distracting to the game itself, constantly reminding you you are playing a video game and not in the middle of a zombie outbreak. It sounds similar here where the game itself is uninspired but the mechanics though cool as they are, don't seamlessly mesh. That said, reading that the game shines with the gimmick of hacking, it does atleast make me hopeful that the wii u version truely will be the best version as the touch pad is simpley too perfect for simulating the hacking device used.

I can see the wii u version going 1 of 2 ways, either praised for bringing out the best of the game, making it a more enjoyable experience, or just plain canceled. Anyway, my entire view and customer status to ubisoft hinges on this title.

Hey doint count out the Wii U version yet. With the touch screen of the wii u and the story line the game can still be incredible. im still optimistic that ubi soft can pull it off we just have to wait and see.   

From 5,000 to 55,000. In the last 2-3 weeks, the views on this have gone insane.

If any guests are reading this, please say where you got linked to this review from! I'm really curious.

Jorge can't find anything specific, but it has to be getting linked from somewhere to receive such a huge bump in a short space of time, and still it goes up every day.

This is gonna tank on Wii U btw. Wonder if Ubi is balancing its shipments for it properly, or if they'll even make anything back on the time/cost it took to make the Wii U vers. The non-Nintendo versions might have easily covered the Wii U costs actually, but still not good to make a loss on it. Think they already said it's their last M-rated game for the console anyway though.

Oh and Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition comes out next month on PS4 and XBO - get that over this rubbish. Way better game.

( Edited 27.09.2014 20:13 by Azuardo )

Ok ok well see. Wait till the wii u version comes out and its reviewed. Well see what it gets.

I can tell you now if I reviewed the Wii U version it'd get exactly the same treatment. It'll likely get exactly the same reviews as the other versions at other sites, too - it's already had such a mixture of reviews, so you can already make your mind up about the Wii U version. Just depends which reviews you are more likely to listen to - the ones singing its praises, or the ones calling it out for being dire. It's exactly the same game with some GamePad stuff bolted on. Won't change the awful storyline, dull setting and generic gameplay. Maybe the GamePad stuff will help make it the 'definitive' version in the hacking stakes, but it wouldn't change my opinion of it in the slightest.

Of course, your own opinion of it is all that matters, but the reviews are all over the place with this one (though I think many are too generous), so it's hard to make a buying decision. For me, though, it's poor, and some GamePad gimmicks ain't gonna change that on Wii U. Far better games of the same type out there. If you only game on Wii U, though, you don't have much choice, so I can imagine Wii U-only owners being less harsh on it due to not having the luxury of games like Sleeping Dogs. That said, even if this was the only game on Wii U, shouldn't change the fact it's dull.