I'll leave the discovery of the finer points up to you. Watch Dogs 2 barks a solid story, bites with great charactersĪs per usual, I won't get into story specifics for Watch Dogs 2. If that seamless multiplayer feel is crucial for you, wait until Ubisoft issues a fix and outlets test their work. That's how I wound up playing it up until now, and I loved it. For the purpose of this review, I'll be covering it, of course, but I would have been perfectly satisfied with Watch Dogs 2 were it a completely solo game. When I'm going solo, I find the open world mechanics a bit too grating for a quality multiplayer experience. If I have a friend or two around who want to roll with me, sure. I don't typically play these open world affairs for their multiplayer. There's good news if you're a player like me. We will update this section once that happens. They've offered that they're confident it will be fixed ahead of launch. I disabled multiplayer in the settings menu, and the game ran smoothly again. I mean frame rates lagging down to slideshow speed, crashes, bugs, you name it. Ubisoft flipped a switch and turned on the seamless multiplayer, and the game went to absolute crap.

Then came Thursday or Friday of last week. The game doesn't run at 60fps, it hits some minor drops and bumps, but nothing I wouldn't expect for an open world affair on the base PS4. We received Watch Dogs 2 roughly a week ago. Read this: There's a problem with the multiplayer Ubisoft took a risk with Watch Dogs 2, and they nailed it. It has its issues, one that's glaring and should keep you from buying for a bit if you're interested in the multiplayer portion, but it's fantastic on the whole. It was a shell of what was shown off at E3s prior.

It was silent for a large portion of its development, too. That was a game that was touted as one title and launched as something different. Compare that to the original game? I didn't play much of Watch Dogs ahead of release.

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