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'Watch Dogs' chose Chicago partly due to 10,000 cameras being installed in 2006

"Watch Dogs" will be hitting the PlayStation 4 at launch this year, but the game was chosen to take place in Chicago because of some recent technology moves the city made back during 2006.

In an exclusive with Examiner.com today, "Watch Dogs" creative director Jonathan Morin talked about why the development team decided to go with Chicago as the main setting for this game.

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rockbottom30764056d ago

Finally an open world game made in Chicago!

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Realplaya4056d ago

The writer of the article does he know it's coming to other consoles?

OpieWinston4054d ago

I'm noticing that with a lot of people. I just laugh at them XD.

Half-Mafia4056d ago

We have over 400k cameras in London.

retro__4056d ago

not more dangerous than chicago though. whats going to happen in london a drive by insult? lol.

Half-Mafia4056d ago

I should of added that Watch Dogs is meant to be about being connected to everything/everywhere. 10k is not as connected as 400k.

Bathyj4056d ago

Ha, bubble for funny.

Plus from a gameplay perspective, the cops in Chicago would be more formidable than London, what with having guns and all.

What would Bobbies do?
They simply yell "HALT, or I'll yell Halt again."

Spinal4056d ago

ROFL!!! I live in london and that cracked me up! xD

Dark_Overlord4056d ago

@Bathyj

Have you been to London recently?

Everytime I've been there in the past 5 - 6 years, there's at least a few officers standing around with MP5's (I'm pretty sure that's what they are)

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Dark_Overlord4055d ago

Disagrees hmm....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...

That was the first time they were 'deployed' there, and they are still there to this day (although more commonly around important buildings now).

P.S I was right about the MP5 :)

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paul19744056d ago

bath person! so london does not have armed police? never seen them? have you ever been to London! oh they have plenty of armed police, not with pistols but smg's as well as armed response units, the fact we also have police who are just armed with stun guns and batons makes the options more diverse for the player.

The point is being made london offers a more connected world. Maybe watch dogs 2 could come this side of the pond

retro__4056d ago (Edited 4056d ago )

london has a boring environment to play around and doesn't fit what they wanted for watch dog. they wanted a criminal, hoodlum, vandalism, crime infested city where its a everyday situation that has extreme surveillance so there would be more action in the game that has more things going on around you. even though london has more surveillance (which no one cares) it would be boring as fuck cause nothing goes on around there.

paul19744056d ago

retro, funny how its one of the greatest cities in the world and the most multi cutural of all with the UK's open border policy they seem to have here!

London has some very historic places as well as many not so such as the east end, I am afraid to say that it's not all butter cups and fairies here pal, the riots we have seen a couple yrs back says otherwise!!

But hey hate on London if that's your bag! the point was being made we have a government obsession here in the uk with cctv so it would work well with this type of game and it's not like we don't have criminal types or gangs here in britain.

kingPoS4051d ago

quote: Chicago is one of the world’s great cities. From its inception to today, it symbolizes modernity and progress alongside crime and corruption; great wealth and high culture alongside abject poverty and brutal violence.

After living in Chicago for years I can tell you that even the weather has been known to contradict itself.

000014056d ago

for real,chitowns no joke this days lol..

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The entire WatchDogs series is 87% off and it's not even Black Friday

If you are looking for a bargain, check out the huge discounts across the entire WatchDogs series on Steam.

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Watch Dogs Deserves A Remake, More Than Ever

With the world of information and technology, privacy and security growing every day, Watch Dogs deserves another chance in the spotlight, now more than ever.

RaidenBlack1003d ago

The only Ubi title that deserves a faithful remake right now is Splinter Cell 1.
All 2014+ Ubi titles are just underwhelming. Especially ones from 2016+ are just cancer.

LucasRuinedChildhood1002d ago (Edited 1002d ago )

Seriously, are we so far removed from Ubisoft actually making good games that people now praise Watch_Dogs in retrospect?

"Watch_Dogs has remained one of my favourite games of the last ten years." Jesus Christ.

HankHill1002d ago

I remember being so disappointed in Watch Dogs when I played it at release. It was alright, but I think I fell for the hype and I needed a game to play on my new PS4.

obidanshinobi1002d ago

This is what happens when mediocrity gets praised as good.
Standards are slipping across the whole entertainment industry.
What was once considering rubbish is now considered as OK, what once was OK is now being praised as good etc etc.

LamerTamer1002d ago

Everyone has their own likes. I liked it a lot myself. I played through it twice and liked the car chases and the open world with fairly decent environments and missions. It suffered from the whole downgrade thing where they showed graphics that weren't actually there. No game will appeal to everyone but it was still ambitious for it's time.

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gantarat1003d ago

assassin's creed 1 should get a remake.

ExBee1003d ago

For certain! AC1 was brilliant at the time but with new graphics and gameplay it would be amazing! Do you prefer old combat or new though?

RaidenBlack1002d ago

I'd say a reimagining of AC1.
I direct AC1 remake would be a bad idea. It'll need better story pacing and significant better world building.

BlaqMagiq11002d ago

Old. Let it play like how it did with AC2-Syndicate style gameplay but refine the setting and story.

Profchaos1003d ago

It would need a lot changed for it to be enjoyable again as even back in 2007 on launch we were all complaining about it's repetitive gameplay go here perform one of three side quests repeat then assassination now do it over and over until a big battle with a unforgiving checkpoint system.

BlaqMagiq11002d ago

Absolutely. It needs it. The only AC I truly didn't enjoy.

chicken_in_the_corn1002d ago

I'd prefer it didn't. Ubisoft would make it so bloated, it wouldn't be anywhere near the original

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smolinsk1003d ago (Edited 1003d ago )

Absolutely, this watch dogs legion was terrible boring.

Profchaos1003d ago (Edited 1003d ago )

As a fan of the franchise legion was garbage and I regretted my purchase for the first time in the franchise the entire thing felt like an experiment in NPC behaviour and released without the writers input on what makes a good story.

I don't think I'm alone in that feeling though as wrench and Aiden are brought back and the campaign was rewritten to fit them.

I am tempted to buy the season pass to play it again with Aiden but fool me twice shame on me I'm waiting for a deep sale

camel_toad1002d ago

Agreed. Despite the annoying hipness of the characters in part 2 I thought it was a really fun game. I was extremely disappointed and surprised at how many steps back they took with Legion. You'd think it was made by an entirely different team. Or was it?

It was just so devoid of fun.

LamerTamer1002d ago

Honestly one of my biggest annoyances with Legion is that they took out the camera views for the driving. I mean the behind the car view that they stuck us with is near unplayable. I always used a first person driving view. After two releases why did they take OUT features? I don't get it.

TheSinsibleOne1003d ago

The fist watchdog game was the best by far
After that they weren't weird and annoying with that hipster stuff. Aiden was a badass.

LamerTamer1002d ago

I thought so at first too. I got used to it and it ended up being good after some play time. I just had to give it a chance.

TheEnigma3131003d ago

Remake the PoP series from xbox/ps2/gc era

RaidenBlack1002d ago

They are remaking Sands of Time.

TheEnigma3131002d ago

That's good news. Hopefully it's done right.

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Inside the Driver game that died so that Watch Dogs could live

From VG247: "When cars slide, they leave tyre marks. In a game like Driver, they’re an aesthetic touch, part of the inherent cool of a handbrake turn. But those dark shadows in the road also tell a story. From tyre marks, you can determine the speed of a vehicle, when it started to skid, and its ultimate direction of travel – long after the car itself has vanished into the distance."

vallencer1067d ago

Different spellings in different parts of the world friend. Tyre is a correct way to spell it.

Pridefall1067d ago

Dunno why you got downvpted when tyre is correct in Australia.

mikefizzled11067d ago

The mystery that is En Fore Gee

neutralgamer19921067d ago

Give us driver San Francisco remastered

IGiveHugs2NakedWomen1067d ago

Why did they stop making some of the best games ever? Driver was one of them.

Gameseeker_Frampt1067d ago

Assassins Creed 2 showed Ubisoft how to make money and Far Cry 2 showed them that gamers don't like complex ideas. Now Ubisoft just turns out games that are just variations of the same thing.

WeAreLegion1067d ago

Best driving mechanics ever made. Nothing has come close.

Gardenia1067d ago

A story driven game with pure driving gameplay. I'd love to see a new Driver game or a remake of the first one.

ApocalypseShadow1067d ago

Yes. This one. A definite remake of the first without adding any ridiculous fluff. The first game had great physics and sound for its time. The start of the car in the beginning cinema I watched constantly. My father and uncles were big muscle and classic car freaks. Only thing crazy about the game was the relentless cops in the last level. Insane the way those police cars were and launched at you.

Bleemcast made it look better just like PC emulators. But would definitely take a remake.

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