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Watch_Dogs Series

Watch Dogs 2: Gold Edition

Main Game
Shooter Racing Adventure Action Science fiction Stealth Sandbox Open world

Watch Dogs 2: Gold Edition is a Shooter / Racing game released on November 15, 2016 for PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One. Use hacking as a weapon in the massive & dynamic open world of Watch Dogs 2. In 2016, ctOS 2.0, an advanced operating system networking city infrastructure, was implemented in several US cities to cr…

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November 15, 2016
Released 3622 days ago
PlayStation 4 PC (Microsoft Windows) Xbox One

About

Use hacking as a weapon in the massive & dynamic open world of Watch Dogs 2.

In 2016, ctOS 2.0, an advanced operating system networking city infrastructure, was implemented in several US cities to create a safer, more efficient metropolis.

Play as Marcus Holloway, a brilliant young hacker living in the birthplace of the tech revolution, the San Francisco Bay Area. Team up with Dedsec, a notorious group of hackers, and expose the hidden dangers of ctOS 2.0, which, in the hands of corrupt corporations, is being wrongfully used to monitor and manipulate citizens on a massive scale.

With the power of hacking and Dedsec by your side, launch the Hack of the Century, take down ctOS 2.0 and give freedom back to whom it belongs: the people.

Storyline

Following the events of Chicago, San Francisco becomes the next city to install the CTOS (central Operating System), which connects everyone with everything. Marcus Holloway, an intelligent hacker from Oakland, California, is punished for a crime he did not commit by the upgraded CTOS 2.0 system, which categorizes him as the suspect. Realizing the system covertly brings harm to the innocent citizens of San Francisco, he decides to work with the hacking group DedSec to take down the city's CTOS 2.0, and Blume, the company behind it.

Marcus joins DedSec and works with fellow hackers Sitara, Wrench, Horatio and Josh, and they begin using their skills to expose corrupt organizations and corporations that are secretly using stolen personal CTOS data for their own personal gain. The game begins with Marcus's DedSec initiation test: deleting his own CTOS profile from the database. Being successful, he is accepted into DedSec. He is soon alerted about a fake church called New Dawn that serves as a criminal organization. Eventually, Marcus stumbles upon the existence of Bellwether, a data manipulation program being fed CTOS data by Dušan Nemec, Blume's CTO, to manipulate world finance and politics. DedSec later manages to recruit the assistance of old-time hacker Raymond "T-Bone" Kenney, who is determined to battle Blume.

With his assistance, DedSec manage to expose the corruption of the FBI and numerous Silicon Valley corporations, such as Nudle, Tidis, and Galilei, and take down the ringleaders of the Tezcas, a violent street gang who kidnapped DedSec member Horatio Carlin and killed him after he refused to cooperate with them. Learning that Blume is planning to install a satellite network designed to bypass undersea data cables, which would effectively give Blume a monopoly on the entire world's electronic data and stock exchanges, they infiltrate the launch area of one of the satellites to install a backdoor. In order to bring down Blume and Dušan for good, Marcus breaks into Blume's San Francisco headquarters and hacks their servers, exposing the existence of Bellwether and Dušan's corruption. Dušan is arrested for fraud and Blume is put under investigation, though DedSec resolve to continue their fight against Blume.

In an extended ending scene added in a post-release patch, two unidentified individuals note that more DedSec cells and hacktivist groups have been emerging worldwide in response to the San Francisco Blume scandal, and that it is time to put their own plans into motion, possibly signaling a third Watch Dogs game.

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Release Dates by Platform

PlayStation 4 Worldwide
Nov 15, 2016
PC (Microsoft Windows) Worldwide
Nov 15, 2016
Xbox One Worldwide
Nov 15, 2016

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Game Info

Engine
Disrupt
Game Modes
Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Perspective
Third person
Themes
Action Science fiction Stealth Sandbox Open world

Multiplayer

Online Co-op Yes

Languages

Audio / Voice
French, Japanese, German, Italian, Spanish (Spain), Russian, English, Portuguese (Brazil)
Text / Subtitles
French, Korean, Korean, English, French, Italian, Italian, Spanish (Spain), Russian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Polish, Dutch, Hungarian, English, German, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Hungarian, German, Spanish (Spain), Japanese, Chinese (Traditional), Czech

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