Watch Dogs (video game)

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Watch Dogs (also Watch_Dogs). Ubisoft Montreal, developer. Ubisoft, Publisher. Jonathan Morin, director. Dominic Guay, Producer. Danny Belanger, designer. Kevin Shortt, writer.[1] 2014 f.

Surveillance motif said by the developers to be close to that of digital tracking in our world: "In Watch_Dogs, this system is called the Central Operating System (ctOS) — and it controls every piece of the city's technology and holds key information on all the city's residents."[2]

Wikipedia entry begins with this summary, describing Watch Dogs as

an action-adventure video game [....] released worldwide on May 27, 2014 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. A Wii U version was released in November 2014. Set in a fictionalized, free-roam, open world version of Chicago, the single-player story follows hacker Aiden Pearce's search for revenge after the killing of his niece. The game is played from a third-person perspective, and the world is navigated on foot or by vehicle. An online multiplayer mode allows up to eight players to engage in cooperative and competitive gameplay.[3]

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