Watch Dogs Review

Watch Dogs was developed and published by Ubisoft and was released in May 2014. It is an open world third-person shooter, action, adventure game.

Set in the City of Chicago the game follows the story of Aiden Pearce, a hacker who can tap into the fictional ctOS system that controls and monitors the information and infrastructure systems of the city of Chicago. Driven by the death of one of his family members during a job gone wrong Aiden is now a vigilante whose goal is to hunt down and find those responsible for the death of his sister’s daughter Lena. Taking down the city’s crime bosses in the process. Aiden is a gifted hacker and has access to security cameras, ATMs, traffic lights, bridges and basically anything connected to the ctOS system. He can also gain access to any car and is how you get around the city. The city’s systems can be available to access by sneaking into and hacking ctOS stations scattered around the city. 
There is a stealth element to this game which can be frustrating at times and it can take a long time to complete missions because of this. There is also puzzles to solve when hacking into a system and normally involves getting the information to flow in the right direction by changing switches and gates and there is a time limit on most of those.
The most fun is to be had driving around hacking traffic lights, opening bridges, activating barriers and causing all sorts of mayhem during missions.
The mini games are fun also and include card games. There is a game called cash run which is an arcade style game running and jumping to grab cash. There are others as well.
The combat mechanics has a cover system which you can use to your advantage by hiding behind structures like benches and walls. There are the normal weapons to choose from, machine gun, pistol, sniper riffle etc. 
When you pull out your phone, a profiler is triggered and when pointed at, you can see every person’s name, job, read their messages and listen to their conversations.
The world looks very realistic and highly detailed with the right hardware and the music is well done and plenty of variety.
Overall the story is good and gets you engaged and with all the side missions there is enough to keep you entertained for hours and hours. After you finish the main story missions you can continue and complete side missions and play mini-games.
The game is rated Mature.
I give it 7.5/10