Sadly, I cannot currently recommend buying this game on any platform IF you are the owner of a 30 or 40 series Nvidia GPU, or an RDNA 3 / 3+ AMD GPU. There is a known bug that causes flickering of shadows and the sky and it is EXTREMELY distracting. Ubisoft is aware of it and has refused to address it. BUYER BEWARE. The only *guaranteed* fix is to use DXVK injection (a google search will give you the steps involving the latest release DLL's), which also means you must disable EAC and cannot use any online features, and for some, this also results in a loss of performance. Also, Ubisoft gets really sad when you modify their games. As an aside, good luck running this in Linux or on a Steam Deck - between the awful integrated launcher (it's your friend, Ubisoft Connect or whatever they're calling it now!) and the integrated anti-cheat, you CAN do it, but it's not a fun process.

Beyond all that - hey. Hey you. Do you wish to remember a... simpler time? A time when Ubisoft still somewhat gave a crap? A time when the Ubisoft style open world wasn't absolutely done to death, when we still had some hope for the IP known as Watch Dogs? Come, time travel with me, back to 2016, and experience all the good (no reliance on ridiculous upscaling tech to make games run well, an open world with a purpose, a soundtrack that isn't complete garbage) and the bad (the pinnacle of "how do you do fellow kids" writing, cringe memes, embarrassingly dated references) this era has to offer.

It's Watch Dogs! You can jump on top of a car, hack it to drive forward, and surf around while you run over screaming pedestrians. You can hack a homeless guy's bank account and take his last $23 for no reason! You can hack a cop's cell phone to make it explode in his face, accidentally killing innocent bystanders! You can be the absolute worst person to be around, while also preaching about "sticking it to the man" and "taking it all back from the evil guys". And... it's kinda great? There is a simple joy to the endless shenanigans you can get up to, without the ultra grimdark tone of Watch Dogs 1 souring the mood. Hacking is fun, the world of Watch Dogs is fun, and... we'll probably never get another good one.

But again, unless you'd like to disable online features and mess with DLL's (google is your friend), I wouldn't recommend a buy. Perhaps, do as Watch Dogs' protagonists would do and "hack" yourself a copy of the game. Ubisoft proooobably doesn't need the money (hang on, did they pay their lawyers for that last scandal yet?).

It's not the game itself I hate, no. I've spent the last 20 minutes trying to make an account with 'ubisoft connect' who's idea was this?

I'm forced to use Russian even though I'm from Moldova.