I'll still play the campaign until I finished it but this game has been a turn down for me. It seems like the target audience were 16 year olds from the hoods of Liverpool. Everyone speaks like they've been a gang member their entire life. Just played a mission where the judge I recruited into dedsec suggested to drive the head of the security service into the river.

The campaign:
I'm still playing this but the campaign has a good story, which is one of the only positives. You can recruit everyone you meet that doesn't hate Dedsec and they bring in some special abilities, sometimes guns. That's when you see a museum tour guide with a shotgun and a neurologist with a desert eagle... in London. The "under cover" ability is cool and a good idea but doesn't make sense. For example: You recruit a police sergeant from New Scotland Yard to Dedsec, 10 minutes ago she was at the station doing her work. You take control over the character, put her work clothes on, go to the station where you found her and her collegues are like "who are you? You new here?", eh, that is your supervisor you report to not even 10 min ago?

Unlike watch dogs 1 and 2, your character cannot buy or pick up guns. You can only get non-lethal from the skill tree. So if you're in a gunfight, have 8 people shoot at you and there's a dead Albion with an AR next to you, your character will not pick up that gun to shoot back but use a non lethal pistol which does the same damage as my English in this post, unless you have headshots you can loose all your ammo on 5 guys. Why was this taken away? If the local priest can have an M249, why can my characters not get one or at least use a printer like WD2 to print something?

The voice acting is terrible, your character doesn't seem to have any emotions of what's going on. Feels like they recruited a bunch of people for each character in the game, got them in a speaker boot and made them say some voice lines. I'd expect this from an indie game, not from a company like Ubisoft. From the 9 people currently in my campaign, I only play 2 because it's the only voice line actors that actually read the entire plot I think.

Then you get to the mission right after you kill one of the main antagonists, you need to stay in a vans range to hack. Easy right? It would be if you don't have 2 cop cars, 4 drones that can hack your car and yeet it the other way and that van going mach 5 so a sports car can't keep up with it. That campaign mission completely ruined it for me and that's where I deleted the game.

Side activities are fun, love playing some darts. A lot of clothing and hair options. Won't speak about the puzzles bc I'm bad at them.

Multiplayer:
You start with 2 character, as you have to recruit the 2nd instantly. Not a lot of people online but I see why. My friend and I did multiple missions to get from level 2 to 3, after 1h we gave up as we were still level 2. Progression is so slow, a snail with asthma goes faster over the XP bar than this does. Only did 1 Co-op where it was 2 players recommended, only to be swarmed with 20+ NPCs with LMG's and AR's, and drones, all we had was the non lethal water pistol (not actually a water pistol but the damage is the same). If one of us died we had to restart. We both quit that mission, she uninstalled the game, I promised to finish the campaign first as I paid for this, I wanna make the most of it.

TLDR:
If you wanna buy this, go ahead, but next to the story itself and the clothing/character options there isn't really much great. I hope WD 3 will be better than whatever this was. If you think it must be fun as you can go under cover and dress up as the enemy, sorry dude, you can't.

I'll still play the campaign until I finished it but this game has been a turn down for me. It seems like the target audience were 16 year olds from the hoods of Liverpool. Everyone speaks like they've been a gang member their entire life. Just played a mission where the judge I recruited into dedsec suggested to drive the head of the security service into the river. [b]The campaign:[/b] I'm still playing this but the campaign has a good story, which is one of the only positives. You can recruit everyone you meet that doesn't hate Dedsec and they bring in some special abilities, sometimes guns. That's when you see a museum tour guide with a shotgun and a neurologist with a desert eagle... in London. The "under cover" ability is cool and a good idea but doesn't make sense. For example: You recruit a police sergeant from New Scotland Yard to Dedsec, 10 minutes ago she was at the station doing her work. You take control over the character, put her work clothes on, go to the station where you found her and her collegues are like "who are you? You new here?", eh, that is your supervisor you report to not even 10 min ago? Unlike watch dogs 1 and 2, your character cannot buy or pick up guns. You can only get non-lethal from the skill tree. So if you're in a gunfight, have 8 people shoot at you and there's a dead Albion with an AR next to you, your character will not pick up that gun to shoot back but use a non lethal pistol which does the same damage as my English in this post, unless you have headshots you can loose all your ammo on 5 guys. Why was this taken away? If the local priest can have an M249, why can my characters not get one or at least use a printer like WD2 to print something? The voice acting is terrible, your character doesn't seem to have any emotions of what's going on. Feels like they recruited a bunch of people for each character in the game, got them in a speaker boot and made them say some voice lines. I'd expect this from an indie game, not from a company like Ubisoft. From the 9 people currently in my campaign, I only play 2 because it's the only voice line actors that actually read the entire plot I think. Then you get to the mission right after you kill one of the main antagonists, you need to stay in a vans range to hack. Easy right? It would be if you don't have 2 cop cars, 4 drones that can hack your car and yeet it the other way and that van going mach 5 so a sports car can't keep up with it. That campaign mission completely ruined it for me and that's where I deleted the game. Side activities are fun, love playing some darts. A lot of clothing and hair options. Won't speak about the puzzles bc I'm bad at them. [b]Multiplayer:[/b] You start with 2 character, as you have to recruit the 2nd instantly. Not a lot of people online but I see why. My friend and I did multiple missions to get from level 2 to 3, after 1h we gave up as we were still level 2. Progression is so slow, a snail with asthma goes faster over the XP bar than this does. Only did 1 Co-op where it was 2 players recommended, only to be swarmed with 20+ NPCs with LMG's and AR's, and drones, all we had was the non lethal water pistol (not actually a water pistol but the damage is the same). If one of us died we had to restart. We both quit that mission, she uninstalled the game, I promised to finish the campaign first as I paid for this, I wanna make the most of it. [b]TLDR:[/b] If you wanna buy this, go ahead, but next to the story itself and the clothing/character options there isn't really much great. I hope WD 3 will be better than whatever this was. If you think it must be fun as you can go under cover and dress up as the enemy, sorry dude, you can't.