Watch Dogs 3 could put the series back on track by limiting your access to deadly firearms, thus forcing you to be more creative in how you approach each objective. Sure, we might have to kill a handful of pursuers when forced to, but sprinting through a building with an LMG betrays the tone of the series. To us, that’s not what playing a hacktivist is about. There are missions in Watch Dogs 2 where upbeat and chirpy Marcus Holloway can go on a Rambo-esque rampage, leaving hundreds dead, even on FBI property. Ubisoft have also tackled a London setting before, albeit in the Victorian era, in the form of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, making it ripe territory for an easter egg of two. It’s also dense, diverse, and packed with hackable landmarks – imagine speeding up the London Eye or hosting a DedSec takeover of all the digital billboards in Piccadilly Circus. London makes perfect sense as a setting for Watch Dogs 3 as its the most surveilled city in the world. Either way, it appears we’re still a way off knowing the Watch Dogs 3 setting for sure. Kotaku’s Jason Schreier has commented on the rumour, suggesting the location is spot on, but the Assassin’s Creed rumour is false, which casts some doubt on the post’s other claims.
If you take the coordinates from the top of the transmission screen and pop them into Google Maps you get an address right in the centre of Brixton, a district of South London.Ī recent anonymous imageboard post alleges this setting will also feature a focus on small arms and melee combat, alongside a hefty claim about the next Assassin’s Creed game. The patched-in dialogue is a transmission about new DedSec and hacktivist groups starting up across the world.
WATCH DOGS 3 LOS ANGELES PATCH
So far the series has taken us to Chicago and San Francisco, so what setting can we expect from Watch Dogs 3? A patch that rolled out a few months after the release of Watch Dogs 2 added a few extra seconds of dialogue to the game’s ending cutscene that hints at a London setting. It’s far from solid, but this is the first piece of Watch Dogs 3 news since Ubisoft’s AI assistant gave up the ghost. New consoles are expected to be out in the next couple of years given previous console life cycles. Only two years separated the release of the first game (2014) and its sequel (2016), but 2018 has been and gone and we still haven’t had a reveal for the new Watch Dogs game.Ī new Watch Dogs trademark filing suggests the Watch Dogs 3 release date is 2020, as one reason for Ubisoft filing for an additional trademark is that they plan to release Watch Dogs 3 on next-gen consoles. When asked about Watch Dogs 3, Sam responds with, “Watch Dogs 3 is not finished yet, but from the last early build I tried it’s very solid.” Solid confirmation that Watch Dogs 3 is in production came from Sam, Ubisoft’s AI assistant for their Ubisoft Club mobile app.
To cap things off, we’ll also list some of the features and changes we want to see introduced to the series.
WATCH DOGS 3 LOS ANGELES FULL
With only two years separating the first game and the sequel, we were expecting a full reveal at E3 2018, but it seems Ubisoft is investing a little more time for its next hack-the-world adventure.Ĭome along as we sift through every scrap of information we have about Watch Dogs 3, from how we know it’s in production to where its story might take place. So, what do we know about the upcoming open-world hacking game?ĭespite the lack of an official reveal, Ubisoft has seemingly slipped up a number of times on the subject of a new Watch Dogs game, revealing a potential setting and confirming the game is already in production through their own AI Assistant, Sam. However, a change of protagonist in Marcus Holloway appears to have turned the fate of the series around as Ubisoft have confirmed Watch Dogs 3 is in production. Looking for a Watch Dogs 3 release date? The idea that we’d be getting a Watch Dogs 3 seemed unlikely after the series’s lukewarm debut with sourpuss protagonist Aiden Pearce.