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The game is played from a third-person perspective and its world is navigated on-foot or by vehicle. Players control Aiden Pearce, a highly skilled grey hat hacker who can hack into the "ctOS", a centralized operating system which manages the hyper-connected city of Chicago. Players can choose to play as criminals or vigilantes. An online multiplayer mode is also provided in the game, allowing up to eight players to engage in both co-operative and competitive gameplay in a recreation of the single-player setting.
Sales
Watch Dogs broke the record for biggest first day sales in Ubisoft history. Watch Dogs had the biggest new IP launch in the United Kingdom ever, beating the previous record holder, L.A. Noire, by more than half its sales. Overall, Watch Dogs is the 17th biggest game launch in the United Kingdom of all time. A week after its release, Ubisoft announced that the game had sold 4 million units worldwide.
Awards
Prior to release, Watch Dogs received more than 82 awards and nominations for its display at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2012 (E3 2012), and won two Game Critics Awards for Special Commendation for Graphics and Special Commendation for Innovation. Later that year, the game was nominated for One to Watch at the 30th Golden Joystick Awards. In 2013, Watch Dogs received over 90 awards and nominations for its display at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2013 (E3 2013), and won one Game Critics Award for Best Action/Adventure Game while receiving four additional nominations for Best of Show, Best Original Game, Best Console Game, and Best Online Multiplayer. Later that year, the game was nominated for Most Wanted at the 31st Golden Joystick Awards, and was also nominated for Most Anticipated Game at the VGX 2013.
Story (ALERT : SPOILER ahead)
Aiden and Damien launch an electronic robbery at the Merlaut Hotel, with Aiden transferring the funds through his smartphone. When they come across a strange file and alert another hacker, Damien tries to find the hacker, gives them both away; unable to talk Damien out of it, Aiden stops him by leaving. Fearing for his family—Nicole, Lena and Jackson—Aiden decides to drive them to safety under the guise of a surprise trip. However, on the way, two hitmen hired to take Aiden out intercept the car. One of them, Maurice, fires the shot that crashes the car and kills Lena.
Eleven months later, Aiden finally tracks down Maurice in the Parker Square district. After a fruitless interrogation about Maurice's contractor, Aiden leaves Maurice in Jordi's hands while he hacks the ctOS to help them escape unnoticed. As Aiden investigates further, Damien (whom he cut ties with since the Merlaut) approaches him, requesting to find the other hacker from the Merlaut job. Upon Aiden's refusal, Damien kidnaps Nicole, forcing Aiden to comply with Damien's demands.
With Clara's help, Aiden tracks down the second hacker: gang leader Anthony "Iraq" Wade. Aiden obtains the electronic key to Iraq's sever room and obtains a sample of the data from his servers. He and Clara find that Iraq has secrets on almost every citizen of Chicago, effectively protecting his gang from the authorities. When they come across encrypted data beyond Clara's ability, she directs Aiden to seek out Raymond "T-Bone" Kenney. After Aiden completes some tasks for him, T-Bone agrees to help decrypt the data.
Aiden mounts an assault on Iraq's compound, making it to his server room. After Aiden downloads the server data, Iraq confronts him; Aiden kills him and leaves the compound. While browsing the server information, another hacker called "Default" infiltrates their system, stealing the information before deleting it from their servers. Default also leaves a recording that reveals Clara helped locate Aiden and Damien eleven months prior, which ultimately led to his niece's death. Angered, Aiden demands Clara to leave. Later, when Aiden confronts Damien about the loss of the server data, Damien publicizes Aiden's vigilantism, alerting the authorities of his identity.
Eventually, Aiden and T-Bone locate and take down "Default", and retrieve the data again. Meanwhile, Aiden discovers where Nicole is being kept, and frees her. Aiden drives Nicole and Jackson out of town to keep them safe. Examining the server data, T-Bone discovers the contractor who ordered the hit that killed Aiden's niece: Dermot "Lucky" Quinn, leader of the Chicago South Club and owner of the Merlaut Hotel.
Aiden tracks down and confronts Lucky, shutting off his pacemaker. In his dying moments, Lucky reveals that he ordered the hit because he thought that Aiden was searching for blackmail footage of the mayor, whom Lucky is closely associated with. After Lucky finally dies, Aiden races to Clara, who is ambushed and killed by Damien's men. During Aiden's attempts to track down Damien, he discovers that Damien has unlocked ctOS, allowing him access to the entire city. In order to find him, Aiden uploads a virus into ctOS and shuts down the entire system, blacking out the city. By doing this, Aiden reaches Damien unhindered, and kills him. After the credits, Aiden returns to Maurice, on Jordi's call, and chooses to either kill him or spare him.
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