Sounds pretty neat in theory, but like in Chicago, it has a dark-side to it, a power grab by evil corporations.
The story of "Watch_Dogs 2" is set in the same universe as the original, San Francisco becomes the second city after Chicago to install ctOS, an IoT operating system that connects all of the city's inhabitants to all its public infrastructure.
Ubisoft was criticized for marketing the original "Watch_Dogs" with bullshots (marketing images that look like screenshots with more eye-candy than what the game actually ships with). Bringing SF to life is care of a new-generation Disrupt 2.0 game engine by Ubisoft Montreal, and the studio appears to have made special effort to make the production design as accurate to the marketing material as possible. It's also one of the more scenic cities in the US West. It had to be this city because the San Francisco Bay Area is what makes up Silicon Valley, the cradle of modern computing and new technology. Game critics such as Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw criticized this as being not much different than waving a magic wand, and hacking something in-game is nowhere near as challenging as hacking in the real world even if a gamer has no skills of actual hacking, they should have been replaced with puzzles that are equally challenging. The primary weapons in the "Watch_Dogs" world are not firearms, but your ability to "hack" electronic devices with your smartphone or laptop. Of course a 'hacker' in the real world could look like anybody and follow any way of life. Robot" television series, a culture where being able to breach through cyber-security of big evil corporations is "edgy". The original Chicago-based "Watch_Dogs" was a great filler for the PC gaming crowd as Rockstar delayed the PC release of "Grand Theft Auto V." Unlike GTA, which is based around general criminality, "Watch_Dogs" is more specific - its world is built around the urban hacktivist culture, one popularized in other forms of art, such as the smash-hit "Mr.
Ubisoft got a smash-hit open-world third-person RPG on its hands with the "Watch_Dogs" franchise.