So I've been complaining a lot about this game, and Ubisoft lost a lot of my previous respect for them. I might rant here, so apologies if this goes long. I followed Watch_Dogs since E3 2012, and that's where we all saw this game that was dark and gritty and built around hacking and wasn't a shoot-'em-up. Great. The thing looked beautiful. The environments looked real. The gameplay looked unique, and most of all, the graphics were absolutely stunning. Then time went on and we saw more and more things hedge the excitement. It was pushed back. The trailers looked bad. The graphics weren't there. So let's add up what we ended up with. Full disclosure, I haven't played yet, but I watched my friend play it yesterday for two hours.

-The game looks like shit. That, right out, is the biggest complaint and most disappointing. I know graphics aren't all that important to games, and they wouldn't really be important here, but I'm serious, it looks like shit. GTA 4 level graphics. Things from 2008 look better than it. And while that's a massive issue in and of itself, this game was built up around the hype of how great it looks and feels. Worse than just bad graphics, it lost all of it's dark and grittiness. Everything is blocky and generic, so I feel like I'm playing yet another random city sandbox. Ubisoft straight up lied to us on this one, and that hurts. Their continued insistence that it's TOTALLY as good as in 2012 is fucking insulting. They fucked up bad and instead of admitting it or revising expectations just kept lying.

-The gameplay itself is generic . It's another GTA clone. Shoot the shit out of everything, and oh, there's a gimmick of hacking. On top of that, they decided it's going to be just like Far Cry and AC, where something something only allowed a portion of the city until you needlessly climb to the top of a tall building and look out at everything.

-The DRM is fucking bullshit and they should have learned from EA not to fucking require always-online because you know it's not going to work and will piss people off. They took it a step further though. Yesterday, my friend buys it through Steam. First level of DRM. From Steam, it launches Uplay. Second level of DRM. From Uplay, it has to get into the servers. Third level of DRM. Guess the fuck what? Both Uplay and their servers shit themselves. It took three fucking hours to get into a game that she just spent 70 dollars on. 70 bucks on yet another generic, boring , stagnant the gaming industry game.