Watch Dogs

Hacking as a universal open-world verb, with seamless player invasions folded into the city.

Released 2014 Developer Ubisoft Montreal Publisher Ubisoft Platform PlayStation 4 Genre Action-adventure Era Digital storefronts & indie Website watchdogs.com ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Watch Dogs inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Seamless Streaming Open World ~~2001~~Waypoint Objective Marker ~~2001~~Systemic Climbable Surfaces ~~2007~~Asynchronous Invasion & Messages ~~2009~~

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