10 Upcoming Open World Games We're Most Excited For

6. Watch Dogs

The much-delayed Watch Dogs is finally due for release on May 27, and anticipation couldn't be higher. Developed by Ubisoft, the game features hacker Aiden Pearce in a giant open-world Chicago that is fully interactive. Aiden can hack pretty much anything, including other people's phones to get information, traffic lights to cause car crashes, and roadblocks to escape from the police. The game pits Aiden against a supercomputer called CtOS that only he is able to hack, and this leads to hijinks across the city as Aiden takes advantage of his new power. Watch Dogs' Chicago is supposedly a very faithful version of the city with some landmarks added and removed as Ubisoft saw fit. It is unknown whether or not vehicles can be driven in the game, and even if they can't, it would be cool to see a scenario like Aiden hacking a train junction box to make it come pick him up. Watch Dogs also has a online free roam mode, something that should allow players to explore the world with many friends (hopefully not disastrously like in GTA 5), but the real standout is the 1v1 multiplayer, which allows someone to enter another player's game and start hacking them without them knowing. The other player has to find the hacker before he hacks into their phone, and this will surely lead to a much more suspenseful version of hide and seek. Ubisoft's track record so far indicates that this game is not one to miss.