The Dream: After serving up that incredible E3 2012 trailer and enduring several unfortunate delays, Watch Dogs would prove to be worth the wait, hitting stores to universal critical acclaim and taking its rightful place in the pantheon of the very greatest video games ever made. The next-generation of gaming had arrived, and you wouldn't even need a next-gen console to usher it in... The Reality: Watch Dogs finally hit stores in May of this year, and...it's just a good game. Far from the Earth-shatteringly unique sandbox title many were expecting, Ubisoft's latest was a curiously familiar action game that did enough to distinguish itself from the glut of GTA clones on the market, but suffered from a generic, even cliched storyline, woefully repetitive missions, and the general feeling that the game was never capable of living up to its tremendous hype. Was Watch Dogs a fun game to blast through? Sure, but from that first E3 trailer, we were expecting so much more, and the end result was a game we're in absolutely no rush to return to.
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