Remember Watch Dogs? It should've been the new-age Assassin's Creed of sorts, ushering in a whole new generation of technology, wowing everyone left, right and centre and essentially making you feel all warm and gooey inside whenever you needed to watch something brand-new, innovative and above-all 'next gen.' Did it deliver on any of that? Of course not, even whatever engine they used on the water couldn't render reflections if you angled the camera the wrong way, and that's besides the gameplay which felt like Ubisoft's execs just passed around a spreadsheet before picking features that sounded like what their 15 year-old son might like. The resultant mess was about as devoid of artistic integrity as you could imagine, and from the bland protagonist of Aiden Pearce (who's most memorable moment was a weird, hand-on-a-women's-throat beat at the beginning) to the gameplay that was just My First GTA with a one-button 'hacking mechanic', everything felt as lifeless as Pearce's face mask n' trench coat looked ridiculous.
