7 Great Video Games Playing Watch Dogs Will Remind You Of
2. Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed is one of the prettiest games to see in motion. Climbing walls, bounding over rooftops, diving into hay bales, methodically walking into a crowd of people and jabbing your hidden blade into the neck of an unsuspecting target are all marvels of fluidity - few games get parents and non-gaming friends to sit and marvel at the setting and elegance of game animation, and Assassin's Creed is the cream of that crop. Ubisoft, not being a company run by chimpanzees, realised the appeal of Assassin's Creeds free-flowing animation system and wisely focused on making making Watch_Dogs look just as impressive. Likewise Watch_Dogs rarely calls attention to itself in this regard, but eventually the sun will set on Lake Shore Drive as you speed down it on a motorcycle, and combination of lighting, shadows, and steady framerate will give you pause - next generation graphics are here, and they're only going to get better. More so than just the graphics, Watch_Dogs also does the Assassin's Creed thing of giving you roughly six hundred and twenty five thousand things to do in the game from races and minigames to outposts and convoys to interrupt. It's actually something common in Ubisoft games - Assassin's Creed, Far Cry 3, and Splinter Cell all feature boatloads of content, and Far Cry, Assassin's Creed and Watch_Dogs all feature those oh-so-fun tower puzzles that unlock points of interest on the map. Unfortunately this can also be a drag. Unlike Far Cry 3 and Splinter Cell - where you know the rewards going in, and beating side missions often unlock new missions, Watch_Dogs, like Assassin's Creed, is a little more obtuse about what missions give you rewards for what - relegating them to a submenu. Still, the comparison between Watch_Dogs and Assassin's Creed is ultimately a positive one - especially with the added bonus of less awkward parkour mechanics. Toss in the that Aiden Pearce might as well be an Assassin who swapped his hoodie for a ski-mask - factor in that both games were developed by Ubisoft and feature an open world - and it's easy to find yourself reminded of a lot of the good things in Assassin's Creed that make that franchise so memorable, and its fans so passionate.
