Predicting The Metacritic Scores For 2016's Biggest Video Games

After arriving on a tidal wave of hype, the long-delayed Watch Dogs finally released to... good reviews that nevertheless proved pretty underwhelming (77-80 across its three core platforms). It was enjoyable, but lacked the complexity fans were hoping for, and milked Ubisoft's dull mission templates for the little they're actually worth.

There's a genuine hope and belief that Ubisoft have listened to the vocal complaints about the first game: it's clear that Watch Dogs 2 will be far less serious and is attempting to be more "fun".

Hopefully they've also sufficiently amped up the wacky hacking and increased the mission variety...even if it'll probably still pull heavily from the generic, Assassin's Creed-esque missions that plagued the first game.

Expect a marginal improvement and a genuinely enjoyable game for the most part, even if it's still not at the 90+ levels most people were expecting when the original game was first revealed.