diefressluke

the bloodline expansion fixes my story complains and keeps everything else. the story is mostly quite nice, and the way it ties into the other games is much appreciated as someone who played all the games, feels like proper fanservice. aiden is really good, hes an unstoppable killing machine, wrench, not so much, but i like playing with him in a more strategic, sleathly way. it just baffled me that they chose him for the finale. the finale in both stories is a big face off with the main baddie in some mech with swarms of generic and strong enemies come after you. as ive mentioned before, the guns and combat are a huge pain in the ass, and this was the climax of that, i died so many times in the most fumbling ass ways holy **** that was so frustrating... TWICE.

tldr: solid fun game with some frustrations, massive downgrade compared to wd2, deserves most of the **** it got. get it for cheap maybe. this game got so much flack on release and most of it is true, its a major downgrade from wd2 in pretty much every way. being able to play as every npc essentially resulted in the game having barely any story aside from a decent opening, and your playable character just being nothing, not a cool guy like marcus, wrench or aiden from the previous game, just some guy with npc repeating ass voice lines. gameplay wise this also means that your loadout, weapons and some abilities are locked to whatever character you have on your team, meaning u cant really customize it. aside from that the game isnt all that pretty and needs quite a beefy system to run(high end pc or next gen console, it runs like **** on last gen), which at release, wasnt too common. aside from that weve got the usual ubisoft copypasta going on, its quite similar to wd2 and has not much variety in its campaign. all in all i gotta say tho, its still a fun time. theyve somehow managed to make wd2 again, but worse in every aspect, which make it deserve all the **** it gets. i still like it more than the og watch dogs, since that game i subjectively do not vibe with. as you might be able to tell, i like the open world. ubisoft is very good at making a virtual place feel like its irl equivalent. i also dont have any problems with this game's satirical and cynical tone, if they had proper characters, this story mightve actually been good. as ive said this is literally wd2 but worse but wd2 is still a highly underrated stealth game imo, same goes here. sneaking around with hacking and ur lil gadgets and stuff is still as fun as ever. the guns and cars on the other hand, feel so **** bad. guns yea ok theyve never been great and i do play this on controller which makes it worse but holy **** every gun in this just feels like ur playing cs2 with ak47 and ur trying to shoot while moving, with occasional gta ish aim assist. i could not hit a single shot, and during forced non stealth fighting encounters, frequently got my ass kicked. adding on top of that are the combat drones and turrets that come to kick ur ass. they are so **** op, i dont know how on earth ur supposed to take them down. u basically either stealth past them ORRRRRR if u collect enough skill point thingies u can actually hack and take them over, if u do that, they **** die in 2 hits and are so **** useless but that basically gets rid of them for free, idk why they went this route, first, they are unkillable, then, they become nothing, a middle road in between mightve been better. also ive mentioed cars and also mopeds. they drive like ****, and go super slow, which is a shame, considering the world they drive through is pretty nice. i still didnt mind driving for that reason tho, but it is still pretty bad. bloodline expansion is slightly better, but not groundbreaking.