Watch Dogs 2
This story was updated on 7.12.20 and 7.14.2020
The original idea was that you would log into your Uplay account, watch Ubisoft Forward on the Uplay site or on one of the few approved Twitch channels, and receive your free PC copy of Watch Dogs 2, utilizing a sort of Twitch drop tactic that many companies have used to increase the audience. When Uplay’s logins dropped just before the event, that original idea became kaput. Fortunately for you, this means that it was much easier to get this game.
The event may have been on Sunday, but due to technical errors, you have until 11:59 p.m. PT on July 15 to claim your free copy. You will need a Uplay account to do this, but if you have one, everything is as easy as going to this website and registering.
Once you’ve done that, it’s not entirely clear to Ubisoft exactly when the game will appear. The company has said it started awarding the game “in waves” on July 13, and that it hoped to get a copy for everyone who wanted it by the end of the week. Elsewhere, Ubisoft support has said it should wait up to 48 hours. So in all likelihood you should have this by the end of the week, but it may be another day or two.
guard dogs It might have been a strange and confusing game that didn’t end up delivering much more than a Ubisoft version of GTA with some magic (or hacking, whatever), but Watch Dogs 2 It was a much more interesting version of the pirated-based open-world game, with a broad and effective vision of power, race, and technology in the Bay Area. I still wish that the game was able to fully commit to this open world hacking game and remove the weapons entirely, but I guess at the end of the day you still have to have some weapons there.
Ubisoft is clearly giving away Watch Dogs 2 to build hype for Watch Dogs: Legion, that surely we will see more of today. It takes place in a fascist London in the near future, and it doesn’t have a main protagonist: instead, you gather your gang of revolutionaries from skilled members of the general population. Both the setup and the multi-character idea make it easier to reconcile the whole gun thing, but the developer has also said that he’s also trying to develop meaningful non-lethal options.
Erik Kain previewed Legion where he found perfectly solid, but a bit tedious in that way Ubisoft’s open world games can be, a particularly acute problem when we also have Assassin’s Creed Valhalla coming out.
