Watch Dogs: Hands On First Impressions

Title Screen – Very trippy visuals, very gorgeous graphics. Love at first sight. Story – Compared to other AAA over the past year (Bioshock: Infinite, Last of Us, Tomb Raider, GTA) the plot is real linear as it’s just a straight up revenge story. Soundtrack – S/o’s to Cudi, Vampire Weekend, & Smashing Pumpkins for getting cut a check for their music to be featured in the game. Unlike GTA the radio station has no structure as everything plays seamlessly on one station with the ability to skip tracks but I found myself being annoyed & actually turning the station off due to the soundtrack being rather short & missing better music. I can only hear 2 Chainz struggle over some pristine Pharrell production for so long before I have to say “yeaaahhhh…no” & cut the radio off. Aiden – Now of course our antihero has the best character design in the game but my gripes with Aiden are based on the fact that so far he’s kind of boring. No information is giving about Aiden’s origin so it’s hard to give a feel or even care about him. You look at other video game protagonists such as Nathan Drake whom Naughty Dog chose to incorporate his personality in the midst of all the action segments & Aiden plays the polar opposite. Aiden either talks via voice over or during phone conversations. Also Aiden almost always has his phone in his hands (we can all relate) which can be an annoyance after a while. I would rather his hands be free so he can you know…punch civilians, in w…