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Watch Dogs Reviews: Leak Delivers Bad News ahead of Release

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If you are looking for Watch Dogs reviews, you’re in for a disappointment. Today Ubisoft announced that the official reviews will not arrive until the Watch Dogs release on May 27th. This comes days after an early Watch Dogs review arrived online with a less than flattering opinion of the graphics and multiplayer components.

It’s not uncommon for companies to ask reviewers to hold a review until a specific time. For smartphones it may be a week ahead of the release, but for big budget games that can live or die on release day sales sometimes gamers need to wait until the actual release to see the reviews.

This week the first of many Watch Dogs reviews arrived online in a detailed critique of the gameplay, graphics and multiplayer with the good and bad all together, a week before the Watch Dogs release date.

Ubisoft warns gamers to wait for "valid" Watch Dogs reviews as the first big review leaks ahead of the Watch Dogs release date.

Ubisoft warns gamers to wait for “valid” Watch Dogs reviews as the first big review leaks ahead of the Watch Dogs release date.

Ubisoft, the company behind Watch Dogs was not happy with the news going so far as to call any of these early Watch Dogs reviews, “false” and telling fans that “valid” Watch Dogs reviews will not arrive until May 27th.

Yes, the official Watch Dogs Twitter account is telling users which reviews to trust and which not to trust. This bold move is not surprising given the fact that we often see day one updates arrive to fix issues, but the biggest complaint in the main Watch Dogs review is with the graphics and the multiplayer gameplay. At the opposite end of the spectrum is HTC, who told potential customers to go online and read reviews from professionals and anyone with an opinion as soon as they announced the HTC One M8.

Watch Dogs reviews include a full on review from WCCFTech and several leaked gameplay videos that show the Watch Dogs graphics on the PS4. Potential Watch Dogs buyers should read the full review to get a better idea of what to expect when the release arrives and the rest of the Watch Dogs reviews arrive. Overall this “false” review rates Watch Dogs at 7.2, and sums up the game in two sentences.

“Watch Dogs is a great game that has a lot to do in the singleplayer but the multiplayer is painfully repetitive and not fun. The game stands on its own as a great singleplayer free roam but one that is outshined by Grand Theft Auto V.”

Watch WCCFTech’s Watch Dogs review video below to see the graphics and the gameplay that Ubisoft wants you to wait a week to see.

This early Watch Dogs review arrived shortly after multiple Watch Dogs gameplay videos arrived from the wild showing the driving, hacking and mini games on a PS4. DualShockers includes two videos that show off these features.

Read:  18 Awesome Watch Dogs Features

The Watch Dogs release is scheduled for May 27th on disk and as a digital download. Watch Dogs is an open world game where players must hack the city’s operating system to take control and forge alliances to take over the city of Chicago. The game focuses on a single player mode, but players can drop into another gamer’s world to beat friends in a hacking or shooting showdown. There is also a collection of multiplayer modes and a mobile app for iPad and Android tablets that lets users play against a Watch Dogs player from almost anywhere.

Watch Dogs is available on the Xbox 360, PS3, Xbox One, PS4, Wii U and on PC. The game retails for $59.99 for the game only, but there are bonus packs for buying from specific retailers. There is also a special edition with  a mask, art book, steel box, soundtrack, figurine and more for $129. Check out what each special Watch Dogs Pack includes. There is a bonus for PlayStation owners with a timed exclusive to four missions and other extras.

8 Comments

8 Comments

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  4. Rodney Flounders

    05/21/2014 at 10:31 am

    Bah, these games bore me to tears anyway.
    I have no interest in free roam games anymore.

    I’d much rather have a reasonable length A – to – B game, then get on with my life. Those free roam games are just way too addictive and well, a waste of time.
    Life is too short to dick around with those games. But anyways, knock yourself out and play them if it rocks your boat.

    • Diotalevi

      05/22/2014 at 3:40 pm

      So you avoid them because they’re addictive? They tend to be more fun and have more content. A better buy imo. I don’t understand why someone would prefer short, mediocre game all because they can’t control themselves.

      • faaaaq

        05/23/2014 at 10:56 am

        He meant to say he avoids them because he is either too uncreative to effectively play a free-roam, or he has no self control and needs to play things that have a set path so he doesnt waste away to nothing, never leaving his couch for food or friends or his job, stuck playing a video game forever…

  5. User47

    05/26/2014 at 3:13 pm

    Almost as bad as the guy who never really feels the thrill others seem to get from video games. He used to cheer himself up poking fun at them in more unkind and scathing ways, but these days even the harshest of put downs just leave him feeling flat. After a while, years later, he began to wonder just what he had to give any more and if anyone truly trusted or loved him at all.

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