Watch Dogs

Jonathan Morin, Dominic Guay, and Ubisoft Montreal's visually moody, technologically groundbreaking, and record-shattering open-world cyber-thriller action masterpiece across PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PS3, and Xbox 360 (Watch Dogs), released in May 2014 by Ubisoft on the Disrupt Engine, generating over 4 million copies sold in its first week to make history as the biggest new IP launch in European video game history while holding an 81% GameRankings and 80/100 on Metacritic and selling over 10 million copies, standing as a foundational pillar of modern techno-thriller gaming ahead of *Watch Dogs 2 & Legion*, set in a hyper-connected, dystopian near-future recreation of Chicago, Illinois governed by the centralized operating system ctOS (Central Operating System), following grey-hat hacker and grieving vigilante Aiden Pearce (Noam Jenkins: *"The Vigilante / The Fox"*) armed with a customized smartphone to avenge the murder of his niece Lena, single-handedly pioneering the revolutionary "One-Button City Hacking & ctOS Profiler" engine (manipulating traffic lights to cause multi-car pileups, raising hydraulic road bollards, bursting steam pipes beneath pursuers, blacking out the entire city grid, and scanning the personal biometric profiles and bank accounts of every pedestrian on the street), the legendary seamless 1v1 Online Hacking Invasion flerspiller, the *Bad Blood* T-Bone expansion, and Hollywood composer Brian Reitzell's cold, driving analog synthesizer and electronic score.