Recent reviews by Ancalgon

I have several hundred hours on the original game on steam and on the CD version of the game which I enjoyed very much. They made this game fun again with all the new civs and cards so are so many options to choose from and different playstyles as a returning player from years ago. I play mostly team games and play casually with bots. The ai is a lot better this time around, once game example they spammed pikemen and cavalry which I countered with longbowmen and musketmen, on wave 2 they built anti infantry that had range with cannons and completely wiped me by building a counter force, completely impressed the old ai would not do that.

Only negative is the maybe the price of all the dlc which has all the new fun nations so grab them on sale.

Alright, listen up. I'm pissed, and here's why:

The H2M Mod: This was the only reason I bought this game. I wanted to relive the glory days of MW2 multiplayer, but guess what? Activision decided to send a cease and desist to the mod creators. ONE DAY BEFORE IT DROPPED. Like, seriously? They waited until the last second to pull this crap.
Loot Boxes: And don't get me started on the loot boxes. They're already charging us for the game, then they hit us with loot boxes, and now they take away the one thing that might have made it worth it? It's like buying a car for the sunroof and then finding out it's been welded shut.
False Advertising: They basically sold us this game with the promise of mods, then yanked it away. That's not just a business move; that's straight-up false advertising.
Screwing Over Fans: We're not just customers; we're the fans who kept this game alive. And how do they thank us? By crushing our dreams with legal paperwork.

In Conclusion: If you're thinking about buying this game for the mod or because you think Activision has any goodwill left, save your cash. Buy something else, or better yet, get a good book. At least with a book, you know the ending won't be rewritten by some corporate jerk.

Rating: 1/10 - And that's only because Steam doesn't let you give a zero.

Do not get this game, they downgraded the graphics and removed a bunch of the features a few years ago. I was hoping they would eventually add them back in but checking back a few years later it looks like they never did.

Played for 1k hours + before the release on steam, gonna make it another 1k hours. Devs listen and care about having a fun game and a good reputation..

Edit: We won boys, gotta do my part and update this review.

You know what happened and so I do.

I've clocked in over 120+ hours into this game since it released a month ago and I keep coming back to play it. Never touched the single player I personally Iike doing 4v4.

A lot of the complaints people have about this game are overblown and one thing the COH2 crowd fails to mention is that COH3 is way more stable than COH2 ever was. You could wait for 5-7 minutes for a match in COH2 and I swear 1/3 of all games someone would crash as it was semi unable. I've never had a crash during a game in COH3 in all my hours.

Yeah its a bit rough around the edges but it has the game basic gameplay loop and foundation that made COH2 super fun to came back and keep playing it everyday. This game just about a year of polish and it will be right as rain.

You can kidnap the Pope and convert torture him to convert him to be a Satanist. Nuff said.

Meh DLC Far Harbour is better than main story line.

This game has stood the test of time just get it!

One day I broke out of a prison, went onto the roof and the cops were waiting for me. I shot the tires out of the first police vehicle I saw and then the third and fourth as well. I then shot the cops in their knees so they could not follow me since I did not want to kill them. I then proceeded to hack the police helicopter that was trying to mow me down and watched as the burning hunk of metal and smoke tried to stay in the air. I then hacked the last police vehicle and drove off the roof and landed on the railroad tracks and hacked the train and forced it stop, then boarded the train hacked it again and watched as the police tried to call in backup but I hacked their radios and disabled them before I escaped on the train. While on the train someone was watching the news and saw me try to escaping the police blockade of the prison and tried to call 911. I went over to him and smashed his phone.

I decided I was tired of riding the train, hacked it again, and force it to stop. I dived off the train and then saw that a murder was about to happen so pulled out my gold Desert Eagle and fired a warning shot in the air. The attempted murder ran like the coward he was and climbed over a nearby fence, I then pulled out my grenade launcher and blew the fence out of my way, after all why should I climb a fence? I’m certain my character has high blood pressure; anyway, the scumbag pulled a machine gun on me. He then got into a car and tried to drive off but I hacked into the traffic lights and caused a traffic jam so he got out of his smoking car and fired another burst of machine gun fire behind him as he ran and hit a few civilians. That’s when I decided to end it right there so I got out my ARC and shot out the tires of the cars in front of him. One car ran into fellow and stunned him. I ran fast as I could and then knocked the sucker out, although someone called 911 because the idiot tried to kill people on the street. I hacked into one of the cars from the traffic jam I caused and tried to evade several police cruisers for about 6-7 minutes, but eventually the stupid chopper blew out my engine block so I headed for the river and dove right into the bay and swam until I was gunned down about 5 minutes later by a sniper in the helicopter.

And that ladies and gents was a freak ‘in side mission.

I know that the game struggles to run at 60fps on high end gaming PC's but for what it’s worth I think the game is really fun. If you just look at the game and for a moment ignore the technical fact that you can't have everything on ultra I think you will really enjoy it.

That’s my 2 cents on Watch Dogs.

++Pros++
1. - Good Story(so far).
2. - Cleverly combined environmental and hacking puzzles.
3. - Cool Driving.
4. - You can hack some guards grenades remotely.
5. - You can hack steampipes and send cars flying.
6. - You can hack and steal money from rapists.
7. - You can kill anyone.
8. - You can highjack a police vehichle at a stoplight.

++Cons++
1. - Uplay.
2. - See No. 2.
3. - Intensive PC Specs
4. - Not Optimized for AMD cards.
5. - Not really as mind blowing as you thought when you saw it at E3.
6. - You do not screw with the Police. The Police screw with you.