Feature: Watch Dogs 2: The true beginning for the series?

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Feature: Watch Dogs 2: The true beginning for the series?

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Steve's been playing Watch Dogs and can't help feeling that, like Assassin's Creed, it's going to be the sequel that really impresses.

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You'll remember you played it, and you'll remember you enjoyed doing so. But, for me at least, the game exists as a blur of near-identical mission loops merging into each other; of hacking identical ctOS boxes; of identical solutions to identical problems. By the fifth or sixth hour, the routine for tackling all of the game's problems is established: hack camera, disable reinforcements, sneak into area, solve fairly easy puzzle, sneak out. If it goes sideways, use slo-mo to kill everyone in your way.

Similar things could be said about critical darling Far Cry 3, of course. The...