Side by Side Comparison of: Ubisoft vs Konami

I personally like this game better than watchdogs 2. It's a great game and you don't get very tired of it. I bought this for my brother as a gift for his birthday and he loves it. He doesn't stop playing it. He never gets bored of it.

love this game! its super addicting and lots of fun to play with other people with its online feature. Game came in perfect condition and works great! lots of fun to play. Thanks Amazon

A great game for anyone who likes a large map to explore and enjoy. The controls aren't too bad and the game has a lot to do in it.

about conditions on the box, packaging and the disk, perfect!

I don't normally write reviews for games, as they are very subjective. You either like them, or you do not. I bought this game for my 11-year old son, and was concerned about the rating. I have played the game with him, and definitely if you do not like bad language, then this is not a game you should be buying for your kids.

We also bought this game used -- I'm not keen on buying used games, but took a chance and was very pleased with the quality of the product. The case was in PERFECT condition as were the instructions. I could not see any scratches whatsoever on the front or back of the CD. VERY pleased with this purchase and would gladly consider buying used again.

Metal gear solid V is the epitome of stealth gaming. The game will challenge you to think outside and "inside the box" with its diverse play style to beautiful yet complex landscape. One can easily get lost in that world for hours.

I have to give this game 5 stars. I was looking for something initially to complain about this game. My first dislike was getting used to the controls after coming to this game for PS4 from playing Fallout 4 for the last 6 months. Fallout 4 was my last favorite game until now. My biggest problem with the controls was switching between weapons / items. There is a bit of a lag, at least on my system, switching between weapons and items, just as there could be in real life. Now that I've played over 50 hours (and only 16% completed btw), I'm much better with the controls than when I started, for sure. There is so much to see and do with this game. The graphics are really good. The gameplay is really good. There are quite a few cutscenes, but not so many as to be irritating like in Uncharted 4. I put U4 and FO4 away when I got this game, and I will almost certainly not play U4 again. FO4 will be difficult to never play again, but MGS5 is definitely my new favorite, and I imagine I'll be playing it for a long, long time. I must say this game has the best artificial intelligence I've personally seen so far from the enemies. Even if I head-shoot snipe a bad guy from 200m across the map--with a suppressed rifle--the remaining living enemies sometimes can make it clear across the map to the almost exact spot where I was sitting and search for me there. The special effects on this game are amazing. If you head-shoot a bad guy, his head explodes. If you shoot him in the chest, some of the impact is absorbed by his clothing and / or body armor. If you head-shoot someone, they go down immediately. If you don't head shoot them, sometimes it takes a couple shots to finish them off. One exception I've found so far is if a bad guy is wearing a helmet. Even with a perfect head shot, the bad guy gets his bell rung and the helmet goes flying off, but he doesn't die until you head-shoot him again. Learning to use the idroid while in the helicopter and at mother base takes a little getting used to, but I'm better at it now. I started out with the horse as my companion. The horse is definitely helpful traveling long distances. Now I've got D-Dog, and the best thing about him is he spots/marks a lot of enemies for me, quite a few that I would not have seen on my own. One other thing I don't like about the game weapons is not being able to carry 2 weapons (at least not yet) that I really like in the primary and secondary slots. Right now, I'm carrying the suppressed assault rifle and a suppressed sniper rifle in the primary slots, and I'm carrying my bionic arm and the tranquilizer pistol in the second slots. Should I really have to count my attached arm as a slot??? And that suppressed assault rifle in slot 1 is almost worthless, btw. I've only used it a couple times, and only when I had to. I'd much rather carry a sniper rifle and a rocket launcher in slot 1 and a tranquilizer pistol and a suppressed pistol in slot 2. If it is possible to do that, I haven't earned that or figured out how to do it yet. I like to sneak around and snipe bad guys with head shots if they are not worth Fultoning back to mother base. If they are worth keeping, I have to get in close and take them down manually or shoot them with the tranquilizer pistol so I can extract them. The Fulton device is a bit far-fetched as are some other parts of the game, but the Fulton device is definitely functional and entertaining, as far as the gameplay is concerned. I like being able to use and destroy cover when being engaged and engaging the enemy. There is a vast array of weapons available, altho I only like carrying and using a few specific weapons so far. I've also found that the improved versions of several weapons are only a slight improvement and they cost a lot of money to upgrade, so it's not generally worth it to me, early on, anyway. That being said, there are a couple items that are a drastic improvement as upgrades are produced, like smoke grenades and C4, for example. I'm going to keep playing this game, and I will update my review as necessary. I will find it very difficult to give this game anything other than a 5 star rating. I think I paid about $40 on Amazon, and the first couple hours of gameplay made it worth every penny. I have a feeling I'll be playing this game for a long, long time. Oh, and I love the "Pete Rose" flying head-first slide--I do it all the time--sometimes just for fun. :)

Absolutely fantastic game. Solid 1080p/60fps and it looks better than most other games that can barely manage 900p/30fps, such is the power of the Fox Engine (and years of optimization). Gameplay is fluid and fun, a huge improvement over the previous MGS games which (in my opinion) were janky and unintuitive. Story is your usual bat-shit crazy military fantasy we've come to expect from the MGS series.

Coming from a huge Metal Gear Solid fan, I actually wasn't initially planning to check this out. To me, the series ended at 4 and that was that. It was such a great ending and a great game and I just had a happy place in my imagination for the Metal Gear Solid series and many of its characters that I had been following since I was younger. I knew about the game while it was in production and I was just like yeah whatever another Metal Gear spin-off. I wasn't interested and didn't pay much attention but caught some details here and there, such as playing as Big Boss again and the setting. Ground Zeroes was really disappointing to me as well after I reluctantly checked it out, and that contributed more to my doubt for this game. Nevertheless, it came out and started to get great reviews (10's on IGN and Gamespot) and I was like alright lets see what this is about. Picked up the game, and after two weeks with it, I not only had over 200 hours of gameplay, but I had platinumed it. It wasn't because I was in any kind of rush either, I just couldn't stop playing the game. It is a lot different as far as the other Metal Gear games go, but it still totally works. It feels like a Metal Gear game. Technically awesome, great boss fights, beautiful locations and graphics, mature, deep thematics. There is an attention to detail here present only in Metal Gear Solid games. It asks a lot of you as a player too. You have to be smart and know the game and its system to be able to conquer it. Some really great Metal Gear moments, although the story does take a backseat to the gameplay for the first time really with a major game in the series. What is so great about this however is just how well it works. It goes to show how innovative and original the Metal Gear Solid team is. Another fantastic game

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain the last Metal Gear game in the series by Hideo Kojima. Metal Gear Solid V is a truly next gen game, even though it's available for last gen consoles as well. I say this because on PS4 it runs natively on 1080p 60fps for an open world game and it is beautiful. Just like all the other Metal Gear games this one also deliveres complex plots, with unexpected twists and revelations altering your perception of people and events you thought you understood.Overall:- Open world game is beautiful with dense and exciting possibilities- Runs at 1080p and a solid 60 fps on PlayStation 4- Tells a complex, unusual story that holds your attention from start to finish- The world and characters are captivating in their presentation- Delivers best-in-class stealth gameplay- The Mother Base aspect is rewarding and engrossing, extending the scope of the game beyond the battlefield- A perfectly fitting piece to the twisted Metal Gear saga

This Is Easily My Favorite Game Of 2015 Next To Maybe PEs 2016 Also By KomaniA decent Year For Gaming Overall but What I will say is its a Action Game Not so much of a Stealth Game With started with Mgs 4 Though You Can Use stealth for me it didn't work as well in Mgs 4 my Favorite Game of the seventh generationMGs 5 is My Favorite For 2015 But that's just me some may differThis Is a great Game where you can bulid an army and easily a step in the right direction away from the call of duty and battlefield games though it is the most similar to those no matter what the critics say

Just got this game in the mail today - So far I've only been playing for about the last 2-3 hours this late afternoon . It seems like a really cool game - Hacking into all of the cTos systems and hacking into pedestrians cellphones . I find it interesting just roaming around seeing what they're convicted of what their occupation is or their secrets 😂 Im still getting used to everything within the game but it seems alright for now . Im more of a GTA5 girl so this is kindve new for me . The driving and shooting controls are about the same I believe . However driving in this game sucks . Reminds me back to where I use to play True Crimes NYC on PS2 - the way the driving is is just the same . Of course because they're both made by UbiSoft . I hate their driving (it seems like everything just bounces off of each other like it's not quite as realistic to GTA5 driving) . This is hard to explain - I'm sorry 😂 Get the game though - It's pretty decent 👌🏾

This was the first game I got for my PS4, I'm actually a new gamer and bought my console 5 months ago. I think this game is great, but it could be even better, it does not have the graphics everybody was thinking it would, and there are many things what to improve. Ubisoft is doing it very well, I personally think they are one of the bests game developers.Missions: I honestly started with the secondary missions (there are many by the way), this to make my character better and better to start with the desseert, the primary missions that are very good. When Aiden Pearce has more more experience and you unlock the skills while you are getting it. It means you will have more guns, unlock cars, and can do more.Online-hacking: Probably the best thing what to do in this game, I really enjoy hacking people or chasing & shooting them when I found their character trying to do it.Vehicles, guns, etc: There are very good cars and very good guns, but it still need to improve a lot in this. I would like to get a bazooka for example. And I'm totally sure it will be a much better game if there would be airplanes, helicopters, ATV's what to use, and better motorcycles, more boats, more cars where to choose from. That's why the 4 stars instead of the 5! Simple!¡Pura vida!

Late to the game but that just meant I got to play it after all the bugs were patched. I know a lot of people felt the game didn't live up to the graphical promise made when it was first announced but this is still a great looking game. For a brand new IP that Ubisoft wants to compete with the likes of GTA, I think this was a great starting point. The story was good, the characters were interesting, the game world was large, varied, and interesting. The gunplay functioned well. The stealth mechanics functioned well. The side content was fun. The hacking was their niche mechanic and the big draw and worked but can use improvement, especially when driving. In my opinion the driving mechanics were the weakest gameplay aspect and took awhile to get the hang of but they were still better than the driving in games like Sleeping Dogs and Just Cause 2...driving in those games was absolutely horrible in my opinion. Even though Chicago has the L-Train, I just never saw any reason to use it to get around so that was kind of a wasted element...but then again the subway in Los Santos in GTA5 was basically worthless as well. All in all, this was a great game that I played about 40-50 hours total and completed just about everything. If they can improve on what they have built then future installments can rival GTA.

I enjoyed this game as a game. The story element, however, was worthless. Except for Maurice, whoever did that voice acting was superb. Other than that, I wish the story was a bit more captivating. I felt like this game and a few of the characters deserved a better story.Now, I play video games rarely and I am quite picky. Anyways, before I played this game, I played AC4 and Far Cry 3. Being all Ubisoft games I compared them a lot. Maybe you're not suppose to but I did.Watch Dogs was very restrictive with its gameplay. Trying to play it stealthy it definitely annoyed me. Watch dogs gives you the freedom to choose how you want to approach most of your missions. So say you want to use a Sniper rifle and pick off your enemies from a distance. Well they give you a sniper riffles but you will cause mass hysteria and police pursuits because because you don't have a silent option. They can give a 4 silent sniper riffle options to a kid in a Jungle and yet a hacker turned vigilantly can't get his hands on one.Next, high places are not accessible to you. You know, with all of the hype behind it and the hold on release, they should have given you the ability to do more. There was so much that they could have done and you can see it as you're playing. There are places in the game that's like the backcountry and there are a lot of boulders and what not. Great vantage points but you can't climb. It just got a bit aggravating. No vantage points for you.Then you have the dying. Maybe because of Assassins Creed, GTA and what not, one can get spoiled by not dying so simply. But god, Aiden Pearce is so fragile man. I felt like if he tripped on the sidewalk he would've died. One of the reasons I decided to do it stealthy was because of how easy it was for him to die. Yeah really human being would most likely die that quickly in a gunfight but does he have to be so fragile? It's funny because in the game they have bullet proof vests on tables and what not, looking all pretty and useful. But they are just decorations. Also it doesn't help that he always has to aim before he shoots. If I push the trigger button it should fire the gun, just saying. Also, shooting while driving, no go.Now the game is still a fun game. Most of the missions are pretty unique. Most of the side missions are awesome to pass the time. It can get challenging but it's a good challenging. You won't get bored. You might get aggravated but not bored. It does have replay value. But I don't think you'll pay attention to the story as much the second time around.I think a strong antagonist would have been amazing in this game. Like I said before the game deserved a better story. Also this game deserved a bit more common sense. You'll understand that within the storyline but also, the AI needed a bit more too. Not the bad guys AI, I mean the civilians. They were spoked by everything. You could fart and they would get scared. Actually, now that I think about it, the bad guys AI were the same way.Nevertheless, it's a good game. Other than all of that stuff, everything ran pretty smoothly. It looked very nice. It had some interesting concepts and I can't wait to see what they come up with next.

Well, it's common knowledge that the PS4 is lacking a bit in the game department. There aren't too many great games to choose from. Watch Dogs is a nice addition though.

Watch Dogs is a pretty good game. It's not amazing but it's good. I plan on playing it all the way through. I put some time into it last weekend. It's a Grand Theft Auto kind of game but still different so don't expect the same thing. This is less focused on violence but violence is still there. If you're looking for a PS4 GTA then this should hold you over until it gets made. I've also seen some nudity and sex scenes so it's definitely earned the mature rating. Very entertaining though! I definitely laughed a few times while playing.

Hacking is cool. You can control street lights and cause accidents for example. You can profile every person in the game and hack into a lot of their phones and computers. Sometimes you steel from their bank accounts and other times you get to hear their phone conversations. Some side missions are also unlocked this way. It's often entertaining when you spy on someone in their home. I haven't seen anything repeated while hacking so that's been refreshing. The hacking focused side quests are puzzle like. They require you to explore and figure out how to get from A to Z. Sometimes hacking requires you to complete a puzzle mini game to gain access to whatever you're hacking into. It's not annoying in any way and it's not done too often.

Game play is focused on hacking and stealth plays a big part in it all. However, you can often go in guns blazing if stealth isn't your thing. You use security cameras A LOT. This allows you to scout areas and unlock things you can't reach on foot. Hacking is easy to figure out. The shooting mechanics work well in my opinion. It was easy to learn. The AI is easy to fool as well (allows you to sneak up behind them). You also have the ability to slow time which makes killing and driving easier and often more fun. Slowing time is one of many perks you can choose to unlock as you level up. The perk system adds to the overall quality of this game.

Driving is arcade style, which I also enjoy because it's easier to learn. Each car drives noticeably different too. Good cars are not hard to come by so that adds to the enjoyment. You also have the ability to make any car you've used in the past appear near you using a friend in your phone. You'll have to pay to unlock most of the cars but that's been a nice option in the game. You can plow through most obstacles and this also adds to the entertainment.

The main story is ok, nothing special in my opinion. Definitely not bad though. There are a ton of side quests to complete and things to find outside of the main story missions. The digital trips put a cool spin on the game. The spider tank digital trip is a ton of fun if you like mass destruction and causing chaos. The other three have been entertaining as well. These have their own perk system too.

The city feels alive and it reacts to your choices. There is a karma system that punishes you for doing bad things (like running over pedestrians or killing cops). So far I've noticed that when my karma is bad, citizens recognize me from the news and call the police. I think good karma has rewards too but I haven't been nice enough to receive any lol. I have neutral karma at the moment and it is relatively easy to remain neutral. I went out of my way to be bad and then I noticed the consequences. Citizens will also call the police if you start shooting or running around with a gun. You can stop the phone calls by shooting that person or grabbing their phone. Bad guys can also call in reinforcements. Sometimes when you steal a car the victim calls the police too. The realism of the game has been enjoyable.

I've heard the PS3 version is crap compared to the PS4 version so keep that in mind. Load times are long at first but once the game is started, it's not bad. I haven't noticed objects randomly popping up into view or similar issues. The frame rate has been steady so far. I've only had one glitch while playing (a character during a cut scene was invisible). Graphics are cool but not consistent. Sometimes the game looks great and sometimes I think it's lacking. Overall though, I can't complain. Still, I often wonder how much is lost when a game is playable on multiple console generations...

One downside is moving on foot. It's not as streamlined as I would like. Assassin's Creed is a good example of streamlined movement. It's a hassle climbing up and down things in this game. You can't fall very far without dying either. It's realistic but takes away from the overall experience. That's really my only big complaint.

Online stuff has been a lot of fun too. It is incorporated into the actual game in multiple ways. One example occurs when you hack certain civilians. These people are waiting to be hacked and report you to the authorities. This puts a bounty on you and other players randomly come into your game and attempt to hack you. You know the area they are in but you have to search for that person before the time runs out. Otherwise the hacker gets paid and you lose online stats. Online stats also allow you to unlock items.

All in all, I'm happy I purchased the game. If you have a question, I'll respond!

I love games that take forever to beat and you can't just run thru shooting everyone to beat it. You have to be slow and methodical. The only issue that bugs me is it is Auto save only so you can lose progress depending on when you quit the game.

Best MGS when it comes to gameplay. Good control. Solid graphics. Cool music when you can hear it (go find it on Youtube). Story is cool but is presented poorly. There are various accounts of what is missing from the game online and it suffered from them being removed. Namely it having to be ported to older systems (ps3, xbox 360) this lead to a lot of stuff being cut and some poor stage designs. There was suppose to be a big Russia stage with armed guards and far less open but was cut because of the ports. The last chapter is missing because of pushed release. The game would've been legendary if Konami hadn't stepping over Kojima. Prob gonna be the last MGS that is over all solid so drink it in. Dont buy Konami they are doing some bonkers stuff with their titles.

As a long-time fan of the Metal Gear series, I think it's a good - if bittersweet - end for the Metal Gear franchise. The game is fun, but obviously incomplete. It's a shame that Konami turned its back on its core development teams (especially Hideo Kojima) and fans, but at least this game lived up to most of it's potential. I enjoyed most of the campaign, and the controls were very well done. The story, while a bit more spartan than other games, was fairly satisfying. The online aspects are lousy, and have been dominated by cheaters, but can be easily ignored. I'm satisfied with my purchase, though it's sad to think that it'll probably be the last Konami game I'll ever buy (unless there's a huge company-wide resurgence).

Fun to play, albeit repetitive at times (missions are variations of the same extract/eliminate goal). Has great stealth and shooting mechanics. There are tons of main and side missions (100+ hours) as well as weapons and base facilities that you can develop over time. My biggest gripe is that the open world is quite lifeless (despite being so large); there is not much to interact with besides enemy soldiers. Africa and Asia look the exact same (barren deserts).

Online game play is awesome and feels smooth this was just update in a patch (Oct 6) I played it for a couple hours but so far so good I would say it now makes up for 30% of the game content. I never write reviews but after they released the Online game mode I realized i had enjoyed the single player a lot and for the value I was ok just with just the single player mode as I have put in about 50 hours and still have not finished the whole game. The story line feels like when you are watching a movie and just when the movie is going to end it keeps getting better.I haven't purchased anything from the PS4 store or any coins and really since i'm almost done with the game they are kinda unnecessary but if you want to speed up the process of certain things it does help.The only cons that i could note would be:Grinding. Takes some time to gather the necessary items to develop new weapons/gear.Menu: I haven't gotten used to it. Its kinda complicated but once you know how to use it you can get a lot of use from it.

The map is huge but there are barely anything interesting. For example, no guard patrol the map around. Doing so making you wandering a wasteland with nothing but some small amount of harmless animal. Even hostile wolfs and wild dogs are only two of them in pair. When they were supposed to travel in pack not just two. You can easily kill those animals since their AI is not good. It's have a whole lot of empty gap that is why it doesn't feel fun for an open world.Another point is finding vehicle is also a painful. Since the world around is basically empty. Only place that is populate is guard post and enemy's village. Most of them doesn't have vehicle either. At least snake can run really fast.The camera is not good when I started to run it's cause me some headache. Due to it keep shaking constantly while running.Snake voice actor is feel almost identical to some character that sometime I don't even know is snake was actually the one that talking. Prefer the older voice. Still ok for me just confuse sometime and hard to listen.Other than that this is feel like an extreme improve from Peace Walker. Although the bosses battle in Peace Walker feel more interesting than this. What they need is improve the open world aspect, so it's feel fun to explore.

If I'd gotten this before Watch Dogs 2 I would never have gotten 2. The story line is way, way too long and boring and some of the driving skills are way over the top for just a casual user. After reaching a certain stage, it's really rather tiring and a waste of time.I did like learning about things in the city, although it was a little over the top and heavy in the gangster area. And locations were bogus; not at all realistic way to portray the city.

Just like soooo many others, I was excited when I heard this was on the horizon as a next generation game. It looked fun, sounded cutting edge, and I thought for sure an open world hack-a-thon was going to be the best thing like, ever. Oh, how far this hyped game has fallen.Pros:-While the graphics weren't as mind blowing as they seemed in the previews, they are still pretty good.-Chicago, where the game takes place, seems vibrant enough on the surface. Changing weather, citizens going about their lives, busy traffic.-Hacking mechanic. While sorely underutilized, I still found it fun. Most of the puzzles were fairly simple, but there were two that drove me insane (in a fun way).-Jordi. Probably more memorable than Aiden. He was a good side character.-TBone and Clara. Also good side characters. I felt more for them than I did Aiden.-The music. A great soundtrack complemented missions. And the showdown at TBone's? Loved it.-The open world. Chicago felt huge. Without fast traveling to hideouts, trekking from one side to another actually took time. And you could have a bit of mischievous fun along the way.-Sometimes having the option to take people out by hacking the surroundings. This was disappointingly under played. I wanted this game to be all about hacking and stealth.Cons:-Aiden is a pretty flat character. He's always brooding and...moody. I get he has a past, but come on. No character development. I really wanted to like this Vigilante persona, a guy who had a cool trench coat and wears a mask. Alas, there wasn't much personality there to like.-Conflicting interests. Aiden is supposed to be played as this good guy Vigilante out for justice. Well, you could have fooled me. You hack citizens to steal their money, songs, eavesdrop, spy, steal cars...Hacking for essentials, like security keys, is one thing. But I found stealing a bit out of touch with what his character stood for.-Too much a shooter game. I expected to be able to get through missions by a combo of stealth and hacking. 80% of the time it ended guns blazing and I had very little choice in the matter. The only non-violent missions were hacking the ctOS locations to gain access to a certain part of the city (of course, you have a choice to be violent). What's a game about a justice seeking vigilante hacker if the objective is to shoot and kill?-Take downs vs. kill. It made very little sense, if any, to have to kill in some missions and find ways to ONLY take down in others. Random missions where you could only take down targets was very obnoxious when the game is very "shoot em' up" oriented. I liked the take down missions, it went well with the premise, but mixing it up with shooting and killing was senseless.-Cops. My god did this annoy me. They could punch, run me over, and were annoyingly accurate with tailing me. The free for all with the cops was beyond unrealistic, it was just silly. I did like taking them out using the hacking mechanic, at least. Oh, and magically escaping by boat. Which also didn't make sense.-Sketchy stealth. In restricted areas I could effectively hide and stealth around. In regular areas Aiden kept popping back up like a fricken whack-a-mole. Getting killed in the process.-My final gripe is the silly mini-games and repetive side missions. Boring as all get out after the first 3 times or so.-Just something that struck me as odd, but people on the street constantly spotted Aiden as the vigilante. Yet, his sister was clueless and so are the baddies you come across during the act where you infiltrate using someone else's identity.All in all, it wasn't a horrible game. The campaign story was all right, I just wish Aiden had more development. It would've been great to have a Robin Hood side to Aiden, rob from the rich and give to the countless hobos you come across. Graphically, it was well designed. The mechanics were 'meh' at times, yet I still had fun with the hack/stealth approach when it was available. If playing only the campaign, you save yourself a lot of repetition and disappointment. Lengthy side missions were unrewarding (so many missed opportunities here). I feel the game was worth the $25 I paid for it...had I paid more I would've felt much worse about this game.

I saw the initial reveal of this game at E3 a few years ago and, like most people, I was immediately interested and waited for its release. There's plenty of information on the Internet that goes over what happened during those 2 years between reveal and release, but overall this game does not deliver the impressions that it gave back then.I had this game pre-ordered for PS4 as a launch title. Then it was delayed and I cancelled my order; deciding instead to wait for impressions from professional reviewers and fellow gamers. Initial impressions were that it was very average and I will largely agree with that. I did not buy this game at launch and instead decided I'd wait until it went on sale or I could get a used copy. Eventually Amazon offered it for 40% off so I picked it up thinking that it had to be worth at least 30-something bucks. I finished the game and now have it up on eBay hoping to recoup some of that money. It was barely worth the money I paid.The first thing that struck me wrong about this game is the control scheme. It just feels... off. It's a "typical" 3rd person shooter so I was expecting a "default" control scheme but it wasn't what I got. It took me probably close to 3 hours to really become familiar with the controls. By the end of the game I had it figured out really well, but that's not a good thing. By extension, I never felt like the game controlled well even when I had the control system figured out well. Cars handle pretty poorly for a game that has such a strong emphasis on driving. Sure, they are all supposed to feel unique but I felt like a lot of them were excessively "loose" while everything else was incredibly "tight". Only the motorcycles really felt like fun to drive. Aiden controls pretty well, for the most part though. There were a few issues I had getting him to un-stick from cover or getting him to climb up or over an object.The gameplay in the game is chiefly divided into 3 separate categories: hacking, combat and driving. The hacking is fun and often very satisfying when it works perfectly. There's little mini-game puzzles that sometimes get thrown at you while performing hacks. They're not usually too hard but sometimes have time limits imposed on them. They're somewhat similar to the Bioshock water pipe puzzles. In combat situations the hacking can be a huge benefit to give you the upper hand. And that's when the game absolutely feels the best. I loved more than anything else the stealthy sections of the game. I loved hiding and picking enemies off one-by-one with my night-stick, overloading a nearby transformer, detonating the enemy's own grenades or simply shooting them in their stupid face with a silenced pistol. The silenced 1911 is my favorite weapon in the whole game. If this whole game was just a sneaky-hacky game I'd love it way more, but (in my opinion) everything else just isn't as good. The other weapons are rather standard (and as far as I know all real-life weapons) such as pistols, shotguns, assault rifles, sniper rifles and grenade launchers. The assault rifles and shotguns feel powerful and were my other go-to weapons when things got gritty. Overall I think combat is good and balanced. The driving sections of the game I felt were personally the worst parts of the game. Any time I had to chase down a subject in a car I just groaned. I usually had to do these sections lots of times because the cars handle so poorly I'd lose the target or crash my car into something ridiculous and take forever to get sorted out. Also, when chasing down target cars there are only a couple ways to incapacitate the cars and one of them involves "purchasing" the skill from the unnecessary upgrade path. The vehicles and chase sequences are easily my least liked portions of the game and they were relatively frequent.I found the story rather unexciting and uninspired. The characters were alright if not completely stereotyped. I found myself enjoying one of the supporting characters (Jordi) more than any of the others. He was well acted and had some real personality to him. Everybody else felt... bland. Aiden, even though he is supposedly fueled by vengeance, just comes off as being a gravely voiced butthurt toughguy. He's shallow and shows no character progression throughout the entire game. By the end of the game he talks about some remorse he has for his actions but never has any kind of revelations. His emotional range is either whiney baby or rage-fueled anger. It's like an on/off switch. You eventually meet a few characters that will help you seek revenge and even they feel one-note. Only Clara feels like she is a little more human than the rest. Clara, by the way seems to be largely influenced in appearance by Lisbeth from Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It's almost as if they couldn't create a hacker-type girl without seeking out a pop-culture reference to copy. The same goes for a DJ you meet later in the game that is a blatant copy of deadmau5 (I will forever pronounce it dead-mow-five).When this game was close to release all the talk on the Internet was about the "graphics downgrade" that it had been given over the years. Regardless of the truth about this it isn't very impressive graphically. Sure, it's better than the last-gen consoles could muster but it really doesn't feel like it pushes the new hardware very hard, especially when compared to other open-world games like inFamous: Secon Son (which looks incredible). The lighting is nice and is very dynamic and the weather effects look good. Particle effects and things like explosions look very good, though. The sound design is awesome, though! I played with a 5.1 surround system and it definitely utilizes it well. Explosions shook my sub and certain sections of the game had theme-appropriate music that sounded great. Gunfire and enemy voices echo well in the surround and passing cars at high speed gives a very nice front-to-rear whooshing effect. The sound design is personally better than the visual graphics. I won't say the graphics are bad, they're just not what we were expecting based on what we saw at E3 at the reveal.Overall, I think this game is decent. It's not good and it's not garbage. It's worth a play if you're interested, but don't expect too much out of it. I think I got decent fun out of it and whatever I make back from selling it will make up for all my frustrating moments. I think this game is like the new Assassin's Creed. The first AC game wasn't very good, but the sequels (more or less) got better each time. I think if we see a Watch_Dogs 2 it can improve greatly on what we see with this game. It's a very ambitious idea and one that has a lot of potential, it just isn't well realized with this game.

I waited for a year for this game. I was so excited about it that I told people "Happy Watch Dogs Day!" on release day.Here's my short take after playing halfway through - and before anyone critiques that I didn't play it all the way through, take this into consideration - any great game should grab you at least 1/4 of the way through. You shouldn't have to wait to the end to enjoy it:Takeaways:- The hacking is fun, but did get old quickly.- The driving mechanics are absolutely terrible. It's like every car you drive is a garbage truck that goes too fast and can't negotiate corners.- The main missions ARE fun - however, the side missions are completely monotonous- The side mission (mini-games) are absolutely ridiculous. Bouncing around on giant flowers?- The graphics are good, but definitely a let down after seeing what other games can do on the PS4- The main character movements are not fluid - picture Uncharted and other 3rd person games where you feel like you are running along with the characters. This one just didn't complete.I will probably finish this one out, but I can honestly say for the first time that I was really disappointed in a game I had been looking forward to.

After its initial reveal I admit I was hyped, the thought of a modern day Assassin's Creed with next gen graphics was something that was hard to pass up. I wasn't too hung up about graphics downgrades, since it's still very early into the PS4 generation. I was concerned about all the of the ridiculous preorder editions and the real lack of compelling story in the preview trailers, but I was ready for a Next Gen open world game so I kept my preorder despite reservations.The experience so far, about 20+ hours in, has been pretty mediocre. WATCH_DOGS takes all of the things I really dislike about Assassins' Creed, such as bad parkour, tailing, meaningless collectibles and tower progression. It adds a hacking minigame and camera functionality, but it's not good enough to carry the game. What's especially silly is the fact that the game encourages you to use cameras and hacking to get to your objectives while remaining unseen, and then at the end of your mission it will throw in an alarm or a story point that causes you to fight all the guards you just circumvented. The further I get into the game, the more I rely on just shooting everything down and ignoring cameras and hacking, which is a bummer, especially since WATCH_DOGS adds virtually nothing to the already tired cover based shooting gameplay.I'm trying my best to say interested enough to finish the game, but the story isn't doing anything and all the immersion breaking features that they put into the game don't even make it a satisfying escapist experience. It doesn't have the romanticism that Assassins' Creed relies on, which is why it ultimately fails to keep me hooked.Given the success of the game sales wise, I'm sure we'll be seeing new WATCH_DOGS titles every year from now, hopefully they can improve on story and immersion, and add some real car physics and unique gameplay that isn't overpowered by gunplay. The game is a solid 3 out of 5, not so terrible that you won't want to play it, but more of a decent distraction until other PS4 games are released later this year.

I completed it, and did most of most of the rest of it. Except the online, which I tried and definitely didn't like, and it is completely optional.The plot is decent - SyFy level (which is ok for a game). The main character is kind of a turd though, and the women are all one-dimensional. Hopefully, we can get a main toon to be a woman in the next Watch Dogs, Assassin's Creed, or Far Cry.I cannot stress HOW TERRIBLE THE DRIVING IS. And the cop chases are ridiculous.This is NOT A GAME WITH MUCH REPLAY VALUE. Unlike say Infamous, this one would be torture to replay from the beginning.It was very fun in parts, VERY frustrating in other parts, and bland in some as well.

Most of the time it's a really fun game, but I do have some major gripes.1. It's too hard to be completely stealthy. I am getting better at this part so maybe it's just me but its pretty hard to do missions completely ghost mode. Which brings me to my next point.2. It's too easy once you do get busted. Seriously, snake is one hell of a bullet sponge and I think the slomo deal when you get busted is unnecessary.3. I encountered a incredibly frustrating glitch during a mission that I spent a lot of time on only to have to start over from the beginning due to not being able to hear the instructions over the noise of a sandstorm. Which brings me to my next point.4. Instructions and tutorials are VERY lacking. I can't tell you how many times I've had to Google how to do something properly or what something in the mother base menu meant. The game is terrible at explaining some things.I have to admit once I learned how to do things I am really enjoying the game, but it's maddeningly frustrating at times when it does something that seems like they should have fixed before calling this a finished product.

The beginning of the game was great - but then it devolved into your typical FPS, which I'm not a huge fan of.

Ehhh should just YouTube'd all the cut scenes and said I played it.

its great in the beggining but as soon as you begin the real part of the game its quality can clearly be seen going down hill

Spent a lot of time crawling around in a cardboard box. Pretty fun game but it didn't hold my attention very long.

If you are a MGS 1, 2, 3 fan don't buy this. It will break your heart. Stunning graphics and stellar game controls but the story just ain't the same. Goodbye Hideo you will be missed. Moving on.....

I bought this game on a whim, and didn't follow any of the hype leading up to its release, so I bought this thing blind and without bias. I personally did not enjoy this game because:1) The main character was very bland and boring. He didn't seem to react appropriately or have any sort of emotions displayed when things happened. He was VERY stoic which kind of bored me.2) The fact he could use his smartphone to make specific manhole covers blow up out of the ground was kind of weird. There were other things he could use his phone to control that made you scratch your head like that too.3) The story itself wasn't bad, but it couldn't decide whether it wanted to be believable or outlandish. There were times when it felt more like GTA, and times when it felt more like Saints Row. It just kept dipping back and forth into each one.

I was excited about a game with soo much. but there is a lot going on with a lot to earn. I do like the ability for the entire game to be open and you can roam where ever you want. I got lost in the game before starting the mission. Screwed around walking and exploring and I see this side mission of challenge. I had to take a care and drive (deliver) it to another site without getting caught by the police. I did like that you have to hide from the helicopters but with the horrible driving controls it was virtually impossible to escape. took me forever, like weeks. You cannot play anything else until you complete the side mission. You are locked in. So finally after that, my mood for the game was killed. Did I say, I have not started the main mission yet.

Pros:- This is a decent free-roaming game. You really feel like you are on the streets of Chicago. Although you can't go in buildings unless it's required for a mission and you can't clear small obstacles unless they are programmed to be climbable.- The theme is quite unique and very original. Hacking through an imposed security grid (primarily through security cameras) is a nice change of pace from the usual shoot, smash, and grab vigilante games.- Hacking ctOS centers and taking down crime gangs was fun. Some of the side missions (like playing chess) didn't appeal to me but it's nice that they included some diverse content.Cons:- Driving is the deal-breaker on this one. Vehicles are difficult to control even with routine driving and damn near impossible with high-speed chases. And many of the episodes indeed require high-speed chases. Cars drive like there is some serious play in the wheel and steering is too sensitive on the PS4 controller with no way to adjust it (like with X-axis sensitivity). Of course, your enemies all drive perfectly. And the police cars defy all laws of physics as they catch up and surround you when you're doing 110 mph. Had the developers either omitted driving sequences from the game or made controlling the vehicles more manageable then this would be a four-star game. All they had to do was to make steering sensitivity adjustable (or make the driving by the police a little less God-like).- Cannot explicitly save and since the campaign sequence is linear, you cannot go back to a mission or skip it for later. YouTubes on this game aren't great because contributors couldn't save and go back once they had perfected a mission. They had to do some serious editing or play the game all the way through again.- You can't jump. You can climb boxes but you can't jump over many obstacles or make the 3 foot leap from a boat to the dock.- You can't shoot from you car (but the cops chasing you sure can!)- The last mission is particularly frustrating. You secure a fast car, but after a cut-scene the game takes it away from you and you have to steal whatever's available. You start at night so you can use blackout, but also after the cut-scene it's suddenly broad daylight. And I get it that my archenemy is jamming the city as I try to complete the mission, but how does he blur my vision. I'm a human with uncorrected vision and now he's got some ability to impair my eyesight from miles away with a mouse click. The developers wanted to make it difficult so instead of adding content, they just added nonsensical constraints to the gameplay. They were probably behind schedule and over-budget by that point.- Another nuisance is bystanders yelling at you for walking too close to them on the sidewalks or driving normally in their proximity. After almost a hundred crime alerts where you have saved citizens' lives they still shout profanities at you. This gets old after 40 hours into the game. Driving a car is hard enough without the hate and discontent from the peanut gallery.

I like the characters better than GTAV, but the gameplay is a little slow and disjointed. It doesn't really give you reasons to do the activities other than figuring out you need money. The hacking mechanic is cumbersome while driving and it is too easy to perform hacks you didn't want on accident in all cases. The fact that people invade your game while you are in the middle of going somewhere is also kind of annoying. Not even sure what the incentive is to catch hackers that invade. Overall it feels like there isn't a clear incentive to do many of the activities that are available and they don't do a good job of introducing you to them.

Watch_Dogs made a splash when it was first announced as it promised a new approach to open world gameplay in a totally interconnected world. Hack anything! Go in guns blazing! Be a shadow who moves in silence!As usual, when you see a promise for the moon be prepared for the reality. Watch_Dogs isn't the worst game I've ever played, but it didn't take long for me to be tired of it. A great story can save shoddy gameplay, and an incredibly fun gameplay system can allow a player to overlook a lacking narrative, but Watch_Dogs can't deliver either. The gameplay has some neat ideas, but it's more of a chore to play than a joy. As for the narrative, wow, it's hard to think of a more unlikable protagonist in recent memory. I actively wanted this character to get killed, and the world he inhabited wasn't much better. Tired 'hacker' tropes, some almost impressively bad morality perspectives, and a gameplay feature that is basically continuous invasions of privacy all work toward making you wonder why you're even playing.I won't rate the title a one star, because the art design is actually pretty nice and there are some good foundational gameplay mechanics that might spawn a much better sequel. Also, there is one very positive thing I will say for Watch_Dogs. It made playing Shadow Of Mordor all the better in comparison.

This is really not a great game. I had this game on preorder, they even had the ps4 watch dogs bundle but this game was delayed half a year for absolutely nothing. The graphics are next gen quality...but the gameplay and story lacks luster. The story dragged on and lost interest in the bland and boring main character. Clara is the main gravitational point in this game because she has the most spark and charm out of all the characters. It would do this game much better justice. She's hot, she's interesting, she's alive, and she has personality. Aiden is a MAJOR drag on this story and has a very weak personality. It was a major disappointment to me as to how the game creators disposed of Clara in the middle of the game.- The story is just plain horrible and cliched. The plot just continues to disappoint on and on as the game progresses and the ending is very very lazy. It also hints at a sequel..which i will not be buying at all.- Graphics are dumbed down compared to what was in the trailers- Filler/Baloney dialogue. Enemies blab on an on and never shut up or say anything relevant.- Hit detection is way off- Dump the radio music...seriously what is this trash?- Cannot resell weaponry for cash in the store. You're stuck with guns you'll never use again.- Police know where you are on the map even when searching for you throughout the city. Wherever you go..they will gravitate toward that area. Unlimited resources. They all shoot like mad dogs whether from helicopters or on foot.- You're supposed to be a good guy but the game pretty much requires you to hack innocent people's accounts and steal money from them. Also the vigilante bar is useless since you will need to kill many people in the missions.- Enemy A.I. is stupid as hell. Sometimes they run in circles, sometimes they run in place, they never realize bullets are flying at them. Even when being hit they just stand there for a second.- Car chases are a complete joke and modeled after every generic game there is - the targets gets in the car and dissapears at light speed..then waits for you a few blocks away until you catch up and he can start driving like michael schumacher on cocaine again.- When collecting a lot of xp at the end of missions, the game lags.- Horn sounds (although never really utilized) sound straight out of a ps2 game- Dumping a car in an alley way and stealing a new one has absolutely no effect on your wanted level. Very frustrating when you're trying to evade police. The only effective ways you can actually evade police is by train and by boat.- When you're driving at full speed through the city, you'll start seeing cars and objects spawn in front of you (ps2 quality)- Found a trick to get unlimited xp the first few hours in the game- Loading times get a bit frustrating after a while- Free roam in multiplayer is completely useless- What did he say?? I could hardly hear aiden's voice overs..make sure to turn on subtitles- The little sound bite it makes when you die gets really annoying- Secret islands or areas that are hard to get to are not interesting at all. The map is just dead besides the side missions. There's literally nothing to do and to be honest the city is depressing to be in.- The sight seeing side mission with players being the mayor of the properties was a good idea but used in a wrong way. This should have been a multiplayer battle for control of the property, not about how many times you visit the place. They really had no fun with this game.- ZERO replay valueGood- Very human like movements when navigating through the world- Pedestrian movements and behavior are interesting- When accident's happen, people get out to inspect their cars and have conversations- The poker game is a great addition- Graphics are amazing....BUT not exactly like it was advertised- Chicago looks like you're looking at the real thing from far away especially from Pawnee- The soundtrack (not the radio) is great and goes together well with the events happening in the game

I love the gameplay, but recently I have been unable to play the game due to an internal glitch. I try to load the game and it takes me to a screen labeled "Online Information" discussing gameplay options, but I am unable to select the "Next" button on that screen. It does not load past that screen

This game is boring,the story doesn't make a lot of sense. After some hours of play I got bored and haven't touch the game again. Very disappointed with this purchase

I really did not like this game because it wasn't a real Metal Gear in my opinion. It lacked the boss fights that I have come to love and fear in each Metal Gear. Way too repetitive, extract this person or that person constantly. Story was boring and at the end of the game you had to replay missions on hard mode to unlock more of the story. Waste of time and money for me. I did not even finish it. Only played most of it because it has the name Metal Gear in it. I don't get how most game sites gave it a 10/10.

Game play is amazing but some of the story content is super boring/corny/cringe worthy

Mediocre game! Nothing like the other ones. Don't get this expecting a MGS game.

The gameplay at first was nice but then after the 1st Chapter it shows this game was not finished plus MGO is not great and feels bare bones with a lot of balance adjustments needed but i doubt they'll ever change

Worst game I have yet to play for ps4. It's like a bad GTA 4 mod. Driving is terrible, slidey cars. Hacking mechanics are not really deep in open world. Story is a godawful halfbaked mess with paper thin unrealistic characters and a nonsense revenge plot. Save your money, buy literally any other game.

Game is horrible. I cannot believe it was pushed back for months and still sucked. I sold right after a week of having it. I could not get over the ridiculous car chase. Yep could not pass it and said F it.

amazon gave me a Watch_Dogs game with an expired redemption code for the bonus content... Pretty weak man. I just wanted that extra game play yo. The game was only 12 bucks though so I'm not too upset. 1 star for the expired code, 2 to 3 stars for the game itself. It is pretty boring to be honest, as it gets repetitive fast, "hack this guarded area, get access to hack this now!" Over and over basically.The code expired in October of 2014.

Not what I expected after all Ads in youtube. This wasn't made good at all, thanks to return policy at Amazon which the only thing that deserved a 5 starts not the game. It deserve a no star.

As great as this sounds, it really isn't. They spent more time on the stupid storyline and cut scenes than the actual game and it plays like an even crappier GTA. Very disappointed. If this was $25 it would be worth it.

Gta 5 is much better but it's not bad for once play but you should know in watch dogs you can't ride planes bicycles and more

Terrible game. Odd lengthy cinematic sequences, confusing plot (which at least on the surface is so ridiculously stupid it discourages further analysis), and action is meh. The way enemies walk around in the same stupid patterns for the most part is so dumb it takes only patience to get around them. Did I mention the long cutscenes? The faux-stealth is unbelievable as well to the point of being nonsensical. I turned this crap off early in the game and to this day (many many months later) regret falling for the fan-boy hype.

First thing you should know is that this review is not based on any aspect of the quality of the game, and most gamers are going to love it. This review is for a certain type of gamer. I'm a gamer who loves the game to feel as cinematic as possible. Games like ACIV: Black Flag, GTA, Skyrim, etc. This review is for people like myself. Now, let me be clear, I love MGS. I have since the original Metal Gear Solid on Playstation. I wanted to love this game, and after an exciting opening sequence. It turned into a do a mission, go back to a menu. rinse, repeat. After every goal, BAM! takes you right out of the game. I didn't play very long before I realized that this is how the whole game would be, so I dropped the controller and never picked it back up. I don't even consider it a MGS game because again, while high quality, they changed the character control mechanics. It doesn't feel like MGS. The same thing happened with Battlefront. Wanted to like it, but every 5 minutes it takes me back to the menu.

PROSThere is no story, but there are lots of tiddy bits that compliment or explain some of the minor details of the franchise's main plot.Most missions can be easily beaten and excelled with your bare hands, once you get the hang of the game.Weapon customization yields some interesting results.CONS- Oddly enough, what little there is of the story, also only explains one tiny detail that nobody cared about.- The gameplay is responsive and easy to grasp, which sadly makes for very easy and boring experience when the enemy is both blind, brainless, and the problems presented by the missions are not themselves difficult in any significant way.- CQC is overpowered- Empty and lifeless world with not much going on. There is a war happening behind the scenes, supposedly. Same as the plot. Or the script for Beyond Two Souls.- Assassin's creed style sidequests (replay the same mission 154 times, on different sides of the map)- The main missions are about as varied as the sidequests- Motherbase management, better known as the CEO simulator. You don't really get to make anything, you just approve plans and give the go-ahead to start research and construction.- Weapon variation outside of customization is lacking. There is very little need for these many machine gun variants.Don't 100%, it's not worth it. There is nothing there.

Should've returned this product. Not worth it.

I have played and loved Metal Gear since MGS 1 on the playstation 1 and The Phantom Pain is a slap in the face.First off, this is not a metal gear game. There's almost no story, which is very disappointing as this has always been what the metal gear games were built upon. Next, this might as well been named Socom Navy seals, because that is what I feel like I am playing. Third person, behind the back generic military shooter.The open world kills it. Back in the day, metal gear games had you infiltrate a huge elaborate base. This got thrown out the window in Snake eater, but never to this level. Quality over quantity should be mentioned here. Afganistan, where you will spend most of your time, is a HUGE open area of NOTHING. Its a dessert, with blown out destroyed buildings scattered around, but literally there's nothing there. There's basically no interior locations, which is one thing that makes me hate open world games. Its so insanely boring and repetitive, especially since areas/bases are re-used over and over again for later missions. You sit back and are like "wait, didn't I just infiltrate this base a few missions ago?"The biggest issue which is what actually makes me hate this game is what you find out at the end. I will not spoil it, but its all a huge lie and slap in the face. A full metal gear title (perhaps the last one ever) dedicated to literally nothing of weight story wise. Like I said I won't spoil it, but when you do find out, you will be rolling your eyes. Without spoiling it, let's just say I would have actually enjoyed following the "other" character on their adventure.Now with all that being said, the game itself is good I guess, if you like socom navy seals. It definitely is a good time killer, but never was I like "oh my god, this is amazing". It was always like "meh, this is alright I guess". If Metal Gear wasn't stamped all over it, then I might have a far more favorable perspective, but it doesn't.For anyone expecting Metal Gear Solid, then proceed with caution with Phantom Pain.

Disappointing, a nonsense of a story, all the trailers were better than the actual plot, all dialog in trailers came from the cassettes, the missions are so repetitive, the gameplay and all the options the player has are the best in all the saga, but what for?, to wander around and empty desert?, to fulton everyone in every checkpoint?, to troll every boss(5 or less) in the game? and also the easiest in all mgs saga. Kojima promised us so much, so much with this game, but at last it was a totally let down, and its kojima's and konami's fault.And Kiefer Sutherland, oh boy, yes, he talked, he talked more than Chrono and Serge together!..