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11/23/2016 11:46:40 AM
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Bad news for Activision, worse news for Ubisoft
So whilst Infinite Warfare's UK sales plummeted to 52% of BOIII's in both games' first week, Ubisoft is seeing an even sharper decline: WD2 sold 80% less in its first week than its 2014 prequel, and wasn't even able to knock IW off the number 1 spot.
The sharp irony here is that Watch Dogs isn't even an annual franchise. But presumably the graphical downgrade the first game suffered, and the lacklustre critical reception to what was at the time the fastest-selling new IP ever (thereafter bested by Destiny, and then The Division), dented the sequel's hopes. Not to mention the obnoxious style of WD2. I used to quite enjoy the once-a-year memefest that is Aisha Tyler presenting '#UbiE3', but to cram it all into an open-world title lasting at least a dozen hours... that would test even my patience.
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I did not like the first Watch Dogs game and I have no interest in playing the second. There are other reasons why I ( and potentially other gamers ) would be wary of this game. Watch Dogs is essentially a modern take on the Assassins Creed franchise so even though WD2 is only the second game in the franchise, it feels too similar to all the AC games that came before it and that over-familiarity leads to contempt. Stagnant, that's the word I'm looking for. You can only pull a rabbit out of a hat so many times before people stop giving a -blam!- about the rabbit or how the trick was done. Ubisoft's 3rd person open world games have followed the same formula since AC1 and the whole entire thing desperately needs re-inventing from the very top to down to the very bottom.
