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So this amazing looking game was just announced on ubisofts E3 press conference. It looks absolutely stunning, what's you're guys opinion on it ?

[watching this in 720p is pretty much required]

Saw the livestream, the game looked really awesome and the crowds reaction was great. This game is really a fresh breath amongst gritty FPS;s and sequels. Looking forward to seeing more of it.

this looks.. just gorgeous..

Yurp, absolutely something I'll check out, DX11 character tesselation and APEX clothing simulation~~~~~~~~ Mmmmmmhm~

Its an entirely new fresh idea! its like jesus, deus ex, assassins creed, and a massive pile of awesomeness are making this game! Really excited for it. E3 is taking over my life atm.

This looks very interesting!

Damn, I'm loving E3 this year. Seems we haven't had this much excitement since 2007.

Yeah,it does look amazing. Gotta say the first thing that came to my mind when i saw it was GTA V hahaha.

More info about this game from an interview.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/06/...atch-dogs/

Dominic Guay: Well, the reality of things is that we want to give the player a lot of power. So we want Pearce’s actions to have impact. As you saw in the demo, you start a firefight in the middle of downtown – you hack a traffic light to make everyone crash – there’s collateral damage. A woman got killed. And then we choose to save a bystander there amidst the collateral damage. Do I want to do those things? Do I want to create those collateral damages? Or maybe I could have taken a different approach. Maybe I could’ve followed the guy to the park and then taken him out much more subtly than just starting a firefight. So I think letting players express their freedom – and not just through violence, though he’s definitely capable of it – and mixing it up with his ability for control, that’s the sweet spot. I mean, he hacked a traffic light but ended up in a firefight. That’s the sweet spot we’re aiming for.

Obviously, you saw one specific example during the demo. You saw how we hacked into a conversation to find out that someone was coming. But another example… you might have noticed that one person was guilty of plagiarism. So maybe you can follow that person home, hack into his personal laptop, and actually find out that he’s doing it again, and blackmail him for money.

Another example is maybe you can find a guy’s bank account number. So maybe you decide you want to start slowly stealing from that bank account. With so much information available on computers now, we’re trying to support as many types of both honorable and dishonorable uses of information as you want.

But another example… you might have noticed that one person was guilty of plagiarism. So maybe you can follow that person home, hack into his personal laptop, and actually find out that he’s doing it again, and blackmail him for money.