History VideoGame / WatchDogs2

* DoAnythingRobot: The RC Jumper, which is capable of doing pretty much anything Marcus can other than using firearms. It can hack, distract enemies, somehow carry away objects several times its size, and an upgrade allows it to ''plant bombs''. It's small size also enables it to be much more stealthy than Marcus -- after all, it's not like he can squeeze himself under a car. One story objective subverts this which involves a circuit board that Marcus notes is way too large for the Jumper to handle, forcing him to deliver and install it at the destination by himself.

** Wrench, who is insulting to their enemies, but still a NiceGuy to the rest of the crew.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: If you choose to, you can use your ability to hack into other people's devices to just screw around with them.

* DoAnythingRobot: The RC Jumper, which is capable of doing pretty much anything Marcus can other than using firearms. It can hack, distract enemies, somehow carry away objects several times its size, and an upgrade allows it to ''plant bombs''. It's small size also enables it to be much more stealthy than Marcus -- after all, it's not like he can squeeze himself under a car.
* DontAnswerThat [[spoiler:When Marcus and T-Bone confront Dušan, there's a phone in the background that keeps ringing. No one actually goes to answer it, but Marcus provides plenty of suggestions on who's on the other end. Either way, he's basically told Dušan that no matter what he does next; '''[[FailureIsTheOnlyOption He's fucked]].''']]

* EscortMission: Averted. When given a mission to rescue a prisoner, they'll see themselves out after you reach them, leaving you free to concentrate on your own survival.

** Dušan meets Marcus in the [=!NVite=] building which Marcus breaks into. [[spoiler: He's in a BigBadDuumvirate with Mary Catskill, [=!NVite's=] [=CEO=].]]
** The news reports that will play on the UI are usually either showing the fallout of [=DedSec=] operations such as [[spoiler: Tagging the Golden Gate bridge]] or bringing up characters and plot points from future missions [[spoiler: for example Miranda's feud with New Dawn, the FBI's plans for hackers and the increasing violence of the Tezcas.]]

** When you arrive a Swelter Skelter, you hear a very familliar voice announcing the Hacking Challenge that ends the sequence. Sure enough [[spoiler:Raymond Kenney shows up in the following cut scene and join's the team.]]
*** [[spoiler:You can also see several of Ray's booby traps around the area.]]

** [[spoiler:From Blume's point of view, [=DedSec=] taking down Dušan has not only forced them to shift the blame on him, but [=ctOS=] took a big blow in public trust and prompted [=DedSec=] to go global, with several divisions in different countries, [[SequelHook likely including England.]]]]

* KansasCityShuffle: How Marcus gets Lenni's [[spoiler: Bunker RFID tag]]. Lenni, hacker-troll extraordinaire, would know instantly that Marcus is waving his phone around him for that reason so she refuses to let him near her. [[spoiler: She doesn't even notice Wrench on the roof with a long-range scanner.]]

* SequelHook: An extended ending has been added in, which now shows that there are new [=DedSec=] cells popping up all over the world, as well as coordinates that hint the next game will be set in England, and indeed, [[VideoGame/WatchDogsLegion it was]].[[note]]The coordinates specifically point at Brixton, London.[[/note]]

** A lot of the villains believe themselves to be untouchable, as they are heads of corporations, government officials or violent criminals who believe they can scare the local hacktivists into compliance, and almost undoubtedly end up getting their asses handed to them by [=DedSec=]. Dušan Nemec [[spoiler: uses most of these morons for his own ends, but he is left speechless when Marcus exposes his insider trading at the end.]]

* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: The Auntie Shu Boys.
* {{Unperson}}: The tutorial mission is Marcus hacking into ctOS and deleting his own profile. [[spoiler: It's undone by Dušan, who also puts out a warrant when he does so. And then not long after, redone by T-Bone after Marcus and friends meeting T-Bone at the Swelter Skelter.]]

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Aside from the widespread adoption of the [=ctOS=] system, the world is otherwise on the same technology level as our own, but there are still a few hints that it takes place a few years forward. The most obvious is that the game presents the Salesforce Tower as being fully completed, whereas it was still under construction in 2016.

* ArtificialStupidity: The [=NPCs=] will jump away and scream in shock if you drive by them, while they are on the sidewalk and you are in the middle of the street.

* BigBadDuumvirate: With Mary Catskills, the CEO of [=!NVite=], although Mary only comes up during the Mark Thruss questline and the [[spoiler: beginning of the final mission]]. It's also shown not to be an uneasy alliance [[spoiler: with Catskills even getting Nemec's secretary to install a backdoor into Blume's servers for her behind Nemec's back]].

* DevelopersForesight:
** In "Power to the Sheeple", Wrench sets up a zipline for you to use to [[spoiler:escape a highrise while music plays dramatically in the background]] If you don't use the zipline, he calls Marcus to express his disappointment.

* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler: The BigBad Dusan Nemec]] is the jogger Marcus had a little chat while drunk after the introductory mission.

* EleventhHourSuperpower: During the final mission, [[spoiler:you get to play as Wrench, who has all the best weapons in the game and ''[[BottomlessMagazines unlimited ammo]]'' for all of them]].

* EnemyMine: Miranda is not happy when Marcus tells her he's with [=DedSec=] as a lot of people she personally knows wants to see the group in jail, but she co-operates with him to take on New Dawn.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Dušan meets Marcus in the [=!NVite=] building which Marcus breaks into. [[spoiler: He's in a BigBadDuumvirate with Mary Catskill, [=!NVite's=] [=CEO=].]]

* FailedASpotCheck: Optional. One of the Driver SF clients is a woman dealing with the aftermath of a mission in the game who, during the journey rants about [=DedSec=] for a while. It is possible to perform this mission in a vehicle such as CHIP, which is covered in [=DedSec=] Grafiti, without her noticing or commenting at all.

** [=DedSec=] is quite concerned about their reputation, and even have an obnoxious SWAT-er arrested because he was associated with them. However, there are no negative consequences to bad behavior in game. There's nothing stopping Marcus from tossing IED's into traffic, gunning down security guards in order to complete his objectives, massacring cops, or starting Bay-wide police chases. Just like in the first game, it's also perfectly acceptable to steal money from people's bank accounts... the same people who you want to protect from spying corporations. In fact, the karma system the first game (where if Aiden's reputation was low enough, civilians would call the police on him) has been removed.

* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Marcus is the field operative to [=DedSec=] so he's usually doing the field work, but this is subverted. Everyone chips in on hacking the [=CyberDriver=] car, there are other [=DedSec=] members who provide software hacks and recon for Marcus (one even gets Marcus a disguise for a New Dawn mission. [[spoiler: In fact, during the final mission, once Marcus' arrest warrant is upgraded to federal and it becomes unfeasible for him to leave the hackerspace, Sitara and Wrench do field ops with Marcus as support and Josh 3D prints a few dozen masks to fool the ctOS scan.]]

* MoodWhiplash: After Marcus and Wrench have a surprisingly sad conversation, we get this exchange.
--> '''[[AntiHero Marcus:]]''' You know it's gonna be a hell of a fight turning 'em back into people.
--> '''[[BombThrowingAnarchist Wrench:]]''' Fuckin' A, man.
** The questline involving [[spoiler: Horatio's death]] and [[spoiler: Marcus' near death experience with the Bratva]] are pretty serious. After all of those is done, the story goes back to the usual lighthearted, wacky hijink.

* PetTheDog: Literally in this case. There are dogs that Marcus can pet in the city.

** Dušan prevented the FBI from sending [[spoiler: Wrench]] to Guantanamo Bay and got him released. While he did have his motives, that was still above and beyond the call.

* TakeThat: A lot of the missions [[RippedFromTheHeadlines target specific controversies and the people who sparked them]], with [=DedSec=]'s intervention generally coming off as karmic.

* VillainsOutShopping: Dusan Nemec, the CTO of Blume, first meets Marcus on his morning run. He also does Yoga during an early scene.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [[spoiler: Wrench]] is arrested by the [=FBI=] and given an offer to walk free if he sells out [=DedSec=]. [[spoiler: He didn't do it, despite the threat that he could be sent to Guantanamo Bay.]]

* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: You unlock new selfie gestures by snapping pictures at [=ScoutX=] locations.

* AnAesop: InUniverse and out: After Marcus, upon request from Sitara, mildly spooks her niece due to the latter being completely transparent during constant livestreams, Sitara compiles a [=DedSec=]-themed package aimed at kids to help them stay safe online.

* BrokenAesop: The story seems to have a heavy moral against overuse of technology, pointing out how it can be used in corrupt ways. The problem is that [=DedSec=] gains followers via ''social media''. [[ZigZaggingTrope On the other hand]], this plays right back into the game's intentions: New technology can do both horrible ''and'' great things.

* VerySpecialEpisode: While most of the mission dialogues are humorous, the quest to take down an Internet Troll responsible for a number of Swatting incidents has barely contained contempt for the guy shown from [=DedSec=] member involved. Considering how easy, illegal and ''dangerous'' this is, of course it should be treated seriously. However, [[BrokenAesop the fact that Marcus himself can potentially gain the ability to Swat people is never acknowledged]]`.

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: To enter the [=NetHack=] view, you have to click in the right stick. If you do this while in a vehicle, it just shows you the rear view, so you can't normally enter [=NetHack=] view while driving, except for if you're driving a special truck that allows you to do so. Problem is, clicking the right stick still shows you the rear view, so to enter [=NetHack=] view while driving this special truck, you have to click in the left stick instead.

''Watch Dogs 2'' is an open world ActionAdventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the sequel to ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'' (released in 2014) and is set in the UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco Bay Area (which includes {{UsefulNotes/Oakland}}, Silicon Valley, and Marin County). The game was released for UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation 4}}, UsefulNotes/XBoxOne and PC November 2016.

* ShownTheirWork: The developers took the time and effort to be careful about what code shows up in front of your eyes in-game, such as the cutscenes and the laptops in the hacker-spaces, to the point the game actually ''avoids'' falling into the HollywoodHacking trap of showing unrelated (often very wrong) code that's used whenever you see anything code-related happening. A lot of the terminal commands the Dedsec crew use to execute hacker-things are based on legitimate terminal terminology, as well as making use of [[UsefulNotes/{{Unix}} Debian Linux]] commands that are at least based on real commands and file paths (albeit modified for gameplay purposes), which makes the hacking experience come across as more genuine. To wit, the ''epilepsy warning screen'' is a good example, and has a code scrawl that references the "[=Ext4-fs=]" filesystem (the default used by Linux OS's), correctly identifying it as "[=sda1=]" (the disk/ partition naming scheme in a file table), and also using the less-common name for Windows OS's filesystem; "[=FUSE=]" instead of the more common "[=NTFS=]".

** Some of the phone status's for [=NPC's=] that you can snoop on come off as jabs, things like [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom "Attends Furry Conventions"]].

* SequelHook: An extended ending has been added in, which now shows that there are new [=DedSec=] cells popping up all over the world, as well as coordinates that hint the next game will be set in England.[[note]]The coordinates specifically point at Brixton, London.[[/note]]

** Midway through the game, [=DedSec=] learn that a bunch of their followers and bots are [[spoiler:fake, being set up by Nemec as part of a plan to discredit them, and he removes these followers once it succeeds. Despite followers being the game's equivilent to XP and progression, you do not suffer any loss of your unlocked skills afterwards.]]

** When you arrive a Swelter Skelter, you hear a very familliar voice announcing the Hacking Challenge that ends the sequence. Sure enough [[spoiler:Raymond Kenny shows up in the following cut scene and join's the team.]]

** Midway through the game, [=DedSec=] learn that a bunch of their followers and bots are [[spoiler: fake, being set up by Nemic part of a plan to discredit them, and he removes these followers once it succeeds. Despite followers being the game's equivilent to XP and progression, you do not suffer any loss of your unlocked skills afterwards.]]

** Also [[spoiler: Dušan exposing how he'd been playing DedSec for the first part of the game does almost cause them to disband, but it also prompts them to go to Swelter Skelter, where they encounter '''Raymond 'T-Bone' Kenny''', one of the most dangerous enemies Blume has. Furthermore he is directly responsible for DedSec finding out about the satellite backbone, toppling Tidis' plans for a robot army and Mark Thuss' campaign.]]