Vi pratade nyligen med Jonathan Morin, creative director för Watch Dogs 2, och efter att ha fått en smak på förödelsen vi kommer kunna orsaka i spelets version av San Francisco frågade vi honom om humor, kul och kaos var viktigt att förmedla till spelaren denna gång.
Han svarade: "I think it's a combination of humour and also making sure we find the fun of the mechanics, like this idea was emerging from our desire to make sure we would give hacking to the player so they can have their own ideas. We wanted to push hacking so that it was more analogue. My favourite hacking in the first game was controlling cameras. It's not the most epic one but it was something where I control something, I decide where I look, I hop to another one, and we were like 'can we make all of our hacks feel like that' and we ended up doing stuff like when you point at something you can choose what you want to do."
Allt detta gäller även spelets datorstyrda fotgängare; "If you look at a human being, we knew there's a lot of NPCs in an open world so if you want to be able to do all sorts of things it's probably important we give a couple options on these, so turning them into criminals, it's funny, it's cool to create an AI where you don't really know how they're going to react to it. I mean if you're walking down the street and next thing you know cops come by and say 'freeze', you don't know what the hell's going on."
Morin förklarade även att balansen mellan lättsamt kul och det seriösa meddelande som kommer med spelets tema är något han gillar med spelet.
"I like that duality. It talks about the subject [and] it gives you some fun and emergent element that can happen to it at the same time, so I think it's a good combination."
Watch Dogs 2 släpps till PC, Playstation 4 och Xbox One den 15 november. Tycker du spelet ser mer "kul" ut än ettan?
