Six months after missing the launch of PS4 and Xbox One, Watch_Dogs is finally in our hands. With so little time to explore Ubisoft Montreal's latest game, we've decided to postpone our review till later in order to take the time necessary to step back and prepare an objective look at the title. Meanwhile, we're not going to leave you without the usual smattering of high-quality videos to whet your appetite. On the menu we have no less than 34 extracts captured and encoded by us. As we prefer to do things half-heartedly, we've taken the time to specify the graphics options used for each video of the PC version (and the specs corresponding to the PC in question).
Note: For videos showing main missions, we made sure to select only sequences located at the beginning of the main story.
Our PC videos were captured using two different configurations, sometimes modified in order to hit a target frame-rate. It is important to note that Watch_Dogs is a particularly greedy game and it is very unlikely that most machines will be able to hit 60 frames per second with all graphics options maxed out. It has proven completely impossible on our machines, at least. That being said, the game stills runs at a smooth 30 fps framerate on a GTX 660Ti on high and even ultra (minus the textures, since they require a 3 GB GCU).
Intel i7 2700k@4.7 Ghz, 16 GB DDR3 1600 MHz, 2x nVidia GTX680 SLI
i5 4670k@4.0 GHz, 8GB RAM, Windows 7 x64, nVidia GeForce GTX 780 OC MSI
Settings used
Graphics quality:
Lod: High
Shadows: High
Reflections: Ultra
AO: HBAO + Low
Motion Blur: Off
DOF: On
Water: Ultra
Shader: High
Videos captured from config #2
Settings used
Graphics quality:
Lod: High
Shadows: High
Reflections: Ultra
AO: HBAO+ Low
Motion Blur: Off
DOF: On
Water: Ultra
Shader: High
The above settings correspond with all videos captured using config #2 aside from the Ultra video (texture were, however, kept at high) and the first three "Stroll" movies where textures were pushed up to Ultra and shaders lowered to "Medium". In the "Heavy Rain" and "Sonic Boom" videos HBAO+ High was used and Reflections set to high (the rest of the settings being identical to what's indicated above).
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Commented on 2014-05-27 09:47:43As always, you guys go above and beyond any other gaming site.
Love so much GSY!!!
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Commented on 2014-05-27 10:50:48also a comparison ps4/xbone from gamersyde will be the best , but i'm just dreaming aye , lol
Commented on 2014-05-27 11:07:34 In reply to radsy
Commented on 2014-05-27 11:16:11i wish you will give us full coverage of videos from E3 Expo
thank you again
Commented on 2014-05-27 11:19:21 In reply to HiiRoSENi wish you will give us full coverage of videos from E3 Expo
thank you again
Don't worry, we're going to E3 this year again :)
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Commented on 2014-05-27 11:24:27The hacking aspect of the game seems pretty limited.
The raining parts looks pretty outstanding.
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Commented on 2014-05-27 16:07:30had it since Friday :/ shame I can not post pics on here
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