Ah, the internet, the last voluminous strand of authenticity left on the balding head of western civilization. As bleak as this metaphor might appear, the internet truly is one of the few places of refuge that, for now, remains mostly free from government regulation and censorship. In case you're curious, this is actually all thanks to a certain policy known as Net Neutrality, but that's another story.
This story instead depicts a near future heavily influenced by technological advancement. Watch Dogs, the original game, was released in May of 2014, and was set within postmodern Chicago. This Chicago has pioneered the use of a corporate run, universal network to control most, if not all, technological functions of the city's infrastructure. Everything from security cameras, to traffic lights, to bridges, are all regulated through a single network called ctOS. What could possibly go wrong?
Watch Dogs 2 continues the technological revolution of the hacker group Dedsec, which has spread throughout other cities in the U.S. These include a San Francisco that has been subjected to a revitalized version of the original program. Given Dedsec's original campaign against the network in Chicago, they have no intention of condoning a ctOS 2.0. The story follows Dedsec member Marcus Holloway on a mission to harness the software that is being used to regulate and monitor the populace and use it against its perpetrators.
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