Watch Dogs

An upcoming game by Ubisoft Montreal, Watch Dogs was announced at E3 2012. The story is set Twenty Minutes Into the Future in a Chicago run by MegaCorps and the "Central Operating System", a massive software that monitors and manages all aspects of city life akin to a computer operating system. You play as Aiden Pierce, a rebellious hacker out to fight the system. The game will also feature a Co-Op Mode: the E3 demo briefly showed a second Player Character (nicknamed Bixxel_44) covering Pierce from the rooftops.

The gameplay shown so far looks like a mix of Deus Ex, Assassin's Creed, and Grand Theft Auto. The demo was run on a PC but the Play Station 3 and Xbox 360 versions have also been announced. There is no confirmed release date yet.

Tropes to be found in the game:

 * Alternate History: The backstory begins in the aftermath of the Northeast blackout of 2003.
 * Anti-Hero
 * Badass: Aiden Pierce.
 * Badass Longcoat: Aiden sports one.
 * The Cracker: Aiden Pierce, and others exist in the universe and might show up overall.
 * Big Brother Is Watching: The topic of intrusive and all-encompassing surveillance will be a big one in the game.
 * Everything Is Online: Everything and everyone - Aiden gladly exploits that.
 * Grey and Grey Morality: Neither Pierce nor his opponents are afraid to get their hands dirty.
 * Hero with Bad Publicity: Aiden is an outright wanted criminal who's trying to kill certain targets, but seems to be trying to do the right thing. Unfortunately, his targets control the ctOS.
 * Hollywood Hacking: Hacking is gonna be an important game mechanic, so some liberties are unavoidable.


 * Post Cyber Punk
 * Real Life Writes the Plot - The plot is Very Loosely Based on a True Story about a Real Life blackout.
 * Truth in Television: Disturbingly, much of the game's recurring themes. Internet privacy and security; aggregation of personal information, scattered around the Internet into the all-encompassing "digital shadow"; vulnerability of the essential infrastructure to cyberattacks are topics hotly debated in media and beyond.
 * Twenty Minutes Into the Future: Set in 2013, with only slightly futuristic premise.