With 40H40min, Watch_Dogs 2 (Ubisoft Montreal, 2016) is finally over!
This might seem a little harsh, but in the end I’m glad I finished the game. This is not to say that Watch_Dogs 2 is a bad game, that’s far from the truth—and I had some incredible moments with it. Unfortunately, though, many of the earlier and later missions were a little frustrating. A large complex, 100+ guards, when one of them sees you, you’re dead, mission failed, trial and error, system error in my head. Also, it seemed that the game took a little while to come to a close (Ubisoft threw in some more of the above described missions).
![WATCH_DOGS® 2_20170204173951](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170204173951-300x169.jpg)
That said, probably one of the most intriguing aspects about Watch_Dogs 2 is its gameworld: the beauty and the brilliance of the virtual San Francisco. It is a gameworld that intermingles the boundaries between a fictional experience and a ‘real’ one, from participating in its story and in the dystopia of its world to playing a vivid game of video game tourism.
These two seemingly contradictory aspects are however intermingled in a very clever way. The extroverted lifestyle of its character, who fight for an utopian enclave in a world full of corruption and data crime, but who may also express themselves in a variety of creative fashions. One of these is the tourism aspect of the game, which underlines the before mentioned creativity, but, at the same time, undermines it in a critique of contemporary use of smart phone technology.
Because the VGT in Watch_Dogs 2 is so diverse, I have divided it in three episodes: episode 1) selfies, episode 2) drone pics, and episode 3) pics from climbing the Golden Gate.
Enjoy!
Part I: Selfies
![The guy in the back gave me some feedback](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20161112192717-1024x576.jpg)
![...](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20161112193330-1024x576.jpg)
![Posing in front of the Golden Gate](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20161112195021-1024x576.jpg)
![The Painted Ladies!](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20161112200912-1024x576.jpg)
![China Town.](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20161112201647-1024x576.jpg)
![A picture of the virtual Golden Gate! (virtual within the virtual)](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20161112204856-1024x576.jpg)
![SF @night](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20161230010417-1024x576.jpg)
![I <3 SF guy!](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112003356-1024x576.jpg)
![Uhh neon lights!](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112105759-1024x576.jpg)
![Uhh ...](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112110421-1024x576.jpg)
![Now look at you...](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112110442-1024x576.jpg)
![uhh ...](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112110514-1024x576.jpg)
![looks kinda pissed](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112110458-1024x576.jpg)
![and some lady parts](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112110536-1024x576.jpg)
![Google nudle](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112110317-1024x576.jpg)
![Even the pipes are in color!](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112105826-1024x576.jpg)
![nudle guy](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112110259-1024x576.jpg)
![nudle maps guy!](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170123215033-1024x576.jpg)
![inside nudle](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112105833-1024x576.jpg)
![Selfie with a monkey](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112105819-1024x576.jpg)
![Golden Gate I](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112105955-1024x576.jpg)
![Golden Gate II: isn#t it a perfect selfie;)](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112110002-1024x576.jpg)
![Time for the Burning Man! Crazyness!](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112110017-1024x576.jpg)
![Uhh...](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112110024-1024x576.jpg)
![Uhh ...](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112110138-1024x576.jpg)
![...](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112110252-1024x576.jpg)
![no game without zombies ...](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112110628-1024x576.jpg)
![Golden Gate Posing](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112110653-1024x576.jpg)
![Interrupting a wedding photo!](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112110725-1024x576.jpg)
![...](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112110734-1024x576.jpg)
![San Francisco](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112110741-1024x576.jpg)
![Yoga is important!](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112110803-1024x576.jpg)
![quite a vista](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112110906-1024x576.jpg)
![Green guy!](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112110959-1024x576.jpg)
![Whose the guy in the bushes?](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112111038-1024x576.jpg)
![Where's his chair?](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112111052-1024x576.jpg)
![Abraham?](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112111102-1024x576.jpg)
![Some Golden Gate posing](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112111158-1024x576.jpg)
![go cheerleaders, go!](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112111305-1024x576.jpg)
![met an angry guy!](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112212758-1024x576.jpg)
![night-time posing!](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112212819-1024x576.jpg)
![Found a party boat!](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112212827-1024x576.jpg)
![Weird Golden Gate posing!](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112212841-1024x576.jpg)
![weird graffiti posing](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112212914-1024x576.jpg)
![ultra city posing](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112212944-1024x576.jpg)
![...](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112212959-1024x576.jpg)
![ultra city posing with a car (which out of glitch disappeard later)](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170112213014-1024x576.jpg)
![disturbing a band!](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170123214900-1024x576.jpg)
![Don't cry I](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170123214948-1024x576.jpg)
![Don't cry II](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170123215015-1024x576.jpg)
![...](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170123215116-1024x576.jpg)
![Donot guy](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170123215132-1024x576.jpg)
![Mannikin guys and gals](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170123215141-1024x576.jpg)
![Fucked Blume! Ad the douche guy](http://www.videogamenarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WATCH_DOGS®-2_20170204182820-1024x576.jpg)