Instead, every ability seems like a toy, a challenge to incorporate into your next objective, daring you to be as creative as you can be. Unlike the first Watch Dogs, hacking doesn’t seem like a little bit of extra flavor to spice up an average shooter. If you just accept his hacking abilities as magic from the get-go, you’re gonna have a much better time (why can he see in hackervision doesn’t make any goddamn sense). Using his phone, he can hack every vehicle and camera in the city, providing him with transportation and eyes everywhere. How you have Marcus do this is up to you. By joining DedSec, he has a chance to expose the flaws in both ctOS and the idea of trusting tech with the ones and zeroes that record everyone’s lives. The program predicted that he would be a criminal, leaving him with a stained record. DedSec opposes Big Data, and Marcus especially has reasons to hate the cold, mechanical tendrils of surveillance programs reaching into his life. San Francisco has recently adopted ctOS, an operating system that links the entire city under the guise of simplifying the lives of residents.
