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Watch Dogs 2 Will Be Free During Ubisoft Forward Presentation
Watch Dogs 2 on PC will be free to anyone with a UPlay account during next week’s Ubisoft Forward event, but only while the show is live. Ubisoft Forward is expected to reveal next-gen games for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X from the developer.
The Watch Dogs series has never had quite the success that Ubisoft would have liked, but the developer isn’t giving up on it yet. Both of the first two Watch Dogs games had some original ideas, but failed to pull them off in a really interesting way. The upcoming sequel, Watch Dogs: Legion, looks to be a much more ambitious direction for the franchise, letting players recruit and even play as any NPC in the game’s world, though some may be more difficult to convince than others. There was even talk of a Watch Dogs movie going back to 2014, but it’s been a while since any news about its progress has made it sound like anything more than a distant possibility.
There may be no better way to build a player base for a sequel than to give away the series’ previous releases for free, and that’s what Ubisoft is doing with Watch Dogs. First it was the original game, which was offered free on the Epic Games Store in March, and now it’s Watch Dogs 2. According to Ubisoft, players will be able to snag a free copy of the hacker action game during the broadcast of Ubisoft Forward, which runs from 12 pm PDT until 12:45 pm PDT on Sunday, July 12. To claim a free copy, fans will have to log in to UPlay while the show is ongoing. Ubisoft specifically says that Watch Dogs 2 will be available “anytime after Trackmania and before the end of the main show,” so presumably Trackmania will be one of the first games to appear in the show. While they’re claiming Watch Dogs 2, players can also enter to win other rewards from Ubisoft by answering trivia questions.
Aside from Trackmania, Ubisoft says the show will also feature Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Watch Dogs: Legion. In part of a long overdue push for better accessibility in games, Ubisoft says the show will also be subtitled in multiple languages and presented with American Sign Language interpretation.
The cancellation of E3 2020 and other gaming shows has left developers and publishers scrambling to get news out about their big upcoming games, and Ubisoft Forward looks like it will fill the gap nicely for fans of the developer. PC players who haven’t checked out Watch Dogs 2 yet will also have an extra treat as they wait for Watch Dogs: Legion.
Watch Dogs 2 is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
