Watch Dogs 2 Arriving Before April 2017, Says Ubisoft

Watch Dogs 2 Arriving Before April 2017, Says Ubisoft

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Lee Bradley

A Watch Dogs sequel will launch before the end of Ubisoft’s financial year, the publisher has confirmed. That means we’ll be playing the next instalment of the open-world action hacking series before April, 2017.

Speaking in its third-quarter financial report, Ubisoft also confirmed that open-world tactical shooter Ghost Recon: Wildlands, comedy RPG South Park: The Fractured But Whole, and third-person multiplayer melee game For Honor will also hit within the same time frame. It’s gonna be a busy year for the publisher.

In addition to this, Ubisoft also said that it will launch "a new high-potential AAA brand with strong digital live services." No further details of this brand were revealed.

The news coming following an announcement that Assassin’s Creed will skip 2016, with the devs taking time out to refine and evolve the series’ gameplay. This was first rumoured in January, along with a report that a Watch Dogs sequel will launch this autumn to fill the gap.

That report also said that Watch Dogs 2 would be set in San Francisco. Ubisoft has yet to confirm or deny.

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  • Godammit, HissingMeat, will you please stop pointing out what will likely be the truth? You're ruining my blind allegiance to AAA publishers and that is a fantasy I'm totally willing to give you a thumbs-down for in order to maintain.
  • @1 And the delay will have us scratching our heads when we get the final product, and it's a steaming pile of trash. Like watch dogs. And don't get me started on proper play testing.. Or lack thereof
  • Thought the first game was average from start to finish. Nothing was broken or glaringly wrong but nothing was memorable or stood out. It was Ubisoft open world game #6B, taken form the mold of other, similar titles. They'd need to make a lot of changes to get people excited.
  • Doesn't "a new high-potential AAA brand with strong digital live services" just mean another Call of Jaurez or The Crew-level property no one cares about? Anyway, when I saw the headline to this, all I could think was "I know."
  • Still yet to play the first one, gonna wait till its £5 because I think that's how much its worth based on what I've seen. Thank God that Ubisoft have South Park because that will be the saving grace for their company this year.
  • I absolutely can't wait for the new South Park game. Before playing the Stick of Truth, I had never seen the show and enjoyed it mainly for being a solid RPG. I just hope the sequel is a bit longer.
  • Fractured Butt Whole is the only one for me. Watch Dogs was a mess so the Sequel is gonna need something big to save the franchise.
  • Hopefully Watch Dogs 2 will feature a new protagonist and not Blandy McBlanderdon again.
  • Didn't they just say there'd be no new Assassin's Creed game this year? We all know it's just by another name.
  • They better not butcher this south Park game, otherwise I'll be travelling to their HQ and letting down every tire in their car park on a daily basis for a month.
  • @#12 - As long as Matt and Trey are actively involved in making the game, I don't think we need to worry about Ubisoft fucking it up.
  • They need to really make Watch Dogs 2 a huge improvement from the last one.
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