If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy.

Watch Dogs whole map open from the start of the game

Watch Dogs won't have players trapped in a small section of the map, waiting patiently to complete enough missions to unlock more areas.

Watch Dogs creative director Jonathan Morin told The Average Gamer that the whole Watch Dogs world is “open right at the start".

"You can go anywhere you want. We are not restricting the player,” he said,

That said, while you can go anywhere you like, you'll need to hack to expand what's available to Aiden on the map.

"Within the free-roaming the player will have to progressively invade certain strategic points from the city OS system that’s going to make it possible for him [Aiden] to get connected in a district," Morin said.

"It’s going to grow and we call this 'monitoring grid'. It’s like its own network to listen to what’s going on in the city. That unlocks tons of different side activities and events that the system can detect so we can actually go and intervene into them.”

Watch Dogs is coming to PC, PlayStation 3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Xbox One in November.

Thanks, PCGamesN.

Sign in and unlock a world of features

Get access to commenting, homepage personalisation, newsletters, and more!

In this article

Watch Dogs

PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii U, PC

Related topics
About the Author
Brenna Hillier avatar

Brenna Hillier

Contributor

Based in Australia and having come from a lengthy career in the Aussie games media, Brenna worked as VG247's remote Deputy Editor for several years, covering news and events from the other side of the planet to the rest of the team. After leaving VG247, Brenna retired from games media and crossed over to development, working as a writer on several video games.

Comments