The game also features both standalone and asynchronous multiplayer, where players can seamlessly 'invade' other people's single-player games. The most unique point of the series is the ability to interact with the surrounding world via Hollywood Hacking: players hold the ability to steal cash, trigger events, and even attack enemies using Aiden's phone, which leads to unique combat and gameplay. You play as Aiden Pearce, a rebellious hacker vigilante out to fight the system that the city's corrupt elite abuses for their own ends.
A game by Ubisoft Montreal, Watch_Dogs is set 20 Minutes into the Future in a Chicago run by MegaCorps and the 'Central Operating System' (aka ctOS), a massive software that monitors and manages all aspects of city life akin to a computer operating system.
