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Watch Dogs: Bad Blood

Revisit Chicago in a brand new Watch_Dogs adventure! Play as T-Bone Grady, the legendary and eccentric hacker and Aiden Pearce's trusted comrade. Now on the run from Blume, T-Bone only has two choices: flee…

76 29 September 2014

Watch Dogs: Bad Blood is an adventure developed by Ubisoft Montreal, released 29 September 2014 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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What Watch Dogs: Bad Blood is

Watch Dogs: Bad Blood is an adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and released in 2014. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Watch Dogs is a 2014 action-adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the first installment in the Watch Dogs series. The game is played from a third-person perspective, and its world is navigated on foot or by vehicle. Set within a fictionalized version of the Chicago metropolitan area in 2013, the single-player story follows grey hat hacker and vigilante Aiden Pearce's quest for revenge after the killing of his niece in a botched assassination attempt. An online multiplayer mode allows up to eight players to engage in cooperative and competitive gameplay.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, open world, sandbox and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Watch_Dogs series

Watch Dogs: Bad Blood is the second of 12 entries we hold in the Watch_Dogs series. The next entry was Watch Dogs 2 in 2016. Its critic score of 76 is 4 points above the series average of 72. The highest-rated entry is Watch Dogs at 81.

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How it was received

Watch Dogs: Bad Blood holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 7 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 @ 2.66Ghz or AMD Phenom II X4 940 @ 3.0Ghz, 6 GB RAM and DirectX 11 graphics card with 1 GB Video RAM - Nvidia Geforce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD 5770. An 6GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 25GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Watch Dogs: Bad Blood launched on 29 September 2014, within three weeks of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition and Bayonetta 2. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, Bayonetta 2.

Cheats and codes

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Watch Dogs: Bad Blood — frequently asked questions

When did Watch Dogs: Bad Blood come out?
Watch Dogs: Bad Blood was released on 29 September 2014 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Watch Dogs: Bad Blood?
At minimum, Watch Dogs: Bad Blood needs Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 @ 2.66Ghz or AMD Phenom II X4 940 @ 3.0Ghz, 6 GB RAM, DirectX 11 graphics card with 1 GB Video RAM - Nvidia Geforce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD 5770 graphics, 25 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Watch Dogs: Bad Blood?
The PC version needs about 25 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("25 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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