Ubisoft's big, open-world hacking game Watch Dogs was highly anticipated, but ultimately pretty boring. The graphics were nothing special, the gameplay was incredibly repetitive, and the characters were outright horrid. If only they could have taken the interesting hacking ideas and put them in a great game, say something like GTA V. Oh wait, modders have.
As seen in that video above, we have the Watch Dogs mod for GTA V. This mod, created by JulioNIB, allows players to have access to the various hacking abilities of the Watch Dogs protagonist, Aiden Pearce, without having to deal with how terrible of a character he is. The video does replace the main GTA V characters with Pearce through a mod, so if you do want him around, it's possible.
The video shows off many of the special features that the mod has. This includes breaking into cars easily, messing with stop lights, taking down helicopters, derailing trains, and all that cool stuff. Also included are other hacks that are not found in Watch Dogs. This includes the option to speed up all nearby vehicles, which usually results in hilarious crashes. Jump to the 6:25 marker in the video to see an example of this new hack.
All of this results in a clone of Watch Dogs set in Los Santos. Personally, I think that GTA V's open world is one of the most impressive worlds in all of gaming, so having the ability to interact with it on this level makes it even cooler.
To download the mod for yourself, head over to the GTA X Scripting site. The mod is free to download, but the creator is looking for Patreon support to continue making new mods and improving on older ones.
So what do you think? Will you be downloading and trying out the Watch Dogs mod for GTA V? Are you interested in the upcoming Watch Dogs 2? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.
