Watch Dogs 2With the Wii U GamePad, more features have been added to many games, sometimes adding new features and other times just to add portability to a game. However Ubisoft is currently deciding on what to do with the GamePad for Watch Dogs. One thing they do know is that they want Watch Dogs to be a social game, connecting friends and other players in the game. Senior producer Dominic Guay said in an interview with Digital Spy:

So the connectivity between players with mobile devices, the way you can control the city, the immersion, all those are core and on any platforms we’re going to ship on we’re going to make sure we nail those pillars down.

As for the GamePad and its use in the Wii U version of the game, Guay had this to say:

We’re still investigating how we’ll use the tablet on the Wii U, but with the things I mentioned before, for us it’s not going to be a weird stretch. It’s natural. What’s really cool with Watch Dogs, when we start thinking of those devices, it’s not a weird abstraction, it’s not like I’m a space alien and now I’m using a tablet. Why am I doing that? Aiden Pearce is using a device to control the city, so it’s quite easy to imagine what we could do with that.

It’s certainly possible to see how Ubisoft could connect the GamePad with various devices by Aiden Pearce in-game, but it’s equally as possible they could just use the GamePad to make the game pseudo-portable. How would you like to see the GamePad used in the game?

  • http://www.facebook.com/tyrell.jones.9 Tyrell Jones

    Idk… use the gamepad as the cell phone aside from just the proverbial map?

  • YayGs

    Just don’t over do it.

  • Guhtere

    The only thing I could think of is to have the images on his smart phone on the gamepad, but other than that, all I could think of is off-TV play and a map.

  • TheUnBiasedGamer

    I’m fine as long as it isn’t, Look at the TV, now look at the GamePad, now TV, now GamePad! It’s annoying…

    • TheUnBiasedGamer

      Also, I like the way it’s used in Sonic Racing Transformed. Having a map on the touch screen is really helpful for when I want to shoot backwards. Also, if you flick it up a bit, it gives a small rear view mirror while still maintaining the TV image.

    • Raven The Great

      Lol, that just completely reminded me of the Old Spice Commercial:
      “Look at me, now look at your man, now look at me, now back to your man, now back TO ME.”

    • TheUnBiasedGamer

      Perfect fit! lmao

  • J-Biz

    Obviously the phone should be integrated into the GamePad with a ‘GPS App’ that brings up the Chicago map when needed. Just don’t cop-out and just have a ‘play while the TV is off’ option and a map display like AC III did, it’s just lazy.

  • Captain Jack Sparrow

    i just want off TV play

    • http://www.facebook.com/jack.smith.315080 Jack Smith

      I’m with you brotha!

    • Anonymousers

      I’mm with you on that too, Jack.

  • ShaDow

    Cell phone and map but I would probally just use the pro anyway.

  • Michel

    GPS + Phone?

    It is BTW intresting that the PS3 & X360 version are not yet in development when the WiiU version is already running.
    It could be that the WiiU version will be ported to PS3/X360, they ported the PS4/PC/X720 to the WiiU or they made it from scratch.

    • iLLu$tris

      It is ported from PC and optimized for it. Just like every multiplat.

  • Tails the Foxhound

    Now that this game (and possibly SC: Blacklist) is coming to the Wii U, everyone that did any amount of (justified) whining about Rayman better buy this.

  • Imyourxpan

    Being a Chicagoan makes me extra excited for this game!

  • InterTreble

    Best version on Wii U! Well done! ;)