Yes, I agree. I'm just trying to get into the heads of the people who think black people came off especially badly.

No, there's only "Not Yet", which tends to be reserved for games let down by some immense but patchable error.

Firstly, you have to have the option switched on, since I guess they knew a lot of people wouldn't want this (although frankly, they're missing something good!).

The only way you could beat the entire game without using a gun would be if you used explosives, which I guess is not what you're after. However, you can avoid gunfire to a remarkable degree. The number of Fort Knox situations I walked into, getting out having found the target and knocking out only him, was pretty…

They did give out copies before release. They just didn't allow reviews to be published until release, which is standard nowadays. Due to some cock-up or other, Kotaku didn't get their review copy on time.

Well, I disagree with Kirk about this game, but I totally agree with him that AC3 was bad. If I remember rightly, he didn't even give it that much of a kicking. I love the AC series but the double whammy of Revelations followed by III was insulting to many customers, and if I'd been in his shoes then I would have been…

If you're being invaded, there's no warning and no 2 min wait. That's if you want to make yourself available for match modes (races vs a tablet/mobile player controlling ctOS, for example). You'll only be told that the person is somewhere nearby, and that you've got a limited amount of time to catch them before they…

I think it's good that they left some consequences to be purely player guilt. I have quite a complex code for who I will and won't hack, even though I'm aware the game won't care!

Ubisoft didn't make Deus Ex!

Nobody can tell you that. There are a ton of personal tics that could mount up to make you either hate or love this.

Get into it now. You might have no problems whatsoever, and many of us didn't. It has been patched at least once since release.

For every NPC class of employment, education and income, there are white and black equivalents throughout the city. There's a majority white low-income area, and a majority black low-income area. Meanwhile, the boss of Blume and the person responsible for ctOS is a black woman. The mayor is a black man. The top…

SPOILERS, A LITTLE BIT

Black people aren't all thugs in this game. The trouble is that the main characters that aren't thugs are given very little screen time, so Kirk and some other reviewers have forgotten they were there (or possibly Kirk didn't play to the end, I don't know). There's the mayor, the boss of Blume Tech, and Giggles (a…

No it isn't.

Aiden and its other forms (Hayden, Jayden, etc) are the most popular names for baby boys in the USA in recent years. They're just going by popularity, I think. http://io9.com/america-why-ar…

No, it's different opinions and different policies. Ubisoft was advertising heavily for Watch Dogs in the weeks leading up to release on Kotaku, yet Kotaku did not give it a good review. Same for Giant Bomb, with their 3/5.

There is no black characterisation as offensive as that one, thankfully. There are only three characters with political power in the entire story of Watch Dogs, but two of them are black (the male mayor and the female boss of Blume Technology).

Yeah, that's a shame. They changed it into a mode instead, where mobile players play that game versus a random PC/console player who is attempting to complete a race against their sabotage (one of the purple online modes). I don't have the right kinds of phone to test it, but I've played against a lot of mobile…

Yeah, I think they did everything they could to suggest a no-guns approach though. But, as you say, people need to be willing to look for it.