Watch Dogs started life as an ambitious Driver reboot until Ubisoft wanted its “own GTA” and started the new IP.Driver’s last title, San Francisco, was released in 2011 and failed to reach the sales success of its predecessors, but Watch Dogs was intended to rejuvenate the series with a modern-day upgrade.According to VG247, Driver: San Francisco was in development at Ubisoft Reflections, while the Watch Dogs/Driver project was being discussed at Ubisoft Montreal.“It was always modern day,” a Ubisoft source explained. “It had on-foot, parkour, combat as well as driving, all set in a large open-world city, and the main hook was always modern technology and hacking.“After a while trying to make this concept fit into the Driver franchise, the.
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