That's one of the huge inspirations for us, the idea that you could be prejudged.
Can you imagine, though, that the insurance companies would have the ability to tell these people whether or not they could be covered for certain things because people of this community were more prone or at risk for this sort of thing. Researchers gathered information on these people, and then they turned around and sold this information to insurance companies.
They ended up sharing a lot of commonalities between each other in terms of medical history. There had been a medical study done on this island where, the people living there had been intermarrying for generations. I remember a frightening story that I once heard. It reminds me of Facebook, the algorithm they use to know what to advertise for certain users.Įxactly. They're capable of parsing the information and understanding it and working toward understanding exactly what it means on a social level. That's one of the reasons we ended up focusing on a group of hackers. We have that predictive element, but we also wanted to talk about how everything is sort of becoming interconnected now, and how technology's stripping our ability to understand it as much. Whether we're talking about prediction of who you are, what your medical history is, what kind of education you have versus what kind of money you're going to make in the future, whether you're going to be a troublemaker or not. It's about how it's being applied, and how it's being applied against people. It's not enough to just collect that data. We've evolved that process to where the story we're trying to tell is about how all that information is being used. Lucien Soulban: Watch Dogs 1 was dealing much more with mass surveillance. GameSpot: What kind of story is Watch Dogs 2 trying to tell that Watch Dogs couldn't? If successful, Lucien says, Watch Dogs 2 will address all three. With Watch Dogs 2, Soulban wants to make use of the Bay Area's diverse culture, and the people that grew up here, to illuminate class struggles, economic problems, and the dark side of technology. To shed more light on the story and narrative of Watch Dogs 2, we sat down with lead writer Lucien Soulban, who's written the scripts for titles such as Far Cry 3, Far Cry 4, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas. The new character is a member of a thriving underground community.īut there's more to the new setting and new characters than that. The first game featured a lone wolf protagonist. The sequel is bringing us to the fog and sun of California's Bay Area. The first Watch Dogs took us through the darkened, rainy streets of Chicago. On an aesthetic level, Watch Dogs 2 couldn't look more different than its predecessor.
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