Back in 2009 there was a massive biological attack in the city of New York.
A chunk of particleboard masquerading as a man was thought to be the cause of this horrible event. His name was Alex Mercer and he was some sort of biologically enhanced superhuman who could manipulate his body into various shapes and sizes. It had no previous memory of the events that happened before 2009.
He went on a rampage throw-out New York City. Killing monsters, military men and trying to avoid an atomic disaster to wipe out the virus.
All of this in future was covered up by the United States government.
With little to no evidence of the events ever happening.
How this can be in a major city without anyone knowing?
Well that's simple.
There's more than one New York City.
You'll never hear about one New York when it gets destroyed as there's always another one around the corner, just waiting to be visited.
Now why do I bring all this up. Cuz there's more than one Alex.
Yes that's right, the man was cloned!
Created around the same time as the original Alex Mercer. This Alex, who possessed none of the biological manipulations of his predecessor. Was given the green light and was put into commission and released into the wild, to live a mundane life somewhere within the inner cities of Chicago.
But it turns out he had his own unique powers.
Unbeknownst to him, he had a meniscus insightful for electronics and if he focussed his mind enough, he can manipulate these Electronics while masquerading as a master ''hacker''.
He would carry around a mobile phone; staring at it from time to time. As if using this device to control the world around him. But alas it's all in his head.
Like Jubilee (of the X-Men) he has some form of electronic discharge at his disposal.
But unlike Jubilee his powers are minimalized.
It can only be used on certain devices.
At some point his family was killed. He went into an angry Revenge blaming the city of Chicago.
He blames the death of his daughter on a group of mobsters that were assigned to hunt him down.
Because of his supposed hacking Connections.
In reality the entire event might be in his head. He may have no family or close relatives. Instead staring out into the ether thinking they're there.
But still he vows revenge on an elderly Irishman who run some sort of criminal organization throughout Chicago.
He's given all forms of personality along with an incredibly insane wack job personally. Honnisly I didn't want to kill the man, as I found him 20 times more entertaining then the plank of wood protagonist.
And I guess in a way my dreams came true, as I have never actually gotten far enough in the game to assassinate the man.
Watch-Dogs despite being a decent enough game is plagued with freezing issues and frame rates that drop well below 15.
Personally I'm not a big fan of high-frame-rates. I'm perfectly content with 30.
But you have to give me a stable game, otherwise I'm just not going to complete it.
Add that too a generic Revenge story of the world's most boring man. A Guy who has such little personality that I can compare him to a character from Prototype and it just doesn't give me any ambition to complete it.
My entertainment came from taking down all the various gangs pepper throughout the city.
By using the ''hacker'' mobile phone and a silenced pistol.
(Which admittedly made it a little too easy).
I would drive around in an old 70s station wagon claiming to be the great Liberator the city. Its protector against conventional crime.
At some point I pretended that Alex got a little too far down the ''Hero'' rabbit hole. Convinced that he was a ''Good guy with a gun'' and that said gun could permit him to do anything he wanted.
Rather that be; Running into buildings where he wasn't welcomed, driving on the opposite side of the road (while singing God Save the King) or hacking into innocent people's bank accounts, stealing every penny they had. So he could buy more bullets for his silenced gun.
If we look at this game with {pseudo narrative dissonance}
You could argue that Alex (whose last name I can't remember, might as well just call me Alex Mercer) is no better than the very people he fights.
He's a psychopath who shoots random idiots on the street. Constantly creates collateral damage, continuously robs the poor while stating that he's fighting against the big evil corrupt corporation. But it's really just spying and everyone all the same.
You're a bad man. And worse than that, a boring bad man.
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