Chicago at your fingertips, a 2014 promise that didn't age the way it planned.

On gut choice, Watch Dogs sits in the lower middle, ahead of a little over 40% of games. And that's already kinder than the detail. Controller feel is by far its best line, ahead of around two thirds of the field, though it rests on just three duels, so treat it as a signal to confirm. Art style and fun hold the middle. But the moment emotion enters the picture, it collapses: connection down around 7%, rediscovery and desert island near 16%. There's the tension: the hacking still amuses, the city is a pleasure to move through, but nobody bonds with Aiden Pearce or dreams of experiencing the story fresh again.

It's the classic fate of the big Ubisoft open world. The systems hold, the loop works, but in a genre where Rockstar and CD Projekt leave memories that stick for years, Watch Dogs is remembered as a system, not as a place.

So, who is it for? For you if you love flipping cameras, planning an infiltration and roaming a big playable city. Much less so if you want characters who follow you after the console goes off.