Humour and chaos are more important for Watch Dogs 2

We recently spoke to Watch Dogs 2's Creative Director Jonathan Morin and, after noticing the mayhem you can cause in the game, we asked him whether humour, fun and chaos were important to get across to the player this time around.

"I think it's a combination of humour and also making sure we find the fun of the mechanics," Morin said, "like this idea was emerging from our desire to make sure we would give hacking to the player so they can have their own ideas. We wanted to push hacking so that it was more analogue. My favourite hacking in the first game was controlling cameras. It's not the most epic one but it was something where I control something, I decide where I look, I hop to another one, and we were like 'can we make all of our hacks feel like that' and we ended up doing stuff like when you point at something you can choose what you want to do."

All of this also applies to people too. "If you look at a human being, we knew there's a lot of NPCs in an open world so if you want to be able to do all sorts of things it's probably important we give a couple options on these, so turning them into criminals, it's funny, it's cool to create an AI where you don't really know how they're going to react to it. I mean if you're walking down the street and next thing you know cops come by and say 'freeze', you don't know what the hell's going on."

He also explained that balancing the fun with a serious message of what kind of trouble databases can cause was what he liked about Watch Dogs 2. "I like that duality. It talks about the subject [and] it gives you some fun and emergent element that can happen to it at the same time, so I think it's a good combination."

Watch Dogs 2 will be released on PC, PS4 and Xbox One on November 15. Do you think making the game more fun and comic is a good move for the sequel?