Watch Dogs 2 (stylized as WATCH_DOGS 2) is a 2016 action-adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the sequel to 2014’s Watch Dogs and the second installment in the Watch Dogs series. It was released for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows in November 2016, for Amazon Luna in November 2020, and for Stadia in December 2020. Wikipedia
Research exclusive to this game
Broaddus, Maurice. “First Loves and True Representation.” In Game Devs & Others, pp. 77-79. AK Peters/CRC Press, 2018.
Research that includes this game in its sample
Fontaine, Dominique. “Landscape in computer games—The examples of GTA V and Watch Dogs 2.” Modern approaches to the visualization of landscapes (2020): 293-306.
Kosciesza, Aiden J. “The moral service of trans NPCs: Examining the roles of transgender non-player characters in role-playing video games.” Games and Culture 18, no. 2 (2023): 189-208.
Leonard, David J. “Virtual anti-racism: Pleasure, catharsis, and hope in Mafia III and Watch Dogs 2.” Humanity & Society 44, no. 1 (2020): 111-130.
Schoppmeier, Sören. “Legible Bodies and the Ghosts of American History: On Racialized Surveillance in Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs Videogames.” European journal of American studies 16, no. 16-3 (2021).
Other games in the franchise
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Watch Dogs 2 (5)