Audible has released its first interactive audio experience: Watch Dogs: Truth.
The collaboration with Ubisoft lets listeners make decisions at the end of each episode, shaping the fate of the characters and the resistance’s success.
Story wise, Watch Dogs: Truth is set after the events of 2020’s Watch Dogs: Legion, the third and so far last game in Ubisoft’s open-world hacking action adventure series. Having cleared their names and saved the city during the Zero Day Affair, DedSec continues its mission to expose the truth. The self-aware AI Bagley (Pascal Langdale) returns from Legion to act as a guide for listeners as the characters navigate a city under siege by disinformation and the cyber intelligence force SIRS.
Here’s the official blurb:
Listeners of this thrilling story will once again join the fight for truth whilst guided by the self-aware AI, Bagley, as they make decisions at the end of each episode, with choices that shape the hacking collective’s next move, profoundly impact character relationships and ultimately, the success of the resistance effort.
Across the series, listeners will have the fate of the city in their own hands, as the government’s cyber intelligence force (SIRS) orchestrates a sinister campaign of message manipulation and fake news, which leads DedSec to fight back using its revered tactics to battle against alarming disinformation.
Here’s the Watch Dogs: Truth cast:
T’Nia Miller (The Haunting of Bly Manor)Gary Beadle (In the Heart of the Sea)Russell Tovey (Being Human)Freema Agyeman (Doctor Who, Sense 8)David Morrissey (The Walking Dead)
This isn’t the first Ubisoft Audible release – it follows Assassin’s Creed Gold, The Division: Hearts on Fire, and Far Cry Rise of the Revolution starring Giancarlo Esposito. But it does rekindle memories of a seemingly dormant franchise, with Ubisoft yet to announce a fourth mainline game in the four years following the release of Legion.
What is in the works, however, is a Watch Dogs movie, which suggests Ubisoft hasn’t quite given up on the IP. Watch Dogs started shooting in the summer more than a decade after it was announced, directed by The Deep Dark and Meander’s Mathieu Turi and starring Tom Blyth and Sophie Wilde.
Watch Dogs exploded into the gaming world with the original Watch Dogs in 2014. The first instalment in Ubisoft’s tech-centered franchise told the story of Aiden Pearce, a hacker with the ability to manipulate technology in the environment around him. A sequel located in San Francisco was released in 2016, but the franchise most recently delivered a London-set entry with Watch Dogs: Legion.
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