E3 Trailers: ‘Watch Dogs,’ ‘The Last of Us,’ & Quantic’s ‘Beyond: Two Souls’

The affluence of trailers pouring out of E3 won’t be ending for quite some time, but many of the bigger show-stealers have already taken shape after Monday’s round of press conferences. Here, we lead off with Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs, and then round up Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us and Quantic Dream’s newly-announcedBeyond: Two Souls from the Sony presser.


Watch Dogs

Not long after the demo starts for Watch Dogs, the new open-world action-adventure title from Ubisoft Montreal, it’s clear the game has a certain way, a certain confidence about itself. That it came to E3 ready to own the conversation.

The game takes place in Windy City (the Chicago to Liberty City’s New York, if you will), and is predicated on a near-future supercomputer that rules over every aspect of urban life. Ubisoft describes its protagonist, Aiden Pearce, as an antihero who can hack any piece of electronic infrastructure around – and defend himself with almost equal skill. The incredibly rich detail displayed so far – lively CPU behavior, beautifully rendered environments and shootouts, powerful sound design – had us hooked from the start, and we can’t wait to get a closer look at how it all works.