A big new Watch Dogs mod makes Chicago a more dynamic place

The original Watch Dogs didn’t exactly light the world on fire: critics found it a bit directionless and disappointing, set in a Chicago that didn’t feel alive. A new mod for the four-year-old game adds a ton of features that help correct that, and even restores some cut content. Modder The_Silver has created Living_City, which livens Watch Dogs’ up quite a bit by adding features like random events, ambushes, and custom missions. You’ll be able to return to building interiors that were restricted to story missions to explore them at will, use new hacks on civilians (like giving them money or draining their phone batteries), and run into random events. The_Silver says they built the mod over the course of 14 months, starting out with no knowledge of scripting whatsoever and learning along the way. The results are impressive, and Living_City opens up Watch Dogs to a ton of new possibilities and challenges. What’s nice is that each individual new feature introduced in the mod can be individually disabled in a simple config file, so if you’re not into the idea of potentially getting ambushed on a Fixer Contract, you can just toggle that option off.