

(Some clothes even look like things you can own in real life, like knockoff Adidas Tubulars copped from AliExpress.) And Marcus is the kind of character who can pull off a look that’s little loud or off-center - if you have the confidence to steal data from Silicon Valley billionaires, surely you can make a denim vest work for you. As Kotaku pointed out, some of the clothes are pretty good, and having this many options is proof that the creators chewed on the details. Several fictional clothing brands have storefronts in Watch Dogs 2 ’s fictional San Francisco, so Marcus isn’t stuck in the hellscape of wearing one pair of jeans forever. Putting clothes on is also a practice I’m deeply familiar with.

Until this point, my colleague Megan had been working her way through Watch Dogs 2, but a clothing shop seemed as safe a space as any to hand over the controller - it’s like how you can’t let a baby put together a puzzle, but you can let him play with the box it came in.Īnyway I was happy to perform this task, not because I love capitalism, but because outfitting Marcus reminded me of games I’m more comfortable with, like The Sims, or Harvest Moon, the kind of games where your personal well-being is more important than the physical destruction of thousands of strangers. After a long night of hacking into the computer system of a massive corporation, it was time to reward Marcus with a new outfit.
