It's nothing new that graphics have been toned down ALOT since the E3 reveal.
Cry at me all you want saying Graphics don't matter but gameplay does but I don't care. I've already written a long post about such talk.
People have ended up pre-ordering the game due to such false advertising.
Not just on PC but also on consoles. Here is what they had on their website about a week back: Here is what they have now: Along with this blog post:
I don't think I need to talk of the graphics comparison from E3.The game also looks great on both generations of consoles. On new-gen systems the game will run at 900p on PS4 and 792p on Xbox One, at 30 frames-per-second on both consoles.
Everyone knows of it already but still here goes: For more just play their trailers in HD and you will see the difference easily.
I understand the footage from E3 is not final product and always changes but damn that is what got me and most people interested in the game in the first place. The blast of the petrol pump was the best explosion I had seen in any game but now explosions dont look any good.
No matter what the excuse is, it doesn't change the fact that it was misleading. You can be the one who doesn't care for graphics at all but just gameplay but I do. If you don't care for graphics then I'll make you a dont_watch_dogs in pac-man graphics with same gameplay. That should be fine for you if you don't care for graphics right?
It's not that I hate Ubisoft, I actually love them but the truth is what it is.
They make awesome games and I love their Assassin's Creed Franchise. It's my favourite franchise of all times. AC-3 and 4 did have bugs/performance issues during time of release (For AMD cpu's only, frames drop to 40's in city areas no matter the settings) but they get fixed later.
They did something similar with Assassin's Creed 3 where most the things shown in preview were removed from the final game. Like the stealth system. In preview you would hit 1 and others would take time to notice but in final game they all went on alert almost instantly.
I'm excited for Assassin's Creed Unity, but Watch_Dogs, nahh..