Ubisoft has unveiled Watch Dogs 2 in a livestream, and as previously expected, the game is set in San Francisco with an all new hero Marcus Holloway. And most importantly, Ubisoft plans to deliver the game on November 15 of this year.

San Francisco in the game will be a combination of many of the different parts of the Bay area. The idea is to build a world that is alive and reacts to itself. Senior producer Dominic Guay said that the open-world game will not purely focus on the player. "We want you to feel the world is alive even if you do nothing."

San Francisco was also chosen because it is the tech capital and has a lot of hacking potential with some of the biggest tech companies in the world. As part of the live world, there will be various criminal groups fighting over the underground of the city, as well as megacorporations trying to manipulate people in society. And ctOS, the smart city system installed in the first Watch Dogs, also runs San Francisco.

The new hero, Marcus Holloway, was created to embody the spirit of the city. He is a brilliant hacker from Oakland who has seen a lot of injustice in the city, while even experiencing it first hand by being profiled and falsely accused of a crime. Marcus will use parkour a lot more than Aiden of the original, with a lot of motion capture being used to get the moves right and even better than the first game.

Plenty of research was done on what types of melee weapons could be used and the dev team came up with the idea of a billiard ball attached to paracord. The speed of the weapon will make it quite interesting to play with. There will also be more crafted items allowing for non-lethal playthroughs of the game.

Marcus will be part of a group of Dedsec hackers, and there will be more depth and flexibility in hacking. Vehicles can be hacked, alowing remote driving. Everything can be hacked: every person, every vehicle, every item. And marcus will have more toys at his disposal to get his missions accomplished. Mass hackings will be allowed.

The game will also have co-op gameplay. You can come across people playing the game single-player and since you are all in Dedsec, you can team up and play together. The co-op part of the game will be shown in more detail in the next few months.

Guay said he spent months looking at feedback on the original Watch Dogs to see what players wanted to do but couldn't, as well as what they didn't like. That brought the dev team to the conclusion that they had to make a sequel. "With Watch Dogs 2, we feel we can really deliver on the fantasy of being a hacker."

The game is set to be released on November 15 this year.