Watch Dogs 2 Appears in Online CV of Senior Gameplay Programmer; Possible E3 2022 Reveal

Picket Dogs 2 is in development according to the online CV of the game'south senior gameplay programmer.

Julien Risse, who works at Ubisoft'south Paris studio, lists the sequel in his LinkedIn contour:

Watch Dogs 2
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has already suggested that a Watch Dogs sequel could be in development last twelvemonth. Ubisoft Montreal'south creative director Jonathan Morin admitted that at that place was a "lot of room for improvement" in Watch Dogs, calculation that any potential sequel would accept to "entreatment to fans in a new mode".

"Nosotros knew it would exist polarising," Guillemot told CVG

"Some people loved the characters and some didn't. It was difficult to delight everybody with that character. At present, having seen the reaction, nosotros know what nosotros volition exercise next to improve that."

"I tin't say [if Aiden volition return as the lead grapheme in Watch Dogs 2] considering I don't know actually,"

"We'll see."

Guillemot too stated that the company was working on diversifying their characters:

"spend more time on the worlds and characters in our games... you lot will see more and more of this at Ubisoft. We'll try to be less like we have been in the past with some characters. We'll attempt to extend more diversity."

Ubisoft faced scrutiny for failing to include female pb characters in upcoming co-op adventure Assassin'south Creed: Unity.

"[Female characters were] on our characteristic list until non as well long ago, merely it's a question of focus and production," technical manager James Therien stated

"Then nosotros wanted to make sure we had the best experience for the graphic symbol.

"A female character means that you have to redo a lot of animation, a lot of costumes [inaudible]. It would take doubled the work on those things. And I mean it's something the team actually wanted, just we had to brand a decision... It's unfortunate, simply it's a reality of game development."

There could be a potential announcement at E3 2022 in June during Ubisoft'due south printing conference or mayhap during Microsoft'southward conference.