Ubisoft's "Watch Dogs" creative director Jonathan Morin has revealed how long the title's main story line will take gamers to complete.
Morin responded to a fan on his official Twitter account asking how many hours he should expect to put into the game.
"@vytla102 I would say the average player which does free roam a bit tend to reach the end within 35-40h. But doing everything is close 100h," Morin wrote.
Ubisoft's open world games are usually massive and players can expect to put a lot of time and effort into the titles, but be reward fans with quality gameplay. The company recently explained why the highly anticipated hacker-inspired title was delayed a month before its release date.
Senior Producer Dominic Guay claimed it was not an easy decision for the company, but they needed more time to "polish" game animations before the title hit story shelves.
@vytla102 I would say the average player which does free roam a bit tend to reach the end within 35-40h. But doing everything is close 100h.
— Jonathan Morin (@Design_Cave) March 15, 2014
"We produced an insane amount of animations and behaviors for the citizens of our Chicago," Guay explained in an interview with Ubisoft's official blog. "But once you do a lot of playtests you realize there are certain parts of the city where players go more than others. So look at it and we say, OK, there's all these things happening in the city that many players may never see, there's those areas they're going in, and maybe if we had more variety there it would be better."
"It's impossible to plan that a year ahead," Guay added. "You need to do it, see it, make an adjustment, iterate on it. So we actually produced more content that would fit into the areas where the players went more, moved content around a little bit, looked at it again, played it again. Iterating on this huge of a game takes a while. It takes weeks for anyone to get through our game."
"Watch Dogs" will be released to the PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC on May 27.
