Watch Dogs 2 Protagonist Represents All the African-American People Who Work in Tech, Says Actor

This year, Ubisoft is skipping its biggest serial (Assassin's Creed). However, they practise still have a heavyweight due next month, Watch Dogs 2. The outset game, despite some criticism afterward its release, broke several sales records with Ubisoft'due south last written report pointing out that information technology shipped over ten one thousand thousand copies.

Watch Dogs 2 was, therefore, inevitable and it will feature many changes including the setting (from Chicago to San Francisco) and the protagonist (from Aiden Pearce to Marcus Holloway).

Marcus Holloway is being voiced by actor Ruffin Prentiss, who spoke with 2 Left Sticks on the e'er-thorny subject of diverseness in games.

An African-American protagonist that breaks some of the conventions we have become accustomed to seeing is exciting to me. Marcus is a self-taught programmer, hacker, and social engineer. The story of African American programmers and hackers hasn't been told well-nigh enough. And trust me, they do exist in the real world!

I felt an immense responsibility and honor to have this opportunity to tell this story and give it my all. This character represents all the African American people who work in the tech industry merely rarely have characters in entertainment that reflect their experience. My hope is that the kid who dreams of being a computer programmer sees this game or this character and feels even more so that they tin can follow that dream.

Prentiss also added that he would like to play Marcus Holloway again in a potential sequel.

I think it's e'er cool to encounter how characters mature over time. Just like nosotros practise in real life, I would want to explore how Marcus' interests and goals alter. How he uses his skill and feel to create even more than change. I too think seeing Marcus in a new identify would be fun to explore. There are a lot of great cities across the world and like we said earlier, your digital footprint follows yous wherever you go.

Lookout Dogs 2 will be available for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on November 15th, 2022, while the PC version will release on November 29th with specific optimizations including multiGPU back up at launch.