Watch Dogs will be out in May but Ubisoft Montreal is mindful of the other big open world game that will be releasing earlier, namely Sucker Punch Productions’ inFamous: Second Son.

On being informed about a thread on NeoGAf titled ‘Dear Watch_Dogs: please take note’ which was packed with the latest batch of Second Son screens which outline the game’s open world aspects, Watch Dogs creative director Jonathan Morin responded on Twitter that, “Yeah it looks good, but what I want to know is how open and how alive it is as well. Will definitely play it.”

As to the visual quality, he added, “Yes I saw. Looks nice. I’m looking forward to play it. I’m curious to see how alive the world is, so if you see let me know…”

Morin also revealed a few new details about Watch Dogs, such as “dynamic fog which is tied to the various environment curves.”

What happens when another player comes into your game and starts hacking you? The player will lose and the hacker will gain “Notoriety which are tied to leaderboard & skills.”

Morin also revealed that there’s still some fine tuning and debugging to be done in the meantime. “Mostly just finishing the game over and over to see if we fine tune stuff. And making sure we continue to debug everything.”

The PC specs of the game are also still too early to confirm. “As I said specs are still being finalized… Should be communicated officially soon.”

http://gamingbolt.com/watch-dogs-dev-responds-to-comparisons-with-infamous-second-son-talks-about-dynamic-fog-more

You double pasted I believe. 

damn.

I don't like the idea of other players coming in and hacking me while I'm enjoying the story, especially when I only have 30 minutes of time to play. I wonder if there is a way to disable that or opt out without playing offline.

Infamous going off previews is pretty "alive."

Sounds very similar to the system in Dark/demons souls and if that's true you can just unplug the console from the internet and play without worry.  

Infamous looks pretty damn amazing compared to the failgrade that happened with Watch_Dogs... Like Watch_Dogs doesn't look that bad but we expect more from current gen consoles like what Infamous is doing

Oh well, hopefully a new trailer will ease my worries

Both are sandbox games yes but one looks bigger and more elaborate than the other. Infamous looks to be more of an action game than Watch Dogs which seems to have more content. When I look at Infamous its clear they focused on action and the beauty of the game (no one can deny that) but the people in the city of Infamous look more of a place holder than people you can interact with. That said, I may be totally wrong, will see when both games are out.

Yep, a totally honnest comparison: A next gen only 1 platform exclusive versus a cross gen 5 (or six, PC?) multplatform.