Watch Dogs will take the average player between 35 and 40 hours to complete, according to the game's creative director.

@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

Ubisoft's Jonathan Morin explained on Twitter that most people who do some free roaming should expect to see the closing credits within that time frame, though anyone wanting to see everything will be looking at a playtime approaching triple figures. This is before taking into account the 8-player multiplayer we wrote about last week The playtime has presumably seen a boost due to the new content that has been added to the game as the result of multiple delays.While the game finally has a release date in May , Ubisoft previously delayed Watch Dogs just a month before the game was supposed to come out in November 2013, which in turn led to us chatting to the developer about quite why this was done Despite a scare last month when the game's trademark was abandoned , Ubisoft since explained that such a move was the result of fraud, before successfully getting the trademark restored

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