Watch Dogs delay: "we just polished the game"

It's been a long time since Watch Dogs stormed E3 and had us truly looking forward to Ubisoft's new near-future IP. After a recent delay, it should be with us next month. Developers Jonathan Morin and Mathieu Leduc have been talking about the delay, explaining why they felt the need to take the extra time.

"I can't say anything like, ‘It was completely broken.' It's not even necessarily that something tangibly wasn't working. It's more that when [we crammed] all the features together, we started reacting to all the issues. And there were too many issues," Morin, the creative director, told Edge in a recent interview.

"Sometimes when you arrive at the end of development, there's this moment where you say, ‘OK, here's this list of things we could polish and this is the time we have,'" Morin continued. "And sometimes you fall into a situation where you have to use your Plan B instead of your Plan A, because you don't have enough time to solve it properly. I think what happened is that at some time we started to use our Plan B too much, and it wasn't really conveying what Watch Dogs was expected to be."

By the sounds of it they were having trouble rubbing the different systemic mechanics together. Co-art director Mathieu Leduc also offered his thoughts: "To be honest, we just polished the game. Naturally, with an open-world game, you polish the main path and you kind of... not let go of the side stuff, but overpolish the main path. So this extension allowed us to just go back and polish a little more of the side stuff, the hidden stuff that's not on the main path."

Morin then added: "We already had a huge game. Now the thing was to make sure everything connected with each other in a nice way. We didn't really add anything huge to the game. We just tweaked everything."

Watch Dogs was originally intended to be a next-gen launch title, planned to be released at the end of last year. It's now set to land on a variety of different platforms (not Wii U) on May 27.