“They were working on a driving engine, we had the Driver license,” he said. But the company’s North American president Laurent Detoc gave an interview to IGN in 2013, in which he revealed that the studio behind Watch Dogs was originally building a different game. When contacted for this piece, Ubisoft declined to comment. But look closely and you’ll see the tyre marks: the telltale signs that show us how one bestselling series was supplanted by another. Recollections are hazy, and one source contacted by VG247 initially said Watch Dogs’ link to Driver was an urban myth. The story of Driver’s transformation into Watch Dogs, and the consequent rise of one new Ubisoft franchise while an old favourite has languished, takes place a long time ago - ten years to be exact. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.
From tyre marks, you can determine the speed of a vehicle, when it started to skid, and its ultimate direction of travel - long after the car itself has vanished into the distance.
But those dark shadows in the road also tell a story. In a game like Driver, they’re an aesthetic touch, part of the inherent cool of a handbrake turn.
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