You could say that WD1 was the first successful case of Ubi's entirely changed design philosophy for the at the time next generation. As well as the industry. At the tail end of the 360/PS3 generation the main trend in AAA games was having super linear game design that would often times induce fail states if the player went off script but with Watch Dogs they directly advertised having dynamic outcomes depending on what the player did which became a super mainstream trend. First and foremost many devs started advertising "You can go stealthily or go loud."
