I was having so much fun punching, parrying and weaving that I was rather startled to read reviews elsewhere suggesting players eschew all that for the game's remote - only control scheme, in which you turn the remote on its side and play the game
entirely by pushing buttons.
Not exact matches
These are accomplished
entirely by way of quick time events (scripted sequences where the game will ask you to
push a specific
button at specific times and missing results in failure).
Although Watch Dogs certainly falls in line with some of those very same tropes, its vision of a world that can be almost
entirely manipulated
by a
push of a
button is not something that is completely absurd in this day and age.