The RC car and RC copter are a Godsend as some facilities are just too difficult for Marcus to enter without dying constantly. There are so many ways to complete objectives and it's basically a fun sandbox of hacking and shooting. Sometimes I would just remotely have a car rampage its way through an area which is a lot of fun. It's better to maybe call in the mafia on a guard and have them shoot it out and thin the herd a bit, or use the cameras around the building and maybe rig electrical boxes and have guards go out that way.
You don't last very long in this game by shooting as you die after a few shots. Now, there are some missions in which Marcus must physically hack into something himself and these can get a little though. The RC copter is great for scouting and remotely hacking things that don't require physical interaction. The RC car has physical capabilities that the copter can not do such as pick up items and physically hack certain things that require access through to main objectives. Set up just outside the restricted boundaries and control your RC car through vents, doors, have it hack laptops, and even distract guards by making their cell phone ring so you can roll on by. The RC Copter comes in halfway through the campaign, but you get the car immediately and you can complete entire missions with this thing without ever having to walk in. Your main tools are your RC Jumper Car and your RC Copter. You can either go in guns blazing which is impossible early on as the better weapons are really expensive to buy and you must unlock weapon slots. When you get to a restricted area it can be as small as a house or as large as a rocket building facility or even a boat. It's really neat and works much better than the first game and it's integral for combat when going into restricted areas which are about 90% of every mission's contents. Steal cash from their bank account, burn their phone up (and kill them in the process), set the police or gangs on them, and even listen in on texts and audio calls.
Your main weapon is your cell phone and when you move the camera a white line will connect to everything around you from cars to electrical boxes to people and let you either control it or the citizen's cell phones in various ways. Let's first talk about this whole "hack anything" gameplay feature that Ubisoft bragged about for Watch Dogs 1 and didn't deliver. But, that's not what I want to talk about first. There are also collectibles and various shops in which you can deck Marcus out in cool hip threads.
Watch Dogs 2, now set in San Fransisco instead of Chicago, is a gorgeous open-world game full of many activities as well as side missions to complete next to the main campaign. You play as a hacker named Marcus who is trying to take over what Aiden Pierce did in the first Watch Dogs and take down the corporate conglomerate Blume and their ctOS 2.0 system that is continuously monitoring the people's every move and step to a creepy factor. Do you trust your government? Do you trust your social media outlets? Do you trust anyone with money or power? That's what Watch Dogs 2 constantly asks you as you play through the campaign.