Watch Dogs (for Xbox One)

It's as far from realistic hacking as you can get, but realistic hacking is deliberate, tedious, and time-consuming.

The magic hacks Aiden pulls off add to his flexibility when exploring and fighting his way through Chicago, complimenting the action as if he had super powers, not computer skills.

Watch Dogs consists mostly of Aiden running around, driving, and shooting, just like in a Grand Theft Auto or Saint's Row game, and sitting at a computer for hours at a time would really spoil the flow.

There are online missions in which you can jump into other players' games and hack them remotely in a game of hide-and-seek.

In between Aiden's criminal hunts, he can wander around Chicago's hot spots and check in with the game's analog to FourSquare, run around and collect coins in augmented reality games, piece together QR codes painted on buildings to decrypt hidden messages, and spy on random people in their own apartments by hacking into their webcams and cell phones.

Every serious beat in the game is undercut by that silliness, but this doesn't hurt the fun.

You can play a handful of surprisingly in-depth "digital trips" that use sound (magic) to make Aiden hallucinate different variations of the world.