The Home Domain Center was initially designed to monitor Oakland Port but quickly became an initiative to link all public and private cameras and sensors across all of Oakland into one mass surveillance tool being subsidized by Homeland Security. He was enrolled in a community program to keep him safe from the streets, and started to learn how to work with computers there, but everything changed in the summers of 2013 when public unrest was at an all-time high and the city of Oakland proceeded with Phase 2 of their Home Domain Center to “protect people through mass surveillance.” Oakland was a tough experience on them all, and Marcus grew to hate the system. MARCUS HOLLOWAY moved to Oakland at a young age when his activist parents were forced to leave their San Francisco home because of gentrification. The weapon seems to be made of paracord, with a single billiard ball attached, making it an improvised and effective melee weapon. Marcus wields a homemade Bolas with a single weight. A sympathetic Judge reduced his sentencing, but ultimately, Marcus left with a record - and was flagged for life.

With no alibi, and ctOS behind the allegations, the police had no choice but to press charges. After the ctOS crime prediction software identified Marcus as the criminal behind a nearby high-tech burglary, Marcus was charged with his crimes largely due to the technical expertise he possessed. Because of this, he joins the San Francisco branch of DedSec in order to clear his name. Marcus Holloway is actively resisting Blume for one main reason - he has been accused of a crime that he did not commit by the newly minted ctOS 2.0. He has been known to hack into people's social profiles and change them to trigger their arrest, utilize drones to access remote resources, and use his Network Hacking abilities to view the world through the eyes of a hacker, seeing opportunities and hacking targets. Marcus can hack into any character, car, or electronic in the city. Marcus is well-versed in hacking, and thus has a huge range of hacking skills with a particular flair for the dramatic. He's an avid fan of ancient horror and science fiction movies. He joins DedSec in San Francisco Bay Area in response to being accused of a crime he did not commit, and seeing the malignment against the people of Oakland.Īs a hacker, he goes by the handle 'Retr0', due to this love of hip hop and r&b, as well as old-school hacker culture. Marcus Holloway is the main character and protagonist of Watch Dogs 2.

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