![]() ![]() You play as the new DeadSec London crew, reborn months after the incident, and are now investigating who’s behind the attacks- and stop the military cops while you at it. Now the city is employing a private company, Albion, for its law enforcement and is under high-tech oppressive rule. The game begins with London’s DeadSec crew stopping a bombing, but mostly failed. Watch Dogs: Legion takes place in a near-future London where electric cars roam the streets where drones also fly above them more regularly than we see today. Playlists and equippable earbuds are tied to the protagonist’s smartphone feature in Watch Dogs 2- and a dedicated smartphone feature and a dedicated protagonist is gone for Legion. The usual commute to the next objective isn’t the length of an episode for the podcast radio station, so I never bothered to listen to that. Unfortunately, you can’t make your own playlist of songs and have them play even while on-foot this time. Great songs- so is the rest of the licensed soundtrack list all-around that may be a bit dated for its setting, but thematically fitting. Plenty of British artists are featured, but I didn’t expect to be jamming to Gorillaz’s Feel Good Inc., Go by Chemical Brothers and Light Up The Sky by The Prodigy. ![]() ![]() It’s a realised world, a twisted, futuristic one, but still well-realised.īut for game set in the near future- say 10-20 years from today, the soundtrack is surprisingly mainstream from 10-20 years ago. Electric vehicles have gotten popular.Ī private military has taken over law enforcement, and police brutality is very much a common occurrence. AI are driving most of the cars on traffic. Drones hover in air traffic in parallel with the streets below. Holograms are used as big billboards to show where the Underground tube stations, as well as advertisement for the latest clothing line. The London we see in Legion is a near-future one where technology has advanced a bit more than we have today. Having it coloured all murky is one thing, but water splashes look extremely lacking- no wonder the game barely used any of its rivers. It’s unfortunate that the actual body of water looks half-arsed. I also love how dreadful the weather is with its constant rain, which is a good excuse to put a lot of puddles on the streets to get that ray-tracing reflections kick in. It’s no 1:1 recreation, but a lot of the major landmarks are here. Ubisoft Toronto, which leads the development of Legion, has London recreated in virtual form in great detail.įrom dingy alleys with trash littered around to the exquisite architecture of Big Ben, to someone who only sees the capital of the UK only in media form, it holds up. ![]() Ubisoft as a whole have vast experience with crafting open-worlds and you can see it in Watch Dogs: Legion. And if you like NPC manipulation, it’s a… hacking… good time. It’s an interesting idea that expands from the series’ hacking and privacy invasion mechanics.īut is it enough to shake it up from being as formulaic as most Ubisoft game? Not really, but this could be the foundation for greater things to come. You can play as anyone- recruit any NPC in the game to be a playable character. So when Watch Dogs: Legion was announced with a major change to its gameplay, I’m intrigued. Outside of the hacking theme and gameplay mechanics it’s either “mediocre” or “can be okay at times, I guess”. Watch Dogs have been Ubisoft’s answer to a Grand Theft Auto- an open-world action game. ![]()
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