Watch Dogs: Legion

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  1. Vasot
    Nov 4, 2020
    4
    One of the worse Ubisoft games i have ever the displeasure of playing. 1) Bad performance (maybe Denuvo DRM has something to do with that) 2) Dated animations from the PS3 era and everything looks kinda blurry at distance even at the highest graphic settings 3) Immigrants everywhere why have half of africa and middle east moved to UK in this game? 4) Antifa propaganda and hippie trash 5)One of the worse Ubisoft games i have ever the displeasure of playing. 1) Bad performance (maybe Denuvo DRM has something to do with that) 2) Dated animations from the PS3 era and everything looks kinda blurry at distance even at the highest graphic settings 3) Immigrants everywhere why have half of africa and middle east moved to UK in this game? 4) Antifa propaganda and hippie trash 5) Bugs bugs and more bugs 6) Driving vehicles feels worse than Grand Theft Auto titles...AVOID BUYING THIS JUNK KEEP YOUR MONEY FOR CYBERPUNK 2077… Expand
  2. dmcfadden
    Nov 2, 2020
    4
    Honestly it got boring quick, very assassins creed feel to it, but without the depth of combat, and with guns, but they felt more like toy guns and the fire fights you could get into were lack luster and dull with how unimpressive the weapons felt. Hacking stuff as always is a treat for awile and the driving was solid but like most Ubisoft games there is a good game hidden under mehHonestly it got boring quick, very assassins creed feel to it, but without the depth of combat, and with guns, but they felt more like toy guns and the fire fights you could get into were lack luster and dull with how unimpressive the weapons felt. Hacking stuff as always is a treat for awile and the driving was solid but like most Ubisoft games there is a good game hidden under meh design. Id wait for this one or do the Upass so you dont have to drop 60 on it. The story was also very dull to be honest the single player feels like the tacked on part of this game, and im hoping the co-op is a bit more fun when it releases.… Expand
  3. Truckpool
    Nov 13, 2020
    4
    It's not like a 2020 game - it's like money laundering on mini transaction in game money check - not the developer's interest in a quality game!
    No subway trains. They are only in the mindset of a supposedly clone game to perform practically the same type of missions a hundred times.
    At this rate Ubisoft will soon be trampled...
  4. venom1ru
    Nov 2, 2020
    4
    Very boring gameplay, and graphics don’t help to move on. Despite many bugs, I liked the first part the most.
  5. malucul
    Nov 21, 2020
    4
    More of the same cringe-inducing, barf-worthy attempts to be politically relevant that we saw in WD2, whilst still having absolutely zero self awareness.

    More unlikable characters, the little of them that you get to see. I've seen other reviews say that the "recruit anyone" thing sounds good on paper, but I think it was a bad idea ever at the drawing board. Hands up who has ever been    More of the same cringe-inducing, barf-worthy attempts to be politically relevant that we saw in WD2, whilst still having absolutely zero self awareness.

    More unlikable characters, the little of them that you get to see. I've seen other reviews say that the "recruit anyone" thing sounds good on paper, but I think it was a bad idea ever at the drawing board. Hands up who has ever been interested in playing as Johnny NPC in any other title? A lack of a main character makes it very difficult to get emotionally invested in the story. All these cliched schmucks are just paper cutouts.

    More repetitive and boring gameplay, and a driving mechanic that somehow manages to be worse than the previous two games. I know, I didn't think that was possible either, but they somehow managed to pull it off. Not a fan of the push towards non-lethal methods either, which continues from WD2. Just let me air people out with an assault rifle, I have zero interest in being a soft cuddly goody two-shoes.

    *WOEFUL* PC optimization. I should not be having to turn settings down on an i9 with an RTX 3090 in an attempt to maintain 60FPS @ 4K.

    Shockingly poor voice acting and direction; we're talking Oblivion-level voice "skills" here. Facial animations are plasticy and unrealistic too. I guess they must have been taking lessons from early 2000s Bethesda.

    On the plus side, the recreation of London is attractive and interesting, even if I do wish it included more areas out to the east. In the end I ditched the story and gameplay itself and just went for a wander around some old haunts. Much more fun.

    I'm glad I didn't have to pay for this.    … Expand
  6. kirby667
    Dec 21, 2020
    4
    On a technical level it's decent. Same basic gameplay as the first two games, really almost nothing has changed with the core mechanics at all.

    What it boils down to: This game is like an allergic reaction to the first two watch dogs games in a lot of ways, just as 2 was an allergic reaction to 1. Watch dogs 1 was really dark and didn't end on a happy note, and the main character wasn't    On a technical level it's decent. Same basic gameplay as the first two games, really almost nothing has changed with the core mechanics at all.

    What it boils down to: This game is like an allergic reaction to the first two watch dogs games in a lot of ways, just as 2 was an allergic reaction to 1. Watch dogs 1 was really dark and didn't end on a happy note, and the main character wasn't really a good guy but rather just someone living a risky lifestyle who became unhinged when his lifestyle actually resulted in serious consequences. Some people didn't like that (although I thought it stood out as a nice change of pace) so WD2 attempted to avoid that and overshot, becoming a game that felt like a cartoon with a completely tone deaf theme from the ground up. Legion basically tries to undo some of those mistakes by going for a sort of dark, but not too dark middle of the road approach. Seems like a good idea in theory, but there are a few issues in practice. For one, the middle of the road approach is coupled with a really generic plot, and those two factors combine to make for an extremely boring story. Add to that the play as anyone mechanic and the situation is further dragged down. A mild theme with a generic plat that doesn't even have any central characters to care about...

    OK so the plot is bad... but if the gameplay were good then at least it would be a fun open world to explore, however that isn't really the case either. I can't think of very many open world games that manage to look the same everywhere you go as much as this game does. Every corner feels the same. There is no meaningful variation to the look and feel of different areas of the map at all. The map could be ten times as big or ten times as small and hardly anything about the game would be different. The driving is also not good, as with all open world Ubisoft games, the physics just don't feel believable at all and it makes the driving really uninteresting. Even a boring map can be fun to traverse if the driving is fun but sadly that is not the case.

    Play as anyone: Seems like a cool concept at first but really, it's just a handicap to the player. In the other WD games, the player was basically a jack of all trades. In legion, the player will usually only have one or two abilities. It's essentially as if you took the player from WD1 who was great with guns, hacking, hand to hand combat and stealth and limited the player to only being able to do one of those things at a time. This could be balanced out if there were characters that could be unlocked/found that had more interesting abilities but that really doesn't feel like the case either. While there are technically some higher tier characters the game will steer you towards, none of them actually feel significantly better than any character you can find off the street which makes unlocking them feel entirely pointless and unrewarding.

    Other really stand out issues: The AI is bad, REALLY bad. It's as if the enemies are trying fairly hard to look away from you most of the time and very often will just end up standing in a corner looking at the wall. It's very common to be able to just walk through a base without trying to to avoid any AI and complete the objective without any enemies bothering you. I have the game set to the hardest difficulty setting on top of that.

    In short, everything about this game is extremely mediocre. The AI is stupid to the point of feeling broken. It's almost impressive how much this game avoids actually being fun. It feels like a quality game at first, the graphics are good and it seems like there is a lot to do at first but this game is ultimately just the sum of it's parts and all of those parts are basic at best but more often lean towards bad.

    I think you might like this game only if you didn't play WD1 or 2 and then you might find some of the mechanics to be new and interesting for a little while but as a Watch Dogs game I think this one is probably the worst. I thought 1 was really good, 2 was cartoony but the gameplay was still good enough. Legion manages to avoid repeating and of the major criticisms from WD 1 and 2 but in doing so they made a game so watered down that it's just not fun.    … Expand
  7. FarkyJTV
    Oct 31, 2020
    4
    i had preordered the game a long time ago.after the early access streams i cancel the preorder right away and used uplay+ to test it.and iam shocked how ubi mess this one up big time.
    something about how it runs on my sytem.3900x,32g of ram and vega 64.
    first let me state that i dont give a F about rtx.games should run on both systems good.rtx is kind of ilussion that if you got a rtx    i had preordered the game a long time ago.after the early access streams i cancel the preorder right away and used uplay+ to test it.and iam shocked how ubi mess this one up big time.
    something about how it runs on my sytem.3900x,32g of ram and vega 64.
    first let me state that i dont give a F about rtx.games should run on both systems good.rtx is kind of ilussion that if you got a rtx card something magically will happen.
    its seems that this game was meant for the new generation of consoles.actually i can play this on ultra settings which makes the game looks stunning.the problem appears when you wanna hunt for more fps down the settings.every setting is getting the game more and more down the drain until it looks way worse than gta4 .no kidding.i really hope for the console players that the optimalization is at least there good.
    story-not good pretty boring.the lack of main protagonist makes this game a dull experience.pretty lame from ubisoft going this we are all resistance mentality.the main point of any sandbox is to have a main protagonist embeded by the world around him.not dum expendable npcs doing braindead missions against braindead AI.that is just boring.also the lipsyncing is out of place constantly which torns you out of the immersion.big fail on this one too.
    mechanics.itsk ok but alltogether kinda boring.its really not tight to story or any better character progression.lame.shooting is kinda flat,animations weak.you dont feel any impact on the game.division 2 was better with this.
    all together a mediocre or subpar sandbox experiment.i recommend to buy uplay+ and try it.also you will have a lot of time to try the new AC which i think will be another mediocre game.    … Expand
  8. FaceMace87
    Nov 1, 2020
    4
    Game is so boring it made me want to play Football Manager instead.

    The legion system is fine but it takes away any personality the game may have had. In games like this you want to be invested in the character, because of the Legion system your character just becomes one in a sea of generic boring characters with a modulated voice. All characters seem to share the same few lines of    Game is so boring it made me want to play Football Manager instead.

    The legion system is fine but it takes away any personality the game may have had. In games like this you want to be invested in the character, because of the Legion system your character just becomes one in a sea of generic boring characters with a modulated voice. All characters seem to share the same few lines of dialogues which is just another thing to add the negatives pile.

    With the exception of the spiderbot the rest of the tech is a pointless addition to pad out the game, everything (except spiderbot) that the tech is designed to do can be circumvented with a Hitman just using plain out bullets.

    Uniforms for an area make very little difference. I recruited a Buckingham Palace guard, when he wasn't recruited he could walk around fine as long as he had his uniform on. As soon as he became recruited the other guards were suspicious of me even when just walking, it makes no sense at all and you wonder why bothered including that feature at all.

    Recruitment is fun for the first few times but becomes boring very quickly.

    In short you can tell that they spent 80% of the development time and budget on the Legion system, the other 20% was to make everything else.

    Extremely boring generic game, do not buy until on big sale.    … Expand
  9. 32Threads
    Oct 31, 2020
    4
    The people that say the performance is fine are people that game on a 1080P 60Hz monitor with a 2080 Super and don't know the difference. But even then, you'll dip into the low 30's with very minimal ray tracing. If you game in 1440p or 4K, you can just forget about it (even with an RTX 3080). They build games for 30 FPS consoles and then slap a "PC" sticker on the box. Just another rushedThe people that say the performance is fine are people that game on a 1080P 60Hz monitor with a 2080 Super and don't know the difference. But even then, you'll dip into the low 30's with very minimal ray tracing. If you game in 1440p or 4K, you can just forget about it (even with an RTX 3080). They build games for 30 FPS consoles and then slap a "PC" sticker on the box. Just another rushed out mess. But if these companies are hurting so bad for money that they need to shove everything they do out the door, I think they're in the wrong line of work.… Expand
  10. Dante_Williams
    Nov 6, 2020
    4
    Very average game. Missions feel very dull with no massive scale missions and you even return to the same locations for different missions.

    The ability to recruit everyone is cool on the surface but takes away the ability to have a strong lead character for the story which it so badly needs. the voices all sound off for the characters and makes it very hard to like them as a character    Very average game. Missions feel very dull with no massive scale missions and you even return to the same locations for different missions.

    The ability to recruit everyone is cool on the surface but takes away the ability to have a strong lead character for the story which it so badly needs. the voices all sound off for the characters and makes it very hard to like them as a character and not just a random npc off the street.

    Wouldn't recommend at full price or anything above 50% off. The game is mostly busy work and if you watch a streamer or lets player go through the game you will see for yourself that its not worth it.    … Expand
  11. And92
    Dec 11, 2020
    4
    Unstable framerate and technical sector with just enough.
    as usual ubisoft can't make a decent game!
  12. Anarkroft
    Sep 4, 2021
    4
    50fps en ville avec une 3090.... sérieusement ? Allez, 60FPS sans ray-tracing, et ça les tient péniblement. Et le jeu est sorti depuis 6 mois quoi ! Aucune chance qu'il soit un temps soit peu optimisé un jour pour PC.

    Je n'ai pas pu y jouer. Heureusement que j'ai pu le tester en WE gratuit, sinon s'aurait été de l'argent jeté à la poubelle....
  13. Jackless
    Oct 31, 2020
    4
    The amount of time spent waiting, was not worth it at all. A week ago I went through WD2 again, and the mechanics were much better of that game than this one. Driving is just absolutely terrible and does not feel like a car at all anymore. Optimisation is even worse! How is it not possible to play on Ultra settings with a 3090??? You had months to optimise this and still runs awfully.The amount of time spent waiting, was not worth it at all. A week ago I went through WD2 again, and the mechanics were much better of that game than this one. Driving is just absolutely terrible and does not feel like a car at all anymore. Optimisation is even worse! How is it not possible to play on Ultra settings with a 3090??? You had months to optimise this and still runs awfully. Loading screens just kill the immersion. Fast travel everywhere... Voice-overs are bland, “cutscenes” are just tasteless. Everything about this game screams bland and tedious. Only gunplay is improved. The combat becomes one big problem after a while, every time you miss your takedown, because the enemy turned at you by 2 degrees, now you have to fight him for 3 minutes and get spotted by every enemy in the area. Really, no interiors? A 2020 game and i get interior in the first mission and thats it? Does everyone in London live outside?

    In my opinion the UI overlay is weird, just does not fit at all. And where did the Phone mechanic disappeared from WD2? That was such a cool thing , which got you immersed even more.

    MUSIC! Where the hell did all the music disappear, why can I not put on headphones and listen to music like in WD2? Besides doing missions, theres nothing else to do. Boxing for 4 rounds? Tedious and too easy. Kicking the ball for as long as you can? Are you serious?

    Recruitment system... you have to be joking. Yes I agree that is so cool to recruit anyone! But take out 80 percent of the NPCs because they don't have good features. No upgrades, no skill leveling, nothing. How am I going to be attached to a chracter besides him being “critically injured”? There is no emotional attachment to this game.

    WDL feels like a grey arcade game, that does not know what it wants from itself. Becomes a repetitive mess which has no replay-ability.

    I hope AC Valhalla will brings something to the table.    … Expand
  14. LarenX
    Nov 6, 2020
    4
    Unfinished, bugged, boring piece of **** with no online activity = classic UBI
  15. defstm
    Nov 22, 2020
    4
    The old Watch Dogs games in a new shell.

    This game is bad, I gave it a lot of chances played about 10h but I couldn't continue. The game mechanics on hacking are the same as the old games nothing new. Go hack a terminal, flip some pipes, go with an RC car and hack things and that's all. The new big thing is the recruit, where you can recruit someone with access and infiltrate and    The old Watch Dogs games in a new shell.

    This game is bad, I gave it a lot of chances played about 10h but I couldn't continue.

    The game mechanics on hacking are the same as the old games nothing new. Go hack a terminal, flip some pipes, go with an RC car and hack things and that's all.
    The new big thing is the recruit, where you can recruit someone with access and infiltrate and hack things.

    The missions are repetitive, after a while you feel like you are doing the same thing only in a different place.

    To talk about immersion and the story are practically inexistent, the characters feel like plastic when they talk, no emotion expressed or whatsoever.

    The only good thing is the city that looks great. I have to give credit for the great take on London.    … Expand
  16. Klains
    Nov 1, 2020
    4
    How to disable the route strip on the road that spoils the view of the game city There is a Navigation and that's enough! - how to disable the highlighted objects so that they do not flicker with sparkles in the game background of the game-this has already wavered)
  17. Binghoster0575
    Nov 2, 2020
    4
    The transport graphics in the game looks terrifying in 2020 games! How to remove a lane on the road that spoils the atmosphere of the game - I have enough Navigator) There is nothing new but on the contrary worse than the 2nd part which is better than this that you created trash and not a game) The developers have no mind and you want a lot of money for this madness ) WD2 was much Better!
  18. Jinstronda
    Oct 30, 2020
    4
    Improves everything that should be improved from 2, good melee combated, cool gameplay and awesome character mechanics and perks, optimization for pc at this time is horrible and story seems fine
  19. Grissu
    Oct 30, 2020
    4
    what should I write about it. The story is quite boring, typical we are the good guys the opponents are the bad guys. driving ohhh driving sooo and imprecise spongy. The recruiting missions are incredibly long and on the whole the same go there, hack, go back, hack, and additionally the game crashed twice. don't buy it unless you have Ubisoft +.
  20. c0verfire
    Oct 30, 2020
    4
    I am going to start by saying that I was a huge fan of WD2 - I have at least 3 full play throughs of that game, and so I have been waiting for Legion for a looong time. And I was super disappointed.

    So let’s start with the good - the world is amazing!!! Dystopian London never looked so good!!! Running around Buckingham Palace was a lot of fun. My performance has been stable at High    I am going to start by saying that I was a huge fan of WD2 - I have at least 3 full play throughs of that game, and so I have been waiting for Legion for a looong time. And I was super disappointed.

    So let’s start with the good - the world is amazing!!! Dystopian London never looked so good!!! Running around Buckingham Palace was a lot of fun. My performance has been stable at High setting Intel 9700k with GTX2080, no crashes. I do occasionally get some weird audio clipping when I turn, but nothing terrible.

    And then there are the bad - I was really disappointed coming off your of WD2, I felt like I kept waiting for the story to start and it never did. Voice acting was flat especially compared to WD2. The recruitment feature seems really useless, I can’t really see why I would want one char over another, unless I just want a gun or a car, but I can’t see that choosing one character over another affects gameplay. With the permadeath option you want to feel some connection to these characters when they die (think SoD2), but instead it just feels like a nuisance. The lack of character progression and stripped down tech tree, and lack of things to hack seems like a miss. Honestly this feels just predictable and not as good at its predecessors

    In short I am not sure where Ubisoft’s head was at with this game, it had so much potential, and was just a miss...    … Expand
  21. LawrenceP
    Oct 31, 2020
    4
    I feel so disappointed by this game that i felt compelled to make an account to tell you how bad it is.

    The good: - Graphically, its pretty good. A lot of people have talked about issues with performance, but from what i can tell that was patched out before i purchased the game. - The recreation of London is pretty good - even some buildings that are not landmarks (but most people    I feel so disappointed by this game that i felt compelled to make an account to tell you how bad it is.

    The good:
    - Graphically, its pretty good. A lot of people have talked about issues with performance, but from what i can tell that was patched out before i purchased the game.
    - The recreation of London is pretty good - even some buildings that are not landmarks (but most people will recognise if you've walked down the street) have some good and faithful portrayals here.
    - From memory, WD1/2 did not have any kind of flying mode, which this game has added, its pretty cool to see London in the 3rd dimension.

    The bad
    - The story is horrifically bad, DEDSEC has been framed for the killings of thousands of people across London in 3 terrorist bombings, and you can just walk the street asking if people want to join. Throw in the hilariously bad recruitment missions and people sign up willingly. Imagine if ISIS approached you, roughed up your old boss that you didn't like, and you accepted that as justification and reason enough to join the most wanted terrorist group in the UK.

    - The recruit anyone mechanic isn't very clever. There is absolutely no reason to do anything with anyone other than the person you start with. The abilities you get are minor % increments over the base stats, meaning you can spend 3 hours to find the perfect recruit, and you've completely offset any gains of having them. The recruitment missions are long winded and silly, and repeat regularly, with even the same building, dialogue, objectives.

    - The recruit anyone mechanic has some very serious downsides, these include TERRIBLE facial animation as they have tried to make 15 or so voice actors hit a million randomly generated NPC's, and it just delivers terrible terrible results, its massively immersion breaking. It might be "Funny" having an 80 year old white woman talk like a 20 year old Roadman, but it wears off very quickly.

    - You cannot develop your operatives at all,what you recruit is what you get. You can unlock more weapons and gadgets, but that's it.Its all done through a central tech purchasing menu and applies to all operatives.

    - The main downside is that you're robbed of a good character, Aiden was a bit bad i admit, but I genuinely liked Marcus, i don't care about any of the operatives as they are immediately replaced, just cannon fodder. Though, they'll only ever die if you do something monumentally stupid or if the game somehow breaks and just spontaneously blows up your car...again.

    - Every single line of dialogue has some terrible joke in it, its constant, never ending. If they're not making some terrible joke, its some inane political commentary. "Oh haha, that guy is about as popular as a french football team" or "Searching for footage of police brutality, this might take a while...Oh, that was easy". It's constant.

    - Fundamentally, at its core, its just a boring game. The gameplay loop is a simplified version of the previous games, with a lot functionality removed, and I'm not entirely sure why. A lot of the special ability hacks in previous games have not been carried over to this one, such as blackout, or my personal favourite call police/gang members to harrass people.

    - The new "improved" melee combat is a bit half baked, every single opponent has the exact same fighting style, meaning that after you've fought two enemies it becomes telegraphed and you can set your watch to what the npc will do next. It plays like an old Assassins creed game, dodge counter, dodge counter.

    - The addition of "Health" to NPC's is not a wise choice, enemies survive head-shots, the pseudo realism of the combat of previous games was one of the best aspects, i'm sad that it has been MMO'd like the Division with kids in hoodies having health bars equivalent to being in full riot gear.

    -The physics are dreadful, the driving is terrible, spongy, and just doesn't work. They largely fixed the driving in WD2 so not sure why its gone back to the way it was previously.

    - The police are so laughably bad, you can go on a melee rampage but as long as you don't pull a gun nothing will happen, if it does, the police will spawn 15 feet away from you and you just drive around two corners and you're home free.

    - The radiant AI is horrific. You'll walk down the street and everyone is calling you, or someone, a prick, a wanker, or all sorts of horrible language that's okay in moderation but its CONSTANT. Literally every NPC you walk past on the street is shouting curse words, its insane.

    I've just ranted a few of the key things that have really disappointed me, i've not even mentioned the fact that you can use the construction drone to basically "Skip" most of the game, land next to your objective, hop off, press Y and fly off into the sunset. If UPlay didn't have terrible DRM policies i would refund it, but i cant.

    Wait till its £5 on those black market CD key sites, then still don't buy it.    … Expand
  22. Gr442lt
    Nov 4, 2020
    4
    It doesn't get any better from the previous part of the game. It's a depressing plot and character models are scary to horror. Graphic transport looks awful. The plot is idiotically stupid.
  23. BingHosters
    Nov 6, 2020
    4
    Willllllll say briefly-Ubisoft should be slammed for being impudent ****
    game scenario and graphic VEHICLES - OMG .... Ahahaaa........

    4/10 for this rating, you still have to suck my dick!
  24. SmallyD
    Nov 6, 2020
    4
    I'm 17 hours in and this game is on of the worst optimized games on the PC platform. Have fun running the game, because even the most powerful GPU on the market right now the RTX 3090 can't maintain a stable performance, I'm using an RTX 2060 Super and I can't get over 60 on low settings at 1080p RTXOFF.
    The gameplay is dumbed down from Watch Dogs 2 and the whole "Operative" system brings    I'm 17 hours in and this game is on of the worst optimized games on the PC platform. Have fun running the game, because even the most powerful GPU on the market right now the RTX 3090 can't maintain a stable performance, I'm using an RTX 2060 Super and I can't get over 60 on low settings at 1080p RTXOFF.
    The gameplay is dumbed down from Watch Dogs 2 and the whole "Operative" system brings nothing but frustration to the game, every character is supposed to have It's own "playstyle" but you can literally just walk into an enemy area, shoot everyone and leave with ease, the game offers no challenge what so ever. Furthermore every mission consists of going into an area, disabling the security system that's preventing you from opening that one door that has the data that you have to download, you will be doing this 99% of the time, every hostile zone has this type of playstyle, you will get nothing else.
    The game offers a "permadeath" mode, but don't even think about turning it on, the game will glitch out 9/10 times and your character will die from bullsh**t reasons. Oh you jumped on a platform that you're not supposed to but the game doesn't tell you? Well sorry but your operative is now dead.
    This game also crashes a lot, if you're unlucky like me and it happens during a mission, you character might die and can't come back, so I suggest you keep the permadeath mode on off.
    RTX reflections make the game look cool I guess...    … Expand
  25. Kagutsuchi_
    Nov 8, 2020
    4
    Such a weak game, the previous part was much better than this...
    Хуже игры в серии watch dogs я не видел. Думаю, игра была обречена на провал когда юбики решили убрать главного героя и сменить место происхождения с США на Европу. Зачем, юбисофт? Было очень приятно и интересно наблюдать за историями, переживаниями персонажей второй части, они имели какое-то лицо, чего один Ренч с Джошем    Such a weak game, the previous part was much better than this...
    Хуже игры в серии watch dogs я не видел. Думаю, игра была обречена на провал когда юбики решили убрать главного героя и сменить место происхождения с США на Европу. Зачем, юбисофт? Было очень приятно и интересно наблюдать за историями, переживаниями персонажей второй части, они имели какое-то лицо, чего один Ренч с Джошем стоили. Даже парень с синдромом Аспергера выглядит на порядок лучше чем этот аквариум, неинтересных, но при этом разноцветных как не знаю что, рыбок. В игре есть все кто хочешь: азиаты, африканцы, но нету людей европейского происхождения. Я не расист, просто должен же быть равный выбор, для всех. А не такая пропаганда какой она является сейчас.
    Также у игры множество косяков с технической стороны: тупой ИИ, множество багов, плохая вертикальная синхронизация.
    У игры, по сравнению с предыдущими частями, гораздо слабее сюжет. Как по мне, даже путь мстителей Эйдена Пирса выглядит намного интереснее чем это нечто, про вторую часть я вообще говорить не стану...
    У игры неплохая графика и красивый открытый мир (хотя США как локация, мне кажется, была бы уместнее)
    К сожалению, в игре меня порадовал только открытый мир, классная графика и в принципе неплохая локализация. С технической, сюжетной частью игра меня сильно огорчила. Всё-таки, Watch Dogs 2 останется лучшей игрой этой серии про хакеров, на ближайшие года четыре уж точно. А там посмотри что дальше будет. Плохая работа, юбисофт, ваш недокиберпанк никому не будет интересен    … Expand
  26. MrGreyGuy
    Apr 2, 2021
    4
    So, I played this game for 24h now...
    I must say, that im largely disappointed. I was excited at first, enjoyed it for the first few hours but at the end - already in the middle of it - it just repeated itself over and over again.
    Including this, there are also those bugs... Like, Ubisoft took another year to release this, and still this is happening? The npcs are not capable of    So, I played this game for 24h now...
    I must say, that im largely disappointed. I was excited at first, enjoyed it for the first few hours but at the end - already in the middle of it - it just repeated itself over and over again.
    Including this, there are also those bugs... Like, Ubisoft took another year to release this, and still this is happening? The npcs are not capable of functioning together with the traffic. They jump randomly onto the streets and the game mechanics are also not that satisfying at all.
    The story in this game is also very, very unsatisfying. I dont want to spoil here, but... the stereotypes in this story - atleast thats how I see it - are really hitting hard.
    So... about the world itself. The design of it is pretty decent, London looks great... BUT, its basically an empty city. The full potential of this map isnt used. Another thing disturbing me is this "cybepunky" like design flaw they choose. Everywhere - and when I say everywhere I mean everyhere - you see some shiny blinky led. The whole city basically is a giant rgb- gaming pc. This could've been handled better... less exaggerated.
    Now about the missions...
    You can free boroughs, you can recruit characters - which is not really necessary at all, cause you can basically do everything with one character - and of course there are the main missions.
    I dont want to talk about those, I want to talk about the secondary missions...
    I mean, they are cringy. Everytime you free a borough there is this random firework, with people shouting "ded sec go" or something similar like that. I get the idea behind it, but I can fairly say that this is repeating history. When I free a borugh, I want to have the feeling that theres some sort of tension getting created by us (dedsec), and I dont just want to have firework representing that everything is going to be fine, or that we are in control now - atleast partly. The game just feels... I wouldnt say incomplete, but it feels like something is missing.
    I get, when you say it is a good game... but my personal opinion is, that this game is not worth the money you paid for. Also, just a side note... the most awesome thing I experienced during this game, was a motorbike driving around circles and hitting humans until they are knocked out.

    Sincerely,
    Your MrGreyGuy    … Expand
  27. xirb
    Dec 10, 2020
    4
    For the first 6 hours or so I was quite entertained. But now, after about 18 hour, Im not really enjoying it anymore.
    The game gets boring and feels empty. Maybe because you can change character in 2 sec and there is no individual progression with each character. The things you unlock can be applied to all characters. And the selection of gadgets and abilities fells limited. There has    For the first 6 hours or so I was quite entertained. But now, after about 18 hour, Im not really enjoying it anymore.
    The game gets boring and feels empty. Maybe because you can change character in 2 sec and there is no individual progression with each character. The things you unlock can be applied to all characters. And the selection of gadgets and abilities fells limited. There has not been a single moment where I felt connected to the character.    … Expand
  28. Ebomb3210
    Jan 1, 2021
    4
    This is a typical Ubisoft game. Decent story and map, but flawed in many ways.

    The strongest part of the game is the story, and that is saying something because while it has an interesting concept, it falls short in many areas due to moments of poor writing and voice acting. My favorite character ended up being an AI because all of the "main characters" were extremely shallow and had no    This is a typical Ubisoft game. Decent story and map, but flawed in many ways.

    The strongest part of the game is the story, and that is saying something because while it has an interesting concept, it falls short in many areas due to moments of poor writing and voice acting. My favorite character ended up being an AI because all of the "main characters" were extremely shallow and had no depth. The final moments of the story, which were supposed to be dramatic, were ruined by poor voice acting, repetitive gameplay (I will touch on this later), and cringy one-liners. The story was interesting enough to keep me playing the game solely to know what happened to London at the end.

    The missions are the weakest point of the game. Every mission feels like it was literally copied and pasted from the last one. Infiltrate, hack, then leave. It took me until about halfway through the game to realize this, but once I did the entire game became a grind. I wanted to finish because the story was interesting and I like to finish what I start, but I didn't enjoy any other aspects of it. I applaud Ubisoft for trying something new with the "Play As Anyone" mechanic; however, this was possibly what made the game lack so much. In order to progress, you have to recruit operatives off the street, which involves the same mundane copy and paste missions from the main story. As a result of not having a main character that interacts with others, none of the characters have any depth. I also applaud the game for giving the player plenty of non-lethal combat options. I love when games do this because not all players want to run around the city as a homicidal madman.

    The technological aspects of the game are as bad as one can expect from a Ubisoft title. Bad optimization made the game literally unplayable at launch. When driving, even on an RTX 2080 Super, I was consistently getting 30 FPS or below. Luckily the game's optimization went from atrocious to bad with updates. Now the game is at least playable, but I don't get the performance I would expect from an RTX 3090 (I have upgraded my 2080 Super). I played with ray tracing off for the majority of the game because DX11 gave me better performance, and the benefits from ray tracing were entirely situational in this game. Sometimes the reflections looked great, other times it made the roads look like a mirror with a bright light reflecting up at you. Plus DLSS made all of the reflections fuzzy, and DLSS is needed to play with RT on. Water always looked horrible with RT on.

    The game took me around 25 hours to complete and has very little replayability due to the linear story. So this means that I essentially paid $2.40/hr for a mediocre experience.

    Conclusion: Don't buy this game for $60. Wait a year until there's more content, optimizations, and then wait until it's on sale for $20.    … Expand
  29. cola_77
    Jan 6, 2021
    4
    Arcade missions like in every ubisoft game. "Play like you want" is a lie. Often you have to use your guns. Silly arcade things in missions. Look at cyberpunk - they have great missions and side missions. No silly arcade gameplay is needed to have fun.

    Nevertheless, no real progression system. You can collect the most tecnician points with the cargo drone before the game starts. Very    Arcade missions like in every ubisoft game. "Play like you want" is a lie. Often you have to use your guns. Silly arcade things in missions. Look at cyberpunk - they have great missions and side missions. No silly arcade gameplay is needed to have fun.

    Nevertheless, no real progression system. You can collect the most tecnician points with the cargo drone before the game starts. Very poor.

    Positve: hacking is fun - you have many options, open world is great. But thats it.    … Expand
  30. Harsha2001
    May 31, 2021
    4
    story is very bad i liked watchdogs 1 and 2 which had great story and characters watchdogs 3 has dumb character interaction than wd 2 and 1 car physics is bad i think it is copied from wd 1 and wd2 had good vehicle physics there is nothing to like in this game. concept was good but bad implementation
    and vehicles has no sound too feel u have control on it
  31. cynesige
    Aug 25, 2021
    4
    I used to love this game until the most recent update came out. With the release of TU 5.5 came a quest titled The New Creed. Part of the quest has you jumping from platform to platform. The problem is there is no jump button in the game.
  32. Reviewsofshed18
    Aug 27, 2021
    4
    Aside from this being one of the most rushed, glitchiest, careless, cringiest and repetitive games I've ever played, it crashes within 10 minutes every time I launch on my decent PC. Should have refunded it when it crashed 4 times on the first mission, but then it settled down for a while; giving me chance to play this joke of a game. The "play as anyone idea" was bold from Ubisoft, goodAside from this being one of the most rushed, glitchiest, careless, cringiest and repetitive games I've ever played, it crashes within 10 minutes every time I launch on my decent PC. Should have refunded it when it crashed 4 times on the first mission, but then it settled down for a while; giving me chance to play this joke of a game. The "play as anyone idea" was bold from Ubisoft, good to see them being adventurous for once; but I'd still rather play as one cool solo protagonist like Aiden Peirce. (It also limits the story) Overall, just don't buy...… Expand
  33. Bleinias
    Jan 15, 2022
    4
    Not enough for a top Ubisoft game. Watchdogs saga is still going down after a first game that was far behind the hype generated but had at least a decent story.
    Legion is a mix of ideas that doesn't work as whole. The story is pretty weak, short, and not having any real main character makes it impossible to feel much integrated in it.
    About the recruiting concept, could be nice but needs    Not enough for a top Ubisoft game. Watchdogs saga is still going down after a first game that was far behind the hype generated but had at least a decent story.
    Legion is a mix of ideas that doesn't work as whole. The story is pretty weak, short, and not having any real main character makes it impossible to feel much integrated in it.
    About the recruiting concept, could be nice but needs some proper work behind it. Recruitable characters are mainly the same with different abbilities, but when a spy, an anarchist and a construction worker talk in exactly the same way...the lack of work on them shows.
    Difficulty is non-existant basically. Yes, a few of the last missions make you get in gunfights with many enemies, but apart from that you can basically use your spider bot (that's crazy op) to do every single mission, not even having to get your operative in restricted areas. And even if you do, you can easily go guns blazing without a problem.
    If we get into vehicles, thats another dissapointment. The futuristic look just gave developers the perfect excuse to put next to zero work in this. They're way too similar, most of them empty (yes, "IA driving" might work for taxis but not for all) and sound is so bad that you almost don't see the difference when it gets bugged and just dissapears, wich happens a lot (one of many, many bugs).
    So talking about bugs, having played the game way after it's release date, it's amazing how many there are even for an Ubi game (we know they're quite the bug lovers). Car sound dissapearing being one, npcs appearing from nothing while you're driving in the middle of the road (sometimes Albion sees you killing them and you get into a nice bug-pursuit) when not appearing fighting in the middle of a highly restricted area. Typical texture problems with characters as well, or those drones flying inside others, teletransporting instead of flying (no fps problems, just bugged)...just too many for a supposedly top class game.
    Missions are ultra repetitive, even main missions have always the same "hack this, fight there" sctructure. Secondary missions are a mix of no story, hack and kill and a few decent missions, while recruiting missions are just nonsense. Just the same 4 or 5 standard missions on repeat, having nothing to do with the character itself.
    So yes, I think it's pretty bad for what what's supposed to be, but still a 4 because you can get some decent play hours out of it (even when it feels more arcade than sandbox).
    On the good side, playing in London is a nice update from repeating the same USA cities over and over again.    … Expand
  34. Ellie_Williamss
    May 2, 2022
    4
    Игра честно говоря очень скучная. Миссии однообразные и заранее понятно, что будет дальше.
  35. Peasyoun
    Mar 27, 2022
    4
    Играл в последний патч 1.5.6. Игнорировал все обзоры на игру до первого прохождения.
    Начал прохождение с DLC и оно мне понравилось.
    Запустил после основную игру и обомлел. Нам предлагается играть за рандомного неинтересного персонажа. Какой смысл? Ожидал хотя бы что-то на уровне DLC. Техническое состояние игры все еще отвратитьельное. На i5-9600k @ 5.000 Ghz и RTX 3060 наблюдаются    Играл в последний патч 1.5.6. Игнорировал все обзоры на игру до первого прохождения.
    Начал прохождение с DLC и оно мне понравилось.
    Запустил после основную игру и обомлел. Нам предлагается играть за рандомного неинтересного персонажа. Какой смысл? Ожидал хотя бы что-то на уровне DLC.

    Техническое состояние игры все еще отвратитьельное.
    На i5-9600k @ 5.000 Ghz и RTX 3060 наблюдаются просадки до 55 fps в разрешении 1080p. Пробовал самые низкие настройки и разрешения - просадки остались. Значит производительность упирается в процессор. Xbox Game Bar показывает что используется только 70% мощности процессора, а видеокарта даже не напрягается. Если бы основная часть была бы интересной, можно и потерпеть, но тут не тот случай.    … Expand
  36. Andrea_27
    Nov 2, 2022
    4
    This game disappointed me.
    After playing the second chapter of the Watch Dogs saga, I was excited at the announcement of this new game.
    Since I enjoyed the previous chapter, I thought this game would have been an improved version of its predecessor, simple but fun and, overall, well made, even if not perfect. Unfortunately, in my opinion, with this new chapter, Ubisoft completely missed    This game disappointed me.
    After playing the second chapter of the Watch Dogs saga, I was excited at the announcement of this new game.
    Since I enjoyed the previous chapter, I thought this game would have been an improved version of its predecessor, simple but fun and, overall, well made, even if not perfect.
    Unfortunately, in my opinion, with this new chapter, Ubisoft completely missed the target.
    Technically the game is poorly optimized and performs badly on a mid-tier pc.
    The perceived visual quality, even with RTX enabled, is surprisingly mediocre and fails to give that satisfaction that I was hoping to get from a game like this.
    Sure the reflections are amazing, but the textures and game environment seem from an older game, lacking the quality I was expecting from a title like this.
    Technical part aside, I found the story too long and monotonous.
    In the previous chapter, the adventures of Marcus and his crew managed to pull me into the game and guide me smoothly till the end of the main story, making me feel involved in the narration.
    Unfortunately, this time, the story and narration are marginal and superficial, lacking that empathy with the characters and that feeling of diving into the storytelling that even a simple but well-narrated plot can deliver.
    I don't want to be drastic, but the storytelling was so marginal that, after a few hours, I gradually lost interest in the story without even realizing it.
    From that moment, the narration became nothing more than a navigator through the missions, just telling me what to do next.
    I also found, in general, the game's quests flat and repetitive, making the whole experience even more annoying.
    As previously said, I'm very disappointed by this game, and I hope Ubisoft will learn from this failure how to make something better next time, maybe shorter, a bit simpler, but with seriously improved quality.    … Expand
  37. realWhiteMan
    Mar 5, 2023
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My rating is based on my impressions of the game. This is not an objective review. I play quite a big number of titles per year and decided to review them as a peace of art and not as a product.… Expand
  38. phantomromano
    Aug 5, 2023
    4
    After the first two games were kinda fun, this one was absolutely horrible. The Legion mechanic is absolutely not worth pursuing, and all the missions are absolute chores. Characters are absolutely one dimensional and are rebellious in a way a 14yo in his edgy phase is.

    Save your money.
  39. dumle
    Jul 14, 2021
    3
    I got the game with my new 3080 graphics card which makes it more funny that i can barely run the thing. poorly optimized doesn't even begin to describe it. I tried to push on but the writing is a joke and there is little to no immersion when the gangsters are all made up by middle aged women.
  40. Steyraus
    Oct 31, 2020
    3
    Why is this franchise even still going, the first game was OK the second was a flop and has all the same issues this game has.
    Another generic, repetitive open world chore from Ubisoft. Cut and paste assets AI from the first AC games still walking into walls and acting in ways that is completely immersion breaking. The whole game has a district lack of attention to detail and polish. So    Why is this franchise even still going, the first game was OK the second was a flop and has all the same issues this game has.
    Another generic, repetitive open world chore from Ubisoft. Cut and paste assets AI from the first AC games still walking into walls and acting in ways that is completely immersion breaking. The whole game has a district lack of attention to detail and polish. So many games this generation have pushed the medium of gaming forward in meaningful ways but Ubisoft one of biggest, richest publishers continues to give us uninspiring out of date trash..Sure they pull a rabbit out of their hats occasionally but overall enough is enough.
    Literally the only thing that could be innovating is the ability to play as any character and even that is rubbish. Everyone in this world is ugly and idiotic, could not find a single character I was invested in and the whole system is just shallow RNG tricks.
    The worst and most unforgivable thing about the game is its creator stubbornness in bring a 60fps mode to next gen consoles. Apparently it got ray tracing and runs in 4K, how hard would it have been to lower the resolution to 1440p and remove ray tracing for a Smooth experience. Once the new machine are out I wont buy a single game that is running a 30FPS. They dont have the CPU to blame anymore and consumers should expect better.    … Expand
  41. 8BitAlex
    Dec 6, 2020
    3
    Narrative: 5/10* | Mechanics: 4/10* | Visuals: 7/10

    *I'll admit up front that I was only able to play a few hours of this game before I had to abandon it completely, so take this review as you will. The game starts by throwing you into a classic British espionage but in a London completely run by big tech. Drones crowd the air, automated taxis are everywhere, and a private military    Narrative: 5/10* | Mechanics: 4/10* | Visuals: 7/10

    *I'll admit up front that I was only able to play a few hours of this game before I had to abandon it completely, so take this review as you will.

    The game starts by throwing you into a classic British espionage but in a London completely run by big tech. Drones crowd the air, automated taxis are everywhere, and a private military group basically runs the city. As interesting as this all may seem it ends up coming across as extremely haphazard.

    The gimmick of Watch Dogs: Legion is that there is no main character. You represent the Dedsec organization and can recruit members to join. You then play as any of these members. This makes the game play almost rougelike. Because there is no main character it's not easy to feel involved in the story or the characters as they can be tossed aside at any moment.

    The quests, UI, narrative, characters, basically the entire game seems to be fighting with itself over what the vision of the game is supposed to be.

    The general mission mechanics are ok, a lot of the same from the previous game. You can hack stuff (cool), and you get a bunch of gadgets (cool), but the missions are so drab that none of that really matters. You end up having a bunch of tools that you don't really need but are just nice to have.

    The visuals are pretty average. I have the settings at absolute max with raytracing and it's nothing spectacular. I mean, it's pretty, and things are sharp but there isn't much to look at.

    Overall, Watchdogs: Legion is an interesting experiment trying to mix the GTA like open world games with a roguelike mechanic but the lack of any real substance doesn't make you want to come back.    … Expand
  42. LongShot24
    Nov 18, 2020
    3
    Fun game but broken as hell. After many, many crashes, I lost 16 hours of gameplay to a corrupted save. Ubisoft seems to have forgotten about this game with the release of Valhalla. WTF?
  43. TheNikoHero
    Nov 1, 2020
    3
    "Play as anyone", sounds very good on paper. But it's not done right, it's weird and the dialogues are so bad that they're funny.

    I wanted this to be more than what it is. But Ubisoft has done a bad job. It's poorly optimized, there's not a lot of different things to do in this huge open world. There is a lot of activities, but they're basically all the same. It's a HUGE step down    "Play as anyone", sounds very good on paper. But it's not done right, it's weird and the dialogues are so bad that they're funny.

    I wanted this to be more than what it is. But Ubisoft has done a bad job. It's poorly optimized, there's not a lot of different things to do in this huge open world.
    There is a lot of activities, but they're basically all the same.

    It's a HUGE step down from Watch_Dogs 2    … Expand
  44. fray_bentos
    Nov 10, 2020
    3
    I really wanted to like this game, but, meh. Many missions can be most quickly and easily defeated by brute forcing through them with guns, by-passing all the tech/gadget stuff. What remains is simply pushing a button here or there to open doors. The game quickly becomes go here, pew, pew, open some doors, flip some switches, go there, pew, pew with an insufficient story, and a brokenI really wanted to like this game, but, meh. Many missions can be most quickly and easily defeated by brute forcing through them with guns, by-passing all the tech/gadget stuff. What remains is simply pushing a button here or there to open doors. The game quickly becomes go here, pew, pew, open some doors, flip some switches, go there, pew, pew with an insufficient story, and a broken narrative due to playing with multiple protagonists. Some of the dialogue and characters are cringeworthy. It also took quite a lot of tweaking to get this running at my target framerate of 100 fps even using an RTX 3080. Many other players with slower CPU/RAM combinations than my own (10600K @ 4.9 GHz and RAM at 4000 MHz CL14) are CPU/RAM bottlenecked a lot of the time and can't get anywhere near that framerate.… Expand
  45. magebit
    Nov 3, 2020
    3
    Game hard crashes my computer every hour or so. Not like to desktop. Completely stops responding and have to reboot the whole system out of the blue. Really a waste of my time.
  46. se7enX90X
    Nov 1, 2020
    3
    Another half assed generic boring Ubisoft game with god awful performance on PC. It's become predictable at this point with this company. New Ubisoft game = Generic repetitive gameplay and terrible performance. You delayed the game for a year to do what exactly? Glad I didn't pay for the game although if I had it would've been refunded but I am disappointed it was bundled with my 3080Another half assed generic boring Ubisoft game with god awful performance on PC. It's become predictable at this point with this company. New Ubisoft game = Generic repetitive gameplay and terrible performance. You delayed the game for a year to do what exactly? Glad I didn't pay for the game although if I had it would've been refunded but I am disappointed it was bundled with my 3080 instead of a different game. Ubisoft's next game will be Assassin's Creed Valhalla and I expect that game to be a disaster too. Ubisoft has slowly become one of the bigger jokes in the industry and its a real shame.… Expand
  47. Doktorishka
    Nov 4, 2020
    3
    Only the London authenticity looks great, rest of all is horrible and boring. This game is just copy-paste from other Ubisoft products. IMO, Ubisoft have to change the engine what they use for moment because it is morally outdated. And yes, Ubisoft became an impotent in new ideas. I think, Valhalla will be trashy too
  48. henry_roberton
    Dec 6, 2020
    3
    Many things I don’t like about this game, but to start.. never got into the character switching stuff. I would rather have one main character such as Aiden Pearce that you can actually be emotionally invested in and care about. Idgaf about these randoms characters or tbh the story which I got bored of very quickly. AI is also dog **** an example is me stealing a bus with the cops behind meMany things I don’t like about this game, but to start.. never got into the character switching stuff. I would rather have one main character such as Aiden Pearce that you can actually be emotionally invested in and care about. Idgaf about these randoms characters or tbh the story which I got bored of very quickly. AI is also dog **** an example is me stealing a bus with the cops behind me but if I just stopped the bus the police would just sit in the car behind and do nothing like wowww so immersive. Stealth also not that great which is a shame, again preferred it in the og watch dogs.

    Only positive I can give is the game looks pretty good, but paying nearly £60 for this really ain’t worth it    … Expand
  49. Pecone
    Oct 30, 2020
    3
    Really janky animations and terrible lip syncing. Graphics are last gen and the performance is atrocious. GPU usage is constantly low - 60-85% while cpu usage is 55%. Terrible optimization. The story seems interesting until you have played like 10 missions then it's the same thing over and over again. Very shallow gameplay. The game came free with my video card purchase and I still want aReally janky animations and terrible lip syncing. Graphics are last gen and the performance is atrocious. GPU usage is constantly low - 60-85% while cpu usage is 55%. Terrible optimization. The story seems interesting until you have played like 10 missions then it's the same thing over and over again. Very shallow gameplay. The game came free with my video card purchase and I still want a refund....lol that is how bad it is. I don't feel like there is anything interesting about it and the performance is just horrendous. I cannot get over the fact how bad this thing runs.
    Save your money do not buy this cash grab. The game is pretty bad.    … Expand
  50. anihavoc
    Oct 30, 2020
    3
    Below Average at Best.

    Gameplay Loop: Probably the most enjoyable aspect of Legion with a multitude of ways to approach certain missions and gives you a decent variety. ( Most Definitely not all... a good amount are just limited to picking between Stealth / Guns Blazing ) World Building: A decent amount of building up the background of the world in Legion is decently done, with a    Below Average at Best.

    Gameplay Loop: Probably the most enjoyable aspect of Legion with a multitude of ways to approach certain missions and gives you a decent variety. ( Most Definitely not all... a good amount are just limited to picking between Stealth / Guns Blazing )

    World Building: A decent amount of building up the background of the world in Legion is decently done, with a standard attention to world design and art to make it somewhat believable.

    Story: Absolute Rubbish, If you play it, play it for the Gameplay because if you're looking for a okay, decent or good story.. it's definitely not in this game

    Protagonist / Character development - Non existent and not believable in any shape of form. At some point in the game you can recruit anyone in the world for your "Dedsec" cause which makes no sense what so ever. "Play as anyone" sounds great on paper but it greatly sacrifices character development and meaningful story.

    Visuals: With RTX and HDR, it's a pretty damn good looking game outside of very dated character models in some ways. The Graffiti Art and Murals found around the city of london are nicely done, but it's a very flat experience with no depth to the world design. There are definitely areas and buildings that stand out that are highly enjoyable to go down or look at. Texture Quality is acceptable with 4K Texture Pack installed. Some animations are high quality while others remain somewhat janky and seem disconnected.

    Performance: Running it at 4K RTX on a heavily OC'd 3090FE / 9700K @ 5.0ghz I was clocking 66 fps Average on the Benchmark with Ultra except shadows on high, and DLSS Quality / RTX Medium.
    The performance is really all over the place, Walking around in the outside parts of the city I'd average between 55-70fps depending on the density and weather. Using a Vehicle I would see framerates as low as 39. It's a poorly optimized title.

    Voice Acting: Mediocre at best, the voice AI doesn't match a lot of dialogue which looks very janky. A lot of clingy dialogue in the game that tries to appeal to youth today but misses the mark greatly and feels just straight up out of touch.

    Facial Animations: Really Janky, looks as if some characters are given puppet mouths for their dialogue. Definitely some of the worst I've seen in awhile.

    Audio: Running on a ZMF Verite / ZMF Pendant Tube Amp/ Denafrips PONTUS DAC and analyzing the quality of audio seperation ques, dynamic range, music and soundscapes of London - the over all quality is somewhat average and shouldn't expect anything spectacular.
    -Only your vehicle transmits radio music into the game world when exiting
    - Radio music selection is subjectively alright but mediocre in over all quality, sounds like they ripped straight up 128kbps files and threw them in as radio stations
    - Dynamic Range isn't that great as far as being accurate, voices are far too loud, vehicles sound way too soft with barely any texture, Guns lack "oomph" and use standard sound effects, Crashing into vehicles is the same generic sound file over and over again, NPC voice lines, while sometime hilarious, there's quite a small amount of lines and are heavily repeated through out my experience.
    -Imaging is fairly decent, it's easy to pick apart the placement of audio ques in the game world.
    -Fairly low amount of actual ambient sounds in the game, which is a bit immersion breaking
    -Voice Over quality is quite subpar from the norm thanks to the weird, digital sounding pitch shifts they used for voices.

    World Depth - It's very flat, don't expect a super dense interesting world, it's very "open world gamey" feeling in its presentation, although it does a decent job at pervading the world building aspect of the current political climate its set in

    NPC AI - Far below average for the most part, It will quickly be noticed that you can get away with quite a lot even though its suppose to be set in a very dystopian setting. It's a very immersion breaking aspect of the game and doesn't make it believable regardless of its setting.

    Aesthetics: Good in some ways, such as the strong Punk Rock / Metal culture vibes in some of the areas but quite cringy and out of touch in others. It honestly feels like they purposely ripped off a small chunk of what CDPR is looking to accomplish with Cyberpunk 2077 but in a tasteless, soulless way.

    Microtransactions: Despicable Predatory MTX model that shouldn't be included in single player titles that they most likely are looking to implement even more heavy into the multiplayer component once its released. There are progress boosters and Cosmetics.    … Expand
  51. Kadirov
    Jul 12, 2021
    3
    -Почему я должен постоянно логиниться в ubisoft connect? Каждый день запуская игру, мне приходится страдать - писать длинные имейл и пароль.

    -Игры нет в Steam -Покупка на других площадках не спасёт от дополнительного лаунчера в виде Uplay -Игру невозможно закончить элементарно из-за багов. У меня киберпанк на памяти вылетел лишь пару раз за всё прохождение. Watch Dogs у меня    -Почему я должен постоянно логиниться в ubisoft connect? Каждый день запуская игру, мне приходится страдать - писать длинные имейл и пароль.

    -Игры нет в Steam

    -Покупка на других площадках не спасёт от дополнительного лаунчера в виде Uplay

    -Игру невозможно закончить элементарно из-за багов. У меня киберпанк на памяти вылетел лишь пару раз за всё прохождение. Watch Dogs у меня вылетел 4 раза только за сегодняшний день.

    В Watch Dogs Legion в отличии от нормальных типа Witcher 3, Metro Exodus и Cyberpunk 2077 нет зон комфорта и заданий для отдыха, где игрок мог бы разбавить бесконечную беготню чем-то иным. Игра ощущается как работа, как симулятор некой неоплачиваемой работы. Я хотел я отдыхать после тяжелого трудового дня, а не получать еще больше стресса. Стресс в игре бесконечен и нет места где я чувствовал себя в игре уютно.
    Бесконечные бои и погони - это очень выматывает и после 4 часов игры я чувствую себя изможденным и травмированным. Я не могу в этом тексте уместить всю тяжесть на душе, что я чувствую. Этой игрой можно пытать людей.
    Игра для нердов ноулайферов которым реально пострелушки кажутся чем-то интересным. Спасают игру лишь её посыл ввиде критики тоталитаризма, вопросы приватности и социальная повестка. Ну и виртуальный туризм по лондону. А так - весь геймплей это "пойди убей принеси" и так до бесконечности. В чём смысл этой чуши, зачем тратить на это время.    … Expand
  52. Gelonyx
    Jun 3, 2021
    3
    And here we go with yet another bland and boring open world game from Ubisoft. The unimaginative gameplay and mission design is so repetitive. There are only one or two missions that stand out the rest is just your classic go there, kill enemies to clean the camp and loot/hack. No set pieces.

    The play as any NPC was promising but just feels gimmicky : you can complete the game without    And here we go with yet another bland and boring open world game from Ubisoft. The unimaginative gameplay and mission design is so repetitive. There are only one or two missions that stand out the rest is just your classic go there, kill enemies to clean the camp and loot/hack. No set pieces.

    The play as any NPC was promising but just feels gimmicky : you can complete the game without changing of character ( aside from one or two missions where the game forces you to ). I mean, they could have designed the game so that you'd really need to change charcter ! But no. Guess the writing is not the only thing that's lazy about this game.

    The open world lacks atmosphere : I mean it's supposed to be futuristic London, a few neon lights and self driving cars are not really impressive.

    The game is overall good looking but the animations look awful : they seem so dated and your character moves so robot-like ( there's your future atmosphere lol ).

    I put roughly 25 hours in the game and played through geforce Now so i could push the graphics and even then the game had a few crashes. And oh, the LOADING TIMES ARE SOOOOOOOOO LONG it's truely baffling at that stage.

    I really wish Ubi would commit to a single character and give them a focused story even if the campaign for only 20 hours.

    Thanks for listening to my Ted Talk    … Expand
  53. MaiaBee8
    Oct 31, 2020
    3
    Огромнейший даунгрейд по сравнению со второй частью, 0 оптимизации, даже главное меню багует при выходе из игры
  54. Mortanius
    Oct 30, 2020
    3
    Ubisoft will never learn:
    1. terrible story
    2 terrible optimization
    3. terrible voice acting
    4. terrible and boring missions
    5. super boring game

    If you suffer insomnia, I recommend you to play this game.
  55. tdl
    Jun 30, 2021
    3
    Why do Ubisoft do this? They make a game that looks great and even has considerable detail of the world to the real world location but then they make the gameplay boring and repetitive giving you very little reason to want to stay in the world! If only Ubisoft could pair up with CDPR or even Bethesda when it comes to plot they would have a winner.
  56. gappyz
    Dec 5, 2021
    3
    This game can't makes me playing it's own game itself,
    has ZERO interesting point
  57. weebe
    Nov 16, 2020
    3
    Not terrible, but coming off of watchdogs 2, it just isn't satisfying. watchdogs 2 (in my opinion) was a great game for what it was, characters with personalities that feel genuine, like an actual geek in SF, while not exactly an accurate representation of SF, it was close enough. The problem with legion is that it just is far too repetitive with its missions, in watchdogs 2, you hadNot terrible, but coming off of watchdogs 2, it just isn't satisfying. watchdogs 2 (in my opinion) was a great game for what it was, characters with personalities that feel genuine, like an actual geek in SF, while not exactly an accurate representation of SF, it was close enough. The problem with legion is that it just is far too repetitive with its missions, in watchdogs 2, you had cyberdriver or the one where you EMP a factory. Compared to legion, legion has mainly spiderbots and not much else, the games story missions are mainly just repeated "get in and out". While 2 did have a ton of these, at least it had some variation in between, like cyberdriver, whcih ends in an insanely fun chase and tidis, whcih lets you control a war machine.… Expand
  58. eduardonba
    Nov 8, 2020
    3
    Tá uma porcaria, personagens sem carisma, história ruim, má otimização, dirigibilidade dos carros piorada.
    Não vale o preço que cobram de jeito nenhum.
  59. Vandersonjca
    Nov 13, 2020
    3
    Lots of bugs! in this game Ubisoft taught me to only buy your games in future promotions. because only then are your games working well.
  60. SergeiZ
    Nov 2, 2020
    3
    A terrible plot, ugly girls, nasty optimization, boring monotonous missions. Ubisoft in all its glory.
  61. FunkyMonky
    Oct 31, 2020
    3
    This is a perfect example of an ubisoft game. Full of all kinds of systems and mechanics with interesting concepts, but that have the depth of a puddle. This makes the game become repetitive and bland so fast. The core gameplay loop, while it does work, it's so uninspired and executed so poorly that I wonder if they've even playtested the game . If you want to play a game with aThis is a perfect example of an ubisoft game. Full of all kinds of systems and mechanics with interesting concepts, but that have the depth of a puddle. This makes the game become repetitive and bland so fast. The core gameplay loop, while it does work, it's so uninspired and executed so poorly that I wonder if they've even playtested the game . If you want to play a game with a recruitment system that is actually done right and that keeps you engaged, go play Middle Earth: Shadow of War and don't waste your time and money on this.… Expand
  62. Costa_Ottone
    Nov 7, 2020
    3
    YOU Freaks thinking about money And not about the game and players of inspiration - Ubisoft is a rotten trash heap - quickly leave the world of games! I'll light a candle in the church so that you **** die! OMG)
  63. Arazzy
    Oct 31, 2020
    3
    Not really sure what ubi is doing here, Hopefully the other upcoming games aren't as bad as this one as it runs terrible especially given the graphical appearance of the game, can't save the game, no depth to mechanics, no caring for the characters you can recruit since they're so bland and are pretty much all the same its like uni have lost all game since as this game is a watered downNot really sure what ubi is doing here, Hopefully the other upcoming games aren't as bad as this one as it runs terrible especially given the graphical appearance of the game, can't save the game, no depth to mechanics, no caring for the characters you can recruit since they're so bland and are pretty much all the same its like uni have lost all game since as this game is a watered down version of watch dogs 2 and given the extra time this game got before release I really question the sanity of whoever signed off on this who must have just looked at the cash shop of this already over priced videogame.… Expand
  64. edgomatic
    Nov 1, 2020
    3
    The openworld is not really big, but as usual Ubisoft fails to give it life. Ofc there is stuff to collect but we all know how fun this is...

    Side characters are super cringe paired with a mediocre story makes it art to get through it. Gameplay is just lame. Either you hop around in your spider bit 24/7 or fly around in your cargo drone. Or you rush in guns blazing. Most buildings    The openworld is not really big, but as usual Ubisoft fails to give it life. Ofc there is stuff to collect but we all know how fun this is...

    Side characters are super cringe paired with a mediocre story makes it art to get through it.

    Gameplay is just lame. Either you hop around in your spider bit 24/7 or fly around in your cargo drone. Or you rush in guns blazing.
    Most buildings or in general the objectives rarely give you more than 2 possible ways to solve it.

    Dont pay full price for this    … Expand
  65. Lacettiblack
    Nov 20, 2020
    3
    The good: London is cool. Walking around is by far the most enjoyable activity in the game.

    The bad: Very barebones. All the missions are very booring and repetitive and come down to go the the red zone and either kill everyone or try to sneak past and click on the button, wait a few seconds and get out. Very few and uninspired side activities like parcel delivery that give no rewards.    The good: London is cool. Walking around is by far the most enjoyable activity in the game.

    The bad: Very barebones. All the missions are very booring and repetitive and come down to go the the red zone and either kill everyone or try to sneak past and click on the button, wait a few seconds and get out. Very few and uninspired side activities like parcel delivery that give no rewards. The voices are very very bad. A lot of missed opportunities with missing landmarks in London like Sherlok Holmes house, The Zoo, Primrose Hill, Savile Row, etc. You can go inside very few buildings, mostly pubs. The forced diversithy bacame exausting very fast. The games crashed a lot on PC and spent more time trying to get the game to run than playing it. In 20 hours you can do everything in the game. The recruit everyone mechanic is shallow and adds very little to the experience since you can de everything with everyone and there is no growth for any of the characters.    … Expand
  66. Llama6394
    Nov 2, 2020
    3
    I'm sorry but I don't understand how critics and users enjoy this game. In my opinion it's a literal downgrade from Watch Dogs 2. They shouldn't have made it more of an open world as the franchise already was. The play as anyone mechanic works horribly: all the characters are either ugly or have bad voice modulation. The specialist characters are useless when you realise drones andI'm sorry but I don't understand how critics and users enjoy this game. In my opinion it's a literal downgrade from Watch Dogs 2. They shouldn't have made it more of an open world as the franchise already was. The play as anyone mechanic works horribly: all the characters are either ugly or have bad voice modulation. The specialist characters are useless when you realise drones and spiderbots can be spawned with any character you want and they all have the same hacking abilities, creating no major difference in what character you play as.

    The mission's are all the same: destroying something or downloading something. It's so repetitive and there's no interesting narrative to back it up; WD2 at least made me interesting in what I was doing. The thing is, the introduction mission was so good; I got shivers when everything was exploding and the guy was saying "no, no, no" but then every mission after has no emotion at all.

    I think they made the janitor code the AI or something as whenever I got into a chase, they gave up after 5 seconds leaving me with no tension whatsoever. I wanted the permadeath and hard difficulty to increase my enjoyment but it made no difference because if I got overwhelmed, I could just run on foot or in a car and get away with no consequence or chance of getting caught. This made me so mad after watching the tipping point trailer

    I am a fan, I enjoyed both WD and WD 2 and felt like a badass while playing both. I pre-ordered the game and waited until midnight to play it. The setting looks amazing but it's empty when you peel the skin off (the world doesn't even change when you liberate a borough) and without a proper narrative and repetitive missions, the game suffers to unplayability.

    Please watch gameplay and read both positive and negative reviews that are over 6 sentences to get the information on if you will like the game or not! I should've done the same but I wanted a spoiler-free experience, sucks for me. Thanks for reading.    … Expand
  67. skidrow83s
    Nov 3, 2020
    3
    london yeah...,but poor and laggy performance. this stuff need progresive patch.
  68. acr_00
    Nov 6, 2020
    3
    Starting on plot: it is bad. Quests seem to be not related to each other. A lot of gender and racial propaganda, which does not contain any rational background.

    Graphics are much worse than in previous game, anti-aliasing is almost non-existent. Physics are just bad. Cars seems to be flying with no friction at all, people walking in the air robot like. Overall bad performance. The    Starting on plot: it is bad. Quests seem to be not related to each other. A lot of gender and racial propaganda, which does not contain any rational background.

    Graphics are much worse than in previous game, anti-aliasing is almost non-existent. Physics are just bad. Cars seems to be flying with no friction at all, people walking in the air robot like. Overall bad performance.

    The only interesting part of the game is a city, which does not look bad in comparison to other aspects of the game.    … Expand
  69. Kovaldone
    Nov 8, 2020
    3
    Questo è un falso molto economico senza qualità e dettagli come dettagli principali del gioco, non una vera fantasia che la trama è molto stupida e non interessante come quella di una creazione di gioco mal pensata) Ci sono molti svantaggi e non perderò tempo a scrivere un sacco di difetti su questo gioco ...
  70. F1Z2I3
    Nov 11, 2020
    3
    Not only is the free roam bland, but the game also looks like a Ps3 game. The games' story is bare bones and not replayable as the story adapts to the current character you are playing as. The game does not feel like an $89 million budget game, its boring and the missions to recruit characters are just making me fall asleep, the game feels incomplete and needs more time in the oven asNot only is the free roam bland, but the game also looks like a Ps3 game. The games' story is bare bones and not replayable as the story adapts to the current character you are playing as. The game does not feel like an $89 million budget game, its boring and the missions to recruit characters are just making me fall asleep, the game feels incomplete and needs more time in the oven as somehow they made it look WORSE than the first game. The story is generic and not even worth talking about as there is barely a reason to go over it. I am pretty sure you could look anywhere online and see the downgrades of WDL, it's just a boring and overall bland game not worth $60 but maybe in the $30 range.

    At this point in time, it's not worth getting, wait for a sale, then maybe the game is like a 5.    … Expand
  71. RoyDeCampagna
    Nov 25, 2020
    3
    Very repetitive and generic. While some of the mechanics are interesting it's easy to loose interest in the game due to a watered narrative.

    Once again, Ubisoft delivering something that looked ten times better in the trailers than on the release.

    For sure not to be brought at full price.
  72. wolfmaster8
    Dec 7, 2020
    3
    This is sold as a completely new adventure on Watch Dogs saga. Reality is more the contrary of that. it implements new mechanics, a lot of new characters but, I have some points I consider relevant when buying a new game from a franchise.

    TL;DR: it's an interesting approach, but it's Ubisoft: Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V while changing the map, the story, new characters and adding some new    This is sold as a completely new adventure on Watch Dogs saga. Reality is more the contrary of that. it implements new mechanics, a lot of new characters but, I have some points I consider relevant when buying a new game from a franchise.

    TL;DR: it's an interesting approach, but it's Ubisoft: Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V while changing the map, the story, new characters and adding some new mechanics. But it feels like the same. They didn't improved the graphics quality, the driving system is terrible, some good mechanics from the others games disappeared.

    1. Map & Ambient: I don't know if London was the best choice, but the ambient is always dark, rainy, and when it's sunny it feels odd, like a yellowish ambient. Night is more vibrant, so it's not that bad. However, I think, Future London is well executed and sometimes it's awesome to see all the details on every corner of the map.

    2. Driving: it feels like driving in GTA Vice City (and that could be offensive haha). They didn't upgrade the driving mechanic for this game and personally it feels worse than Watch Dogs 2. Also, the cars are too slow. I think, that was a decision based on the size of the map, but even with the fastest cars, it feels like 30mph.

    3. Graphics: what a disappointment! With a high-end PC and a good ultrawide gamer monitor, in some scenarios it feels like a game from 2012 or something. I think the lightning system is not good. With HDR and without it, after adjusting everything, the colors, the light, the shades and the characters seems to be from another decade. Games like Farcry 5 or even WD2 have a better graphic system. Sometimes GTA V feels more recent that WDL.

    4. Missions: a really interesting story, but more of the same mechanics. Enter a building and hack a computer, hack a server, steal something... It has new things, but it lacks of innovative things to do.

    5. Recruit characters: I find this was a really good step on the franchise. It's really funny to enter the prohibited buildings with a character that is an employee of that company. However, the missions to recruit are too repetitive.

    6. Characters: I love how every character has a life in the game. On the bad side, sometimes the voices doesn't represent the character.

    6.1. NPC's: How it's possible that in 2020 the NPC's get stuck in a wall while walking? Also, the police/chases are a little bit buggy. For example, I entered a forbidden building and the guards saw me and started to walk away running. Another: I was being chased by the police and I hid on a wall while they were looking at me, and that was it, I lost the police. Disclaimer: Probably they are gonna fix that behavior, but in the meantime I'll leave this here.

    7. Interface, Gameplay & Controls: The interface is well designed but they changed too much the controls and the mechanics of them. After more than a month playing, some things on the gameplay feels awkward. Now our character doesn't have a cellphone, so in order to, for example, take a picture, you need to hold X and then press 9 and then the camera will show up that's not intuitive. It feels awkward to do that. A cellphone was a better idea, maybe with an holographic screen to be more futuristic.

    8. Price: I don't know why I payed too much for this game. This game is overpriced if it's sold as part of WD franchise. If this was sold as a new franchise, maybe the price would be correct.

    Things to consider before buying.
    1. If your are new to the franchise it will be worth it.
    2. If you had played WD1 and WD2 I will consider buying the game on sale.    … Expand
  73. TovaNeEZaeto
    Feb 13, 2021
    3
    I have to admit, the game is fun. My main issue with it is the random crashes and especially the lauch error I had at first. I don't need to mentione the lack of help from Ubisoft. They were quick to respond, but every time I contacted them I always got the same "solutions", no matter I have tried everything they wrote in their troubleshoot. In the end it turned out to be a missing dllI have to admit, the game is fun. My main issue with it is the random crashes and especially the lauch error I had at first. I don't need to mentione the lack of help from Ubisoft. They were quick to respond, but every time I contacted them I always got the same "solutions", no matter I have tried everything they wrote in their troubleshoot. In the end it turned out to be a missing dll file (vcruntime140_1.dll) to be precise. So in case anyone is having issue launching the game at start you could try finding this file somewhere and put it in your system32 folder. It worked for me and for many others.
    As for the game I am having fun playing it. The fight mechanics are fun, engaging, although it can get a bit repetetive. Missions are also fun, sometimes a bit repetitive, but still fun. Playing with gadges around, you don't even have to physically enter a restricted area most of the times to complete objectives, your gadgets can do the job. You can pretty much recruit every NPC you find on the street and play with him/her. Just mind you that you have a limit of how many people you can recruit. You can always retire a character from you crew and recruit another.
    Overall, the game is fun, but random crashes could occur. And don't waste your time contacting Ubisoft support. They are kind and try to help, but their solutions are pretty much useless, sorry to say that, but that's the truth, and in the end they abandon your case as they consider it as "resolved".    … Expand
  74. NoxSkia
    Mar 21, 2021
    3
    Terrible PC optimization, no cockpit view while driving. Watch Dogs 2 is still the best one. Ubisoft doesn't let you refund after launching the game once, so better pirate the game first to see if it can run well on your PC before buying.
  75. HoundFromHell
    Sep 21, 2021
    3
    Can't really give this game any credit. thought it was gonna be a decent game, but ubisoft always know how to mess things up. i mean this game was pushed back and everything. and this is the state it comes out in laughable.
    1) graphics are horrible. so cartoon that i was waiting for bugs bunny, daffy duck, tweety bird to come appear.
    2) the handling is a nightmare. so loose i felt like i    Can't really give this game any credit. thought it was gonna be a decent game, but ubisoft always know how to mess things up. i mean this game was pushed back and everything. and this is the state it comes out in laughable.
    1) graphics are horrible. so cartoon that i was waiting for bugs bunny, daffy duck, tweety bird to come appear.
    2) the handling is a nightmare. so loose i felt like i was playing a game from the first PlayStation. its 2021 an this is how they are still make their controls.
    3) the story line is boring an pathetic. i hated every second of it. no creative thinking nothing.    … Expand
  76. saize63
    May 7, 2023
    3
    i'm disapointed...even in 2023, i had many crash...ubisoft is really bad for this.
    Concerning the game, i prefer watchdog 2, cuz Legion is broken because there is no main character, no real character with something that makes the game alive...there is no soul...really i've played 9 hours but crashes and mediocrity prevent me to finish the game...i really dont want to play anymore...
    if    i'm disapointed...even in 2023, i had many crash...ubisoft is really bad for this.
    Concerning the game, i prefer watchdog 2, cuz Legion is broken because there is no main character, no real character with something that makes the game alive...there is no soul...really i've played 9 hours but crashes and mediocrity prevent me to finish the game...i really dont want to play anymore...
    if you are planning to buy it...please dont ! and if you didnt play to watchdog 2, buy this one instead !    … Expand
  77. Blayyzi
    Dec 23, 2021
    3
    At a first glance, the game looks promising.
    A new city, a new way to play the game by recruiting people.
    But as you dive into Watch Dogs Legion and explore further, it becomes clearer that the game isn't much more than a cheap, milked sequel. Very few of the ordinary citizens in London have any noticeable qualities, and they're all voiced by the same 10 or so voice actors, making the    At a first glance, the game looks promising.
    A new city, a new way to play the game by recruiting people.
    But as you dive into Watch Dogs Legion and explore further, it becomes clearer that the game isn't much more than a cheap, milked sequel.

    Very few of the ordinary citizens in London have any noticeable qualities, and they're all voiced by the same 10 or so voice actors, making the world seem much smaller and dull than you'd imagine it to be. And because there are so many different characters, interactions between your team and characters in the story are blatantly dull and generic. There's no one that you grow an emotional connection to, and there's no one that's worth rooting for, whether it's DedSec or not. There are practically no characters who actually have a decent backstory or interesting personality without being killed at the beginning of the game or getting almost no screen time whatsoever.

    The gameplay is almost nothing new besides from a few new additional gadgets. But it's the same premise - kill people, hack stuff, get in, and complete the objective. After playing for about 5-10 hours, the gameplay becomes repetitive and redundant, and it was a struggle for me to keep coming back to the game and force myself finish the campaign. There's almost no interesting story or creativity, probably due to the fact that Ubisoft was desperate to milk out one last game for the series, and it shows.    … Expand
  78. ALOBANYA
    Sep 28, 2022
    3
    игра полный шлак в красивой обвертке в виде Лондона, отрезать руки тому кто делал интерфейс этой игре, такое ощущение что я в какую то мобилку играю, что за бред, система агентов фуфло, это не игра, это издевательство
  79. somovbiu
    Aug 1, 2023
    3
    It WILL be a waste of your time. Trust me. Every Ubisoft game becomes repetitive and tedious very quickly. This one is around 3 hours in, everything starts to be the same mechanics over and over again.
  80. Barny
    Mar 5, 2023
    2
    Graphics are decent and that's all there is. I played only 3 hours because there was nothing engaging. Magic hijacking and pointless missions supporting a stupid plot and the most ridiculous: the mask the team member wear when they get into action.
  81. kamgeforce
    Nov 25, 2020
    2
    It would have been average at best ubisoft grind loop game, meaning waste of time. Taking into account the disgusting narrative and agenda this game pushes, its certified garbage.
  82. tdebug
    Feb 5, 2021
    2
    graphics looks dated and cartoonish (but not in a good way).

    I got 35-40 fps on 3090, which is the most powerful GPU you can get. Seriously? The graphic and geometry is not even good, so why so bad performance? Poor optimization? I did try to change graphics quality from max to min in a few steps but overall performance didn’t change almost at all. And I repeat it’s nvidia 3090! This    graphics looks dated and cartoonish (but not in a good way).

    I got 35-40 fps on 3090, which is the most powerful GPU you can get. Seriously? The graphic and geometry is not even good, so why so bad performance? Poor optimization?
    I did try to change graphics quality from max to min in a few steps but overall performance didn’t change almost at all. And I repeat it’s nvidia 3090! This game is a technical disaster.

    Car driving, is something even difficult to describe - weird, bad, awful - simply won't describe it. It just super retarded. I think as a developer you need to make extra efforts to make in game driving so miserable and annoying.

    I spent about 30 hours in the game and don't feel like running it again. It is simply not engaging and also very repetitive. Even the "open world" is just a decoration and made to be big to increase your travel time from A to B, NOTHING is happening there apart from the story.    … Expand
  83. bkuch
    Oct 30, 2020
    2
    I got this for free with my shiny new 3080. Frame rates are rubbish (Nvidia drivers up-to-date)! GeForce experience even suggests Ultra settings for everything - that's a first! Same with auto detect in-game. Benchmark option gives me near 60fps but once you go out on the open street - OMG. Worst game to enjoy a new expensive graphics card. Also the RTX is just like puddles everywhere,I got this for free with my shiny new 3080. Frame rates are rubbish (Nvidia drivers up-to-date)! GeForce experience even suggests Ultra settings for everything - that's a first! Same with auto detect in-game. Benchmark option gives me near 60fps but once you go out on the open street - OMG. Worst game to enjoy a new expensive graphics card. Also the RTX is just like puddles everywhere, even though it's not raining - even indoors! I've never been so unmotivated to play a new game - huge disappointment.… Expand
  84. AlKappaccino
    Oct 31, 2020
    2
    The world is so incredible unbelievable, that I find it hard to engage with the story at all. Countless Bugs, unpolished immersion breaker like bad facial animations, voice acting, lipsync, driving, gunplay, enemy AI etc. it feels like an alpha version that could be at least a fun edgy open world sandbox. But it is not in its current state.
  85. Parker_
    Nov 1, 2020
    2
    Lost 4 hour of progres on my save file. This is bug fest is a joke for a full price game
  86. dsqer
    Oct 31, 2020
    2
    this game is disgusting in almost everything except the price tag. full price + dlc + microtransactions.
    It seems that ubisoft first creates a monetization plan, and only then the game itself, just as
  87. MGee
    Nov 4, 2020
    2
    Dull as dishwater. An endless, joyless sandbox full of characters you could not care less about fighting "bad guys" who have the personality of particle board.
  88. RavenZyT
    Jan 8, 2021
    2
    I give it a 2 because the level design is amazing. It´s the only thing good in the videogame. The Ai one of the most stupid I've ever seen in videogames. And what to tell about driving cars and motorcycles. OMG! As in all Watch Dogs games, they continue having this driving that you suffer every time you get into a vehicle because you don´t know if you will survive the travel. The carI give it a 2 because the level design is amazing. It´s the only thing good in the videogame. The Ai one of the most stupid I've ever seen in videogames. And what to tell about driving cars and motorcycles. OMG! As in all Watch Dogs games, they continue having this driving that you suffer every time you get into a vehicle because you don´t know if you will survive the travel. The car destruction system is horrible, driving is horrible, trees, streetlights, and fences continue with the Watch Dogs 1 bug of falling in slices. You can fall from 5000 metres height and you won´t get damage, also if you get hit by a car no damage is applied to you or knockback. This is my review simply they continue without solving those problems that they have till the first game was released. The story is a bit poor with 3 villains that for me they are not as bad to be villains, the character system that you can recruit everyone makes it impossible to empathize with them because they die and they are gone forever and you simply take another agent and that's it.… Expand
  89. Beowulf6666
    Nov 5, 2020
    2
    absolute trash....they actually managed to remove more features than were available in watch dogs 2

    gameplay is boring, story is non-existant really...there is an overall theme...and some **** goes down in the first 10 mins of the game...but the rest is just boring you have no connection to the main character or overall story at all so you dont get immersed also...they removed the    absolute trash....they actually managed to remove more features than were available in watch dogs 2

    gameplay is boring, story is non-existant really...there is an overall theme...and some **** goes down in the first 10 mins of the game...but the rest is just boring

    you have no connection to the main character or overall story at all so you dont get immersed
    also...they removed the ability to listen to music while not driving

    not to mention is riddled with bugs...un-optimized...and FULL of micro-transactions...its just....rushed...cut short....and overall feels like something EA would put out    … Expand
  90. DarkwolfXP
    Nov 1, 2020
    2
    The gameplay and the "play as anyone" is fun and all, settings good to etc. But every game without a Steam release automatically gets a bad score for me because there is simply no reason for it to not be on steam. You might say "Oh, but steam takes too much money from developers".
    First: Ubisoft is a multi million dollar company that makes most of its money through microtransaction which    The gameplay and the "play as anyone" is fun and all, settings good to etc. But every game without a Steam release automatically gets a bad score for me because there is simply no reason for it to not be on steam. You might say "Oh, but steam takes too much money from developers".
    First: Ubisoft is a multi million dollar company that makes most of its money through microtransaction which dont even belong into single player games. Why do you care if they loose money?"
    Second: They why is it on Stadia and Consoles? There revenue cut is the exact same!
    There is just NO reason for there not to be steam release,    … Expand
  91. 4life-
    Nov 20, 2020
    2
    There is no "drive" for me to keep playing. The story is so thin its not even funny. Many game breaking bugs in my playtime in this game. Graphics looks dated to me,even with RT. I wish there was a more engaging story to keep me interested. One of this years big disappointment to me. I really liked Watch Dogs 2. This gets a 2 from me :(
  92. ZguroK
    Nov 12, 2020
    2
    2 бала за пиздатый графон
    Остальное это гавно
  93. Critical3004
    Oct 30, 2020
    2
    An insult to the intelligence of the gaming community in every gameplay aspect. Technically awful, lots of bugs, softlocks making it impossible to liberate a district. Graphics are horrendous as well as performance. Story bland and predictable. Vehicles feel like bricks that are not driveable. Excessive amount of auto aim that often does not work and I still do not know how to turn it off.An insult to the intelligence of the gaming community in every gameplay aspect. Technically awful, lots of bugs, softlocks making it impossible to liberate a district. Graphics are horrendous as well as performance. Story bland and predictable. Vehicles feel like bricks that are not driveable. Excessive amount of auto aim that often does not work and I still do not know how to turn it off.

    Some ideas are appealing, but executed very poorly.

    2/10    … Expand
  94. nwilloughby
    Nov 1, 2020
    2
    Glad I didn't buy this game and only got a month subscription, This game comes with all the normal Ubisoft bugs, including no Bluetooth controller support, random crashes, lost progress, no advancing progress. I have redone the 404 cTOS hub mission at least 4 times and each time it refuses to save even after completing several more missions in the story line.

    The optimization is easily    Glad I didn't buy this game and only got a month subscription, This game comes with all the normal Ubisoft bugs, including no Bluetooth controller support, random crashes, lost progress, no advancing progress. I have redone the 404 cTOS hub mission at least 4 times and each time it refuses to save even after completing several more missions in the story line.

    The optimization is easily one of the worst I have ever played I cannot get above 40fps on SLI, the combat on hard is easy, the AI is terribly stupid, the driving has always been terrible in this series this game is no exception.

    The story is okay but mostly forgettable, I will have to watch a streamer beat this game because I don't have time to fix their game's inability to progress the story and do not have time to start the story over after 12 hours.

    Just when you think they make an advancement you realize they cut a ton of other features from other past games like controlling traffic lights, bank accounts, etc.    … Expand
  95. lieska16
    Dec 18, 2020
    2
    Awful game. Runs very bad, mid 20 fps with lowest settings with rtx 2060 and ryzen 5 2600. Story is boring, same repetitive missions, go somewhere, hack something, wait that it’s been hacked while shooting waves of enemies. Visually this game looks bad even with ultra settings, it looks worse than wd1. Only things that are somewhat interesting are the location and that every person isAwful game. Runs very bad, mid 20 fps with lowest settings with rtx 2060 and ryzen 5 2600. Story is boring, same repetitive missions, go somewhere, hack something, wait that it’s been hacked while shooting waves of enemies. Visually this game looks bad even with ultra settings, it looks worse than wd1. Only things that are somewhat interesting are the location and that every person is playable, but it’s ruined because they don’t look humans more like clay and they all have the same voice but lowered or pitched to sound more ”unique” but it’s absolutely awful.

    Hacking is almost nonexistence, only part where you use hacking is in the boring repetitive missions. This game has less hacking than wd2 and wd1, which is stupid because this is a game about hackers.

    There is no shops to enter, and only places where you can enter is few bars and the hideout. Clothing stores are either stalls or posters on the wall.    … Expand
  96. BenTT
    Feb 16, 2021
    2
    The game engine of the game is so bad. I'm not sure if I want to proceed it further, have been playing it for a week. For instance, when I take a leap across the building from a "car elevator" ( the one that lifts the character up and down ). If I don't tap the cross button repetitively, the main somehow fall through the gap. And the important thing is, the animation when falling looksThe game engine of the game is so bad. I'm not sure if I want to proceed it further, have been playing it for a week. For instance, when I take a leap across the building from a "car elevator" ( the one that lifts the character up and down ). If I don't tap the cross button repetitively, the main somehow fall through the gap. And the important thing is, the animation when falling looks ridiculous. It is like I got stuck then the screen starts shaking until my character completely out of the gap. Ubisoft, please … Expand
  97. Xonkire
    May 23, 2022
    2
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  98. Altar
    Nov 1, 2020
    2
    One of the weakest game of this year.
    From the beginning, it had a vague direction. The result is as it is.
    No interesting story, rarely fun quests (1 of 30), lots of bugs, repetitive style of play, boring gameplay.
    The only good thing is the visual side of the game but there are also some technical shortcomings.
    Ubisoft has once again proven that marketing can do better than games.
  99. MorganHat
    Nov 3, 2020
    2
    Perhaps it's not a secret for anyone that the new part of Watch Dogs did not bode well, and was initially a failure. The problem lies in the game and game development. The game uses the same engine, due to which there is no development, the graphics remained at the level of the first part of the game. Such a wretched control of cars as in part 1. I advise you to save your money and buyPerhaps it's not a secret for anyone that the new part of Watch Dogs did not bode well, and was initially a failure. The problem lies in the game and game development. The game uses the same engine, due to which there is no development, the graphics remained at the level of the first part of the game. Such a wretched control of cars as in part 1. I advise you to save your money and buy something really worth your money. On the plus side, the game has become just more fun, like in Saints Row, but Saint Row is better and have more fun.
    Maximum, a sandbox, where you can have a little fun, and in the old games there are sandboxes and more interesting.
    P.S. And again, from the very start of sales, the players started having problems, bravo UBISOFT, keep it up.    … Expand
  100. Natteke
    Nov 1, 2020
    2
    God how i waited for this game, and how i disappointed. WD2 was interesting because of the ok storyline, meaningful skill tree and bunch of tools to play with. I was in love with wrench from the beginning, and sad when one of the characters died. Because they were elaborate characters.

    Im not going to talk about car driving. Which Ubi actually could make better in 6 years after original    God how i waited for this game, and how i disappointed. WD2 was interesting because of the ok storyline, meaningful skill tree and bunch of tools to play with. I was in love with wrench from the beginning, and sad when one of the characters died. Because they were elaborate characters.

    Im not going to talk about car driving. Which Ubi actually could make better in 6 years after original WD release.
    Overall gameplay feels raw. Characters looks raw. No empathy to anyone. Dialogs are raw. Storyline just horrible, predictable, and boring.

    WD3 fully deserves its low score.

    Indeed, I do not understand how small studios of 20-30 people makes more interesting games than the products of Ubisoft. Maybe because they love their games?    … Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 46 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 46
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 46
  3. Negative: 1 out of 46
  1. CD-Action
    Feb 8, 2021
    80
    Legion is a return to the darker roots of Watch Dogs. It is also the best game in the series, regardless of whether you’re inclined to avoid violence and solve problems DedSec style (by hacking), or prefer to unleash a hail of bullets. The story improved big time and it is unsettling to realize how much the game’s dystopian reality resembles our own. [13/2020, p.62]
  2. Riot Pixels
    Jan 26, 2021
    50
    This is the worst kind of sandbox, with bland, repetitious gameplay, and barely existing narrative.
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  3. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 4, 2021
    60
    Watch Dogs: Legion is a fun game, but in the end it doesn't stand out. The possibility of recruiting anyone is ambitious, but many, perhaps even more important elements have fallen victim to it. The game unfortunately falls into the ranks: to play and forget. [Issue#307]
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