Watch Dogs: Legion

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  1. 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.
  2. Tranceholic
    Oct 30, 2020
    0
    1. terrible story
    2 terrible optimization
    3. terrible voice acting
    4. terrible and boring missions
    5. super boring game
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Indovers
    Oct 30, 2020
    0
    Worst perfomance 2020.
    Low FPS on gtx 1080ti (even on 1080p + medium settings).
    Game crashes every 20-40 minutes.
  6. dereaper
    Aug 14, 2021
    0
    Это просто помойка моим дорогие друзья.
    Все жаловались на киберпанк, итог за всю игру 3 вылета. Подумал что не приятно но ок.
    И тут я зашел и купил это. Боже мой, если бы я так работал, и допускал такое колличество багов и ошибок в продукцию, меня бы уволили еще вначале дня. 5 вылетов в час, в час карл, не в день и не за всё время , а за час. Что я уже не делал только, реинстал,    Это просто помойка моим дорогие друзья.
    Все жаловались на киберпанк, итог за всю игру 3 вылета. Подумал что не приятно но ок.
    И тут я зашел и купил это. Боже мой, если бы я так работал, и допускал такое колличество багов и ошибок в продукцию, меня бы уволили еще вначале дня.
    5 вылетов в час, в час карл, не в день и не за всё время , а за час.
    Что я уже не делал только, реинстал, проверка целосности игры. Проверка виндоуса, проверка драйверов, минимальные требования? при 3080 ti вообще смешно было это было делать, но всё же, и все равно не помогло.
    Сама игра такое же дерьмо, выбор оружия? я черта с два.
    Прописанные персонажи и антагонисты, туда же. Вы хотите продать игру, но вы не делаете ничего что бы её продать.    … Expand
  7. Kentraer
    Dec 26, 2020
    0
    Игра не стоит своих денег как и любая игра от ubisoft очередное говно
  8. stalkar
    Feb 24, 2021
    0
    This game is a legit worse,downgraded version of two games we had before,even more boring,repetetive and uninteresting gameplay then before,i was hoping they finally learned off their mistakes in the first game after they released the second one,but nope,the same mistakes that where done in games before,even worse then that,i am just too annoyed to write a while essay again for this,thisThis game is a legit worse,downgraded version of two games we had before,even more boring,repetetive and uninteresting gameplay then before,i was hoping they finally learned off their mistakes in the first game after they released the second one,but nope,the same mistakes that where done in games before,even worse then that,i am just too annoyed to write a while essay again for this,this is not worth any money they ask
    the worst part,they just came and threw out any development made in the prequel

    But hey,ubisoft hired **** ton of people to make a game to be tolereble,with some LGBT **** for someone,instead of paying people who actually make GAMES,not this piece of code that cant even run without crashing

    and whats the worst,people keep putting 8+/10 marks for the same games ubisoft releases instead of voting with wallets and actually force them TO MAKE GAMES    … Expand
  9. Mika1
    Jan 26, 2022
    1
    I do not understand, Ubisoft is a big company, and released such crap, I did not even expect that in 2020 it will be **** real crap, for which I have invested a lot of money. Have some respect for your fans who pay you so much money and in return they get this crap.
    Do not buy this trash.
  10. wepbunny
    Jan 6, 2022
    0
    This game is crap. Do not waste your money in this game. You will feel bore in every minute. I stopped playing after 2 hours
  11. 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
  12. inverguy
    Sep 16, 2021
    1
    Purchased the game on sale and oh boy I'm happy it was a sale. This game is from the shelf called "shallow as water in the toilet". Graphically looks outstanding but anything from driving to moving across the city seems disjointed. The game looks like it was designed to support the whole political correctness that is going wild. In general no lethal weapons. If I were to score it inPurchased the game on sale and oh boy I'm happy it was a sale. This game is from the shelf called "shallow as water in the toilet". Graphically looks outstanding but anything from driving to moving across the city seems disjointed. The game looks like it was designed to support the whole political correctness that is going wild. In general no lethal weapons. If I were to score it in comparison to other Watchdogs games... this one would get 1/10. I'm giving it 4/10 just for graphic. AVOID. I purchased this due to discount and boredom... would be better off wiping my bum with the money I spent on this. Actually I give it 1/10... as it pains me that I wasted my money and time.… Expand
  13. Yaba
    Sep 12, 2022
    0
    the idea of the game is cool, implementation is well done, graphics are good, driving is **** with locked on camera without free look and no multiple driving cameras to switch between, but and here is a big but, without a main character, it becomes so boring, the first 5 hours its awesome but then the game feels empty, story is crap, recruitment missions are all the same, even it uses thethe idea of the game is cool, implementation is well done, graphics are good, driving is **** with locked on camera without free look and no multiple driving cameras to switch between, but and here is a big but, without a main character, it becomes so boring, the first 5 hours its awesome but then the game feels empty, story is crap, recruitment missions are all the same, even it uses the same locations over and over with same objectives, each character has different abilities, these abilities are limited to 2-3 ones, there is no skills tree, you have multiple spider bots, so either you can have one with great parkour abilities or have a **** spider bot that has stun gun, cannot have one that combine both.

    in short, the game is so boring, tons of useless collectibles as its the usual Ubi****, even the bloodline DLC is crap, you play 20% as Aiden and then the rest is wrench although it should be about Aiden not wrench, anyhow, its not that exciting nor a fun game.    … Expand
  14. Turcoda
    Mar 26, 2021
    0
    Terrible craptastic game. Can't hop in online to quickly play with a friend. Game is super shallow. Game keeps crashing. I have a 2080 ti and a high end PC and crash in no other games.
  15. elohhna89
    Dec 16, 2022
    0
    Невероятный кусок говна, который еще долго будет преследовать меня в моих самых жутких кошмарах. Хочу насрать такую же кучу говна каждому разработчику и их семьям, за каждый час, проведенный в этой неутомимой параше, хоть я и использовал трейнер на все бесконечное, но я все равно вас все суки там ненавижу.Невероятный кусок говна, который еще долго будет преследовать меня в моих самых жутких кошмарах. Хочу насрать такую же кучу говна каждому разработчику и их семьям, за каждый час, проведенный в этой неутомимой параше, хоть я и использовал трейнер на все бесконечное, но я все равно вас все суки там ненавижу.
  16. ShaGan
    Aug 22, 2022
    0
    Basicly city was nice, but after i tried gameplay... driving by car it's one big disaster... but the worst thing was builded store xD Paying for game to get another micropayments xD I will wait when they release next Watch Dogs with freemium with micropayments and ads only. Sorry but i don't like when Ubi doing ATM from customers.
  17. shinbojan
    Sep 7, 2021
    0
    I've started playing this a year after release and I was hit with a game breaking bug in the first mission.
    The only solution is to start new game, play for an hour and hope it won't glitch again.
    Unacceptable.
  18. 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
  19. rappeople
    Feb 21, 2022
    0
    Прошел половину игры, внезапно выкинуло на рабочий стол. При повторном входе оказалось что сохранений нет!
  20. akarsh_adithya
    Oct 22, 2021
    0
    This game is attrocious compared to the previous entries. Even Aiden Pierce looks weird as hell and animations are really off putting. All cars feel same and whole city map feels very claustrophobic. And the crashing issues oh my god , i faced them in valhalla and same thing here. So i uninstalled the game and proceeded to a refund. Dont buy this. Please avoid this at all costs , theyThis game is attrocious compared to the previous entries. Even Aiden Pierce looks weird as hell and animations are really off putting. All cars feel same and whole city map feels very claustrophobic. And the crashing issues oh my god , i faced them in valhalla and same thing here. So i uninstalled the game and proceeded to a refund. Dont buy this. Please avoid this at all costs , they wasted everything they build over last two games.… Expand
  21. lnx00
    Aug 7, 2021
    0
    After playing and loving the previous Watch Dogs games, this on is a huge disappointment and doesn't even deserve to be part of the Watch Dogs series.
    It hat terrible Gameplay, Optimization, Story, Graphics and boring. I couldn't even bring myself to play it for more than 3 hours.
  22. ji0ku
    Jan 21, 2022
    1
    22.01.2022 The development team reports that they have added a ton of content to the game and unequivocally hint that they have done everything possible to develop the game. After going through the game, I saw in it an excellent blank for creating a world in which you can spend hundreds and thousands of hours thanks to the introduction of new activities. But the support provided by the22.01.2022 The development team reports that they have added a ton of content to the game and unequivocally hint that they have done everything possible to develop the game. After going through the game, I saw in it an excellent blank for creating a world in which you can spend hundreds and thousands of hours thanks to the introduction of new activities. But the support provided by the developers and 1% did not coincide with my expectations. And now, in fact, they are talking about the termination of support for the game. The developers created a wonderful world of the game and did not fill it in any way. It's very strange.… Expand
  23. Retrie
    Oct 28, 2021
    0
    Не хватает главного персонажа, по этому как такового сюжета - нету :[
    Будем надеяться что в следующих частях Watch Dogs ситуация изменится
  24. 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
  25. GoBroke
    Jan 15, 2022
    1
    While London has never been more beautifully rendered the gameplay, plot, voicing and agenda all let this game down badly. The city deserves a better game than this.
  26. 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
  27. bruh1232
    Sep 4, 2022
    0
    why i see this game ? my eyes bleeding most bad game ever please dont this more this games
  28. IL-YA
    Nov 24, 2020
    0
    Without a doubt the worst game of the decade , story sucks, gameplay feels off , full of bugs and glitches, terrible performance on 3080 when driving , nothing innovating and what I hate the most are voice acting and lip syncing it's just awful.
  29. TonyL231
    Nov 29, 2020
    1
    REALLY DISSAPOINTED WITH THIS GAME...To be honest I have LOVED all of the watchdog games. IDK if this has to do with how i decided to progress through the game...but it seems that so many missions, side missions and recruitment missions ARE THE SAME THING...same map, different objective...i have made 3 burroughs defiant, and played through about 20% of the story...and so far have seen theREALLY DISSAPOINTED WITH THIS GAME...To be honest I have LOVED all of the watchdog games. IDK if this has to do with how i decided to progress through the game...but it seems that so many missions, side missions and recruitment missions ARE THE SAME THING...same map, different objective...i have made 3 burroughs defiant, and played through about 20% of the story...and so far have seen the same 4 locations...this is a bummer...you can tell they reused assets, over and over again which sucks for an open world game...other then the constant reusing of the map, i love the recruitment idea...just dissapointed this is not as good as the other games...… Expand
  30. Aurtaaura
    Nov 22, 2020
    0
    This game is the worst game I played in 2020. First of all, there Isn't any depth in the story. Moreover, every person you recruit in the game is just nonsense because they did just because of marketing purposes. Ubisoft, please stop doing games if you are just trying to gain profit from it. You are ruining the game
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Metascore
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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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