Watch Dogs: Legion

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  1. XACKER
    Nov 4, 2020
    7
    8 потому что 1) миссии однообразны 2) меньшинства и юбисофт, ладно неважно какой цвет кожи мне плевать мне как и эйден пирс нравился так и маркус,но когда уродуют лица персонажей в основном женских хочется прийти в студию и сказать это что за ++++я. Мне игра зашла но она мне кажется на любителя8 потому что 1) миссии однообразны 2) меньшинства и юбисофт, ладно неважно какой цвет кожи мне плевать мне как и эйден пирс нравился так и маркус,но когда уродуют лица персонажей в основном женских хочется прийти в студию и сказать это что за ++++я. Мне игра зашла но она мне кажется на любителя
  2. Blem
    Nov 3, 2020
    7
    The game is pretty solid but after a while it gets very repetitive and has some bugs. The play as anyone is very nice idea, but there is no need to change character for the most of the game and it doesn't take many recruits before the missions to unlock new team members start repeating.
  3. pattygeebs
    Dec 11, 2020
    6
    Watch Dogs Legion is a game that relies on the one core game mechanic of recruiting members to Dedsec, there is a good and a bad that come out of this. The good is that you never run out of side quests to do in order to recruit more people, but the bad is it can get repetitive after doing it for the 50th time. This game took a huge risk with this mechanic, did it pay off, you tell me. ItWatch Dogs Legion is a game that relies on the one core game mechanic of recruiting members to Dedsec, there is a good and a bad that come out of this. The good is that you never run out of side quests to do in order to recruit more people, but the bad is it can get repetitive after doing it for the 50th time. This game took a huge risk with this mechanic, did it pay off, you tell me. It is still probably the best game in the Watch Dogs series though and it merely depends on the player to like it, its different for everyone. If you are thinking of getting this game, think if you want to do nearly the same thing over and over again for as long as you want.… Expand
  4. rhn
    Nov 12, 2020
    6
    A hollow game with not only bugs, but numerous deadpan omissions. I really enjoyed the WD2 gameplay, but WDL is a huge disappointment. it feels like a junior dev team were handed the WD2 template and a few key feature ideas, and then just narrow-mindedly produced that with no critical inputs, ideas or oversight of their own. Even simple QoL features already present in WD2 are missing...A hollow game with not only bugs, but numerous deadpan omissions. I really enjoyed the WD2 gameplay, but WDL is a huge disappointment. it feels like a junior dev team were handed the WD2 template and a few key feature ideas, and then just narrow-mindedly produced that with no critical inputs, ideas or oversight of their own. Even simple QoL features already present in WD2 are missing...

    Just to name a few of the problems/oversights of the game:
    - The much hyped "play as anyone" system falls flat when 99%+ of possible recruits are vastly inferior to the ones handed to you early in the game. These recruits comes with 4 useful traits, whereas everyone else you find the entire game only have 0-2(a few archetype recruits with 3 useful traits can be found at a couple places, but they all have identical traits). Ended up playing only 3 different characters the whole game.
    - Story becomes rather bland with extremely few actual characters to grow attached to. The plot is extremely stereotypical and trope filled. And the games major climax point(predictable as it is) is immediately and unexplained reversed.
    - Driving mechanics and camera are terrible and the environment dreary, causing London's streets to be a chore to traverse. Coupled with many missions being procedurally generated from random locations, you find your self traveling all across town for each stage of a mission. All this forces you to use the quick travel system instead, diminishing the value of having a sprawling city to explore. I loved exploring in WD2's San Francisco, but here I just cannot be bothered.
    - The in-game currency is practically worthless, since all it can be used for is buying clothes. Coupled with most collectibles being irrelevant from a gameplay perspective, exploring the map and finding these does not feel rewarding.
    - In-game clothing shops are not individually marked on the map, so trying to find clothing of a specific type is a real hassle.
    - While clothing is somewhat decently varied, things like masks are either just reskins of each other, or ridiculous looking. Again, not giving much insensitive to explore to find them.
    - The games music stations can only be played when in a vehicle. Apparently streaming music to your phones becomes impossible in the future... Since driving sucks, you go almost the entire game without, which is a huge loss of ambiance for a game.
    - Outside a narrow collection of default non-lethal weapons that can be bought from tech-points, all weapons must be found by recruiting people who have them. And the weapon system is really confusing and limited, so even when you have a recruit with a new weapon, you probably wont be able to use it on any other more useful recruits. Some weapons are unique, so cannot be shared with other recruits. Others are put into categories, so unless your recruit came with an SMG eg. he will not be able to ever use one. Even your badass hitman that wields pistols, grenade launchers, machineguns and rifles simply cannot equip an SMG.
    - The hacking gameplay have become way too easy. In WD2 it could be a challenging puzzle to try and play the game as a peaceful hacker, since it involved using 2 different drones, the environment etc. In WDL you can do everything(outside a few story mission) with the single Spider Drone, while your operative is parked way outside the area in safety. Just drop the spider down, stealth through the area, do takedowns with it to thin the enemy, go hack the target terminal and hide the drone while it downloads. There is simply no challenge to it.
    - Bugs, bugs, bugs. The game repeatedly crashes to desktop. For me it was almost always close to the end of one of the bigger story missions, that had to be done again from scratch. Gameplay is also buggy in numerous little ways. Like doing a mission to rescue someone and once they are out of the area, they stop and prompts you to talk to them to finish mission. As you finish the conversation with them, they fall through whatever they were standing on, get knocked out and injured and you fail the mission...
    - While it may feel like a long time due to being boring a lot of the time, I finished the game just under 40 hours. That is including exploring a lot, experimenting with recruits(basically looking unsuccessfully for other useful ones), doing all side quests and a bunch of other side stuff. And I feel like there is zero replay value(I will be going back to WD2 over this). That is too short for a big open world game at full AAA price...

    All in all, a rushed and shallow game that never lives up to its hype, or its predecessor. It had lots of potential, but never met it. If you enjoy the standard Ubisoft open world game formula(I do), then get it once it becomes discounted and possibly improved through updates or DLCs.    … Expand
  5. Arthur01
    Dec 5, 2020
    6
    Bom, vamo lá, se você estava procurando por uma análise em Português, acabou de encontrar.

    História: É bem "OK", poderia ser boa se fosse melhor apresentada dentro do jogo. Gráficos: Assim como a história do jogo, é bem "OK" também, com exceção da água que é horrorosa no jogo. Física: Completamente esquisita, especialmente no carro. Bugs: Confesso que não vi muitos mas dos que    Bom, vamo lá, se você estava procurando por uma análise em Português, acabou de encontrar.

    História: É bem "OK", poderia ser boa se fosse melhor apresentada dentro do jogo.

    Gráficos: Assim como a história do jogo, é bem "OK" também, com exceção da água que é horrorosa no jogo.

    Física: Completamente esquisita, especialmente no carro.

    Bugs: Confesso que não vi muitos mas dos que eu presenciei são eles: Bug de textura, o famoso bug da moto fantasma que anda em círculos sozinha, e o jogo crashou algumas vezes também.

    Otimização: Deixa a desejar.

    Áudio (sons do jogo e trilha sonora): Na minha opinião os sons de disparos de seu antecessor, Watch Dogs 2, eram superiores, os sons dos veículos não bons e nem ruins, são "OK" e quanto a trilha sonora, abaixo da média.

    Expressões faciais e modelagem de personagens: Essa talvez seja uma das maiores bizarrices desse jogo, as expressões faciais são totalmente sem vida e a modelagem dos personagens é digna de um jogo feito em 2015.

    Animações: Considero ser abaixo da média para um jogo lançado em 2020.

    Detalhes que fazem a diferença: Essa daqui ganha sendo a coisa mais bizarra de todo esse jogo, sabe o que acontece quando vc tenta pular um muro, ou um portão que tenha lanças? NADA, o boneco simplesmente pula como se nada estivesse espetando a mão dele, é uma desatenção total aos detalhes por parte da desenvolvedora, assim como a falta de interior de lojas de roupas, a falta de estações de metrô modeladas.

    Serei justo também, o jogo tem seus aspectos positivos, sendo o maior deles (e um dos únicos) a representação de Londres muito bem feita, porém é uma pena que essa Londres seja tão vazia em termos de falta de NPC nas ruas e de elementos básicos de Mundo Aberto que não estão presentes no jogo.

    A minha nota de verdade é 5.8, porém o Metacritic não deixa colocar número "quebrado" na análise, então serei obrigado a arredondar para o número "cheio" mais próximo, no caso, 6.0.    … Expand
  6. watchm824
    Feb 27, 2023
    6
    In technical terms, there are no questions, the graphics are nice, the optimization is good.
    In terms of plot, it's bad. The story and characters are completely uninteresting. I could not play it for a long time, I immediately lost interest in the game.
  7. jarvitom
    Sep 13, 2022
    6
    The game looks nice and overall a decent game. The story is repetitive and cliché, the hacking is great at first but after the 25. time its boring, the twists can be seen far away. Gameplay with several characters is unique, but the conversations are awkward because of this most of the time and no personal storyline is present.
  8. marxanth
    Nov 27, 2020
    5
    Worst in the series. I'll give it a 5 because it looks good but the gameplay and story is so generic.
    Voice acting is terrible, cringe worthy and recycled. It feels like there are 10 voice tracks, randomly matched to any character. I had to laugh when talking to a NPC who had the exact same voice as my character. The whole having any NPC join your team gets old, really quickly. I stuck    Worst in the series. I'll give it a 5 because it looks good but the gameplay and story is so generic.
    Voice acting is terrible, cringe worthy and recycled. It feels like there are 10 voice tracks, randomly matched to any character. I had to laugh when talking to a NPC who had the exact same voice as my character. The whole having any NPC join your team gets old, really quickly. I stuck two 2 classes types, there was really no need for anyone else. It really just seems like filler.
    And the bugs. save bug, random crashes, random frame stutter (i'm in a i9/3080/32GB), etc etc

    I did enjoy that every mission allowed for different play styles.. do you want to shoot out or hand to hand combat, use bots or stealth. And again is looks amazing when its running correctly.    … Expand
  9. Gokarty
    Dec 10, 2020
    7
    Cool game, but then boring. After playing more than 20 hours I will say - the game is boring, for such money I would buy cyberpunk2077
  10. Bonekit
    Dec 11, 2020
    6
    Watch Dogs Legion was a experiment to create a world with many playable characters, but it failed in some points.
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    The graphics are great, the world looks fantastic specially with RTX on, but the water animations are terrible. Ubisoft could do this a lot better! ---------- The game was in a terrible condition at release, many bugs and crashes, but in the meantime the game    Watch Dogs Legion was a experiment to create a world with many playable characters, but it failed in some points.
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    The graphics are great, the world looks fantastic specially with RTX on, but the water animations are terrible. Ubisoft could do this a lot better!
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    The game was in a terrible condition at release, many bugs and crashes, but in the meantime the game was fixed and runs a lot smoother now
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    The story is the biggest problem, it has a few great moments, but only a few is not enough to be a great game. I wished the character at the beginning were the only playable main character. He was great, top voice acting!
    The problem with many playable characters, all of them are ignorable, you can build no relationship to any of them.
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    The game is not bad, it's ok. You can have fun for about 20-30 hours. But after that you will forget the story, the characters, most of them. It has hardly memorable moments.    … Expand
  11. Bushinho
    Dec 14, 2020
    5
    Joguinho bem mais ou menos, história até que é interessante, mas não é nada marcante. Nenhum personagem me marca de alguma forma(Exceto o Bagley que é incrível), Gameplay até que boazinha,mas falha em certas coisas. Fora os bugs que tive no lançamento que com certeza influenciam pra minha nota. Joguinho bem na media, ubi já foi melhor
  12. IVorzaYT
    May 9, 2022
    6
    After playing the entire bloodline storyline and part of the main campaign, I can confidently say that the game is average at best.. Not the worst Ubisoft game but certainly not the best. The game's performance on PC is not the best. The frametimes are all over the place and it's extremely stuttery. Even considering I'm using G-SYNC. The story is meh (Bloodline's is much better but stillAfter playing the entire bloodline storyline and part of the main campaign, I can confidently say that the game is average at best.. Not the worst Ubisoft game but certainly not the best. The game's performance on PC is not the best. The frametimes are all over the place and it's extremely stuttery. Even considering I'm using G-SYNC. The story is meh (Bloodline's is much better but still meh) and tbe gameplay is average as well. The mellee and shooting are nice but the driving mechanics are kinda awful. I bought it for like 9 bucks and got the season pass for 18 bucks. Not sure if it was worth the money and I surely rather play Cyberpunk 2077 than this. But it's not a terrible game.

    6/10 for me    … Expand
  13. DreamOfHero
    Apr 24, 2023
    5
    As a fan of Ubisoft franchises, I must admit that Watch Dogs Legion has let me down. Despite enjoying the thrill of recruiting people, completing missions, and hacking things, I have noticed several optimization issues that I cannot overlook. Especially since I expected better from a company that knows how to create an Open World.
    For instance, every 10/15 minutes, characters suddenly    As a fan of Ubisoft franchises, I must admit that Watch Dogs Legion has let me down. Despite enjoying the thrill of recruiting people, completing missions, and hacking things, I have noticed several optimization issues that I cannot overlook. Especially since I expected better from a company that knows how to create an Open World.
    For instance, every 10/15 minutes, characters suddenly appear on the road while driving. Additionally, I encountered missions that completed themselves without me doing anything, such as the one where one of my activists had just been arrested and then, by entering a new zone, I was praised for destroying the weapons depot, which was located in another area.
    I also stumbled upon strange interpenetrations between NPCs and objects in the surrounding environment, such as when I saw a window cleaner approaching, only to discover that he was completely "melded" with the building behind him.
    Another thing that I didn't like was the lack of interaction between standard characters. I noticed that even if some of them know each other, such as a grandmother and an activist grandson, they seem like perfect strangers during dialogues.
    Compared to the previous two installments, Watch Dogs Legion seemed far inferior, yet the first one was a masterpiece, and the second had a lively world full of activities that made you forget the repetitiveness of the main story.    … Expand
  14. PartyPrinz
    Apr 4, 2022
    7
    is fun and motivating. cool new features with so many agents available with different skills but has to many weaknesses to get 8/10 or better. too many bugs/glitch. you feel its not well polished. performance problems...the longer you play the lower the fps and so on. 7/10 is still a good game but not more.
  15. Khang5687
    Aug 9, 2022
    5
    A downgrade from the previous Watch Dogs games, along with bugs. Also, Ubisoft decided to stop updating the game so yeah.
  16. Theanbushinobi
    Sep 3, 2022
    5
    This is one of the weirdest games to review because it tries new things and I want to applaud that but it's still a repetitive Ubisoft open world.
  17. TsukasaHiiragi
    Nov 19, 2020
    6
    Pro's

    Ability to recruit any NPC Accurate representation of London Con's Buggy and prone to crashing Too much recycled content Janky vehicle controls Less gameplay features than Watch Dogs 2 Stupid AI Watch Dogs Legions is a disappointment, and honestly feels like a downgrade from Watch Dogs 2 in every way possible, driving feels sluggish and janky with no impact damage    Pro's

    Ability to recruit any NPC
    Accurate representation of London

    Con's

    Buggy and prone to crashing
    Too much recycled content
    Janky vehicle controls
    Less gameplay features than Watch Dogs 2
    Stupid AI

    Watch Dogs Legions is a disappointment, and honestly feels like a downgrade from Watch Dogs 2 in every way possible, driving feels sluggish and janky with no impact damage and significant recycled content over and over feels like them mission structure was just copy/pasted too many times.

    Graphically speaking, Ubi did a great job of rendering a fairly accurate London and I'm British and visited London many times, its attention to detail is well above par and I think that is where the problems start, I think they spent too much time on eye candy.

    Gameplay wise, it's still watch dogs at its heart with the ability to make your own fun in the open world, travel around and explore and do all the typical side content you would expect in an open world Ubi-soft game, the problem I personally have with Albion who are the paramilitary organization that framed Dedsec this time around, the problem is they are either extremely overpowered and at the same time, dumb as two rocks.

    The case of being overpowered is simple, when your driving around London, Albion pursuit cars will spawn frequently 'just popping up' out of thin air to ram you at ridiculously high speeds, speed these chases makes it nearly impossible to use hacking to move cars away from you, or too activate pillar traps like in Watch Dogs 2 which made for some entertaining and satisfying escapes, and trying to disable drones whilst driving is even more frustrating then once you hack a cargo drone and fly away Albion suddenly can't do anything to stop you escaping, in fact travelling by cargo drone quickly becomes the defacto method to travel around the city.

    The ability to recruit everyone is entertaining for about 10 minutes, getting an old 80 year old to fight is comical at best, and essentially pointless at worse when you can find specialists who actually have helpful abilities. The skill tree is also significantly dumbed down again for Legions mostly revolving around the ability to hijack Albion drones being the most useful.

    Overall, its a passable game but significantly weaker in every department than Watch Dogs 2. I'll be honest and say that covid-19 probably didn't help the development of this game at all, and it shows.    … Expand
  18. MNova22
    Nov 10, 2020
    7
    As New player, this would be an improvement from the last 2 games though, I would say the replay ability is going to be very limited.
  19. Behradbx
    Nov 14, 2020
    7
    First of all i should say no matter what people said you have to try this game once however this game struggle with some issue such as storyline which is not well stablish as it should be on the other hand existing of too many bugs in the game make this experince even harder to love but i should mention that the gameplay is strong advantage in this game.
  20. ZankoPlays
    Nov 20, 2020
    5
    Analysis in Portuguese of Brazil-Bem,Watch dogs legion,como todo jogo da ubisoft,o jogo é CHEIO de bugs,realmente o jogo tem MUITOS bugs,também a modelagem dos personagens não são das melhores e as expressões também não,mas também tenho que dar merítos ao jogo,explorar londres é muito legal,bem...quando voce não acha bugs no caminho(difícil)A História do jogo é no mesmo estilo dos jogosAnalysis in Portuguese of Brazil-Bem,Watch dogs legion,como todo jogo da ubisoft,o jogo é CHEIO de bugs,realmente o jogo tem MUITOS bugs,também a modelagem dos personagens não são das melhores e as expressões também não,mas também tenho que dar merítos ao jogo,explorar londres é muito legal,bem...quando voce não acha bugs no caminho(difícil)A História do jogo é no mesmo estilo dos jogos anteriores,um grupo de pessoas tentande se revoltar contra grande empresas que estão fazendo algo de errado,a história para mim é bem fraca e voce não se apega a nenhum personagem pela mecanica de poder chamar que voce quiser na cidade para ser da Dedsec,e quanto a essa mecanica,achei meio quebrada,porque por exemplo,voce chama qualquer pessoa,como uma idosa,resolve um problema da pessoa e logo depois tá vira uma pessoa que mata várias pessoas para oprimir a empresa que está "oprimindo londres,e quanto as aspas no oprimir,a pessoa não sente em nenhuma vez no jogo inteiro que está fazendo algo importante pela cidade,porque voce não ve toda a população sendo oprimida como dizem ou fazendo propostas,bem minha nota para watch dogs legion é de um decepcionado 5.… Expand
  21. Pisewec302D
    Dec 2, 2020
    7
    Graphics and London are amazing. . You are doing like 3 missions types all over again on different places. It was fun for like 3 hours and then I got bored. But there must be a variety of gameplay !?
    In general, yes! But in general, it is not that the game is large but of the same type of content.
  22. Flayton
    Oct 30, 2020
    7
    Watch Dogs Legion gave me mixed feelings. It's not really a triquel. This is watch Dods 2.5. With one exception, there is have not protagonist.. The plot of the game seemed to me quite good, but no more.
    The graphics are better. And London looks great too.
    What about the main feature of agent recruitment, then it works. However, no one forces you to knock them out like Pokemon, you can    Watch Dogs Legion gave me mixed feelings. It's not really a triquel. This is watch Dods 2.5. With one exception, there is have not protagonist.. The plot of the game seemed to me quite good, but no more.
    The graphics are better. And London looks great too.

    What about the main feature of agent recruitment, then it works. However, no one forces you to knock them out like Pokemon, you can follow the story. The necessary ones will be given as you progress.
    In the game I was upset by the AI. He's not too smart.
    Driving remains the same as Watch Dogs 2, but better.

    In general, Legion left a surprisingly pleasant impression. And again, this is a good game, but nothing more.

    My rating is 7/10    … Expand
  23. Tyalo
    Nov 11, 2020
    6
    Just another mediocre Ubisoft open-world game, but the near future London is till kind of beautiful tho
  24. Renegade01MB
    Oct 30, 2020
    7
    Legion doesn't do much to improve on the foundation made by WD2. Parkour system is exactly the same although somehow not as cool. Gunplay too also saw no changes, infact there's less variety in weapon selection because of the "play as anyone" gimmick which leads to other problems i will touch on later. The story suffers from the USP of the game since there are only roughly 10 unique voicesLegion doesn't do much to improve on the foundation made by WD2. Parkour system is exactly the same although somehow not as cool. Gunplay too also saw no changes, infact there's less variety in weapon selection because of the "play as anyone" gimmick which leads to other problems i will touch on later. The story suffers from the USP of the game since there are only roughly 10 unique voices in the game and the voice acting isn't very good either. Lines are copy and pasted and repeated throughout missions. The bad voice acting detaches you even more from the cast of recruits, especially when the voice doesnt match the face and Why is half the population of London from Ireland?

    With hacking there is some more features since the story has a big focus on his autonomous drones, but still this aspect is mostly untouched. On a less important note the character face models are definitely not "Next gen" they are on par with Assassins Creed Unity faces and that game is 6 years old. This is obviously due to the fact that they did not go for a single main protagonist so they had to make sacrafices in that department in order to make every NPC face somewhat "good". However aside from the face models the game is gorgeous especially at night time with ray tracing on.

    Speaking of performance the game runs like **** I have a Ryzen 7 2700x, RTX 2070 and 16GB RAM, running the game at 1080p medium-high settings with ray tracing on and i only average 35 FPS.

    Gameplay. Although not much has changed since WD2 the gameplay is still fun and addicting, the open world feels very much alive and the aesthetic of near futre London does look amazing. However the game lacks a variety of enemy types, Albion solders, police, and gangsters all behave the same, you have a shotgunner to rush you and machine gunners, drones aren't really a threat since hacking them is as easy as abc. There is a new combat system however, its not too deep and for some enemys your only option is to rinse repeat the SINGLE counter animation until there health bar depletes then finish them off. Gunkata takedowns are sexy though.
    On the brightside the variety in Operatives to play as will make you approach missions and outposts differently since they offer different special abilities. Alot of the more common NPCs are all just copy pasted with different character model and proffesion.
    Clothes customization sees an improvement with loads more ways to dress your character and the abundance of shops on every high street adds to the realism.
    Many times I've been walking the streets and random NPCs will just fight or pull a gun and try to rob one another, or when finding your first Spy outside the MI-6 building and overhearing their convesation on the phone with one of ther apprentices in the field. Multiple albion hostages detained on the streets, even the occasional "sorry" and "suck your mum" which as a brit myself can confirm is all we say to eachother. It all feels alive.

    Driving still sucks in Watch Dogs, do I need to say more?

    This is another sort of nitpick but since the start of the game its been very hard to find male "Skilled" operatives. I myself am a man so ofcourse I prefer to play as a man, and I was never really excited about playing as anyone, like who wants to play as a construction worker or beekeeper? So I wanted go find some hitmen and Spys to play as but oh no, Ubisoft is shoving female characters down my throat with force. The Spy, Hitman and Anarchist you get for defying their respective boroughs are all female, again this isnt really an issue but like i said I want to play as male characters and is a tad annoying

    Overall this game is very mixed. I do enjoy my time playing although not much has been changed gameplay wise, the world is immersive and gorgeous, but driving sucks and with the abundance of fast travel points why should i drive? The story is lack luster and voice acting is terrible. I'd say do what I did and buy Uplay+ for a month its only 13 quid if you wanna play the game DO NOT pay full price its not worth it and if you dont have good specs on your pc dont expect to tmrun high settings and or get above 60FPS.    … Expand
  25. DixreuX
    Oct 31, 2020
    7
    I wanted it to be more, but its still a good game.
    It seriously needs more depth and optimization.
    The good: -Combat, stealth and gadgets feels good and realistic -Driving is ok, but i didnt use it as its a horrible city to drive in -I liked the story, and it even **** me a little -The recruitment system is good -i like the swearing, british voices and humor in this game    I wanted it to be more, but its still a good game.
    It seriously needs more depth and optimization.

    The good:
    -Combat, stealth and gadgets feels good and realistic
    -Driving is ok, but i didnt use it as its a horrible city to drive in
    -I liked the story, and it even **** me a little
    -The recruitment system is good
    -i like the swearing, british voices and humor in this game
    -Missions feels diffrent when playing as a different character
    -Graphics are good if you have a decent card

    The bad:
    -When the melee system takes up a lot of the gameplay it need to have more depth and variation, ecspecially in bare knuckle boxing.
    -i spend to 10+ hours looking for a good melee combat character, a female hitman, and a decent looking spy and i couldnt find any of them (as i didnt like the characters i was forced to pick)
    -HORRIBLE PC optimization
    -Recruitment needs more depth (specificly to make them better, more unique, can switch weapons and gain new skills, maybe by training the skill you want?)
    -Enemys just stop coming when invading enemy territory
    -No parkour
    -None of the cool hack from WD2 like blackout and call gang members/police
    -When an area is liberated Albion dissapears from streets which removes the tension and the cool interactions with citizens.    … Expand
  26. FaintKarma5
    Oct 30, 2020
    5
    As a person who loves story overall, this game is depressing. The story is bland, the voice acting reminds me of oblivion, and as we all know oblivion isn't really know for great voice acting. This makes me sad especially since I was hyped for this games story. I loved AC Odyssey's story and hoped Ubisoft finally learned how to write, Alas I was wrong. The gameplay is fine, But it missesAs a person who loves story overall, this game is depressing. The story is bland, the voice acting reminds me of oblivion, and as we all know oblivion isn't really know for great voice acting. This makes me sad especially since I was hyped for this games story. I loved AC Odyssey's story and hoped Ubisoft finally learned how to write, Alas I was wrong. The gameplay is fine, But it misses the feeling of truly fun gameplay because of how little you can mess with stuff by hacking, in WD 2 you could call the police on someone, Start a gang war, but in not in this game for some unknown reason . The gunplay is Fortunately far better in this one than in the previous installments. And I will admit, A military state London is far more appealing to look at than I thought. But that is all this game really has going for it, It's bland and really just flat out not fun to play. Not even worth buying on a sale. If I were you dear reader, I would distance myself farther from this disappointment of a game, No keep going, Further, Almost, Little further, Right there! Alright now wait until AC Valhalla releases, Until then I'll be Going to fight a war... a cold war, Hope Its Fun!… Expand
  27. Age_Atomic
    Oct 30, 2020
    7
    The game really doesn't do anything badly, but as an open-world game, it does feel a little dated in its approach. luckily the 'play as any NPC' gimmick balances things out a bit.

    I'm 6 hours in and enjoying the game more than I thought I would. they've captured the feel of London really well, the characters are interesting with lots to customise. I probably wouldn't have bought it    The game really doesn't do anything badly, but as an open-world game, it does feel a little dated in its approach. luckily the 'play as any NPC' gimmick balances things out a bit.

    I'm 6 hours in and enjoying the game more than I thought I would. they've captured the feel of London really well, the characters are interesting with lots to customise.

    I probably wouldn't have bought it outright but as part of Ubi+ it has been well worth trying.    … Expand
  28. Lumirel
    Oct 30, 2020
    5
    I was really looking forward to this, but I should have hesitated with pre-ordering it. Sadly as I expected from "play as anyone" it had its downsides that kicked in after few hours of gameplay, but well, lets start with posivites.

    Positives: - London looks awesome - Graphics are somewhat bit better than in WD2 (also goes to negatives with framerate) - Gameplay is addictive - It's    I was really looking forward to this, but I should have hesitated with pre-ordering it. Sadly as I expected from "play as anyone" it had its downsides that kicked in after few hours of gameplay, but well, lets start with posivites.

    Positives:
    - London looks awesome
    - Graphics are somewhat bit better than in WD2 (also goes to negatives with framerate)
    - Gameplay is addictive
    - It's cool to be able to pick anyone on street
    - Recruitment missions are fun
    - City is alive, a lot of stuff is happening on streets
    - A lot gadgets to choose from, a lot of cloths for operatives (visual customization)
    - AI protagonist is fun

    Negatives:
    - Framerate... I played WD2 week ago and it ran way better on similarly-looking settings, optimalization is just BAD in WDL
    - You can get anyone, but you cannot really upgrade anyone other than to give them one of few unlockable weapons and gadgets.. I hoped there will be some leveling system or way more stuff to give operatives, also having just selectable gadget at time is just not enough variety
    - LOADING SCREENS! They are everywhere, almost every interior has loading screens, it's just lame in 2020, when WD2 back then had a lot of interiors...
    - Almost no interiors other than mission one...
    - Operatives have bonuses but mostly you are able to complete mission or place with whatever operative
    - Operatives (characters) really lack depth, no levels
    - Lack of real side missions

    I wanted to really like this game, I was looking forward to it. But it really lacks depth, not thanks to the system but because noone cared about possibilities of this system - like being able to level up operatives and give them some perks, more weapons, more passive/active abilities according to their specialities. This would be really interesting to have fewer operatives but levelable in certain ways. So, "play as anyone" is not really bad, but the lack of depth in it is bad. I kinda lack being able to change their hairstyle and stuff as well, it's just a shame.

    Storywise I kinda like it, it could be better though. I was happy for AI member of team, it reminded me bit of Wrench that I liked from WD2.

    Give it a try when it will be for 15-20€ or get it through Uplay+, don't pay full price for it now, it is definetly not worth it.    … Expand
  29. goldie119
    Oct 31, 2020
    5
    Very buggy and a poor launch state as per norm from Ubisoft, have had to close several times just because I couldn't advance a quest. On top of several crashes. The legion mechanics are cool in theory, but they don't actualize what they could have in this area. I played on permadeath, but I could care less about any of my recruits since I can replace them so easily. It also lessens theVery buggy and a poor launch state as per norm from Ubisoft, have had to close several times just because I couldn't advance a quest. On top of several crashes. The legion mechanics are cool in theory, but they don't actualize what they could have in this area. I played on permadeath, but I could care less about any of my recruits since I can replace them so easily. It also lessens the quality of voice acting, story, and cutscene animations. After the bugs are ironed out it will be mindless fun, what most have come to be expect from watch dogs / ubisoft open world. Fun for a few hours, but uninstalling within a month. Wait for a sale.… Expand
  30. visaya925
    Oct 31, 2020
    5
    ***Pretty Game***

    I actually paid for this game because I bought my rtx 3080 fe re-sell and I must say it was a huge disappointment. The game looks very good at ultra with everything on. It runs pretty smoothly with the right settings. i feel the game looks better than anything I've seen on my Xbox one x or ps5 pro. I don't understand why people didn't like the visuals. The    ***Pretty Game***

    I actually paid for this game because I bought my rtx 3080 fe re-sell and I must say it was a huge disappointment.

    The game looks very good at ultra with everything on. It runs pretty smoothly with the right settings. i feel the game looks better than anything I've seen on my Xbox one x or ps5 pro. I don't understand why people didn't like the visuals.

    The story is bland. It didn't pull me in. I really wanted to like it but it just never hit for me. It's like waiting for a bass drop in a techno song and it never gets there or like driving a boosted car and the boost doesn't kick in. I'm not sure if its because there isn't a central protagonist but the story didn't worth feel playing.

    The game doesn't really lead you well. I'm not sure how to say this but some games hold you're hands too much in the early stages and there are some games where the systems just feel right and you kind of can just go in and play. Spider-man for the ps4 felt this way. WDL even though uses systems from many other games it just didn't feel natural. Like collecting little side items etc didn't feel fluid.

    The concept of playing anyone is cool but to be honest it didn't work out. It's too any choices. In theroy its cool but it just didn't pan out.

    The driving physics are pretty good for an open-world game. It matches a game like GTA pretty well. The music selection was good but it would have been nice if I turned off the radio in one car it stayed off in the next car.

    The weapons and gadgets are fun to play. I stealth wasn't sam fisher good but it was good enough for me. I was pretty much able to play any style I wanted.

    I'm not saying this game is a pass but I think some people may or may not like it. Its a decent game but I personally would wait for it to be on sale before I buy this game. At this time of the year when there are other big games on the way this is a pass for me. I would rather be playing Hades at this time while waiting for AC Valhala. I am disappointed this wasn't as good as WD2 but I am sure glad I was able to get a refund after playing a few hours of this game.    … Expand
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#10 Most Discussed PC Game of 2020

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72

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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