Watch Dogs: Legion

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  1. 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
  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. jelikey
    Apr 1, 2023
    7
    positives: graphics, world, story is decent (better than far cry 5 or fallout 4).
    negatives: some bugs, story could be better.
    Overall i feel people are way too harsh on it, it's still very fun game to play and way better than second watch dogs.
  4. 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
  5. nexusbr
    Jul 2, 2023
    7
    Is an OK game, not great, If you keep a browser open the game will crash in minutes, But if you don't keep a browser open there is no crash EVER, Performance wise is not very optimized, specially when driving fast on cars. Story is OK, nothing great, game-play is fun, Get this if is on a sale, if is not on a sale, I don't recommend it, not at full price!
  6. carrysh1ft
    Nov 10, 2020
    7
    This game is the embodiment of Ubisoft's progress. The plot and gameplay are my compliments. However, it will take a very long time to polish and optimize, but a large number of bugs leave a floating feeling of the game
  7. 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
  8. thezora99
    Nov 13, 2020
    7
    I need to say after all the hype the risk of being disappointed was rather high. I now spend around 15 hours ingame.

    First the pros: The world is vibrant and has a lot of details, the drones flying through the streets for example. The idea with being able to recruit everyone was a creative step forward the series needed even if its not perfect. The soundtrack is good, not superb. The    I need to say after all the hype the risk of being disappointed was rather high. I now spend around 15 hours ingame.

    First the pros: The world is vibrant and has a lot of details, the drones flying through the streets for example. The idea with being able to recruit everyone was a creative step forward the series needed even if its not perfect. The soundtrack is good, not superb. The dlc is supposed to add more content focused on single characters and Im looking forward to it.

    The bad things are the bad driving mechanics, nothing has improved here sadly, the "meh" story after the brilliant and dark beginning and the horrible performance on PCs. (And these water effects aaargh)

    All in all a bit better than the predeccesors, but not the big step it was advertised as.

    This review score might still change until I complete the game.    … Expand
  9. TheHolyPug
    Nov 16, 2020
    7
    Of the games that have come out this fall i like this one the best, But that isn't saying much unfortunately. I give it a 7 or so.
  10. 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.
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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.
  14. jmck2727
    Nov 26, 2020
    7
    It feels like Ubisoft isn't sure what to do with this franchise. The "play as anyone" feature at first made it difficult to feel attached to any of your protagonists... simply because you have so many of them. What I found that helped though was to think of the entire team as your protagonist, after doing this I found I could enjoy the story. It would be nice to add features to help youIt feels like Ubisoft isn't sure what to do with this franchise. The "play as anyone" feature at first made it difficult to feel attached to any of your protagonists... simply because you have so many of them. What I found that helped though was to think of the entire team as your protagonist, after doing this I found I could enjoy the story. It would be nice to add features to help you feel more attached to individual characters though. Watch Dogs has great potential, and I could see the "play as anyone" becoming fun with future polish.… Expand
  15. WaterDoggo
    May 1, 2021
    7
    I spent 71 hours in this game and im ready to write a review about this game.

    Campaign: Its great. I had lots of fun with it but you cant replay any mission which kinda sucks because you can approach those missions in many ways. After you complete main storyline this game becomes a shell of itself. There is literally nothing to do except for recruiting people. Online: Its literally    I spent 71 hours in this game and im ready to write a review about this game.

    Campaign: Its great. I had lots of fun with it but you cant replay any mission which kinda sucks because you can approach those missions in many ways. After you complete main storyline this game becomes a shell of itself. There is literally nothing to do except for recruiting people.

    Online: Its literally Watch Dogs Legion but with grind and several new bugs. Here Operatives got kinda ruined, they don't have any relatives and if you beat the living crap out of them they can still join you. They literally turn into Pokemon's waiting to be used. Community is nice and support each other which is very nice.    … Expand
  16. 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.
  17. NovelBit
    Dec 5, 2020
    7
    got it 1st December, characters are wacky, British slang is catchy but weird, missions feels unorganized and some don't make any sense, WD2 was better than Legion
    awesome music track, good performance on mid range pc specs (2019)
    the game engine doesn't like undervolting, my gpu sings at 75c, even regular oc the game crashes
  18. 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
  19. meistarkus
    Dec 15, 2020
    7
    Platform: High End Gaming PC - Playtime: 35h -
    Storytelling: 7/10 - The story isn't bad, but it just doesn't get to me. I don't feel empathy for any of the characters. And the only one i do care for, is the AI "Bagley", which is weird in a way. -
    Gameplay: 9/10 - Switching characters is fun! It plays nice, no real complaints despite the driving mechanics. - Graphics: 9/10 - The game    Platform: High End Gaming PC - Playtime: 35h -
    Storytelling: 7/10 - The story isn't bad, but it just doesn't get to me. I don't feel empathy for any of the characters. And the only one i do care for, is the AI "Bagley", which is weird in a way. -
    Gameplay: 9/10 -
    Switching characters is fun! It plays nice, no real complaints despite the driving mechanics. -
    Graphics: 9/10 -
    The game looks very good. All the characters are detailed and so does the world. However, it's a bit on the blurry and grainy side. Maybe that's due to RTX.
    Sound: 8/10 -
    Sound is good, the characters voices are good, but they won't fit t all the available characters. Which spy is talking like a yokel (hillbilly)? The one i got! -
    Bugs: 1/10 -
    Just very view crashes, haven't encountered any mentionable bugs. -
    Overall: 7,2/10 -
    It's a solid game, which lacks in storytelling and immersion. Should you play it when you liked the older titles of the series. I would say yes, but wait for a sale. -
    Rating Overview - Storytelling: 30%, Gameplay: 30%, Graphics: 20%, Sound: 20%, Bugs: -100%    … Expand
  20. MineBorder
    Jun 27, 2021
    7
    |7.4| Personally Thought this game had a better story than 2 but worse gameplay. I bought Ubisoft Plus for a month and thought it was a great deal to play games I heard bad reviews about. I liked the concept of this game when it first was announced. There were a lot of features shown during the announcement of this game and then it vanished off the earth for around 6 months. It got delayed|7.4| Personally Thought this game had a better story than 2 but worse gameplay. I bought Ubisoft Plus for a month and thought it was a great deal to play games I heard bad reviews about. I liked the concept of this game when it first was announced. There were a lot of features shown during the announcement of this game and then it vanished off the earth for around 6 months. It got delayed multiple times and I was very excited about it when the release date was confirmed. I love the AC and the WD games. Some of my friends bought it on day one and told me it was not worth it, not giving it a decent chance. It took me 13 hours to complete the game and I actually enjoyed it, I just wish it was longer. There are some minor things about the game like its lack of mechanics, bugs, physics, and its very bad on great hardware. I have a 1070 and I had to, unfortunately, run the game on low settings to keep a steady 60 frames. I would say if you want to give this game a chance, buy it for $40 or lower and think of it as a sandbox game, instead of a story-driven game. There is still more to do after the 13 hours of story with side missions and getting new characters so I hope to play some more of this game before my Ubisoft Plus expires.… Expand
  21. Woolee
    Sep 29, 2021
    7
    Idk why anyone would hate it, it's not earth-shattering, but it's nonetheless very cool open world hacking game. I mean i would understand someone giving it 6 or 7 for technical problems, but fla
  22. zyllus
    Apr 7, 2022
    7
    Its a very repetitive game that held so much potential to be a great game but it fell flat. The game lacked direction since it is one of the first game to get rid of the concept of NPC. You can play as anyone in the game except the 5 main bad guys so the voice acting took a hit. There were like hardly 6 voices pasted on different-looking characters. The Assassin's Creed DLC was done soIts a very repetitive game that held so much potential to be a great game but it fell flat. The game lacked direction since it is one of the first game to get rid of the concept of NPC. You can play as anyone in the game except the 5 main bad guys so the voice acting took a hit. There were like hardly 6 voices pasted on different-looking characters. The Assassin's Creed DLC was done so poorly. Ubisoft trying to put magic and mystical powers in regular world never go hand in hand. The game could have been more grounded and better if it just went with WatchDogs Bloodline DLC as the main story which was actually well done and enjoyable throughout.

    Tip - Just download the Prestige Operative mod to get all the best characters in the game and I would recommend playing the entire game as Aiden or Wrench since their voice acting and dialogue are the best in the game.    … Expand
  23. ZzTopNemesis
    Mar 1, 2022
    7
    Score: 7.1

    Ok soo, this one was weird to rate because i respect what they tried, they decided to not have the same "Main character hero goes around and does everything" and tried the "Let's recruit a revolutionary group of people and use them all". The idea was amazing! Unfortunately they didn't do a good enough job to make it work. The first problem for me was the voice...    Score: 7.1

    Ok soo, this one was weird to rate because i respect what they tried, they decided to not have the same "Main character hero goes around and does everything" and tried the "Let's recruit a revolutionary group of people and use them all".

    The idea was amazing! Unfortunately they didn't do a good enough job to make it work.

    The first problem for me was the voice... Multiple voices were the same and didn't match their bodies whatsoever! I had a chinese old lady that sounded like Mary Poppins...
    The edgyness was also bad for me, i ended up only recruiting normal people.
    THe recruitment was ok but it got stale after a while.
    The world was very good! I really liked driving around altough the performance was not amazing.

    The story was boring honestly... I literally played it just talking with friends on discord, had no interest in it, and i just finished it because i have OCD and couldn't just give up after 20 hours soo i forced myself to end it.

    If u see it at 10 euros buy it, anything more than it is not enough.    … Expand
  24. 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.
  25. Pat
    Nov 2, 2020
    6
    A perfect game if it were meant to be satire. Unfortunately, it's not. The game actually seems to be an accurate representation of how people who would unironically call themselves part of "The Resistance" think about themselves. Regardless of the intention, if you take it as 100% satire, it makes the game infinitely better. The "we are anti-violence anti-fascism" while shootingA perfect game if it were meant to be satire. Unfortunately, it's not. The game actually seems to be an accurate representation of how people who would unironically call themselves part of "The Resistance" think about themselves. Regardless of the intention, if you take it as 100% satire, it makes the game infinitely better. The "we are anti-violence anti-fascism" while shooting people and running them over with vehicles. The whole "we want privacy" while stealing a device that lets you spy on everyone's activities across all of London. Even the robotic voice acting fits with the whole NPC meme. It's all so perfect.

    Also, there is some fishy business going on with the positive user reviews here. Just look at the names.    … Expand
  26. dontcontractaid
    Nov 1, 2020
    6
    It's okay. Not particularly good or bad. Some of the writing and political stuff is pretty cringe but the puzzles, hacking, drone manipulation and recruitment "play as anyone" system is quite cool. It has some of the same qualities of the nemesis system from the shadow of mordor/war games.

    A lot of the time the voice acting doesn't match the characters or the situation as everything has    It's okay. Not particularly good or bad. Some of the writing and political stuff is pretty cringe but the puzzles, hacking, drone manipulation and recruitment "play as anyone" system is quite cool. It has some of the same qualities of the nemesis system from the shadow of mordor/war games.

    A lot of the time the voice acting doesn't match the characters or the situation as everything has to be a sort of generic line since there is no main character. It seems in some ways a step back from Watch Dogs 2. No more tech tree, everything is very streamlined, no customization at the cool 3D printing station; now its all just through the menu and done at any time. Most of the hacking stuff is available right away except for manipulating drones. There's a pretty limited amount of things to unlock but it seems that it is to encourage you to go recruit more people as they have other special abilities and vehicles, weapons etc. The stuff you unlock is pretty basic and seems to serve as a baseline for your new recruits in the beginning of the game.

    Also, one thing i didn't like in particular is how many load screens there are. Like special events, specific mission events and going between indoor outdoor cells. Specifically the bare knuckle boxing events. You just walk up to the door, warp in to the fight and warp back out. Some of the story missions have loading screens where they could of had a simple animation. It's not a huge deal but it's these kind of things that I expect now because of other open world games of this era and it just makes the game feel low quality.

    All in all I am having fun but it is a bit bland and doesn't really seem like they have brought much new to the table besides the recruitment system. I pre-ordered ultimate edition and I'm thinking now that was definitely a mistake. If you get it you will definitely get your moneys worth for 60 bucks; but don't expect anything ground breaking.    … Expand
  27. radixlecti84
    Feb 17, 2021
    6
    Watch Dogs Legion makes an ambitious departure from it's old formula by introducing a new "Play as anyone" mechanic, this new addition allows you to play as one of dozens of the Jamaican or butch lady protagonists you can find on the street, if that's not to your liking you can play as an asian dude clearly voiced by a white irish guy. /s

    This new mechanic is a great idea that is poorly    Watch Dogs Legion makes an ambitious departure from it's old formula by introducing a new "Play as anyone" mechanic, this new addition allows you to play as one of dozens of the Jamaican or butch lady protagonists you can find on the street, if that's not to your liking you can play as an asian dude clearly voiced by a white irish guy. /s

    This new mechanic is a great idea that is poorly implemented, My first character was a suave looking black guy with a posh English accent, his personality oozed charisma and all credit goes to the voice actor, by my 6th mission however he was dead, and instead I found myself playing as a Jamaican guy as he was the only voice actor in my collection who wasn't irritating. This being a game set in london I was really looking forwards to playing as a relatable protagonist, I found one guy I sorta liked but he got killed in the next mission due to a bug, I ended up playing the rest of the game as a camp Gen Z bloke who was quirky enough but didn't really deliver much during the games climactic scenes.

    I think it would have been better if they hadn't made such broad strokes, focused on 12 or so characters and built them up more so that when you loose them you feel it. Sure you could say that more playable avatars leads to more variety but 95% of the operatives I encountered during my 30 hour playthrough were either Jamaican or Female, or like, just plain drab.

    London proved itself to be a great reproduction, the gameplay itself was solid and locations were well put together, there was a lot of effort put into some of these spots but quite often you'd be in and out in 3 minutes by dropping a spider drone from the sky exactly where you needed them to be. I felt a bit bad for the level designers!

    At the 30 hour mark the game was starting to outstay it's welcome, I definitely got my moneys worth and it was fun to play, there was just something about this game that didn't sell itself to me. Like, why was it that every British character spoke like "Wa gwan rude boi, dat car is peng" or just posh, where were the scousers, the mancs, the southerners, the brummies? London isn't only populated by Londoners and Jamaicans.    … Expand
  28. 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
  29. Pigmachine
    Nov 8, 2020
    6
    It could've been insanely good, sadly it fell flat on most of what could've been good.
    The cars are boring to drive, the hacking parts are mediocre, stealth doesn't feel rewarding at all, compared to the brainless guns blazing.. but worst thing are the infinite NPC's.
    They are genuinely the least likable people to ever appear in a game, and since most chars don't have a weapon, they    It could've been insanely good, sadly it fell flat on most of what could've been good.
    The cars are boring to drive, the hacking parts are mediocre, stealth doesn't feel rewarding at all, compared to the brainless guns blazing.. but worst thing are the infinite NPC's.
    They are genuinely the least likable people to ever appear in a game, and since most chars don't have a weapon, they can't be killed without hijacking a truck to run them over.
    They are not randomly dislikable, they are programmed with to have really high chance to have traits making them more likely to get hired by Ubisoft, and with that I don't mean programming skills .    … Expand
  30. dashingdon
    Nov 2, 2020
    6
    Honestly this game is the embodiment of true mediocrity. I imagine the project managers told the developers "that's good enough" repeatedly during production. The models and textures for the shoes in particular are an obvious "meh" from the designers. But the biggest blunder is the voices: everyone sounds like a robot translating in real-time from beep-boop to english: "ThOSe of US wITH aHonestly this game is the embodiment of true mediocrity. I imagine the project managers told the developers "that's good enough" repeatedly during production. The models and textures for the shoes in particular are an obvious "meh" from the designers. But the biggest blunder is the voices: everyone sounds like a robot translating in real-time from beep-boop to english: "ThOSe of US wITH a party-CULAR set OF skeels have A RES-ponsy-BE-litty to HALP. Eww should joe-en Ded-Sec."

    The story and driving are both serviceable but nothing special. The gameplay is very easy even on the hard setting. You can use a cargo drone to get what you want most of the time. The rest of the time you can simply go in guns blazing because the enemies are really silly (even dumber than Skyrim enemy AI).

    All that said, I did get up to the 404 missions (and all boroughs defiant) before I called it quits on the game, so I think the average gamer may get a decent weekend out of it before the gameplay repetition and awful voice work get to be too grating.    … Expand
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#10 Most Discussed PC Game of 2020

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Metascore
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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