Watch Dogs: Legion

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Mixed or average reviews- based on 1243 Ratings

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  1. Lenya007
    Nov 12, 2020
    0
    In this game, too many bugs, they are literally everywhere! The plot and gameplay are just terrible... I do not recommend this game!
  2. FrostormNidhegg
    Nov 1, 2020
    0
    Очередное унылое говно от юбисофт. Если ты купил данную игру - ты из тупейших идиотов, отборный придурок. Все плохо, скучно и убого.
  3. HardestMoon
    Oct 31, 2020
    0
    это просто очень плохо. я разочаровался в убейсофт окончательно.
  4. karoshi
    Nov 5, 2020
    0
    It’s not possible to play this game right now. Regardless what I do, every time I close the game (with return main menu) it automatically deletes my progress. And Ubisoft can’t add a manual save or fix this error. THEY NEED 9 F...... DAYS, to release a patch. 9 DAYS. If this game is not ready, don’t launch it. I WANT MY MONEY BACK.
  5. Altar
    Nov 1, 2020
    2
    One of the weakest game of this year.
    From the beginning, it had a vague direction. The result is as it is.
    No interesting story, rarely fun quests (1 of 30), lots of bugs, repetitive style of play, boring gameplay.
    The only good thing is the visual side of the game but there are also some technical shortcomings.
    Ubisoft has once again proven that marketing can do better than games.
  6. Jinstronda
    Oct 30, 2020
    4
    Improves everything that should be improved from 2, good melee combated, cool gameplay and awesome character mechanics and perks, optimization for pc at this time is horrible and story seems fine
  7. meten90
    Oct 31, 2020
    1
    This game is very bad. Graphics joke. City is awful joke. They should postpone IT a year.
  8. c0verfire
    Oct 30, 2020
    4
    I am going to start by saying that I was a huge fan of WD2 - I have at least 3 full play throughs of that game, and so I have been waiting for Legion for a looong time. And I was super disappointed.

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

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

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

    In short I am not sure where Ubisoft’s head was at with this game, it had so much potential, and was just a miss...    … Expand
  9. OzzTheBozz
    Nov 2, 2020
    0
    First, Ubisoft started a campaign on 1. November and flooded Metacritic with 9-10 ratings to boost the score. Otherwise this game would be a 2.0-3.0 ! Absolute crap game! Runs with 40-60 FPS on a RTX 3080 @ 1440P !!! Graphics look outdated, not really an improvment compared to Watchdogs 2. Story is non existent and the character system is horrible.
    Update: Ubisoft still putting fake    First, Ubisoft started a campaign on 1. November and flooded Metacritic with 9-10 ratings to boost the score. Otherwise this game would be a 2.0-3.0 ! Absolute crap game! Runs with 40-60 FPS on a RTX 3080 @ 1440P !!! Graphics look outdated, not really an improvment compared to Watchdogs 2. Story is non existent and the character system is horrible.
    Update: Ubisoft still putting fake ratings with 9-10 score at november 2nd    … Expand
  10. gr8st
    Oct 31, 2020
    0
    First the pros. Candy sweet graphics, ray tracing, dynamic lighting, juice colors. Some quest are barely interesting and funny (1 of 100). "Hacking" all what moves. That all.
    Now the cons. Literally no story-line, bunch of non-immersive boring quests. Broken textures, broken shadows and models physics (no weight, objects flying through textures, no water splashes), lots of small and    First the pros. Candy sweet graphics, ray tracing, dynamic lighting, juice colors. Some quest are barely interesting and funny (1 of 100). "Hacking" all what moves. That all.
    Now the cons. Literally no story-line, bunch of non-immersive boring quests. Broken textures, broken shadows and models physics (no weight, objects flying through textures, no water splashes), lots of small and huge game-mechanic bugs. SJW and other 'social' ideas exposed one-way and were being derided. Characters moving much worse than in any modern game (similar to fall guys, but much worse). FPS not stable even with 2080ti, broken lip-sync. AI do nothing. Looks like its not a game, its just a sandbox for role playing (further in online mode).
    Now for the truth. Ubiqs PAID all streamers to ad this game with strict 'rules of conduct' while streaming (they just bought them). Game was over hyped from the first cinematic trailers. The budget invested in advertising greater than invested in a game. Just think about. You pay your money not to the game designers, you pay for commercials and CGI cinematic trailers. Also, ubiqs paid for critics review and (as you may noticed) they paid 'bots' for positive feedback in here.    … Expand
  11. Casua1
    Nov 2, 2020
    0
    Ubisoft will never learn:
    1. terrible story
    2 terrible optimization
    3. terrible voice acting
    4. terrible and boring missions
    5. super boring game
    6. SJW agenda
  12. Llama6394
    Nov 2, 2020
    3
    I'm sorry but I don't understand how critics and users enjoy this game. In my opinion it's a literal downgrade from Watch Dogs 2. They shouldn't have made it more of an open world as the franchise already was. The play as anyone mechanic works horribly: all the characters are either ugly or have bad voice modulation. The specialist characters are useless when you realise drones andI'm sorry but I don't understand how critics and users enjoy this game. In my opinion it's a literal downgrade from Watch Dogs 2. They shouldn't have made it more of an open world as the franchise already was. The play as anyone mechanic works horribly: all the characters are either ugly or have bad voice modulation. The specialist characters are useless when you realise drones and spiderbots can be spawned with any character you want and they all have the same hacking abilities, creating no major difference in what character you play as.

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

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

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

    Please watch gameplay and read both positive and negative reviews that are over 6 sentences to get the information on if you will like the game or not! I should've done the same but I wanted a spoiler-free experience, sucks for me. Thanks for reading.    … Expand
  13. TheKalty
    Oct 31, 2020
    0
    Horrible pc performance, story and characters are uniteresting as they come. No guns or cars to buy, skills are boring, cant switch loadouts. They shouldve stuck with a single protagonist because their system right now is uninspired. All in all its just a boring game with a very generic story. We deserve better.
  14. bigfarken
    Oct 30, 2020
    0
    Garbage game.
    Certianly not worth buying if you are on the fence.
    Not even worth 75 characters.
  15. alex42axt
    Nov 6, 2020
    1
    Every activity in this game is just boring. Constantly repeating the same actions. It would be good as a DLC.
  16. Jackless
    Oct 31, 2020
    4
    The amount of time spent waiting, was not worth it at all. A week ago I went through WD2 again, and the mechanics were much better of that game than this one. Driving is just absolutely terrible and does not feel like a car at all anymore. Optimisation is even worse! How is it not possible to play on Ultra settings with a 3090??? You had months to optimise this and still runs awfully.The amount of time spent waiting, was not worth it at all. A week ago I went through WD2 again, and the mechanics were much better of that game than this one. Driving is just absolutely terrible and does not feel like a car at all anymore. Optimisation is even worse! How is it not possible to play on Ultra settings with a 3090??? You had months to optimise this and still runs awfully. Loading screens just kill the immersion. Fast travel everywhere... Voice-overs are bland, “cutscenes” are just tasteless. Everything about this game screams bland and tedious. Only gunplay is improved. The combat becomes one big problem after a while, every time you miss your takedown, because the enemy turned at you by 2 degrees, now you have to fight him for 3 minutes and get spotted by every enemy in the area. Really, no interiors? A 2020 game and i get interior in the first mission and thats it? Does everyone in London live outside?

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

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

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

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

    I hope AC Valhalla will brings something to the table.    … Expand
  17. HonestReview69
    Oct 30, 2020
    0
    This game is complete utter garbage! This game is so poorly optimized that I can’t even get consistent 60fps on a 3080 and 10700k in 1440p without RTX on, even after the patch that was supposed to increase performance! And the game still looks like crap and voice acting is worse than all of the worst indie games combined! Thank god I got the game trough uplay+ otherwise I would have thrownThis game is complete utter garbage! This game is so poorly optimized that I can’t even get consistent 60fps on a 3080 and 10700k in 1440p without RTX on, even after the patch that was supposed to increase performance! And the game still looks like crap and voice acting is worse than all of the worst indie games combined! Thank god I got the game trough uplay+ otherwise I would have thrown a prick through a Ubisoft HQ window...… Expand
  18. WhiteL
    Oct 31, 2020
    0
    На моей памяти нет ни одной настолько технически неиграбильной игры:
    1 - Сейвы работают через раз. Заходишь в игру и гадаешь, сохранился ли прогресс или последние несколько квестов придется проходить по второму кругу.
    2 - При выходе в главное меню иногда идет бесконечная загрузка. Приходится завершать процесс. Возможно, это тоже херит сейвы 3 - Лаги при езде не могут убрать с первой    На моей памяти нет ни одной настолько технически неиграбильной игры:
    1 - Сейвы работают через раз. Заходишь в игру и гадаешь, сохранился ли прогресс или последние несколько квестов придется проходить по второму кругу.
    2 - При выходе в главное меню иногда идет бесконечная загрузка. Приходится завершать процесс. Возможно, это тоже херит сейвы
    3 - Лаги при езде не могут убрать с первой части
    4 - Иногда при выходе в главное меню кнопки становятся неактивны
    5 - После обновления сейвы могут похериться, то есть они вообще не загрузятся (загрузка будет идти бесконечно, придется начинать новую игру)

    Также с геймдизайнерской точки зрения тут тоже все очень плохо:
    1 - Теперь нельзя слушать музыку вне машины, передвигаясь пешком
    2 - Нашел аудиофайл с огромным содержанием? Слушай его целиком, не выходя из меню
    3 - Анимации стали хуже. Убрали мой любимый отскок от стены из прошлых частей
    4 - Не чувствуется какой то "сюжет", т.к. ты просто выполняешь квесты и смотришь однотипные катсцены.
    5 - Боевка не работает. Наверняка можно не получить люлей, только если выжидать нападения для контратаки
    6 - Графика стала хуже. Днем она очень плохая.
    7 - Нельзя "скипать время"

    Напоминаю, это все за 2500р    … Expand
  19. startergate
    Nov 1, 2020
    6
    This is not a watch dogs game. This is a refined version of ghost recon breakpoint.
  20. Grandeur
    Nov 1, 2020
    0
    Disappointed with the game. Bugs, lags, graphically downgraded, the plot sucks.
  21. AlKappaccino
    Oct 31, 2020
    2
    The world is so incredible unbelievable, that I find it hard to engage with the story at all. Countless Bugs, unpolished immersion breaker like bad facial animations, voice acting, lipsync, driving, gunplay, enemy AI etc. it feels like an alpha version that could be at least a fun edgy open world sandbox. But it is not in its current state.
  22. Juskevich
    Oct 31, 2020
    0
    Ryzen 7 2700X + RTX3080 should run this game at 100+ fps at 3440x1440 EASILY. It doesnt, doesn't even do 60 fps. Runs at 40-45 fps, dips down to 30s (With raytracing disabled).

    For comparison Red Dead Redemption 2 (much prettier and not even very optimized game) runs at 70-110 fps with same specs, everything maxed out. This is a piece of dogs*** game. Do not buy, do not try even if    Ryzen 7 2700X + RTX3080 should run this game at 100+ fps at 3440x1440 EASILY. It doesnt, doesn't even do 60 fps. Runs at 40-45 fps, dips down to 30s (With raytracing disabled).

    For comparison Red Dead Redemption 2 (much prettier and not even very optimized game) runs at 70-110 fps with same specs, everything maxed out.

    This is a piece of dogs*** game. Do not buy, do not try even if you get it free.    … Expand
  23. Spike23
    Nov 13, 2020
    5
    After 9 hours I finally managed to find the first decent looking and sounding white male character that's not old, so he still could sprint and use cover, not a hipster or homosexual looking, an immigrant with an eastern accent, a homeless or a construction worker with cockney accent, a lowlife junkie greeting everyone "hey bruv", a suit with other perks than gaining more CTO, butAfter 9 hours I finally managed to find the first decent looking and sounding white male character that's not old, so he still could sprint and use cover, not a hipster or homosexual looking, an immigrant with an eastern accent, a homeless or a construction worker with cockney accent, a lowlife junkie greeting everyone "hey bruv", a suit with other perks than gaining more CTO, but spending them on random stuff or gambling. Right after that the game crashed on me corrupting my saves, so everything is lost and I have no proof that a character like that actually exists in the game. 10/10 IGN… Expand
  24. SergeiZ
    Nov 2, 2020
    3
    A terrible plot, ugly girls, nasty optimization, boring monotonous missions. Ubisoft in all its glory.
  25. bkuch
    Oct 30, 2020
    2
    I got this for free with my shiny new 3080. Frame rates are rubbish (Nvidia drivers up-to-date)! GeForce experience even suggests Ultra settings for everything - that's a first! Same with auto detect in-game. Benchmark option gives me near 60fps but once you go out on the open street - OMG. Worst game to enjoy a new expensive graphics card. Also the RTX is just like puddles everywhere,I got this for free with my shiny new 3080. Frame rates are rubbish (Nvidia drivers up-to-date)! GeForce experience even suggests Ultra settings for everything - that's a first! Same with auto detect in-game. Benchmark option gives me near 60fps but once you go out on the open street - OMG. Worst game to enjoy a new expensive graphics card. Also the RTX is just like puddles everywhere, even though it's not raining - even indoors! I've never been so unmotivated to play a new game - huge disappointment.… Expand
  26. TheFootmobile
    Oct 31, 2020
    0
    Russian version was supposed to come with English audio, but somehow it did not. Russian VO is horrendous and game ruining. Ubisoft should get their act together and push as English VO update as originally promised, otherwise that game is total write-off
  27. Moontoad
    Oct 31, 2020
    1
    I'm confused by the praise heaped on this game. On the plus side, London is beautifully represented, and if you know your way around the real city you will find on foot navigation easy. Another positive is the spiderbot's ability to stealth takedown - easily the most fun to be had here. Unfortunately, there's little else of merit. Yes, you can recruit anyone - but they all play more orI'm confused by the praise heaped on this game. On the plus side, London is beautifully represented, and if you know your way around the real city you will find on foot navigation easy. Another positive is the spiderbot's ability to stealth takedown - easily the most fun to be had here. Unfortunately, there's little else of merit. Yes, you can recruit anyone - but they all play more or less the same, so there's no point. The voices are mismatched to characters, particularly by ethnicity - for example a kick-ass black dude I recruited sounds like Pee Wee Herman whilst a middle Eastern mechanic sounds like Black Panther - it's jarring and ruins immersion. The puzzles make little sense and invariably result in you clicking on things randomly, without thought, until you hit the solution. And worst of all, the game freezes and crashes a lot - but combine that with the fact that it uses a save point system that returns you to the start of any mission if there's a crash at any part of it... which more often than not there will be... this one is strictly for masochists only. The first Watch Dogs remains the best by far.… Expand
  28. Rollowos
    Nov 1, 2020
    6
    The game is not bad, for me at least, but it has serious problems, like voice acting, story direction in some parts and unbalanced performance (etc). But in the end, I enjoyed up to a point, but not much.
  29. Melancolie
    Nov 4, 2020
    5
    This could easily be called Bland Dogs: Legion in my mind, because it's as interesting as eating a boiled potato. Is it a bad game? No. Is it a good game? No. Is it fine for passing some time? Sure, meh, whatever.
    The gimmick of "uuh you can recruit anyone" is interesting, on paper. In-game, it stays interesting for 30 minutes. While cool that you can recruit anyone, it means that    This could easily be called Bland Dogs: Legion in my mind, because it's as interesting as eating a boiled potato. Is it a bad game? No. Is it a good game? No. Is it fine for passing some time? Sure, meh, whatever.
    The gimmick of "uuh you can recruit anyone" is interesting, on paper. In-game, it stays interesting for 30 minutes. While cool that you can recruit anyone, it means that NO-ONE's interesting. You have no connection to the characters, so it's incredibly hard to make a compelling story when there's no stakes.
    In addition, the voice-action is the most atrocious I've ever seen. I spent an hour running around talking to people who looked SOMEWHAT okay, just to find ONE woman who had a voice I could stomach listening to. I played the whole game with this chick, completely ignoring all the special trait characters you get, because they sounded horrible.
    This is a "play and forget" title if you desperately need to pass some time.    … Expand
  30. tdebug
    Feb 5, 2021
    2
    graphics looks dated and cartoonish (but not in a good way).

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

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

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

    I spent about 30 hours in the game and don't feel like running it again. It is simply not engaging and also very repetitive. Even the "open world" is just a decoration and made to be big to increase your travel time from A to B, NOTHING is happening there apart from the story.    … Expand
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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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