Watch Dogs: Legion

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  1. jackstarr001
    Nov 1, 2020
    10
    Approached as an Immersive Sim, Watch Dogs: Legion works incredibly well, and is a great deal of fun to play.

    Use the gameplay systems and intelligent level design to your advantage...you can play pretty much the entire game as a shooter, or using stealth - but the game really shines when you leverage the recruit system and mix up your gameplay. You can use all gadgets with all    Approached as an Immersive Sim, Watch Dogs: Legion works incredibly well, and is a great deal of fun to play.

    Use the gameplay systems and intelligent level design to your advantage...you can play pretty much the entire game as a shooter, or using stealth - but the game really shines when you leverage the recruit system and mix up your gameplay.

    You can use all gadgets with all recruits, and while it's nice that you have the freedom to do so should you wish, I'd suggest bringing to the table some roleplay - only use certain gadgets with recruits that make the most sense...roleplay each character according to their own backstory, moral outlook and initial skillset, and the game becomes even more interesting.    … Expand
  2. snicker1
    Nov 1, 2020
    0
    i like it and the open world is very good.
    the graphics is good for me in 1440p with 3080 dlss rtx looks very nice.
    the strory is ok i think and motivating me to play it longer.
    with permadeath its wells good.
  3. Grandeur
    Nov 1, 2020
    0
    Disappointed with the game. Bugs, lags, graphically downgraded, the plot sucks.
  4. Parker_
    Nov 1, 2020
    2
    Lost 4 hour of progres on my save file. This is bug fest is a joke for a full price game
  5. noreason678
    Nov 1, 2020
    10
    Ubi really did homerun with this one.You can actually undress any women in watch dogs legion and make them your personal **** in your army where you fight against corrupted government.
  6. ubiprojectred
    Nov 1, 2020
    10
    Cyberpunk will be delayed until 2033 anyway, so who cares really. I would say watch dogs legion is 10/10 and huge win for gamers all over the world.
  7. comawhite23
    Nov 1, 2020
    9
    Watch Dogs Legion is average at best, but still miles better than last of us part 2, so that makes it basically automatic win-win for ubisoft. I would recommend buying assassin's creed valhalla instead of watch dogs legion and waiting until legion has some dlc content.
  8. gmr367
    Nov 1, 2020
    10
    I mean, it's better than fallout 76, anthem, last of us 2, mortal kombat 11 and death stranding. Does that make watch dogs legion masterpiece? Nope. But it makes it average game that is actually fun at times, unlike all these other games i mentioned. Why 10? Well i would ask same about these 0-s on this site...
  9. Btoux1979
    Nov 1, 2020
    0
    Jeu répétitif, dépassé, redondant, très ennuyant et toujours la même chose avec les jeux Ubisoft... Les jeux Ubisoft se ressemblent absolument tous !!! Zzzzz
  10. cdprjetredsucks
    Nov 1, 2020
    9
    Personally haven't had any bugs, cliches or crashes, maybe i have been lucky idk. Everything works perfectly fine with ryzen cpu. Game isn't anything special, in fact, i like watch dogs 1 more than this. BUT STILL, what's with extremely low user score? They delivered exactly what they promised in trailers, unlike Naughty Dog. I'm not sure what miracle some gamers were hoping, because it'sPersonally haven't had any bugs, cliches or crashes, maybe i have been lucky idk. Everything works perfectly fine with ryzen cpu. Game isn't anything special, in fact, i like watch dogs 1 more than this. BUT STILL, what's with extremely low user score? They delivered exactly what they promised in trailers, unlike Naughty Dog. I'm not sure what miracle some gamers were hoping, because it's exactly what they promised. You build an army with people, free London, good graphics, ray tracing. That's THE GAME they advertised. Why some people act like they were lied to or something? I'm pretty confident it's just bunch of cyberpunk fanboylosers who hate everything they can't pirate. Pathetic, but that's the reality of gaming in 2020, so yea, whatever.… Expand
  11. TheWeakerOne
    Nov 1, 2020
    0
    Ubisoft: great ideas, terrible executions. Another game where my expectations were destroyed.
  12. maxrtx
    Nov 1, 2020
    10
    I only bought it because i'm hardcore fan, but i would say wait for sale/until dlc-s are out. It's clearly not for everyone. Still it doesn't deserve that low user score. I would say Assassin's Creed Valhalla or Black Ops would be better games to buy.
  13. Alan111
    Nov 1, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Отличная игра. Не то что я ждал, но получилось даже лучше. Играть приятно и весло. По началу игра разочаровывать, но с каждой секундой игры становится только лучше. Советую к прохождению.… Expand
  14. jack67s
    Nov 1, 2020
    9
    Is it must buy? NO, is it one of the worst game of 2020? NO, in fact, far from it. What you saw in trailer is exactly what you're going to get. At least they didn't lie to their fans like Naughty Dog did with last of us 2. And to make it clear, watch dogs legion is about million times more enjoyable than last of us 2.
  15. edgomatic
    Nov 1, 2020
    3
    The openworld is not really big, but as usual Ubisoft fails to give it life. Ofc there is stuff to collect but we all know how fun this is...

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

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

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

    Dont pay full price for this    … Expand
  16. lifedeath
    Nov 1, 2020
    8
    GTA 4 had better map design. Watch Dogs 1 had better map design. What i'm trying to say is that watch dogs legion's map design sucks. No nature areas. BUT. It's not awful game, these 0 scores make absolutely no sense on this site. I'm very confident these people don't have that game. I would say wait until Aiden dlc comes out and then decide if you wanna buy it. I would say from NovemberGTA 4 had better map design. Watch Dogs 1 had better map design. What i'm trying to say is that watch dogs legion's map design sucks. No nature areas. BUT. It's not awful game, these 0 scores make absolutely no sense on this site. I'm very confident these people don't have that game. I would say wait until Aiden dlc comes out and then decide if you wanna buy it. I would say from November games AC Valhalla or Black Ops would be better options. But i still need to repeate, it's not BAD game. It's just mediocre.… Expand
  17. ohwell
    Nov 1, 2020
    9
    HONEST REVIEW AFTER 5 HOURS OF PLAYING
    This game is playable and even fun, but there are many problems (not technical). How they managed to make city more boring than in first game is just mindlbowing. I just can't understand. This (only small streets and buildings) approach is outdated and doesn't work anymore. It's okay, but this is really, really last time they can do it like that.    HONEST REVIEW AFTER 5 HOURS OF PLAYING
    This game is playable and even fun, but there are many problems (not technical). How they managed to make city more boring than in first game is just mindlbowing. I just can't understand. This (only small streets and buildings) approach is outdated and doesn't work anymore. It's okay, but this is really, really last time they can do it like that. Next game needs to be different. They need to really re-think their approach about map design. You can't just have endless streets and buildings on your WHOLE MAP. This is the place where they really should learn from GTA 5, you can't make open world game like this anymore. Rockstar did it in 2008 with GTA 4 and even then they had tons of buildings to go inside. Ironically Ubisoft did it better in 2014 with Watch Dogs 1. Watch Dogs 1 map design was so much better, you had more nature etc. Storys is "whatever", honestly kinda boring. I'm still hopeful that they can do something cool with Aiden dlc. But yea, you can't have "just city" in 2020 anymore, you need to have outside areas, nature, mountains, all that jazz. For the love of god i hope Assassin's Creed Valhalla will be good.    … Expand
  18. ridersrepblc
    Nov 1, 2020
    9
    Not best of 2020, not worst either. Some people are way too harsh on it. I'm not saying it's must buy, but if you like what you have seen from youtube videos, then it's worth it sure. Even tho it's story isn't best thing ever (and can be even boring) it's still miles better than last of us part II story, that one was just a joke. And unlike in last of us 2, in watch dogs legion you canNot best of 2020, not worst either. Some people are way too harsh on it. I'm not saying it's must buy, but if you like what you have seen from youtube videos, then it's worth it sure. Even tho it's story isn't best thing ever (and can be even boring) it's still miles better than last of us part II story, that one was just a joke. And unlike in last of us 2, in watch dogs legion you can actually have fun and i'm not sure what else would be better in awful year that 2020 has been.… Expand
  19. tshonwomble
    Nov 1, 2020
    2
    Right so, let's first disregard all the glitches/bugs/technical issues that makes players want to break their monitor. Watch dogs legion is definitely top tier with graphics. Beautiful display of London and besides the player models I'd give graphics a 9 or 10/10 for legion. As for activities, although most are repetitive, they are still interesting with the amount of flexibility you haveRight so, let's first disregard all the glitches/bugs/technical issues that makes players want to break their monitor. Watch dogs legion is definitely top tier with graphics. Beautiful display of London and besides the player models I'd give graphics a 9 or 10/10 for legion. As for activities, although most are repetitive, they are still interesting with the amount of flexibility you have with your various operators. Still a solid 7/10.

    Now onto why I gave this review a 2/10. Story is meh but it's honestly not bad as some were saying. But my main problem with this game isn't the story, it's the bugs. Before the "update" that came in I was playing since launch and had over 20+ hours on my save file, I had dupes of hitman/spy operators and was balling with the operators I had. I literally spent hours in the start getting my operators and picking them from the hundreds on the street already. Now after the so called update, my game started to freeze (particularly when I recruited someone) and I had the infamous freeze when I tried to exit to main menu. Because of this, I had to alt+f4 or force quit my game a lot of times and that prompted me to lose progress on some parts of the game. It would range from 5 minutes to 3 hours. If ubisoft connects save cloud for legion doesn't work or is clearly buggy the least they could have done is put in a manual save option.

    That isn't the crux of it though. Today I was enjoying free-roaming and recruiting my last few operators. I completed most parts of the game and was really enjoying the game itself. Then a freeze and crash to desktop came. At that point, I was used to the game crashing so I booted it up again expecting to have lost some of my progress. However, when I tried to click continue from the main menu it didn't work and I wasn't able to select it. I had a sinking feeling because I knew how buggy this game was already. I went into load game and realized that my save file of over 20 hours was replaced with a new save file that had "0hrs 0min" of playtime on it. I had hoped that this was just a bug but when I clicked to load it, it brought me back to the prologue. Now you can see why I gave this game a 2/10. Ubisoft should really just delay the game and fix these problems that make the game virtually unplayable instead of trying to release a buggy game just to meet the deadline.

    Now that valhalla is coming out in about a week, I'm honestly worried about it being the same as legion in terms of technical issues. I was planning on buying it but I might just see the early reviews of the game and skip entirely.    … Expand
  20. Docker
    Nov 1, 2020
    0
    I don't buy any ubisoft sh*t since they care more for their friends from Denuvo than the hardware of their clients. Due to huge amount of read/write they damaged my ssd two times, with two different games.
    According to the rumors-rating of the game is correct.
  21. nwilloughby
    Nov 1, 2020
    2
    Glad I didn't buy this game and only got a month subscription, This game comes with all the normal Ubisoft bugs, including no Bluetooth controller support, random crashes, lost progress, no advancing progress. I have redone the 404 cTOS hub mission at least 4 times and each time it refuses to save even after completing several more missions in the story line.

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

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

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

    Just when you think they make an advancement you realize they cut a ton of other features from other past games like controlling traffic lights, bank accounts, etc.    … Expand
  22. Tanesis
    Nov 1, 2020
    0
    Silly sausages. Games not even out yet. Comes out next year. Feck Epic Games
  23. FaceMace87
    Nov 1, 2020
    4
    Game is so boring it made me want to play Football Manager instead.

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Extremely boring generic game, do not buy until on big sale.    … Expand
  24. Tfn
    Nov 1, 2020
    10
    Ubisoft has created a master piece.
    I haven't found any bugs so far.
    The gameplay is fantastic. The graphics are incredible, despite the mischievous reviews, the game is very optimized. It is a game released in 2020, don't expect it to work perfectly on ultra settings with your gtx 1000 series. The NPC animations are very good. The story captivated me just from the prologue.    Ubisoft has created a master piece.
    I haven't found any bugs so far.
    The gameplay is fantastic.
    The graphics are incredible, despite the mischievous reviews, the game is very optimized. It is a game released in 2020, don't expect it to work perfectly on ultra settings with your gtx 1000 series.
    The NPC animations are very good.
    The story captivated me just from the prologue.
    Excellent details.    … Expand
  25. DarkwolfXP
    Nov 1, 2020
    2
    The gameplay and the "play as anyone" is fun and all, settings good to etc. But every game without a Steam release automatically gets a bad score for me because there is simply no reason for it to not be on steam. You might say "Oh, but steam takes too much money from developers".
    First: Ubisoft is a multi million dollar company that makes most of its money through microtransaction which    The gameplay and the "play as anyone" is fun and all, settings good to etc. But every game without a Steam release automatically gets a bad score for me because there is simply no reason for it to not be on steam. You might say "Oh, but steam takes too much money from developers".
    First: Ubisoft is a multi million dollar company that makes most of its money through microtransaction which dont even belong into single player games. Why do you care if they loose money?"
    Second: They why is it on Stadia and Consoles? There revenue cut is the exact same!
    There is just NO reason for there not to be steam release,    … Expand
  26. 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.
  27. legitusername
    Nov 1, 2020
    0
    When i play this game i feel no empathy for characters who we used in games cut scenes are bad gameplay are bad car contorls are bad and graphics are **** even gta5 outstandingly better this game i have rtx 2080 no performance issues but game itself is a copy paste of watch dogs 2 with no story
  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. startergate
    Nov 1, 2020
    6
    This is not a watch dogs game. This is a refined version of ghost recon breakpoint.
  30. delusionalUbFan
    Nov 1, 2020
    10
    Wankers here,game without two 3090s and have a bad fps is your own damn fault.
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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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