Watch Dogs: Legion

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5.5

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  1. NoLifeJ
    Oct 30, 2020
    3
    Even though the game had a Day One patch I experienced more crashes on this game than any other game on my PS4 Library (excluding Fallout 4). The standard hacks like cellphone distractions and currency stealing are completely downgraded and limited by a cool-down that takes way too long to recharge. Character models have stiff, copy/paste animations from previous WD games, awful lipEven though the game had a Day One patch I experienced more crashes on this game than any other game on my PS4 Library (excluding Fallout 4). The standard hacks like cellphone distractions and currency stealing are completely downgraded and limited by a cool-down that takes way too long to recharge. Character models have stiff, copy/paste animations from previous WD games, awful lip syncing and no real variation in voices other than a slight modulation that makes the dialogue even more cringe-worthy than it already is at times. There's no in-game phone with built-in apps to try out or even a media player so you can listen to songs when you're on foot so at times, the game feels empty in terms of soundtracks other than what's available on the car radio. The game just isn't really innovative in any way other than being able to recruit anyone walking around London. But there's really no incentive in having multiple recruits other than using certain perks to complete missions quicker. All in all, it's a half decent game but it needs a LOT of work. The only thing I'm looking forward to when it comes to the game now is the DLC with Aiden, Wrench and the other new characters. Unless you have absolutely nothing else in your games library to play DON'T FALL FOR THE HYPE TRAIN UBISOFT THROWS US IN FRONT OF EVERY FEW YEARS! WAIT FOR THE GAME TO GO ON SALE!… Expand
  2. Zumbie101
    Oct 31, 2020
    4
    Game puts a lot of stock in the "you can play as anyone" which is kinda cool but remains nothing more than a gimick. It ends up resulting in a group of cardboard characters with dodgy voiceacting doing random missions which usually involve trying to find the way to the roof of a building to press a button.

    The world and combat is fine but nothing amazing. The "hacking" feels very    Game puts a lot of stock in the "you can play as anyone" which is kinda cool but remains nothing more than a gimick. It ends up resulting in a group of cardboard characters with dodgy voiceacting doing random missions which usually involve trying to find the way to the roof of a building to press a button.

    The world and combat is fine but nothing amazing. The "hacking" feels very limited and quite dull honestly. The story is pretty bland and generic. All around one to skip.    … Expand
  3. Soki5222
    Oct 31, 2020
    1
    - gets repetitive and boring fast - uninteresting and ugly characters - mediocre story + decent gameplay
  4. Molec_man
    Oct 31, 2020
    4
    Is this game a 9 like Witcher 3, Bloodbourne, God of War or RE2? No.
    Does this game have a good story? Hardly any.
    Does this game have fluid gameplay and controls? No. Does this game have a great soundtrack? No. Does this game have fantastic graphics? They are ok. Does it offer exciting multilayer? No. Will it? Maybe. Will this game make you want to play it for hours and hours? And    Is this game a 9 like Witcher 3, Bloodbourne, God of War or RE2? No.
    Does this game have a good story? Hardly any.
    Does this game have fluid gameplay and controls? No.
    Does this game have a great soundtrack? No.
    Does this game have fantastic graphics? They are ok.
    Does it offer exciting multilayer? No. Will it? Maybe.
    Will this game make you want to play it for hours and hours? And then comeback after you beat it? Most likely not.

    So what does it offer? A game released during a pandemic, that feels like it was built in the middle of a pandemic. Boring, Slow, Repetitive, Wonky, the list goes on. Its sounds promising with the whole recruit anyone bit. But, its not as great as it sounds. I'd create my own operatives.

    IMO, Patches may be able to fix a couple issues and bring it to a 6.    … Expand
  5. Arcanjo_Gabreil
    Oct 31, 2020
    0
    Why they put all that kind of micro transactions on a full paid game? Game industry is becoming so greedy.
  6. Masaville_
    Oct 31, 2020
    0
    Watch dogs Legion is so bad that I had to create a Metacritic account to save others from wasting their money.

    Terribly boring gameplay. Like watching paint dry. Full of woke, left wing sjw, anti brexit narratives. Keep your political crap out of games. I'm not paying you for your political opinion. Best thing you can do is avoid this game like the plague because it's the biggest    Watch dogs Legion is so bad that I had to create a Metacritic account to save others from wasting their money.

    Terribly boring gameplay. Like watching paint dry. Full of woke, left wing sjw, anti brexit narratives. Keep your political crap out of games. I'm not paying you for your political opinion.

    Best thing you can do is avoid this game like the plague because it's the biggest dumpster fire in the last 10 years.    … Expand
  7. Riefnight
    Nov 1, 2020
    0
    Guys, stop paying for low effort rubbish Ubisoft games or this approach will become a standard for each game franchise.
    P.S. Ubifans just because you have low standards doesn't mean that everyone does.
  8. OnlyOneHere
    Oct 31, 2020
    0
    In 41 years of being a gamer, I have never played a game that is this painfully boring. At least with the awful games I have played, I was busy laughing at how bad the games were. There was not a single second in this boring pile of garbage where I was entertained. The missions are extremely boring and repetitive and nothing feels rewarding. The gameplay is garbage.

    The physics are    In 41 years of being a gamer, I have never played a game that is this painfully boring. At least with the awful games I have played, I was busy laughing at how bad the games were. There was not a single second in this boring pile of garbage where I was entertained. The missions are extremely boring and repetitive and nothing feels rewarding. The gameplay is garbage.

    The physics are laughable. The driving mechanics are pathetic, the vehicles don't even have any physics. The car customization is poor and limited. All you can change is few colors and skins. I can't even change the wheels. The graphics has those same atrocious lighting effects every Ubisoft game has, everything looks like it's covered in cake frosting. The story is trash and the voice acting is lazy. There is nothing to do in the open world. All you can do is drive around and play stupid darts. There are too many bugs and glitches.

    The developers rushed the game, because the multiplayer isn't even available yet in this unpolished poor excuse of a game. The past Watch Dogs games had invasion at launch and the developers were too cheap and lazy to give it out at launch this time. The developers heavily advertised the "you can play as anyone" thing, which is nothing more than a gimmick that gets old fast. How about they spend time actually making a high quality game, instead of coming up with gimmicks. I don't recommend this trash game at all.    … Expand
  9. loumex
    Feb 22, 2022
    2
    It is important the truth behind the experience playing this game comes out broadly. Because, oh dear, this is one horrible, horrible game. I am a fan and casual player of both previous instalments, which had a great single player experience. The DLCs of both Watchdogs and Watchdogs 2 were also great. This thing, should NOT be called a Watchdogs game. The same mechanics, with voice actingIt is important the truth behind the experience playing this game comes out broadly. Because, oh dear, this is one horrible, horrible game. I am a fan and casual player of both previous instalments, which had a great single player experience. The DLCs of both Watchdogs and Watchdogs 2 were also great. This thing, should NOT be called a Watchdogs game. The same mechanics, with voice acting so bad you start wondering if it classifies as racism and biggotry against UK accents, and the whole idea of the "legion" gameplay... IT'S JUST BAD. You have NO proper player, NO proper storytelling, NO clear paths for the story to develop and obviously NO character development. The whole single player is a joke. It really is. I mean, it is just boring and you are not at all invested in playing. Why? Who cares. Your character is a transparent 'thing". It really is just a thing. You will play a bunch and realise, why am I doing this. There is no real interest behind my characters. Why are they? Who are they? Who cares if they live or die? Why do they talk as if this is an SNL skit with brits? Drop this game altogether. Don't bother. The only way to play it is by paying a ton of money to "unlock" as playable characters the old ones (i.e. Aiden) and then try to play it with recognisable characters. You will pay a lot. To make this game borderline playable. Just play the two previous games again. Trust me on this one.… Expand
  10. MrTommie
    Apr 20, 2022
    3
    Compared to watchdogs 1 and 2, this game is just awful. The voice acting is cut and dry, the lack of unique guns, and less customization that watchdogs 1 the game feels incomplete. the only thing holding this game up is the DLC, which is great. I expected more from a game like this.
  11. Brazzarazza6679
    Feb 13, 2023
    0
    This game is so mid I miss the depressing story in Watch Dogs 1 I'm more into depressing stories please make another game like Watch Dogs 1 this happy story with no revenge is so mid
  12. GustaCNXFL
    Nov 22, 2020
    0
    Muito Ruim pior jogo da ubisoft todo bugado e mal feito e sem personagems marcantes
  13. Kazavon
    Nov 18, 2020
    3
    No real characterization exists with the MC, because they all have to be interchangeable. Honestly, I think that the entire swapping out operatives element should have been dropped or sidelined somehow. I just can't get invested in the story or anything that's happening. Game-play wise and world set up is also mediocre at best. Controls feel a little clumsy and the world, while veryNo real characterization exists with the MC, because they all have to be interchangeable. Honestly, I think that the entire swapping out operatives element should have been dropped or sidelined somehow. I just can't get invested in the story or anything that's happening. Game-play wise and world set up is also mediocre at best. Controls feel a little clumsy and the world, while very detailed, still feels hollow and empty. Was really looking forward to this after Watch Dogs 2, extremely disappointed. Gave it a 3 instead of a 0 because on a technical level the game isn't bad, its just not good or interesting.… Expand
  14. Liadkap
    Dec 2, 2020
    3
    Boring story with no where to progress.
    No crafting.
    Gameplay kind of good but other then that it is a boring game, waste of money
  15. Steyraus
    Oct 31, 2020
    3
    Another generic, repetitive open world chore from Ubisoft. Cut and paste assets AI from the first AC games still walking into walls and acting in ways that is completely immersion breaking. The whole game has a district lack of attention to detail and polish. So many games this generation have pushed the medium of gaming forward in meaningful ways but Ubisoft one of biggest, richestAnother generic, repetitive open world chore from Ubisoft. Cut and paste assets AI from the first AC games still walking into walls and acting in ways that is completely immersion breaking. The whole game has a district lack of attention to detail and polish. So many games this generation have pushed the medium of gaming forward in meaningful ways but Ubisoft one of biggest, richest publishers continues to give us uninspiring out of date trash..Sure they pull a rabbit out of their hats occasionally but overall enough is enough.
    Literally the only thing that could be innovating is the ability to play as any character and even that is rubbish. Everyone in this world is ugly and idiotic, could not find a single character I was invested in and the whole system is just shallow RNG tricks.
    The worst and most unforgivable thing about the game is its creator stubbornness in bring a 60fps mode to next gen consoles. Apparently it got ray tracing and runs in 4K, how hard would it have been to lower the resolution to 1440p and remove ray tracing for a Smooth experience. Once the new machine are out I wont buy a single game that is running a 30FPS. They dont have the CPU to blame anymore and consumers should expect better.    … Expand
  16. joaowickk
    Oct 30, 2020
    4
    It's... Something??? idk, it's just really, really boring and bad. The missions are bad, or meh, and the story is the most cliché thing you can think about
  17. tharindumt6
    Oct 31, 2020
    0
    Another mediocre Ubisoft game with bad graphics, microtransactions, SJW stuff & DRM.
  18. TomBurgs99
    Oct 30, 2020
    1
    Really really boring - after a few hours, i felt the repetitiveness creeping in AGAIN - in a ubisoft title -
    do they never EVER learn? Beautiful world of London, but nothing interesting to do there.
    Waste of money - now Im really doubting Valhalla.
    Watch Dogs Legion is a game, that's fun for a couple of hours.
  19. Kinghevy
    Oct 31, 2020
    3
    the character design is very bad, there are rare people you will see in London.The graphics are still at the far cry 4 level and the FPS drops, although the graphics card is good too. The story is not realistic, rather absurd, the game in general did not satisfy.
  20. Sonnyblack
    Oct 30, 2020
    0
    Absolute rubbish. Rented it and sent back after 2 days. Just horrible all round. Kill the series already. Ubi should be ashamed.
  21. Folan
    Nov 8, 2020
    0
    sjw lgbt femenism blm when developers bend under "these" then the product movie or game or TV series becomes a low-grade product!
  22. Radi
    Oct 31, 2020
    3
    One of the buggiest games i've played in ages. Seriously don't waste your money on this, year after year Ubisoft keeps getting away with half assed games and this one is no different.
  23. themaxester
    Oct 30, 2020
    0
    I thought Ubisoft could do something good for once, but i was wrong, This game is insanelly boring when you do most of the "important things", missions felt hearthless and "go there then tell him type". Narrative its akward asf and the worst part, they tried to make new themes for the new generations, and its sooo cringy, felt like and 60 year old trying to fit in youngs world, and theI thought Ubisoft could do something good for once, but i was wrong, This game is insanelly boring when you do most of the "important things", missions felt hearthless and "go there then tell him type". Narrative its akward asf and the worst part, they tried to make new themes for the new generations, and its sooo cringy, felt like and 60 year old trying to fit in youngs world, and the gameplay its the same as the older watch dogs, sooo repettitive. Graphics are bad for being 2020's, same engine no new things. And the bugs as usual for Bugisobt are annoying, and one of them makes the game unplayeable. Is Ubsisoft becoming the new Bethesda?… Expand
  24. ouwssama
    Nov 1, 2020
    0
    If you're looking for a good story game this is not for you
    if you're looking for a fantastic gameplay this is not for you
    if you're looking for graphics and immersion, still this game is not the best out there.

    I feel like Ubisoft has run out of ideas and they just force themselves to make a game every now and then to stay consistent.
  25. Obytack
    Oct 31, 2020
    2
    Unfortunately this game was just so boring and graphically terrible. I high hopes for the game but i can not recommend it. Avoid at all costs.
  26. Zestyzigx42
    Oct 31, 2020
    1
    Boring as hell with bad graphics, microtransactions, SJW stuff & DRM Keep your money guys
  27. shopwornoot
    Oct 31, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What's happening to ubi soft _ this game is a boring mess, 3/10. Sorry its a short review but what more can i say....… Expand
  28. DeVito8704
    Nov 9, 2020
    1
    Absolute garbage. It's clear that there isn't a single passionate employee over at Ubisoft. Their games are empty, soulless garbage and Watch Dogs: Legion is no different. Do yourself a huge favor and spend your $63 on something else, on ANYTHING ELSE. Don't be like and waste your money on this garbage.
  29. weturn
    Nov 16, 2020
    3
    ох это ужас а не игра однообразные задания, стрельба , враги тупые, уродливые персонажи,
    плюсы гаджеты,хакерскые вещи и будущей co-op даже эти вещи не спасут игру
  30. Natteke
    Nov 1, 2020
    2
    God how i waited for this game, and how i disappointed. WD2 was interesting because of the ok storyline, meaningful skill tree and bunch of tools to play with. I was in love with wrench from the beginning, and sad when one of the characters died. Because they were elaborate characters.

    Im not going to talk about car driving. Which Ubi actually could make better in 6 years after original    God how i waited for this game, and how i disappointed. WD2 was interesting because of the ok storyline, meaningful skill tree and bunch of tools to play with. I was in love with wrench from the beginning, and sad when one of the characters died. Because they were elaborate characters.

    Im not going to talk about car driving. Which Ubi actually could make better in 6 years after original WD release.
    Overall gameplay feels raw. Characters looks raw. No empathy to anyone. Dialogs are raw. Storyline just horrible, predictable, and boring.

    WD3 fully deserves its low score.

    Indeed, I do not understand how small studios of 20-30 people makes more interesting games than the products of Ubisoft. Maybe because they love their games?    … Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 35 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 17 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 35
  3. Negative: 0 out of 35
  1. GameCritics
    Jan 4, 2021
    75
    Watch Dogs: Legion is far from perfect. It tries to tell a story about resisting oppression via the power of the people, but the concept of making any character in the world a viable choice means that the experience ends up being too broad and vague. I was able to spice things up by bringing my own roleplay to characters and used items that weren’t necessary, but this was my way of compensating for the ways in which Watch Dogs: Legion falls short of what I want from a triple-A adventure.
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  2. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Nov 15, 2020
    50
    What you’re left with is a game that delivers a greatlooking futuristic London, and not much of anything else. It suffered a hefty delay, and the series transitioned from Ubisoft Montreal to Ubisoft Toronto. Something has been lost here, and we can’t help but feel that the commitment to making any character playable is the core issue. That’s been made possible, but just because Ubisoft could, that didn’t mean the developer should have. [Issue#182, p.147]
  3. Malditos Nerds
    Nov 12, 2020
    80
    Watch Dogs: Legion is undoubtedly the best of the series, the one that is closest to bringing the experience promised by that trailer of the first game. Hacks are useful and the lack of a fixed character ends up making DedSec the true protagonist and, since we recruit, control and manage the operators, in the end we end up feeling part of the resistance.
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