Watch Dogs: Legion

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  3. Negative: 361 out of 903
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  1. Soki5222
    Oct 31, 2020
    1
    - gets repetitive and boring fast - uninteresting and ugly characters - mediocre story + decent gameplay
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. 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
  5. 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.
  6. 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
  7. jkuras08223
    Jan 14, 2021
    6
    Watch Dogs Legion is the third installment in Ubisoft’s hacker open world trilogy. It isn't the best of the three games. This game had a lot of bugs even after patches. I played this game in January of 2021 and still had a lot of issues. My game also crashed several times. Some of the bugs I experienced caused me to close my application and start my mission over again. Another bug I cameWatch Dogs Legion is the third installment in Ubisoft’s hacker open world trilogy. It isn't the best of the three games. This game had a lot of bugs even after patches. I played this game in January of 2021 and still had a lot of issues. My game also crashed several times. Some of the bugs I experienced caused me to close my application and start my mission over again. Another bug I came across was cars just blowing up randomly. This happened several times and it killed me once permanently killing one of my operatives.

    This game was very repetitive as well. There wasn't any real immersion. I don't even remember my characters' names. And due to that I couldn't really get into the story. All the missions where just take out a group of enemies in a compound stealthy or guns and blazing just to hit a button or hack a little device which is copied and pasted across all the missions. The recruitment missions had no variety at all. I found myself replaying the same recruitment mission several times over again. And the characters I recruited all had similar character models in fact I had two identical characters with the same voice actors. The gun combat also felt really easy even on hard it wasn't really challenging. One feature they don't have in this game that watch dogs 2 had was being able to buy cars. This was one feature I really enjoyed in watch dogs 2 but im disappointed Watch dogs legion doesn't have. Stealth in watch dogs 2 was a lot more fun because the characters didn't feel as brain dead and clueless. I would take down a guy right next to another and he wouldn't even notice.

    With there being a lot of bad in this game there are still good things.The melee combat was very fun and believable. I found myself using hand to hand combat more than using guns. They also expanded on the overall hacking. They shortened hacking cool downs on everything. It takes only 10 seconds to recharge quick hacks. Being able to hack vehicles without a cool down where all good changes. They also improved the driving. In watch dogs 2 the driving was very clunky and poor but they improved it in watch dogs legion. The handle break function was very fun to use drifting around the city. They also brought back the little puzzles where you have to move the tiles around to connect a positive energy source. These puzzles occurred a lot more in Watch Dogs Legion and I was glad for that because that was one of the things I enjoyed about Watch Dogs 2.

    Overall Watch Dogs Legion was a pretty average experience due to a lot of bugs, boring story and poor character development and a poor example as play as anyone the game ranks out as a 6/10 which is a step down from Watch Dogs 2. If Ubisoft wants to make another watch dogs game they should work on the storytelling, level design and character development.    … Expand
  8. Jtbone417
    Mar 27, 2022
    6
    WD2 was really good and quite underrated. The characters were fun, the story was good and relatable (distrust of big tech), setting was great, missions were fun (epically stealth) and the AI was HILARIOUS. I could spend hours randomly causing havoc just to watch the AI. With WD: Legion, the missions and stealth remain very good. Everything else went out the window. The characters &WD2 was really good and quite underrated. The characters were fun, the story was good and relatable (distrust of big tech), setting was great, missions were fun (epically stealth) and the AI was HILARIOUS. I could spend hours randomly causing havoc just to watch the AI. With WD: Legion, the missions and stealth remain very good. Everything else went out the window. The characters & story both are bland, uninspiring, unattractive and unrelatable. I simply didn't care about any of these people nor their story. The AI lost what made them hilarious in 2. Their response to havoc around them was as boring and uninspiring as the rest of the game. This game had a great concept, but truly awful writing and casting. A completely forgettable experience from the franchise that created T-Bone, Aiden & Marcus. Sad.… 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. martinho_99
    Mar 11, 2022
    5
    The story is unoriginal and the idea of changeable avatars is nice gimmick but does not work at all in my opinion. It makes the gameplay dull and empty to play without characters with a personality. And dull and empty also is a fitting describtion to the really great looking on the outside city of London but everything is just a facade. But the worst of all: WHO IN ALL THE WORLD THOUGHT ITThe story is unoriginal and the idea of changeable avatars is nice gimmick but does not work at all in my opinion. It makes the gameplay dull and empty to play without characters with a personality. And dull and empty also is a fitting describtion to the really great looking on the outside city of London but everything is just a facade. But the worst of all: WHO IN ALL THE WORLD THOUGHT IT IS A GOOD IDEA WHEN YOU PAUSE A CUTSCENE TO MAKE THE CIRCLE BUTTON THE "SKIPPING CUTSCENE" OPTION?!?! In every other game I ever played "O"means returning to the cutscene.… Expand
  11. Evesbot
    Jul 14, 2021
    10
    Here's a 10 just to balance this awful and not even slightly accurate user score.
  12. 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.
  13. 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
  14. mortenj3nsen
    Nov 8, 2020
    8
    From a gameplay perspective, this game is amazing. The driving is a major step up from the previous games. It's a lot more fluid, diversive and hella better handled than the previous games. Gunplay functions great, I would, however, like to be less restricted when it comes to my gun selection. A system where you could have a universal arsenal of weapons instead of limiting certain weaponsFrom a gameplay perspective, this game is amazing. The driving is a major step up from the previous games. It's a lot more fluid, diversive and hella better handled than the previous games. Gunplay functions great, I would, however, like to be less restricted when it comes to my gun selection. A system where you could have a universal arsenal of weapons instead of limiting certain weapons to an individual character would be a far better alternative in my opinion.

    The play as anyone perspective was handled well. While the ability to play as over 9 million different characters raises questions and concerns, I personally believe it was handled better than expected. The characters have their own unique abilities and personalities. From a gameplay perspective, ''Play as Anyone'' was handled greatly.

    The story is typical Ubisoft, and gets stale as hell after a few hours. I think the overall plot of Zero Day vs DedSec was incredibly interesting, but unfortunately the story became quickly incredibly subpar and predictable. While it did have a few golden moments to look back at, most of the story just came down to ''Go here, Hack this, **** off''
    The story also lacks in personal interest in the main protagonist, since.. well.. there isn't a main protagonist. I don't have a reason to care for ****ing Bob Wilson when i know all of his dialogue and reactions are the same for 9+ million playable characters. They don't overgo the same developments as the single-protagonists stories, and there isn't really a lot of character in any of these people besides Sabine and Bagley.

    I am giving this an 8/10. Watch Dogs has always been about wrecking havoc and having a blast with different hacking tools at your disposal. This game delivers perfectly in that aspect. And with over 9 million different characters as your disposal, you can constantly find new innovative ways to wreck havoc across the town. And while the story is very subpar, I don't want weigh too much of my ranking on the story, as the story has never been a main focus in any Watch Dogs game. You don't play Watch Dogs to hear an adventure, you play Watch Dogs to have fun.    … Expand
  15. realreviews2020
    Nov 8, 2020
    9
    I have strong mixed feelings about this game. First off, it's all there, npc recruitment, London in all it's glory, everything that was in trailers, everything they promised, it's all there.
    Now, let describe this open world London and stuff i like about it and stuff i don't like at all.
    This game misses main character, i'm sorry to say that, but it does. I can't wait to see if anything    I have strong mixed feelings about this game. First off, it's all there, npc recruitment, London in all it's glory, everything that was in trailers, everything they promised, it's all there.
    Now, let describe this open world London and stuff i like about it and stuff i don't like at all.
    This game misses main character, i'm sorry to say that, but it does. I can't wait to see if anything improves when they release season pass with Aiden, but it must. I would absolutely love to free roam with Aiden in that city. I guess what i want is actual character focused story. Right now it almost feels like it's work in progress and they should have released Aiden day 1 as post-story content. Like if you finish main story, then you can play with Aiden basically, well they didn't do that and i can live with that, i just hope season pass delivers, i really do. And why am i so optimistic? Because at the same time, there's so much there. This city really looks beautiful, for example you can go on cargo drone and fly on top of almost any building (that isn't too high) and chill around there. Scenery is BEAUTIFUL. You can free roam around on these rooftops, explore them etc. But then i have some criticism against open world design choices, for example i was free roaming and i found this old train in middle of nowhere, Would have been so cool to go inside it and explore it, but you can't because it has no doors. It's not the end of the world, but little things like that could have been so much deeper. You can drive inside trams in WD1 and you can't even go inside old train? Just saying. But overall it's not trash, it's just not. It' might not be anyone's cup of tea and that's completely fine, giving it just zero is pathetic at best. I'll just be honest, driving sucks with mouse and keyboard, it actually felt better in WD1 and they need to fix this, i'm serious. Overall it has tons of potential, underground areas is nice idea as well. There's so much there and there's stuff that i can forgive, like i don't NEED to go inside old trains, it would be just cool, that's all i'm saying. Overall again, it's not trash, it's just not. It just need improvement and for the love of god it needs that season pass more than ever.    … Expand
  16. ggg99
    Nov 8, 2020
    10
    I'm pretty sure multiplayer and season pass will add much needed depth to generally fine game already. Been playing over 20 hours and there's always something to do. Recruit new npc's, mess around with spiderbot or fly around on drones etc, explore the city.
    Can't believe one metacritic user literally confirmed on his review that he doesn't even own this game and just gave it zero. That's    I'm pretty sure multiplayer and season pass will add much needed depth to generally fine game already. Been playing over 20 hours and there's always something to do. Recruit new npc's, mess around with spiderbot or fly around on drones etc, explore the city.
    Can't believe one metacritic user literally confirmed on his review that he doesn't even own this game and just gave it zero. That's absolutely disgusting.    … Expand
  17. golfforlife
    Nov 8, 2020
    9
    I wonder where these haters are under watch dogs legion youtube videos that have thousands of likes, oh wait.....these people generally don't watch english language youtube channels. Only english language site they know is metacritic. It all makes sense now. Solid 7-8 game.
  18. Callisto_
    Nov 8, 2020
    10
    Sad haters: Giving bunch of zeros to game they haven't even tried.
    Actual real gamers: Playing it for few days and actually liking the game.
    Sad haters: Surprised Pikachu face.
  19. actionadventure
    Nov 8, 2020
    9
    First true AAA game that takes place in London. This game is worth experiencing for just that alone. Hacking cars and drones is just bonus.
  20. hrdcoregamer
    Nov 8, 2020
    10
    Seems like this game has been under similar attack as last of us 2 with tons of bots giving 0s.
    This game is much better than last of us 2, that's for sure. It doesn't have amazing story, far from it, but it's not even close to as awful as last of us 2 story, that one was just horrible.
    So far enjoying the game, huge step up from last game.
  21. fred111
    Nov 8, 2020
    9
    Just finished main story, doing side content now. I enjoyed this one way more than second game. I generally tend to like open worlds with darker atmosphere, but second watch dogs had one of the lamest npc's i have seen in any open world game. Legion improves on that aspect a lot. Story was honestly kinda boring in Legion, but it had it's moments, some missions were better than others, butJust finished main story, doing side content now. I enjoyed this one way more than second game. I generally tend to like open worlds with darker atmosphere, but second watch dogs had one of the lamest npc's i have seen in any open world game. Legion improves on that aspect a lot. Story was honestly kinda boring in Legion, but it had it's moments, some missions were better than others, but that's same with every game i think. London looks pretty realistic minus some futuristic additions. Overall i liked it, even tho just month ago i wasn't even sure if wanted to buy it, but i had nothing to do anyway before november 10th, so yea.… Expand
  22. AciD-X-BuRn
    Nov 9, 2020
    8
    Wenn du es Spielst wie die Entwickler es vorgesehen haben dann entfaltet sich die pure Leidenschaft eine Mission auf deine Weise anzugehen.
  23. therealgamer101
    Nov 10, 2020
    10
    Absolutely no crashes or blue screens after 15 hours of gameplay. Game is solid. But AC Valhalla is (by 2020 standards) absolute masterpiece, so i would rather recommend that one.
  24. t67t
    Nov 7, 2020
    10
    This is basically new meta, when bots that gives 0's or 1's claim that others are bots. Pure comedy. It's not 10/10 game, more like 7 or 7.5, but i have to give it 10 to fight back against fake reviews that give 0's. Glad to see Ubisoft back on track.
  25. 675z
    Nov 8, 2020
    10
    хороший открытый мир, графика, музыка хорошая, Лондон выглядит очень красиво, некоторые проблемы с производительностью.
  26. breakdown7
    Nov 8, 2020
    10
    graphics - 8 / 10
    soundtrack - 8 / 10
    main story - 6.5 / 10
    side stuff - 6 / 10
    world - 9 / 10
  27. feuerfrei88
    Nov 8, 2020
    10
    No savegame issues for me, no crashes either, unless they were fixed by the time i bought it.
  28. ZZZ0
    Nov 8, 2020
    10
    Not masterpiece, but compared to tons of other open world games that are actually boring and empty (just cause 3 and 4, mafia remake) there's tons of fun to be had in watch dogs legion.
  29. c032
    Nov 8, 2020
    10
    Все работает отлично, как и ожидалось. Багов почти нет, вылетов ноль. Потрясающая графика, рекомендую.
  30. royalsnake243
    Nov 9, 2020
    10
    Eh gameplay can be improved but the visuals are just next level. I'm surprised they managed to make this work on so many platforms and ship on time! (Cough Cyberpunk)
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Metascore
70

Mixed or average reviews - based on 35 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  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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