Watch Dogs: Legion

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  1. WeslyG
    Oct 31, 2020
    3
    why do we need this game? To find out that you can create London, I saw it in Syndicate (and it was great there) I miss the Noir of the original watch dogs, its hero lacked a bit. If there was a greater emphasis on realism, closer to the series mr Robot, this game would be a masterpiece, and the new assassin's creed. But now, it's just ridiculous.
  2. BootyConsumer
    Oct 30, 2020
    2
    Watch Dogs Legion is the worst game in the series. The best way to describe the story is that its the most boring and uninteresting storyline out of all three games. None of the characters you can really relate to and there is no chemistry between the characters unlike Watch Dogs 2 were the characters would often make jokes with each other and actually have emotions. The gameplay isWatch Dogs Legion is the worst game in the series. The best way to describe the story is that its the most boring and uninteresting storyline out of all three games. None of the characters you can really relate to and there is no chemistry between the characters unlike Watch Dogs 2 were the characters would often make jokes with each other and actually have emotions. The gameplay is lacking where they got rid of some features such being able to choose what weapons you want and being stuck to very slim to no options. There is no phone feature and you can not edit the music to make your own playlist or call in cars. The only way to get a car is hoping your character has one standard or steal one. The handling model for cars feels worse than the previous games and cars seem slower too. The characters will often share the same voice actors and voice lines. The missions seem very straight forward and simple. Ubisoft got rid of the fun puzzles and side game modes. Overall the gameplay seems like a worse FarCry with technology were you go to one district and liberate the place but there are less missions than a FarCry game and they are way easier. I would only recommend this game if it was Pre-Owned and on sale for Black Friday, the game is not worth it and unbelievable boring. The game has also major crashing issues, I have experienced over 10 crashes in my time playing.… Expand
  3. Steyraus
    Nov 9, 2020
    3
    When are people going to stop accepting micro transaction heavy, buggy, **** , technically out of date games from a publisher that make billions of them every year... PLay RDR2, play , Ghost of Tshushima, Days Gone, the difference in attention to detail and quality is generations apart.
    Damn NPC AI was better in GTA 4, when an enemies is hit is this ubisoft game they jenk back, if they    When are people going to stop accepting micro transaction heavy, buggy, **** , technically out of date games from a publisher that make billions of them every year... PLay RDR2, play , Ghost of Tshushima, Days Gone, the difference in attention to detail and quality is generations apart.
    Damn NPC AI was better in GTA 4, when an enemies is hit is this ubisoft game they jenk back, if they fall into an object they teleport on top of the object. Its just pathetic have little the effort them still put in is.    … Expand
  4. LongHappyFrog
    Oct 31, 2020
    0
    You can tell when love is put into a franchise and this just isn't one of those. Ubisoft at this point is just being Ubisoft and continues the trend of ruining an established franchise with a rushed pile of trash Game is just not fun. Very repetitive, the story is boring, and worst of all has microtransactions. This game is 60$ and it has MICRO TRANSACTIONS? Like this isn't a free game,You can tell when love is put into a franchise and this just isn't one of those. Ubisoft at this point is just being Ubisoft and continues the trend of ruining an established franchise with a rushed pile of trash Game is just not fun. Very repetitive, the story is boring, and worst of all has microtransactions. This game is 60$ and it has MICRO TRANSACTIONS? Like this isn't a free game, this is a 60$ GAME and you have cosmetics behind a PAYWALL! Not to mention you can buy in-game currency with real-life money! This is a single-player game!… Expand
  5. Araxar
    Nov 3, 2020
    5
    The game is an empty shell. It suffer from a lack of polish where it really needs it and an empty beautiful world full of meaningless POI.
    It makes me really sad to see the game in such a state. On one side, some elements are really good (npc relations, some main and secondary quests, bagley...). And on another side some core elements are still in 2010 (driving and everything around it,    The game is an empty shell. It suffer from a lack of polish where it really needs it and an empty beautiful world full of meaningless POI.
    It makes me really sad to see the game in such a state. On one side, some elements are really good (npc relations, some main and secondary quests, bagley...). And on another side some core elements are still in 2010 (driving and everything around it, POI, activities, lipsync...). And in the middle you have the forgettable elements (gun fight, story telling, acting...)
    Frankly speaking, this game does not feel like a AAA.    … Expand
  6. GhostShoot3r
    Oct 31, 2020
    0
    Very boring.
    The first Game was special, the second was okay but this one here is trash!
    Performance is very very very bad!
  7. Sincity1976
    Oct 31, 2020
    7
    Would you rather play as Niko Bellic from GTA IV or the silent protagonist from GTA 3? Personally I would rather play as either over a bunch of throw away characters with dodgy voice acting.

    The "play as anyone" is a great technical feat, but it's ultimately a gimic that doesn't replace having a fully fleshed out protagonist. It also feels like developing this gimic kept them from    Would you rather play as Niko Bellic from GTA IV or the silent protagonist from GTA 3? Personally I would rather play as either over a bunch of throw away characters with dodgy voice acting.

    The "play as anyone" is a great technical feat, but it's ultimately a gimic that doesn't replace having a fully fleshed out protagonist. It also feels like developing this gimic kept them from creating a great world, engaging side objectives, or interesting missions. Speaking of gimics, the "hacking" from the earlier games is here in full force. Bouncing from camera to camera, or sneaking around with a droid, isn't an overly fun experience. Neither is downloading a key for the hundredth time or performing another silly "rotate the line" puzzle. The foundation is all kinda meh as well. Driving is touchy, melee is miles behind any competent action game, and the shooting is worse then many past generation open world games. Some of the characters have interesting skills that let you approach missions differently. The story is okay. They did an admirable job of implementing the play anyone mechanic. It's a competent open world shooter to spend some time in before Cyberpunk, Assassins Creed, or any of the other big boys show up.    … Expand
  8. theLonedirewolf
    Nov 1, 2020
    1
    I've had 8 softlocks and 4 hard crashes. The game is about a 5 but due to the frequency in crashing it's lower. I'll reevaluate once it's fixed. The game has a good idea of recruiting any one how ever you get bland characters, that join the cause cause the enemy of my enemy thing. You can definitely feel that characters are NPCS that you possess at times.
  9. Skade71
    Oct 31, 2020
    4
    Le jeu bug sans arrêt, les voix FR sont absolument immonde et les graphismes laisse vraiment à désirer pour une jeu ubisoft de 2020.
    La conduite est très peu réaliste. Aucune sensation de vitesse que ce soit en courant ou en conduisant. Les missions sont redondantes.
    Malgré tout le fait de pouvoir contrôler n'importe qui est pas mal et l'histoire est prenante.
  10. Zer093
    Nov 7, 2020
    2
    Truly a downgrade from watchdogs 1 and 2, the story may be good in some ways but it does lose interest quickly, the recruiting is flawd giving females more power than males even showing that you will unlock high class male recruits for certain missions before giving you an old lady with the same stat's (e.g clearing an area shows you will unlock a male spy but you get an old lady with aTruly a downgrade from watchdogs 1 and 2, the story may be good in some ways but it does lose interest quickly, the recruiting is flawd giving females more power than males even showing that you will unlock high class male recruits for certain missions before giving you an old lady with the same stat's (e.g clearing an area shows you will unlock a male spy but you get an old lady with a silencer instead)

    The humour is hit and miss, at times funny and gets a chuckle at other times you're wishing you weren't playing the game. The incredible cloth physics from the last 2 games especially with coats is now gone, instead we have cardboard clothing that clip through everything including the cars your driving and bikes you're riding and looks terrible, the control scheme is also awful and even when you change the buttons to suit your play style it forces other prompts to be left out or combined with the same button as others, at first this doesn't seem so bad but after fiddling with the controller layout for over 3 hours there is no fluid way to have control of the game.

    This game gets a 2 if problems are fixed maybe I'll give it a better score but as it stands it feels like you are forced to play as females and people you don't want to play as just to suit their agenda, this is disgusting to the point even my girlfriend was asking if I could play longer to find her a white male spy or hitman because that's who SHE wants to play as. Ubisoft I implore you to fix the game as much as possible I will relook at this in a few months and decide on if the score should improve    … Expand
  11. henribrunno
    Nov 10, 2020
    5
    Monótono demais, praticamente a mesma coisa do segundo. Sem falar nos crashs, a cada 10min o jogo crasha e fecha sozinho no Xbox One.
  12. ThePeoplesPlay
    Nov 2, 2020
    1
    Characters feel like they have no life. Buggy as hell. Feels unfinished. Would see vehicles appear randomly in front of me. This is on the Xbox one X.
  13. Wini
    Oct 31, 2020
    0
    Generic story, with generic protagonists, and generic antagonist, terrible optimization on PC.
  14. Exanthius
    Nov 2, 2020
    1
    I'm now 7 hours into the main story and feel difficulties to motivate me to keep playing. The main reason for this is that all too often I'm being pulled out of the immersion. Too often the NPCs get stuck in the environment and all too often the game stutters and does not perform very well. But, the worst thing is hearing two of your recruited guys talk to each other with the exact sameI'm now 7 hours into the main story and feel difficulties to motivate me to keep playing. The main reason for this is that all too often I'm being pulled out of the immersion. Too often the NPCs get stuck in the environment and all too often the game stutters and does not perform very well. But, the worst thing is hearing two of your recruited guys talk to each other with the exact same voice although they look completely different. This concept just does not work for me. From what I heard they already had 12 different voice actors, but it just isn't enough unfortunately.… Expand
  15. Rasjam
    Oct 31, 2020
    4
    It’s unfortunately bland, but I must commend the attempt the developers have made. It is a functioning game but not a fun one.
  16. Amorphius
    Oct 31, 2020
    0
    Ну в общем хочу выразить юбикам очень негативный отзыв я купил вашу игру в юплей и мне обещали английскую озвучку, что в результате вы банально исправили табличку в магазине на то что его там нет классно интересно, оптимизация параша дикая, опять донат магазин, какой то вип статус в мультиплеере который не вышел да уш ребята идите пожрите сами свою парашуНу в общем хочу выразить юбикам очень негативный отзыв я купил вашу игру в юплей и мне обещали английскую озвучку, что в результате вы банально исправили табличку в магазине на то что его там нет классно интересно, оптимизация параша дикая, опять донат магазин, какой то вип статус в мультиплеере который не вышел да уш ребята идите пожрите сами свою парашу
  17. sam8811
    Nov 1, 2020
    5
    Ok.. graphics are good. Voice acting is terrible. The 'play as anyone you want' is not what you think it would be. The crashes, oh my god the crashes. I'm at a point where I can't move further in the game. I'm in the 'Justice4Clare' storyline, and the game just crashes constantly. Very upsetting given that I prepaid, and this game already had a delayed release date. I just don'tOk.. graphics are good. Voice acting is terrible. The 'play as anyone you want' is not what you think it would be. The crashes, oh my god the crashes. I'm at a point where I can't move further in the game. I'm in the 'Justice4Clare' storyline, and the game just crashes constantly. Very upsetting given that I prepaid, and this game already had a delayed release date. I just don't find myself caring for the characters at all. It's a wash, rinse, repeat type game.. variety is minimal. The underlying story is good, but; it is ruined by game crashes and horrible voice acting.… Expand
  18. GustaCNXFL
    Nov 22, 2020
    0
    Muito Ruim pior jogo da ubisoft todo bugado e mal feito e sem personagems marcantes
  19. deftones034
    Oct 31, 2020
    0
    Another watchdog game that looks and plays like the others. Its outdated and BORING!!!!!! Wait for a under 10 sale and patches to fix crashes. Blah
  20. KaRToFaBOT
    Oct 31, 2020
    1
    The graphics are disgusting. The gameplay has not improved, as well as the physics of the machines along with the interface.
  21. damonleelcx
    Oct 30, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Such a liar!! The permadeath is faked. No matter how difficult I set the game, all I can get is arrested or injured. There is no death in the game!! So boring!!! … Expand
  22. Scritty
    Oct 31, 2020
    5
    It's Ok. But a mish mash of good and bad,
    The gameplay feels more proscriptive than it should. While there are multiple paths to success, there is an obvious best one in most campaign missions.
    I hear the same speech too often. The recruit speech is almost the same every time and I've not come across very many variations of accent. There are parkour "lite" things to do in the game, but    It's Ok. But a mish mash of good and bad,
    The gameplay feels more proscriptive than it should. While there are multiple paths to success, there is an obvious best one in most campaign missions.
    I hear the same speech too often. The recruit speech is almost the same every time and I've not come across very many variations of accent.
    There are parkour "lite" things to do in the game, but these are done really badly. Some walls or barriers you can climb - others you can't Often there is no logic as to why you can't climb. You scale a 8 foot wall easily, then can't scale the next 7 foot high wall. Why?

    The gunplay is ok. The spider bot is overpowered but fun for a while.
    Recruiting is a waste of time. I've found no need to change character except where a mission demands I use someone specific - like a construction worker to use one of the large hover pad things. Most missions it really doesn't make much - if any - difference who you use.

    The graphics are good but even on a relatively high end PC running from NVME drive, a 8700K running at 4.9 Ghz all cores, 32 gigs of 3200 ram and a 2070 Super card there are stutters as (I think) textures are loaded in.

    The politics are ham fisted. Given the "thought and language" police that are everywhere in UK society in the last 10 years at the moment, destroying careers, destroying lives, insisting on increasingly worrying additions to legislation designed to curb freedom - come exclusively from the left wing. It feels like a "bait and switch" to pretend these issues are from the right wing as this game s awkwardly and transparently insists. Mind you left wing fascism is a "thing" these days and maybe that's what this is.
    That said it's easy to ignore the messages as although they are everywhere, they are so simplistic and un-nuanced that - when I played - I was soon in a different universe. It was so unlike reality that in my mind it soon wasn't and this was just "random made-up world"    … Expand
  23. Demon1821
    Nov 13, 2020
    1
    The game is quite fun once you start to Unlock gadgets and skills, the gameplay really opens up for choice of how to play the game. However I can't recommend this game as without a central character the story feel lackluster and the voices are terrible for each recruit. As someone who is British I find it insulting that most characters sound incredibly stereotypical and brain dead. TheThe game is quite fun once you start to Unlock gadgets and skills, the gameplay really opens up for choice of how to play the game. However I can't recommend this game as without a central character the story feel lackluster and the voices are terrible for each recruit. As someone who is British I find it insulting that most characters sound incredibly stereotypical and brain dead. The final thing that ruined the game for me was losing my save twice when the game unexpectedly quit. I lost several hours of progress and lost interest in finishing the game. Avoid at all cost, play the second game instead.… Expand
  24. Insidia
    Nov 1, 2020
    6
    The Good:

    Fresh Story in Fresh Setting Well Designed London. The Bad: The voice acting is so bad and so offkey I'm literally taking away 2 points on that alone. The best voice acting is by The Bug which is a pirate podcast you pick up along the way. Noticeable Graphical Glitches The Deadsec teammates are completely uninspiring and forgettable. Can I not even hail cab?    The Good:

    Fresh Story in Fresh Setting

    Well Designed London.

    The Bad:

    The voice acting is so bad and so offkey I'm literally taking away 2 points on that alone. The best voice acting is by The Bug which is a pirate podcast you pick up along the way.

    Noticeable Graphical Glitches

    The Deadsec teammates are completely uninspiring and forgettable.

    Can I not even hail cab?

    Can't hack traffic lights anymore? What's that all about?

    Just had my first random crash to desktop

    Summery:

    It's just not polished in the way you'd expect a $50 AAA game to be. Probably going to go down as worst in the franchise so far.    … Expand
  25. Shadowdrives
    Nov 1, 2020
    0
    play it for a few days, it is the most buggiest games I have played this year. my character gets stuck at the most stupidest places at times and the game kept crashing half the time. I wasn't into the story that much because there is no main character in the story, unlike the last two games.
  26. VideoGames42069
    Nov 1, 2020
    5
    Another ambitious ubisoft game that ends up excelling at absolutely nothing. Firstly, it's the buggiest game i've played in a decade. Nothing to break the game yet, but I cant go half an hour without seeing a bug. NPCs walking into walls, objects stuck in walls flapping around (Just now I saw a windex spray bottle from one of the janitor NPCs stuck in a window and it was glitching out),Another ambitious ubisoft game that ends up excelling at absolutely nothing. Firstly, it's the buggiest game i've played in a decade. Nothing to break the game yet, but I cant go half an hour without seeing a bug. NPCs walking into walls, objects stuck in walls flapping around (Just now I saw a windex spray bottle from one of the janitor NPCs stuck in a window and it was glitching out), and many others that are just more of the same old unpolished release from ubisoft.

    Next, onto the game itself. On paper the 'Recruit anyone' mechanc seems unique and next-gen, but it gets boring qucikly. After a few hours of playing the game I was already seeing identical looking NPCs (I have 2 people who have the exact same face in my crew already after 10 hours of gameplay) , hearing the same voice actor in different people, seeing duplicate backstories, duplicate perks, and so on. Ubisoft have evidently created a finite number of character traits then just randomly thrown them onto NPCs to give the false appearance of eveyone being unique, but in reality this just means none of the characters have any depth. I don't actually care about anyone in my crew because they've all been downgraded from a well-written, unique person you'd get in a normal game, to a series of random numbers slapped on the same few faces over and over again. I've got 10 potential crew members saved, and 3 of them are identical to someone in my crew, save for a differet pair of glasses or different coloured hat. The voice acting is also completely off - some of the accents are really bad, and since the voices are randomly assigned to characters, people just don't sound like they should. When you're designing a character you have a voice in mind that fits the body, but that goes out of the window with this game. You'll hear tough guards and thugs with the same high pitched, camp voices as young hipster looking characters. You've got rough, strong looking builders with the same posh upper-class English accent as the young-looking gangster on the street corner. Most of the voices don't fit the character at all.

    Further, even with permadeath on and the game on hard, it's just too easy so you don't need to bother recruiting people with certain perks because anyone can do a similar job. For example, there's one mission where you have to delete data from a huge server in a building full of Albion guards. I didn't need to recruit an Albion employee to sneak in. I didn't need a super hacker who could skip past certain doors. Regular Joe #4 just ran a spider bot into the room, and ran around the server in circles until the objective was complete and the guards were too stupid to stop my robot. Most of the perks just don't matter at all and the ones that do give a slight benefit can be obtained again easily if your guy dies. Your Albion soldier died, so you can no longer get into the enemy areas in disguise? Walk 10 feet down the road and do the same repetitive quest for the next Albion soldier and recruit them instead. Don't forget to fall asleep as you do it though, because the missions you do to recruit enemies are very repetitive, and after recruiting 4-5 crew members you've already seen it all. They say the same things over and over. Your character, when trying to recruit them, will also say the same things over and over again.

    Not to mention the animations are incredibly stiff, characters dont look 'alive' they look like they are just running through scripted motions with no care for their surroundings. The physics are also terrible, run someone over and they just go stiff like a dummy and just fly around with no velocity in the same pose. GTA 4 in 2008 had smoother animations than this.

    And finally, the driving still sucks complete arse, it feels more like you're driving an RC car than a real one.

    Ultimately the 'recruit anyone' mechanic, which is the only thing unique about this game, whilst nice on paper, falls incredibly flat. Aside from some of the graphical settings like ray tracing, you could mistake this for a game that came out years ago.

    The gameplay is generally fine, but the gameplay in watchdogs 2 is also fine, and that game came out 4 years ago, and is 1/4 of the price of this game. The fact this franchise didn't move an inch in 4 years is staggering. So just play watchdogs 2 or buy a month of Uplay+ to play this for a few hours then put it down again, but dont get this game at full price, it's not worth it at all.    … Expand
  27. Sarthak02
    Nov 1, 2020
    3
    Created so much hype by Ubisoft but the game is an utter disappointment in playing an hour and so you will get bored with the similarity and complexity plus lots of glitches and **** graphics will face player time to time, so it's a disappointment and not a game to buy for like in 60 bucks.
  28. ATL
    Oct 30, 2020
    0
    Very disputing how such big studio makes such shallow games.
    From what i can see its for players in 13-17yo.
    If u have big expectations, just wait for CP2077.
  29. A_Porcupine
    Nov 7, 2020
    0
    The buggiest game I have played, by a long way. After the recent update, it is unplayable as it crashed after 1-2 minutes.

    I would love to provide a better rating that 0, but the game was released way too early and is so buggy that after the latest update, it is unplayable. I was excited to see a new update to the game as I've been playing through, trying my best to ignore the crashes    The buggiest game I have played, by a long way. After the recent update, it is unplayable as it crashed after 1-2 minutes.

    I would love to provide a better rating that 0, but the game was released way too early and is so buggy that after the latest update, it is unplayable. I was excited to see a new update to the game as I've been playing through, trying my best to ignore the crashes (hard crashes that close the game completely), keeping my fingers crossed that the crash hasn't corrupted my save file. After the update had completed however, I was greeted with a game that starts up, but crashes within 1-2 minutes, making it unplayable.

    As far as the gameplay and story go, not nearly compelling enough to prevent me getting a refund on the game.    … Expand
  30. LittleDemon
    Nov 2, 2020
    0
    Not a game, but **** **** The plot is **** Characters are **** Dialogues are **** The locations are beautiful. NPCs are stupid. Triple Sh Sh Sh game. "Thank you" ubisoft
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Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 50
  2. Mixed: 19 out of 50
  3. Negative: 0 out of 50
  1. ZTGD
    Nov 25, 2020
    65
    My gripes really stem from the place of being a fan. Anyone entering Watch Dogs: Legion looking for a by the books open world game is going to find a lot to enjoy. There are small puzzles to solve, plenty of collectibles, lots of missions and I would say the shooting and driving are the best this series has ever been. Fans of the series like myself however will be disappointed by the lack of enjoyable characters as well as stand out missions and story beats. With how close Legion is releasing to Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and Immortals Fenyx Rising it feels like Watch Dogs: Legion was left to fight for your attention and your money with less money put into development. I would recommend both Watch Dogs 1 & 2 as well as plenty of other Ubisoft experiences from the last few years before Legion at full price.
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  2. GameGrin
    Nov 24, 2020
    65
    Ubisoft have done well with this game but if you get frustrated easily I would maybe wait till this game has had a few more updates first before playing it.
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  3. Telegraph
    Nov 13, 2020
    60
    It’s a convincing facsimile, which makes trying to save it from Albion and its assorted cronies a more compelling task. And Legion’s big gimmick is that you can play as, well, anyone. Construction workers, lawyers, YouTube stars, retired cage fighters, Anarchists, football hooligans. All are served up by Ubisoft’s smart procedurally-generated trick, each with their own look, background and sometimes even voting record.
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