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Where the action comes alive is in the leaving behind of bodies altogether. Most missions involve breaking and entering, and the thrill lies in the absence of any breaking.
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Watch Dogs Legion PS5 Review - Watch Dogs Legion is a game that shows a lot of promise, but ends up being entirely average with none of its ideas explored in meaningful depth.
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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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Watch Dogs: Legion is a far more palatable experience on PS5 thanks to its vastly-improved load times and splendid visual upgrades. The only real technical gripes are that there’s little in the way of DualSense implementation, and the framerate, while steady, hasn’t been upped. Its base problems of open-world fatigue and messy storytelling are still problems that can’t be so easily fixed and still remain a significant barrier to enjoyment. It’ll give you a dazzling trip to London, but you wouldn’t want to stay there.
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I know I sound hard on Watch Dogs Legion but I do want to be clear that actually playing the game and not worrying about the recruitment aspect or the story, I had a lot of fun. And I’m really looking forward to diving back in on PS5 to finish the collectables, side missions and get the platinum. If anything, I feel that Watch Dogs Legion was a generation too early. Maybe with a sequel (if it gets one) Ubisoft can use the power of the SSD to really make the NPCs and your attachment to them meaningful. As for...
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Watch Dogs: Legion is more of the same, albeit with more technical problems. Even the most diehard of Watch Dogs fans should wait for a patch or two before jumping in.
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Watch Dogs: Legion sees DedSec return to a hugely impressive representation of near-future London that looks and sounds amazing but can't long cover for the fact the core gameplay here is repetitive, janky stuff that's barely evolved since the days of Aiden Pearce. Traversal is hampered by uninspired, tanky vehicles, combat is scruffy, enemy AI disappointing, and hacking and sneaking highly repetitive. The "play as anyone" mechanic too, much vaunted pre-release, starts out fun but soon reveals itself to be a superfluous addition whose main effect is to rob the narrative of a proper central protagonist. Fans of the series...
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For all its themes of rule-breaking anarchy, Watch Dogs: Legion toes the line as a formulaic, though ambitious, open-world adventure. While it boasts one of the most visually exciting and stunningly authentic locales in the genre’s history, Watch Dogs: Legion‘s gameplay is mechanical, over-familiar, and repetitive, struggling to capture the exciting promise of a fist-pumping, system-smashing revolution.
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Watch Dogs: Legion brings the action-adventure series to future London. But is this a future worth exploring? Read our review.
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Watch Dogs: Legion is a disappointing follow up to Watch Dogs 2, no lessons have been learnt and despite enjoying the sights of London as a local, repetition in mission design coupled with dialogue feeling like a poor Guy Ritchie knock-off leaves a lot to be desired.
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Verdict: Watch Dogs: Legion propels the franchise to new heights, with fresh takes on the classic formula. The new Play as Anyone system works beautifully, offering characters with diverse personalities and skills across the city of London. It creates a gameplay loop that focuses on player choice, making no two playthroughs the same. While repetitiveness and polish issues do mar the experience, a scarily realistic story and enjoyable gameplay partially make that up. For Watch Dogs fans new and old, Watch Dogs: Legion will hack its way into your free time.
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I enjoyed my time with Watch Dogs: Legion but the whole time I played it, I was phishing for more.
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A surprisingly inaccurate recreation of London ties into simplistic gameplay and terrible performance to create a deeply flawed and shallow game.
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Much of Watch Dogs: Legion feels revolutionary, from its "play as anyone" hook to its Black Mirror-esque science fiction setting. While the gameplay only iterates slightly on previous games, new wrinkles provided by character traits keep things fresh. Watch Dogs: Legion delivers a stark warning about what our future may hold, but maintains its entertainment level throughout. Legion is a witty, bracing wake-up call.
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Watch Dogs: Legion has been on my “can’t-wait-for-this-to-come-out” list since it was announced at E3 back in 2019. The concept of recruiting every single person in the game – pretty much making NPCs obsolete within its world – blew my little mind. Talk about ambitious! Ubisoft was going to flip elements of the open-world genre on its head, do the hokey pokey and turn the whole idea of “random NPC on the streets” around and into a living, breathing recruitment agency.
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I’ve loved all three Watch Dogs games, but Watch Dogs Legion may be my favourite. Perhaps it’s the familiarity of London, or perhaps it’s the unique joy of being able to take control of pretty much any character you want. There’s so much to see and do; the amount of character and life breathed into the city is unrivalled by pretty much any other open world game. Even once the credits roll, there’s so much left for you experience. It’s not perfect (what is?) but there’s nothing else quite like Watch Dogs Legion. If you love an open world game...
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Watch Dogs: Legion is an incredibly fun game to play. It is brought down by its mediocre writing and hit-or-miss voice acting. Bugs in the Xbox One version of the game were mostly rectified by a launch day patch, but I still had the game crash on me twice in the roughly 10 hours I have played since then. If you were a fan of the gameplay of Watch Dogs 1 and 2 then you will love Legion, but be ready for a lesser story in comparison to 2. If you have never played either but the idea of being...
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Watch Dogs Legion could, and probably should, be so much better than this. Following two entries that introduced and refined the open-world hacking concept across the PlayStation 4 generation, Ubisoft has stagnated in an effort to heavily promote a new feature it hasn't managed to capitalise on. The result is an experience that feels overtly familiar and dull despite the seemingly innovative mechanic at the forefront of the French publisher's marketing campaign. Watch Dogs Legion lets you play as everyone, then gives you very little reason to do so.
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The original Watch Dogs was one of the first games I bought for the PS4 and the best thing I can say about it is that it was… mediocre. It was your typical Ubisoft open world game: devoid of fun side activities, with a nice setting yet underwhelming story, and a terrible protagonist. I stopped caring about it as soon as I beat it and made sure to ignore its sequel a few years later. Yet, for some reason, the moment I heard about Watch Dogs: Legion and its premise, I knew I wanted to know mo...
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Ubisoft's vision of near-future London is a beautifully realized sandbox world that I loved spending time in, but it's also forgettable and not one that I see myself returning to anytime soon.
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The connected, living world here is a genuine revelation, and it's well worth exploring if you're willing to mess around and make your own fun. It's just a shame that some of the vibrancy and depth of Watch Dogs 2 has been lost in the process.
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In near-future London, Dedsec is no more. Framed for a terrorist attack, the hacktivist group from previous Watch Dogs games has been purged, and the city has morphed into an authoritarian state policed by Albion, an evil mercenary company. However, the subjugated citizens carry the spark of resistance; it’s up to you to fan it into a wildfire of rebellion. Instead of putting you in control of a single protagonist, Watch Dogs: Legion gives you thousands of disgruntled Londoners, providing the freedom and flexibility to fight like never before. Despite a few bad apples, they don’t spoil what’s ultimately an...
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Legion royally shakes up Watch Dogs' open-world template with a Play as Anyone mechanic that just about outweighs any headaches left by its rough edges.
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Watch Dogs Legion is a literal and figurative riot once its 'play as anyone' mechanic gets in gear. But while it makes a commendable stab at tackling real world bleakness, it's trying to be a more earnest game than its open world cockney murder playground allows.
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Watch Dogs: Legion struggles with tone at times, but its empowering message about unity and justice still shines in a game that is as absurd as it is impactful.
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Watch Dogs: Legion is definitely the best game in the series so far- and dare I say, one of the most engaging and inventive open world games I have played in years.
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Watch Dogs: Legion is incredibly ambitious, but the play as anyone system needs a little more work. The story suffers from the lack of a central protagonist, and it's hard to get attached to any of your characters when the character models and animations are stiff and robotic. Still, there's a lot of fun to be had in futuristic London.
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Watch Dogs Legion is a solid if familiar title. However, the innovative recruitment system and neat simulation elevate the experience into something novel and worth experiencing, even if the game doesn’t always commit to its design the way it expects players to.
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“While Ubisoft presents its best open world to date, the main gameplay hook falls flat.”
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Legion didn't turn out to be as great a revolution as it was made out to be - and in my opinion, that's a very good thing. What we got was a product that was not without flaws, but was quite competent in its genre. Only and that's it.
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Watch Dogs Legion puts you in the middle of a revolution in modern day London, where any NPC you can see can become the main character of your resistance against Albion. But, how does the ambitious entry in the Watch Dogs series hold up? Here is our review.
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A disappointingly tame vision of a near future dystopia, that represents a perfectly competent use of the Ubisoft formula but falters in its attempts to add anything new to it.
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In the end, Watch Dogs Legion is an easy game to recommend for fans of the franchise, as it continues to utilize the solid gameplay foundation established by its predecessor. While the lack of a main character may not be a hit with everyone, it works surprisingly well. Over the last three iterations, Watch Dogs has introduced more and more player freedom, but with Legion, Ubisoft takes things to an insane new level.
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Watch Dogs Legion is a different type of sequel to Watch Dogs 2, contrasting in its approach to creating a hackable open world playground, but with no less impressive results. Playing as any citizen in London leads to some less-than-engaging story moments, but the web of relationships and activities that crop up as a result of the systemic design is mind-blowing. I rarely did the same thing twice in Watch Dogs Legion, and if I did, I wasn't doing it the same way twice. Watch Dogs Legion truly feels like a living, breathing world, and it's a world that I...
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Watch Dogs: Legion is undoubtedly the most fun and exciting entry in the series. Play as anyone is a mechanic that really elevates the gameplay experience, truly delivering on the core premise of the franchise. The campaign is solid, though it lacks the emotional investment and standout characters of previous series entries. Watch Dogs: Legion is a hacking good time and a great addition to Ubisoft’s technology-based saga.
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Watch Dogs: Legion is Ubisoft Toronto’s attempt at bringing one of the publisher’s lesser appreciated series in-line with Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry, attaching to it an eye-catching feature that allows players to “recruit and play as anyone” within the game’s world. But despite this sounding like an overly ambitious gimmick, Ubisoft pulls it off with gusto, transforming its open-world London into a playground for an abundance of ridiculous characters to experiment in. There are hooligans who can rally a faction of drunk football fans to fight alongside them, old men whose farts or hiccups alert enemies to their presence...
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Richly realised systems and empowering abilities create a tremendously fun sandbox to dig into, but another toothless story ensures these flashes of brilliance never cohere, leaving Legion feeling less than the sum of its parts.
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Online play is also missing at launch despite being right on the menu. (It releases December 3.) This game clearly needs a lot more polish, so don’t feel bad waiting until the next-generation consoles drop and that multiplayer update is out. If you want an open-world game that truly feels different from its peers, Watch Dogs: Legion does accomplish that and is still worth playing eventually.
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Ask a certain professional league footballer and you’ll know that anyone can fight the vast and uncaring cruelty of the British Government, but it isn’t always easy, and it can sometimes be a little repetitive. Watch Dogs Legion lets anybody turn against a fictional, but not all that unbelievable London establishment that has sunk even further into the mires of nationalism, fascism, and authoritarianism.
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At the end of the day, Watch Dogs: Legion feels like it executed on most of its ideas, with some standouts rising above the rest. While the loss of a primary protagonist may have felt like an odd step, it worked in the “we are all Spartacus” sort of way. Fresh takes on drones and the addition of a few new toys liven up the world's interactivity. I’m just hoping that the Ubisoft team can squash some of the real-world bugs soon.
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Despite their flaws, Watch Dogs and Watch Dogs 2 were games I had a lot of fun playing. The sequel tightened up some of the gameplay mechanics and in doing so the franchise looked to be moving in an encouraging direction. Then last year we got our first look at the next iteration, Watch Dogs Legion: a game with the central premise that you could play as anyone and grow those characters are you liberated London.
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Watch Dogs: Legion throws out a decade of Ubisoft's cluttered-map open worlds in favor of exciting systems that deliver unique emergent moments consistently.
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Watch Dogs Legion will be available next Thursday for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S versions will arrive on November 10th while the PS5 version will be available on November 12th.
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Watch Dogs Legion takes Ubisoft’s open-world hacker series in an interesting new direction by letting you swap between the inhabitants of a near-future London almost at will. There’s enough variety in the way different characters play to make that a good tradeoff for not having one traditionally progressing character with a fleshed-out personality, and playing with permadeath enabled ratchets up the tension of infiltrating heavily guarded areas. On top of that, the map is detailed and loaded with environmental puzzles to solve with a little help from your drones. Legion is technically a little rough, but its sandbox-style approach is...
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