At the start, you are provided with a choice of various characters to take on as your first recruit, before joining up with DedSec and provided the opportunity to recruit anyone else you choose off the streets. No, you aren’t creating your character, but deciding which generated character(s) you want to play as. Rather than being assigned a main character in Watch Dogs: Legion, you play as whoever you would like to recruit. At the outset, players are tasked to “unfuck” the city of London as DedSec, though Watch Dogs: Legion takes a different approach than the first two games. The narrative itself is interesting, touching on some issues that hit very close to home, but some of it is also a bit predictable. Protests, crimes, abuses of power, and more take place on nearly every street corner. After early in-game events which send members of London’s DedSec cell into hiding, state surveillance, private military, and organized crime have all strengthened their grasps on the city. Watch Dogs: Legion takes place in the near future, set in London in a time where technological advances have put millions out of employment. The games have an overarching theme in that technology is increasingly integrated into society, threatening data, privacy, and security by those who control it. While both games have their own stories to tell, the games feature a constant struggle between hacking group DedSec and their enemies, including Blume. Eventually, CTOS 2.0 is rolled out into other cities, including San Francisco where you play as Marcus Holloway in Watch Dogs 2.
To quickly summarize Watch Dogs and Watch Dogs 2 to understand where Watch Dogs: Legion picks up, Watch Dogs puts you in the role of Aiden Pierce in Chicago, a city that utilized Blume Corporation’s CTOS (Central Operating System). Watch Dogs 2 showed a marked improvement in gameplay and atmosphere, and I expected Watch Dogs: Legion to achieve a similar improvement.
#Is watch dogs legion good series#
Having completed both Watch Dogs and Watch Dogs 2, the third game in the series was quite anticipated by yours truly. After a delay that pushed the release from March of this year to October, Watch Dogs: Legion is finally releasing just weeks before the start of the next generation of gaming.