The first Watch Dogs was dull and suffered the consequences of going back on its promises. The second Watch Dogs was a lot more fun and one of the underrated greats of this generation. There were a lot of rumours around the third title – a London setting, multiple player characters – but what would Ubisoft actually deliver?
E3 2019 gave us the answers, and while it would be easy to focus on the bad (the dodgy English accents, the abundance of gunplay in a game about hacking, the non-existent Trafalgar Square Tube station), the demo gameplay gripped me as much as a technology enthusiast as it did as a gamer. Some of the systems at play were simply spectacular.
Watch Dogs: Legion, as it turned out to be called, has no main character. Your DedSec squad can be assembled from any of the inhabitants of near-future, cyberpunk London, all of whom have their own lives, their own opinions on the hacking group, and go about their day-to-day business in the city. If what was said is accurate, it’s a huge acievement.
The mind boggles when you think of all of the character generation systems, writing, voice acting, cut scene development, and background processes that went into this. And by coupling such an exciting feature with an neon-augmented open-world London, Ubisoft have guaranteed that they will have my attention until the game’s release next March.
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