![]() ![]() One building I managed to use the quick scan, batman-like detective vision ping to identify security cameras easily. Using a Spider bot to infiltrate a building is great, too, scuttling around the vents and ramming your, what I can only presume to be, spider-penis into the electronics to shut down security systems is a lark. Quickly hacking drones or people’s phones and watching the chaos that ensues is tremendously satisfying, and it all works as well as it did before, and is no less fun in Legion. Perhaps that stuff is later on in the story, because I didn’t find photographing the faces of corpses particularly hilarious, and I didn’t find a sweary granny to recruit to my gang.īut goodness, randomly making cars in traffic swerve into one another or off the road at the touch of a button is still remarkably fun. ![]() It’s the gameplay of the phenomenal Watch Dogs 2, iterated upon, but the tone is nearer that of the first Watch Dogs, which will please some, and annoy others, especially given the marketing which suggests a far more jolly game than I played. There are checkpoints set up on the roads that scan cars, there are plots involving injected substances that can be used to control people, it’s dystopian in a way that’s bordering on uncomfortable, though it is nice to see London bustling with life again, albeit a London where everyone seems to swear non-stop at anyone and everyone who passes one another.Īnd I’m aware that I sound down on this game, don’t I? And I don’t mean to because I absolutely loved what I played of it. It’s set in the near future where technology has rapidly accelerated, and after a tragic set of events, London is under rule of multiple gangs that use drones and other tech to keep the population subdued. Setting the scene, it’s clear that this is not London as we know it. ![]() There’s some incredibly inventive swearing, I won’t deny that, but even the commentator for the online stream of the fights is giving it leather, all the while I was being tag-teamed by the champions, battering me to a bloody pulp. There’s a side quest here involving bare-knuckle boxing where the crowd is almost exclusively shouting “fucking hell” or “fuck off” or some randomly cobbled together phrases that should be funny, but again, are a bit try hard. I’ve not played many games with as much swearing in as Watch Dogs Legion, almost to the point of parody. There are characters that quip, though it’s mostly an Avengers-like Jarvis-style AI that does the quipping, but Legion is a dark game so far, which is really not what I was expecting. But I’d rather get the elephant in the room discussed sooner rather than later, so here it is: Watch Dogs Legion doesn’t seem like a funny game. Watch Dogs Legion is not the game you think it is, but based on my four hours with the game so far it definitely is a very good game. ![]()
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