This faceless army sacrifices a very personal element of citizens struggling against evil overlords.
You’re assembling the titular legion by yourself, recruiting them through simple fetch missions before adding them as your very own operative. Watch Dogs: Legion teaches you that the population around you are your tools, and you can recruit anyone you see on the cold streets of London, with a randomized set of skills, weapons, and abilities. Simply scan someone with your phone, and in this near-future version of London, you’ll be presented with their personal information, job, weapons, and skills. Basic human interaction is non-existent in your legionĪssembling your militia is a lot simpler than it sounds.There’s minimal personality among your army.Recruiting your hand-picked legion is entertaining.There’s plenty of options at your disposal here, all of which purposefully give you alternate routes to running in, guns blazing. If you’re tasked with getting into a police station, you could go out and recruit a cop to join DedSec, which lets you stroll into the police station since you’re one of their own.
Legion backs away from the latter option, presenting you with a variety of options for infiltration. In Watch Dogs 2, you’d typically have the option of springing technological traps on foes, or just gunning them down. Whether it’s a construction worker with a large construction drone, or a professional spy with a silenced pistol and a sleek spy car, you’ll need to use whichever characters you’ve recruited to your advantage.Īt its core, Watch Dogs: Legion is a stealth-action game. Instead, you’ll need to constantly zip between possessing the bodies of individual members of your insurgents, using whatever skills and weaponry they possess to accomplish the given task. There’s no one “player character” as such in Watch Dogs: Legion. Legion presents plenty of routes to overcoming a challenge, but it’s the people supplying you with these opportunities that ultimately come second to the useful tools they can supply you with.
Each character has their own uses, but Legion instructs you to use them more as tools to overcome problems, and less actual people whose plight you can empathize with. What Legion doesn’t do so well is provide depth to the citizens making up the faceless army. Watch Dogs has always been a series about fighting back against those who would wield technology against the general public, but Legion groups that general public into a force that can capably fight back, making everyday, background characters into meaningful allies. The near-future London depicted in Legion has been weaponized against its very citizens by the corporate elite, who use drones, militias, and private information against those inhabiting London. Watch Dogs: Legion is a game about uniting citizens under the common goal of fighting back against society.
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