Gamers everywhere are preparing their wallets as the onslaught of video game releases begins and Watch Dogs: Legion kicks it all off with a sizable bang. Legion comes with loads of great ideas that are incredibly refreshing, not only to the Watch Dogs series but to open-world AAA games as well.
Legion is loads of fun to play around in with tons of stuff to do, but of course, not everything is a welcome sight in this third iteration. Here are some things that really worked in Watch Dogs: Legion, along with some other things that did not quite click.
10 Love: Lots Of Cool Recruits
Legion boasts the ability to recruit and play as any NPC in this not-so-distant version of London. Gamers can play as construction workers, Albion bad guys, spies, and plenty more.
Varieties in character background create actual gameplay changes in each character, like spies having a cloak-able car or construction workers having the very useful cargo drones at their command. This opens up so many gameplay possibilities and makes every character feel truly unique.
9 Dislike: Legality System Is Unclear
It’s always seemingly unclear as to what will put the player in disfavor with the Watch Dogs: Legion‘s security force known as Albion. Players can nab cars right in front of armed guards and get off scot-free, but bumping into a guard while they are arresting someone can turn into a city-wide manhunt.
These inconsistencies can really be a thorn in the side for players perhaps not wanting to cause any havoc at the current moment.
8 Love: Versatile Missions
The missions in Legion offers a wide range of possibilities in how the player gets the job done. If players would rather be stealthy and move through the world literally invisible, go guns blazing and shoot everyone in their path, or just fly around the locked doors on a magic carpet ride, otherwise known as cargo drones, they can.
Watch Dogs: Legion can mold itself to the player’s choices without even trying thanks to the completely openly designed missions.
7 Dislike: Lethal VS Non-lethal
Players are given choices on how they wish to take on any interaction, but some of those options don’t seem to matter. When looking at guns and weapons, the gamer can opt for lethal or non-lethal. The problem is that killing someone with a pistol leaves no more of an impact than shooting someone with a taser.
Regardless of the take-down, players will still have a body laying on the ground that they must conceal or risk alerting other guards. As far as the average gamer can concern, there really isn’t an advantage one way or the other.
6 Love: Very Open Open-World
Most games that tout a wide open-world usually fail in the aspect of how quickly players can go experience that world. Developers typically gate off content to keep gamers progressing at the intended speeds.
Recently games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild have done away with this technique in favor of a truly open and free world. Legion has followed in these footsteps, allowing players to get in the game and start recruiting after just a mission or so.
5 Dislike: Mission Variety Is Lacking
Despite having a huge open world, that is quite fun, and a huge endless pool of characters to play as, the Legion still feels repetitive. Almost every mission requires the player to get into a restricted area to retrieve something and then escape however possible.
As the characters that gamers control provide the only real diversity in each mission, Legion can get a bit stale when doing its main quests.
4 Love: Lots of Stuff To Do
Even though the missions may get stale, there is still plenty to do in Legion‘s London. Opening the map will show an abundance of opportunities for the player to partake in. There is the delivery service known as Parcel Fox that dishes out some in-game currency for delivering packages that have different modifiers, which could be an instant police chase or a race to deliver the goods without braking.
Persons of interest will randomly pop up on the map, presenting players with opportunities to acquire rare recruits as rewards for completing their accompanying missions.
3 Dislike: Currently No Multiplayer
When Legion launched on October 28th, it did so without an online multiplayer. Ubisoft has this stated in the main menu along with a note saying “Launching in December 2020.”
According to Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs: Legion page on Ubisoft’s site, when the online function is added it will include co-op up to four players, PVP battles including the classic Invasion mode and the new Spider-bot Arena, cooperative tactical missions, and promises free events for at least the first year.
2 Love: Deep Story
Unlike the previous games’ upbeat and fun nature, things are a little bit more serious this time around, even with a snarky British A.I. that’s always in the player’s ear. The story transitions from low-stakes James Bond-style missions to something quite a bit darker.
As the player discovers London’s secrets and unravels the Albion mystery, things quickly become less about having fun and more about saving the world.
1 Dislike: Not Much To Do With Eto
As players complete missions, side quests, or deliveries, they earn Eto, the new digital currency of the future. Although more Eto from gigs would be nice, currently there’s not much to spend it on. Despite being able to customize quite a bit with each character’s clothing, Eto can only be spent on cosmetics.
There are tech points that can be found and used to upgrade gadgets and abilities, but being able to spend Eto on something other than clothing would be nice.
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