WATCH DOGS LEGION

City of the DedSec

- Oscar Taylor-Kent

INFO

FORMAT PS4 (REVIEWED), PS5

ETA OUT NOW

PUB UBISOFT

DEV UBISOFT

The premise of Watch Dogs Legion is simple: London is in the grip of tyrannical private security firm Albion, and anyone in its open world is a potential playable character who can join your hacker group to take back control. While Legion makes this work technically, it’s very surfacelevel, resulting in a lifeless entry in the series.

After the brief tutorial, everyone you play is essentially a random person you’ve recruited, starting with one and increasing in number as you profile individuals with your phone, then complete cookie-cutter missions to win them over. Occasionally this works, but more often than not it leads to canned lines – characters repeating the same things, and even different people having the same dialogue and intonations.

PEOPLE PERSON

Despite ostensibly being about rebuilding a resistance movement, half the time I’m playing, I struggle to remember my characters’ names, let alone worry about each as a person. Distinctions all boil down to what unique skills they have. It always feels like ‘what can you do for me?’