LONDON BRAWLING

Liberate the city with buskers and beekeepers in WATCH DOGS LEGION.

- Chris Livingston

A couple of hours into Watch Dogs Legion I look at my small team of DedSec agents and think to myself: these people actually suck. The concept seems sound – rather than playing a traditional protagonist, you recruit a team of heroes from randomly generated, ordinary citizens of London. The problem with ordinary people, though, is that they’re ordinary. I have a filmmaker on my team. An ambulance driver. A legal assistant. A lady whose only skill is that she owns a car.

It’s not exactly a dream team, and initially I’m so uninterested in my collection of ‘heroes’ that when one of them (the car-owning lady) is kidnapped by an enemy I don’t even bother rescuing her. Go ahead and keep her, I shrug. I can steal a car if I need one.