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Game Title: Watch Dogs: Legion

Platforms:

  • PlayStation 4 (Oct 29, 2020)
  • Xbox One (Oct 29, 2020)
  • PC (Oct 29, 2020)
  • Google Stadia (Oct 29, 2020)


Publisher: Ubisoft
    

Review Aggregator

 

OpenCritic - 75 average - 64% recommended

Critic Reviews


Cheat Code Central - 5 / 5

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Even though Watch Dogs Legion already gives you an impressive amount to do as well as a lot of options on how to do it, it’s still going to be growing. I can’t wait to see what’s coming next and how It is going to affect what’s already in place. I’m also looking forward to the multiplayer component, which I’m more than willing to write about when it comes out. So, come on. Join the resistance.


Impulsegamer - 4.8 / 5

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Without a doubt, “Watch Dogs: Legion” ticks all the boxes required to be a true Watch Dogs game, embracing elements from both previous games while brining its own flavour to the table.


3DNews - Russian - 9 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion doesn't have the main protagonist, instead we have a city full of oppressed and tired people with their own stories. Other than that this is the usual Watch Dogs game and fans of the first two should be pleased with what it can offer.


8Bit/Digi - 9 / 10

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Watch Dogs Legion is an overhaul of the series that allows players to wage a guerrilla war in a cyberpunk setting. The concept was ambitious but it paid off with an unforgettable experience that is now the crowning achievement of the series.


Game Informer - 9 / 10

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Legion offers a refreshing and fun change-up to the Watch Dogs formula that succeeds in letting players forge their own path like never before


GameSpew - 9 / 10

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I’ve loved all three Watch Dogs games, but Watch Dogs Legion may be my favourite. Perhaps it’s the familiarity of London, or perhaps it’s the unique joy of being able to take control of pretty much any character you want. There’s so much to see and do; the amount of character and life breathed into the city is unrivalled by pretty much any other open world game.


Gaming Nexus - 9 / 10

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Much of Watch Dogs: Legion feels revolutionary, from its "play as anyone" hook to its Black Mirror-esque science fiction setting. While the gameplay only iterates slightly on previous games, new wrinkles provided by character traits keep things fresh. Watch Dogs: Legion delivers a stark warning about what our future may hold, but maintains its entertainment level throughout. Legion is a witty, bracing wake-up call.


Gaming on PC - 9 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion is the rare big budget AAA sequel that dares to take chances with cool new ideas instead of remixing the same old tunes with better graphics or a bigger map.


GamingBolt - 9 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion is definitely the best game in the series so far- and dare I say, one of the most engaging and inventive open world games I have played in years.


Rapid Reviews UK - 4.5 / 5 stars

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It would be fair to say that the Watch Dogs series of games has had its share of ups and downs, from unfulfilled promises to trailers that weren’t representative of the final product. All of this had an impact on the trust of the gaming community and the series fan base. When Ubisoft first revealed Watch Dogs: Legion back at E3 2019, the stakes were high. They promised an expansive open world where any NPC (non-player character) could be recruited into your team and they would have unique missions, skills and personality. This went beyond anything that a game had promised before, but did Ubisoft pull it off? We’re pleased to say that they most certainly did and have made Watch Dogs: Legion a must-buy for any action-adventure loving gamer.


Seasoned Gaming - 9 / 10

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While Watch Dogs 1 and 2 were very good games, they felt like a collection of good ideas that never fully melded. With Legion, it feels as though the third time was the charm.


ThisGenGaming - 90 / 100

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Watch Dogs: Legion is a massive game with perhaps the biggest recruitable main cast of characters we’ve ever seen. With its varied gameplay and its tried-and-true Ubisoft open-world experience, it offers dozens of hours of entertainment and isn’t to be missed.


Windows Central - 4.5 / 5 stars

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Watch Dogs: Legion is a departure from the typical Ubisoft brand, and it's better for it. The play as anybody system just works, there's a lot to do, and it's unabashedly political in a way that feels important in 2020.


GAMES.CH - German - 89 / 100

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Watch Dogs Legion mostly benefits from its rich game world in futuristic London. It's also fun to build a whole army of DedSec agents, using their special abilities within fight and stealth sequences or utilizing them on solving puzzles. It's not all roses concerning story or performance on current-gen consoles. Nonetheless it's the best part of Ubisoft's open-world hacker series so far.


Just Push Start - 4.45 / 5

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In a lot of ways, Watch Dogs: Legion gets the open-world game just right. There are seemingly endless things to do, outfits to try on and people to help. Some modern features give players the opportunity to remove annoying aspects like driving, making it a bit more accessible. Toss in a wide variety of tactics and there is something for everyone. Outside of some cumbersome mechanics, confusing prompts, and needless options, there is little to dislike here. So, if you want an open-world game to hold you over until the next major release, I strongly suggest looking into Watch Dogs: Legion.


Life is Xbox - 89 / 100

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Watch Dogs Legion ‘play as everyone’ mechanic works brilliantly, this is a genre-defying feature and something that sets the game apart from its competition.


Cram-Gaming - 8.5 / 10

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Watch Dogs Legion then is a fun game and one that should keep you hooked for many hours. That's despite a lack of true inventiveness with its unique recruitment system.


GameCrate - 8.5 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion is an interesting game with an innovative system and a compelling story. It's not a blockbuster hit and it probably won't make the running for GOTY this year, but its experimental systems and socially resonant plot make it worth checking out.


Gamersky - Chinese - 8.5 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion is the most ambitious and innovative one in the franchise. You can play as anyone and finish your job in any way. The open-world of future London is so beautiful and so well-crafted that I always can find something interesting to do.


God is a Geek - 8.5 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion suffers from a little jank in the tank, but the recruitment system is fantastic and there's just so much to see and do. The open world is full of detail, and the whole experience is full of heart.


Movies Games and Tech - 8.5 / 10

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Watch Dogs Legion is worth your attention if you are a fan of the series and will other enough gameplay to make it fun to have and not a bad way to try out your shiny new next gen console should you get one or find one under your Christmas tree this year. It will be interesting to see what DLC will bring to it with the Season Pass but for now, there is enough here to keep you going and it will never not be fun to recruit a team of OAPs and have them take down an entire enemy base!


Softpedia - 8.5 / 10

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Anyone who liked any of the previous games will absolutely love Watch Dogs Legion. It offers a lot of content that you can go through with a customized team of hackers, so no playthrough should be the same.


The Game Fanatics - 8.5 / 10

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Overall, Watch Dogs Legion is a ton of fun. There is so much to do and experience in this game and so many different ways to do it. The hacking puzzles are familiar but still fun and sometimes challenging. The real star of this game is the variety of characters you can recruit and the backstories that come with them.


TrueGaming - Arabic - 8.5 / 10

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Watch dogs legion gives you freedom and it's accentuated in the new recruiting system which makes this title worth playing even before the release of next gen version.


Vamers - 85 / 100

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Watch Dogs: Legion is proof of just how invested Ubisoft is in this incredibly interesting and evolving franchise. The title is ultimately incredibly unique and not overly complicated. It does not take itself too seriously, and allows for gamers to both enjoy and become engrossed in the world it builds. Although some weird issues do detract from the overall experience, such as the weird masks and unnecessary memes, these are all an integral part of the premise. So much so, that the game would feel empty and void without them and, weirdly, when thrown into the mix pot that is Watch Dogs: Legion, everything works together beautifully. Although the game may not be the sequel fans of Watch Dogs 2 have asked for, it certainly showcases what Ubisoft is capable of when allowed to have a bit of creative fun with an established franchise.


WayTooManyGames - 8.5 / 10

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I knew Watch Dogs: Legion was going to be interesting and entertaining, but even though I already had really high expectations, Ubisoft still managed to surpass them. It’s one of their few sandbox games in which fooling around is a legit fun activity. It’s a game with a bold premise that actually delivers.


Zoomg - Persian - 8.5 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion is not only a great sequel for Watch Dogs series but also a great open-world game. Legion blends amazing story with well built game play mechanics. even tough Legion suffers from technical problems and bugs, but other elements are so good that even these can't ruin the experiences. with Watch Dogs: Legion, Ubisoft has found that successful open-world formula again and the game is well worth the time and money you pay for.


Marooners' Rock - 8.4 / 10

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Overall, I feel as if Ubisoft has dug back into what made Watch Dogs enjoyable to play. With some improvements to the overall gameplay and tweaks as time goes by, I can see others enjoying the game.


Generación Xbox - Spanish - 8.2 / 10

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Watch Dogs Legion is the new and ambitious release of the Ubisoft saga, a title that manages to catch you from the first moment and that fulfills its promise to perfection: to play with any NPC.


Atomix - Spanish - 80 / 100

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Watch Dogs: Legion feels like a huge step forward for the franchise, but the ridiculous amount of bugs and glitches make playing through the experiencia a real headache.


Cerealkillerz - German - 8 / 10

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Until now the story of Watch Dogs was an up and down, which doesn't change that much in Watch Dogs: Legion. The energy that went into the unique recruiting mechanic leaves a lot missing in the actual game world and the story, which makes the trip to london a bit cloudy, classic british.


DASHGAMER.com - 8 / 10

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The free range flow of this foray into the world of London, the power you have to control every piece of tech, the hilarity of controlling a Police car at your fingertips, and the engaging scenarios that elevate the tension given in its campaign all deliver one of the best title’s of 2020, and a fantastic way to end out our current generation.


Daily Star - 4 / 5 stars

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One that is very English, packed full of wild and interesting characters, each with their own story to tell.

 


It’s a huge step forward in that regard and one that should be celebrated as it shows a way forward for video game development.

 


Digitally Downloaded - 4 / 5 stars

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What players will find when picking up Watch Dogs: Legion is a game that is prepared for a long post-launch game-as-a-service experience. The additional DLC announced so far leans into the strengths of the game and established ideas that the series does well. The beekeepers, paintball guns and magician tricks all bring a sense of playful humour to the series, but it is worth noting that anyone who is (rightfully) tired of Ubisoft's content approach to games is going to find this one a very content-driven game.


EGM - 8 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion pushes through Ubisoft's generally noncommittal attitude towards storytelling and exploiting current events to create something that feels like a genuine shift, or at least the prototype of that shift. It might be a sloppy game in many regards, but Legion offers a novel way to experience an open world, with its interconnected NPCs and the introduction of permadeath to the genre.


Easy Allies - 8 / 10

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Dedsec is now openly recruiting for its troubled London branch, giving you a few dozen personalities to manage as you cause chaos and uncover the city's biggest secrets. Does the overall story in Legion suffer by not having a central protagonist? Or has Watch Dogs discovered the future of the franchise?


Enternity.gr - Greek - 8 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion is much better in terms of depth and hacking and also comes with a huge living world. It's by far the best game of the series.


Gadgets 360 - 8 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion lacks a soul. It's also a passive game, since there's no active push-and-pull. Albion took over London, and now you push them out one borough at a time.


Game Freaks 365 - 4 / 5 stars

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Watch Dogs: Legion isn’t a bad game; it’s just not a great one either. I’m still intending to go back through and finish sweeping up the tech points that I’ve missed so far and recruiting the most random NPCs I can find, but it definitely feels like a step backward from Watch Dogs 2.


Game Revolution - 4 / 5 stars

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Watch Dogs: Legion‘s beautiful London and its array of recruitable denizens make it one of the most enjoyable games of the year.


Game Volt - Arabic - 8 / 10

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Watch Dogs Legion introduced the best instalment of the series in terms of storytelling and Level Design in addition to the graphic leap, a game that was very happy to experience it and lived within it without any boredom, it's a new start for the series classified as a very strong series in the future for the company and with the company's attention to this series and the continuation of this level in the upcoming releases will be one of the franchise sees itself as one of the main franchises of the company, just kept this level and added to it and continued to explore new places outside America as happened in this part.


GameSkinny - 8 / 10 stars

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Watch Dogs: Legion throws out a decade of Ubisoft's cluttered-map open worlds in favor of exciting systems that deliver unique emergent moments consistently.


GameSpot - 8 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion struggles with tone at times, but its empowering message about unity and justice still shines in a game that is as absurd as it is impactful.


GideonsGaming - 8 / 10

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Watch Dogs Legion is a solid if familiar title. However, the innovative recruitment system and neat simulation elevate the experience into something novel and worth experiencing, even if the game doesn’t always commit to its design the way it expects players to.


GotGame - 8 / 10

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The post-Brexit dystopian London is exactly the right amount of craziness and fun I was expecting from a Watch Dogs game. Even though the original recipe hasn't changed a lot in the past few years, you can see the progress they made with Watch Dogs: Legion, polishing the game with every iteration.


Guardian - 4 / 5 stars

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I haven’t played a game as odd as Legion in a very long time. Unlike the glossy, beautiful, but samey open-worlds that have dominated the genre in the past few years, it is ambitious, imperfect and unashamedly weird. To me it’s a fascinating, flawed, well-intentioned experiment in what a game can have to say, and how it can say it, while still conforming to the established fun-first template of an open-world action game. London’s landmarks are all here, from the Tower to the Eye, but rather than reducing the city to a pretty backdrop for generic madcap violence, it lets you find your own fun – or even your own meaning – in what you do there.


Hobby Consolas - Spanish - 80 / 100

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Watch Dogs: Legion elevates the formula allowing to control every character in the game, a unique and complex game mechanic with many possibilities... That doesn't go well with the narrative. But still, it's a fantastic action, stealth and hacking open world game.


IGN - 8 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion's bold use of roguelike mechanics in an open-world action game pay off in interesting ways, making this visit to near-future London feel more varied than the previous two games.


IGN Spain - Spanish - 8 / 10

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Watch Dogs Legion is a very traditional open world that relies on its new recruiting system, with almost limitless possibilities. The figure of a protagonist and a little more evolution is missed, but getting lost in London is always fun.


INDIANTVCZ - Czech - 8 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion is for the most part similar experience to Watch Dogs 2, just refreshed with some new mechanics. The main novelty - building your team, is two-sided. It bringis new mechanics and challenges, but the story loses pull of a strong protagonist(s). What the title does extremely well is the setting. A living and breathing city with a strong atmosphere keeping true to its real life counterpart.


MondoXbox - Italian - 8 / 10

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Watch Dogs Legion keeps the series' base mechanics while enhancing the whole formula thanks to the higher gameplay and tactical variety provided by the huge choice of agents available. This has the downside of making every character pretty forgettable though, keeping us from establishing an emotional bond with any of them.


Nexus Hub - 8 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion is more of the same Watch Dogs formula fans of the franchise have come to expect. There are additional gimmicks and features that round off the product and it’s a great game to spend time in. The mystery plot and the intrigue around finding out just who exactly Zero Day is and putting a stop to him is great and will easily keep you entertained for 50 hours or more as you explore London.


Noisy Pixel - 8 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion is an interesting game in that it doesn’t feature a real main protagonist outside of the comical AI, Bagley. You may not care about each individual character, but their collective goal makes the narrative worth seeing through. The way you can take on missions any way you wish rings truest in this title, and what better set piece to do it all in than a fully realized London. Looking past some of the open-world janks may be required, but Watch Dogs: Legion is a hacking great time.


PC Gamer - 80 / 100

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Playing as anyone works great in Legion—once you've finally found the right group of anyones.


Press Start - 8 / 10

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Watch Dogs Legion builds upon the solid foundation established by Watch Dogs 2 while adding its own ambitious twist with mixed results. Having literally every character playable is a gargantuan task, and from a gameplay perspective it works to cement Legion as the best Watch Dogs game thus far. Narratively speaking, however, it collapses under its own aspiration to offer an intriguing concept with spotty execution. Regardless, Legion is a triumph for making good on most of its lofty promise and a triumph for the series.


Pure Playstation - 8 / 10

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Watch Dogs Legion is a fantastic continuation of the franchise. It doesn’t reinvent the wheel with its gameplay, even if it does flip tradition by ditching a main character to follow. The new systems in place work really well and hacking around London is as good as it ever was in previous games. Where next?


Rocket Chainsaw - 4 / 5 stars

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Watch Dogs: Legion brings new ideas to the franchise while keeping within the world of Blume Corp’s ctOS.


Shacknews - 8 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion is a hacking good time and a great addition to Ubisoft’s technology-based saga.


Star News - 4 / 5 stars

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Watch Dogs: Legion sticks you in the shoes of characters you’d never have chosen otherwise, and it works more often than it doesn’t.


The Digital Fix - 8 / 10

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The best Watch Dogs game yet. While it's dragged down by long load times and some repetition, Legion is a hugely enjoyable game that offers players a level of freedom that is rarely seen in this genre.


The Games Machine - Italian - 8 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion starts with some really intriguing background ideas, ideas that try to dig deep and to leave us with many more questions about the near future. The overwhelming control of a state willing to know everything about its citizens, however, does not prevent a few uncertainties about the gameplay, a sore note that prevents the game from shining as hoped. However, it remains an enjoyable offer, ready to satisfy the taste of lovers of the genre.


The Outerhaven Productions - 4 / 5 stars

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While Watch Dogs: Legion lacks a main protagonist and has some performance issues, it is a solid entry in the Watch Dogs series.


TheSixthAxis - 8 / 10

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Watch Dogs Legion is a different type of sequel to Watch Dogs 2, contrasting in its approach to creating a hackable open world playground, but with no less impressive results. Playing as any citizen in London leads to some less-than-engaging story moments, but the web of relationships and activities that crop up as a result of the systemic design is mind-blowing. I rarely did the same thing twice in Watch Dogs Legion, and if I did, I wasn't doing it the same way twice. Watch Dogs Legion truly feels like a living, breathing world, and it's a world that I plan to revisit often, even though I've seen the credits on the main story roll.


WellPlayed - 8 / 10

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With a surprisingly good narrative that excels thanks to the unique ability to turn anyone into a DedSec hacker, Watch Dogs: Legion is a damn good time


Worth Playing - 8 / 10

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While it may not win any awards for the story, Watch Dogs: Legion is an enjoyable sandbox that gives you plenty of room to play around and experiment with objectives. If stealth gameplay is your thing, put this one on your pickup list.


XboxEra - 8 / 10

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Excellent gameplay is dragged down a bit by an ok story and voice acting but the sandbox presented is one of the best in the genre.


GamePro - German - 79 / 100

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Watch Dogs: Legion relies on a unique concept that offers many possibilities, but for which many compromises are also made.


Wccftech - 7.9 / 10

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Watch Dogs Legion is a great step forward for the series, with enough experimental new gameplay features to complement the familiar mechanics. London is incredible, and exploring it is an almost visceral experience. It's just a shame that the story doesn't hold the same familiarity that the map does.


Gamefa - Persian - 7.8 / 10

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Watch Dogs Legion is another amusing installment from these beloved series. The gameplay is fun, character variety is really impressive and London is gorgeous and alive. Still, the game suffers from issues like technical problems, lack of variety in missions and predictable story. Nevertheless, Watch Dogs Legion is a super entertaining game that can keep you busy for hours in London and it is worth your time.


Gamerheadquarters - 7.8 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion is great, it features an intricately detailed open world London to explore where you can recruit basically anyone though the story could have been more intriguing and the performance while driving could have been better.


Everyeye.it - Italian - 7.6 / 10

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Ultimately, while perfectly able to offer players a good number of hours of fun, Watch Dogs Legion fails to fully realize the potential of its basic concept, yielding to the flattery of an open world model that, at the end of the console generation, loudly requires more innovation.


AusGamers - 7.5 / 10

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In the end, with more varied activities that went beyond the usual by-the-numbers story missions, say, a more emergent city full of events to match the unpredictability of who you control - then Watch Dogs: Legion could have been an experience on par with its impressive technology. As it stands it’s a fight and a cause worth joining, but like its cast your reasons might only extend to the escape from the monotony of a normal everyday existence.


COGconnected - 75 / 100

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Overall, Watch Dogs: Legion is a fun game with a nifty new mechanic that can be utilized in different ways in the future.


Critical Hit - 7.5 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion is a fascinating game, massively ambitious and crawling with technology that isn't just on the bleeding edge of what's possible, it's pure magic to see unfold. All of that may sound impressive but slick software and a bustling metropolis of people power can't hide the dull gameplay and shallow approach to the sandbox shenanigans of Watch Dogs: Legion. It's still a fascinating game to experience in short bursts, and it's going to be fascinating to see how Ubisoft evolves London to make it vox pop as a next-gen headliner.


DualShockers - 7.5 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion offers an incredibly vast recruitment system that wonderfully complements its hacking mechanics while boasting the darkest story in the series.


GRYOnline.pl - Polish - 7.5 / 10

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I had really low expectations and Watch Dogs: Legion turned out to be a pleasant surprise. It’s a decent action game with some cool ideas and mechanics that yield several dozens of hours of fun, prvided you like wandering around virtual cities doing the same thing over and over again.


Game Debate - 7.5 / 10

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Watch Dogs Legion is a fun and satisfying open world sandbox, with lots of tools for destruction and various strategies to go about completing your objective. It's great in short bursts, but rarely has you hooked on any one thing to keep you coming back.


Glitched Africa - 75 / 100

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Watch Dogs Legion is not a bad game I just believe it was too ambitious for its time. The recruiting system could have been something great but instead its shallow and delivered cliche characters with no real purpose. Unfortunately, this does not help the gameplay and story much. There’s a lot of fun to be had here but if you start expecting more from it, you are going to be let down.


Oyungezer Online - Turkish - 7.5 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion offers a Ubisoft-quality experience, but fails to deliver the innovative ideas it promises. It has all the potential to be an innovative game, but it chooses to become repetitive instead.


PC Invasion - 7.5 / 10

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The connected, living world here is a genuine revelation, and it's well worth exploring if you're willing to mess around and make your own fun. It's just a shame that some of the vibrancy and depth of Watch Dogs 2 has been lost in the process.


Pixel Arts - Persian - 7.5 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion is a game that has been able to maintain diversity and difference among thousands of playable characters. However, along with the dynamic and detailed world, the game suffers from weakness in the design of the stages and unfortunately becomes repetitive and boring over time.


SECTOR.sk - Slovak - 7.5 / 10

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Watch Dogs spreads with new members in your team and futuristic technologies. However AI, animations and gameplay should be more improved.


SomHráč.sk - Czech - 75 / 100

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Watch Dogs: Legion is the weakest title of the series and suffers a bit from the innovative concept of randomly generated player characters. Despite this and some technical issues, there is still some enjoyment to be had.


Demon Gaming - 7.2 / 10

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Once you take control of your first character, you are free to do what you want to do. You have the ability to scan and recruit literally anyone you see. I thought this was amazing at first, but after a while, I noticed the flaw in this idea. I got to the point where I simply did not care anymore.


Attack of the Fanboy - 3.5 / 5 stars

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Watch Dogs: Legion is incredibly ambitious, but the play as anyone system needs a little more work. The story suffers from the lack of a central protagonist, and it's hard to get attached to any of your characters when the character models and animations are stiff and robotic. Still, there's a lot of fun to be had in futuristic London.


Cubed3 - 7 / 10

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The latest Watch Dogs does seem ripe for criticism, but at its core is a solid, fun title that is yet to leave the disk tray. Cruising through the London suburbs is a thoroughly enjoyable experience with a lot of replay-ability, if only to use the games camera mode to snap a selfie with a landmark. Some of the missions are also creatively designed and structured in a way that will live long in the memory and be the talking points with any friends on the fence about purchasing. The biggest downfall of Watch Dogs: Legion is the promise of something more. With no real incentive for recruitment outside characters given in missions, it remains very much a title for the generation. With a little more thought put into the mechanics and gameplay, focusing on how they could really have been revolutionised, this could have been an experience as future-proof as the world portrayed within it.


Cultured Vultures - 7 / 10

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Despite a few issues throughout and bland playable characters, the recruitment system and campaign manage to offer just enough for Watch Dogs: Legion to be worth hacking into.


GameMAG - Russian - 7 / 10

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On the one hand Watch Dogs: Legion is a revolutionary game with ambitious open world and thousands upon thousands of characters, probably created by some kind of neural network. The gameplay is fine, and if you love original Watch Dogs, you will feel right at home with this new title. But on the other hand Legion clearly lacks a strong narrative lead.


Gameblog - French - 7 / 10

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Watch Dogs Legion is a fun title with interesting and clever gameplay.


GamesRadar+ - 3.5 / 5 stars

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Legion royally shakes up Watch Dogs' open-world template with a Play as Anyone mechanic that just about outweighs any headaches left by its rough edges.


Inverse - 7 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion pushes current-gen hardware to the limit, and suffers for it.


Merlin'in Kazanı - Turkish - 70 / 100

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If a little more attention was paid to the missions, character and vehicle handling mechanics, it could be one of the most sound games of this year


NoobFeed - 70 / 100

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Watch Dogs has had an interesting history. The first game was full of problematic stories involving a downgraded PC version and a game full of bland repetitive missions with poor rewards. The second game was a huge step forward in the right direction by offering a new diverse cast of characters, cleverly crafted missions, and a more engaging story as technology is used to control the populist in realistic ways such as tracking their health and daily lives. So where does that leave Watch Dogs Legion, right in the middle? Well, yea. The game's concept of recruiting London citizens off the street to fight against the tyrants who run the city sounds amazing until you get halfway and realize that the random collection of NPCs that make your team are just that, random NPCs. Instead, Watch Dogs Legion is more of what the first game should've been and a step back from Watch Dogs 2.


PCGamesN - 7 / 10

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Richly realised systems and empowering abilities create a tremendously fun sandbox to dig into, but another toothless story ensures these flashes of brilliance never cohere, leaving Legion feeling less than the sum of its parts.


Saudi Gamer - Arabic - 7 / 10

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'Play As Anyone' is insanity itself, and WDL's best trick, even if it could've been utilized even better, and with a world rich in content and fun activities, this passes as a fun open world romp, even if the story and events feel lacking.


Sirus Gaming - 7 / 10

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Watch Dogs Legion tries so hard to innovate the franchise, but in doing so, it feels like a product that was either rushed or there was no love for it. Ubisoft Toronto did their best to give us a whole new Watch Dogs experience, but when the second installment of the franchise is the benchmark, it’s hard for me not to nitpick on these issues I find in the game. I love the franchise, but this isn’t the kind of innovation I’ve expected Watch Dogs to have.


Spaziogames - Italian - 7 / 10

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Legion certainly gives the Watch Dogs franchise a future, obviously dystopian, to look forward to.


Spiel Times - 7 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion's carefully crafted simulation of London, along with the creative set of tools it provides the player to navigate that world, make this gloomy future worth visiting.


TechRaptor - 7 / 10

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I enjoyed my time with Watch Dogs: Legion but the whole time I played it, I was phishing for more.


Twinfinite - 3.5 / 5

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Ultimately, Watch Dogs: Legion’s main mechanic feels like an incredibly ambitious move that almost pays off for Ubisoft, but not quite. In favor of cramming as many playable NPCs into the game as possible, Legion ends up sacrificing story and character investment. Ubisoft’s vision of near-future London is a beautifully realized sandbox world that I loved spending time in, but it’s also forgettable and not one that I see myself returning to anytime soon.


USgamer - 3.5 / 5 stars

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The new "Play As Anyone" system is as impressive as it sounds on paper, creating a host of intriguing characters if you choose to dive into their backgrounds. Crafting your own version of DedSec is a ton of fun, especially early on. The problem is the gameplay of Watch Dogs Legion is mostly the same as its predecessors and the missions are quite repetitive overall. It's not a step back for the series, but the hacking and stealth core of the series does need an overhaul.


GAMEtainment - German - 6.6 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion offers many missions, activities, side jobs and customization options. Grinders will certainly get their money's worth, even if it is quite monotonous. But for a lot of gamers in front of their screens this might not be enough to justify the purchase at or near the release.

 


Watch Dogs could have been or rather should have been much better, especially since it will be released in a year or quarter when real hits like Cyberpunk 2077 and Assassin's Creed: Valhalla will be released.

Personally, I call myself a Ubisoft fanboy, because I play and enjoy almost all the big games of the publisher. Also Watch Dogs: Legion is one of them and is my current choice for a chilly evening or afternoon, even a longer session. I like to grind and drive and fly all tech points and other collectable items. But the concept does not work for the general public. For this reason, the game objectively scores relatively poor. There would have been much more in it.

 


BaziCenter - Persian - 6.5 / 10

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After so much anticipation, Watch Dogs: Legion is finally here, failing to impress. Almost every single problem that prevented the 2 previous version to reach their full potential is still there, and the ability to play as all NPCs added even more issues to the game. Yes, the world is beautiful and you have all the freedom that you want, but as a game, Watch Dogs Legion is shallow and suffers from poor level and character design. A strong contender for the most disappointing game of the year.


New Game Network - 65 / 100

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Being able to Play As Anyone in Watch Dogs: Legion is impressive at first, but it becomes a detriment to the core experience that's in need of revitalization. The hacking and stealth infiltrations haven't changed a bit, and with repetitive mission design and numerous technical issues, this latest chapter finds DedSec in an identity crisis.


TheReviewGeek - 6.5 / 10

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In a bid for Ubisoft to try and remain politically neutral, Watch Dogs: Legion loses any sharpness it could have had with a more urgent and focused message. Instead, what we get is a watered down open-world experience that feels like just another NPC in a sea of open-world players.


PowerUp! - 6.3 / 10

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And that’s the real issue here: the previous game was a story and a damned good one. Watch Dogs Legion is a playground and a damned good one. All it took was a shift in priorities to make the open-world feel less like a world, and more like… well, a game.


Destructoid - 6 / 10

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For all its themes of rule-breaking anarchy, Watch Dogs: Legion toes the line as a formulaic, though ambitious, open-world adventure. While it boasts one of the most visually exciting and stunningly authentic locales in the genre's history, Watch Dogs: Legion's gameplay is mechanical, over-familiar, and repetitive, struggling to capture the exciting promise of a fist-pumping, system-smashing revolution.


GameWatcher - 6 / 10

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A surprisingly inaccurate recreation of London ties into simplistic gameplay and terrible performance to create a deeply flawed and shallow game.


GameZone - 6 / 10

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While it has its moments, Watch Dogs Legion doesn't have enough to feel like a fun place to escape to. The gameplay is too repetitive and too restrictive to allow for anything tremendously exciting over a long period of time. It's a game that shows all of its tricks within the first few hours and leaves you with nothing but jank for the remainder of your playthrough.


GamesFinest - German - 6 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion offers a solid game principle that knows how to entertain - at least temporarily. A free narrative is deliberately created here, which could playfully offer undeniable new opportunities, but narrative balances on a fine line between emotion-free narrative structure and individualizable adventure. In this breakneck balancing act, Watch Dogs: Legion loses itself in a sober, generic narrative that, due to its pale character drawings and the playful omissions that accompany them, was never really allowed to keep up with its predecessors. Thanks to interchangeable characters, an unbalanced skill system and redundant game elements, Ubisoft is only marginally able to continuously exploit the potential behind the new unique selling point. Instead, the hacker IP gets lost in a jumble of well-intentioned but half-baked game approaches that ultimately fail to prove themselves on a motivational level. The manifold solution options as well as the tricky level structures should, however, at least provide for entertaining gaming fun. Despite the new approach, Ubisoft simply doesn't risk enough to really step out of the worn out, playful structures of its predecessors and burden the game principle with a little more relevance and "unconsumption". But as the saying goes: "He who does not dare does not win!


Hardcore Gamer - 3 / 5

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Watch Dogs: Legion aims to be a truly ambitious entry in the series with its Legion system, but to paraphrase Ian Malcolm, the developers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.


Jump Dash Roll - 6 / 10

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Watch Dogs: Legion has some good ideas, but its story is downright terrible and it suffers from so many technical problems that it's hard to recommend the game over a different, more refined, Ubisoft sandbox game.


Metro GameCentral - 6 / 10

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A disappointingly tame vision of a near future dystopia, that represents a perfectly competent use of the Ubisoft formula but falters in its attempts to add anything new to it.


PlayStation Universe - 6 / 10

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While Watch Dogs: Legion does the basics well and has a refreshing change of scenery, it moves backwards from Watch Dogs 2 in terms of characters and storytelling. It's still quite enjoyable to get up to tech-based naughtiness in London despite that, but the underlying open-world template Ubisoft keeps using ends up feeling overexposed here.


Screen Rant - 3 / 5 stars

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The takeaway is this: Watch Dogs: Legion is an ambitious simulation which reliably fails whenever players push against its boundaries. Like the cargo drones which grant them the ability to freely fly, it hits an invisible ceiling that prevents players from soaring above London’s skyscrapers.


Stevivor - 6 / 10

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There’s some fun to be had in Watch Dogs Legion, but it becomes so repetitive that by the end of the game everything feels like a chore — one I was desperately wanting to be over hours before its credits rolled.


TrueAchievements - 3 / 5 stars

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Ubisoft is known for making great open-world experiences and Watch Dogs: Legion is almost that. With a darker storyline and a wonderfully re-imagined London that is the star of the show, the third entry into the franchise feels as if it’s slightly matured from Watch Dogs 2. The new ‘play as anyone’ mechanic is innovative but sadly soon becomes redundant. Numerous bugs and glitches also mar the overall experience. Having the game crash several times and losing about 20 minutes worth of progress each time is not something that should be happening with a big-budget title such as Legion. Even after downloading the latest hotfix, crashing issues still persisted. This will likely be fixed with more patches later on down the line, but it will still be disappointing for those who purchase the game on day one. However, if you can keep a stiff upper lip about some of the bugs, you’ll have a lot of fun with Legion. Even if someone does end up calling you a twatwaffle.


VG247 - 3 / 5 stars

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Watch Dogs fans and more die-hard anarchists among you might enjoy it more, but between the short storylines, underwhelming tech and mission types and the general “everything is on fire” vibe, it just doesn’t rate highly for me.


Video Game Sophistry - 6 / 10

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The ‘Play as Anyone’ feature is the game's biggest fault.  There’s no way to really work as a team. Instead each individual is one part of a fully fleshed out protagonist that has now been cut into 20 different pieces and called upon to work without the other. A severed hand doesn’t make a hero.


We Got This Covered - 3 / 5 stars

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Although the recruitment system provides a few hours of entertainment, Watch Dogs: Legion feels like a series of systems masquerading as an open-world adventure game. Compared to the first two entries, Legion is a massive step backward, both in terms of story and execution. This is paint-by-numbers Ubisoft on autopilot.


Bazimag - Persian - 5.6 / 10

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Watch Dogs Legion is yet another open-world game like other Ubisoft's games, full of great ideas, but in action, they don't have enough depth and don't perform well in general. A soulless world with poor level designs and exhausting missions make a graveyard for the series's real potential.


Digital Trends - 2.5 / 5 stars

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While Ubisoft presents its best open world to date, the main gameplay hook falls flat.


Push Square - 5 / 10

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Considering the potential Watch Dogs Legion was packing prior to launch, the final release can only be chalked up as an anticlimax. Its "play as anyone" concept doesn't lend itself well to the sort of experience Ubisoft has crafted with seriously lacklustre character options and a narrative that went down the drain as a result. While longtime fans may find its recycled gameplay loop just enough of a reason to keep playing, those enamoured with the possibility of playing as anyone and everyone will wish they never bothered. Watch Dogs Legion is the dullest of the lot.


Slant Magazine - 2.5 / 5 stars

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It's difficult to escape a sense that the game's ambition far outstrips the number of unique people it can plausibly render.


VideoGamer - 5 / 10

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Where the action comes alive is in the leaving behind of bodies altogether. Most missions involve breaking and entering, and the thrill lies in the absence of any breaking.


ACG - Wait for Sale

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Ars Technica - Unscored

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In the end, the London of Watch Dogs: Legion feels a mile wide but only a few feet deep. What promises to be endless variety in character choice and hack-driven gameplay options quickly boils down to the repetition of the same old gameplay and plot tropes.


Console Creatures - Recommended

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Watch Dogs: Legion's Play as Anyone is an exciting mechanic and post-Brexit Britain is easily the best setting yet. However, Watch Dog: Legion's brilliance is hidden behind a fair amount of smog.


Entertainium - Unscored

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Watch Dogs: Legion is another competent Ubisoft open-world adventure with plenty to do, and while it manages to communicate its message better than anticipated, it can’t manage to fully commit to it.


Eurogamer - No Recommendation / Blank

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Legion's near-future London is almost too close for comfort, though the game it hosts is a characterless slog.


GameOnAUS - Recommended

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There are some fantastic ideas in the game which mostly work, but also require an element of metaphorically ignoring the stagehands and the suspension of disbelief may simply be too much for many players.


Games Xtreme - Recommended

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Watch_Dogs: Legion is big, it's ambitious, and it pulls off a lot of neat things with the city sandbox. The triumph is the play as anyone system, but also a weakness in that it can create a truly obnoxiously voiced character and personality. It encourages sandbox play and offers a lot to see, and to do. A strong post launch plan could see this really take off.


Player2.net.au - B+

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A great idea that never quite reaches its full promise, Watch Dogs: Legion is still a cracking bit of techno fun. Come for the hacking and stay for the engaging story and cockney accents.


Polygon - Unscored

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Watch Dogs: Legion’s cast of randos makes a surprisingly winning team


Rock, Paper, Shotgun - Unscored

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While I may not identify with any of my guerrillas and their grab-bag backstories, nor feel any sense of real investment in the fate of DedSec as a whole, I’m still attached to this strange band of possessed berserkers. We’ve had a good time together, in this nonsense dystopian playground.


Skill Up - Unscored

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Watch Dogs: Legion is an ambitious title. Perhaps a little too ambitious. As much as certain parts of the game shine, you can't help but feel that the game is too clever by half.

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  • Commissar SFLUFAN changed the title to Watch Dogs: Legion (29 October 2020) - Information Thread, update: reviews from OpenCritic posted

Really liking how absolutely every surface of the game is slathered in RTX reflections. I eat that shit up.

 

I spent a few minutes just running around this car as a spider bot, enjoying the reflections and how I could see everything behind me, and how it wasn't shitty SSR. It makes the city feel alive when the cars and all the windows properly reflect everything, gives an illusion of even more life since there's so much more on-screen moving at once, but rarely in a distracting way. I also really liked warped glass that gives warped reflections or the bumper of this car.

I especially like how HDR combines with the really nice lighting in the game to where you get a really atmospheric sky reflected in a puddle and it gets a certain quality to it that I'm sure I could describe if I knew anything about lighting or photography, but it's really nice looking when it happens. I should take a video next time I see it.

 

You can unlock the game early with a VPN, by the way. Has been available for hours.

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18 minutes ago, JPDunks4 said:

How are you liking the actual game itself?  

It seems fine so far. It's definitely an open world Ubisoft game. I'm still too early to really have a grasp on it, but I turned on permadeath/ironman to make sure it at least feels different from other open world games. Have been very careful not to get slaughtered. I don't think it's gonna blow anyone's socks off, but it's got a lot more life to it so far than Watch Dogs 1 did. Never played 2.

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Just now, Xbob42 said:

It seems fine so far. It's definitely an open world Ubisoft game. I'm still too early to really have a grasp on it, but I turned on permadeath/ironman to make sure it at least feels different from other open world games. Have been very careful not to get slaughtered. I don't think it's gonna blow anyone's socks off, but it's got a lot more life to it so far than Watch Dogs 1 did. Never played 2.

Two was MUCH better and livelier than the first game. I actually finally beat the second game about a year ago after owning it for years.

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11 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

Two was MUCH better and livelier than the first game. I actually finally beat the second game about a year ago after owning it for years.

One, for my money, was a half assed clone of GTA that wasn't all that fun, two had its own identity, had better characters, and its world was certainly more alive. 

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2 hours ago, Rev said:

Lowered DLSS to ultra performance (the lowest setting) and ray tracing to high and still getting just over 40 fps. I hope this is bad optimization and this isn't just how the 3080 is going to do in this generation. 

I think it's a little of both. At 4K I don't think you can expect > 60fps with RT on in a lot of titles.

 

Lower res with DLSS upscaling is the reason why nvidia will outclass the new AMD offereings. 

 

I still think 1440p will be the sweetspot for gaming for the foreseeable future. I think we'll see better performance than WDL though, I certainly wasn't expecting UBIsoft to push the envelope in terms of technical achievements. 

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3 hours ago, Rev said:

I can't get consistent 60 fps in this game in 1080p with no ray tracing.

Game just finished installing, and I ran the benchmark tool, I noticed similarly poor preformance to you. One thing to note: while running the benchmark my CPU load was reading about 75-90% while my gpu was basically idling at 10%

 

Will do more testing later but it seems to definitely be just a very poorly coded game at first glance, CPU should not be handling the bulk of the load while gpu idles.

 

 

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14 hours ago, Xbob42 said:

I especially like how HDR combines with the really nice lighting in the game to where you get a really atmospheric sky reflected in a puddle and it gets a certain quality to it that I'm sure I could describe if I knew anything about lighting or photography, but it's really nice looking when it happens. I should take a video next time I see it.


As shitty as Ubisoft games are coded, their one inarguable good quality is that they always have the best/highest quality HDR for PC Games. They run HDR independent of the Win10 display setting: I assume that’s why their HDR tends to look better than other HDR PC Games.

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15 minutes ago, Man of Culture said:

 

 

 

 

Walking/Running, Flying Drones or using a Spider Bot, I get a nice, consistent 55-60fps. As soon as I start driving a car, the game decides it wants to start tanking to 40fps. Gives me some real Saints Row 2 port hatchet job vibes.

What do you have raytracing at and at what resolution? 

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Just now, Man of Culture said:

 

1080p / Medium RTX (Lowest Setting) / DLSS on Quality (Got same perf as Balanced). All other settings are a mix of medium/high/very high/on. Nothing is disabled except recently vsync which smoothed things out a bit. Using October 10th drivers.

I think something is wrong with their implementation of DLSS, at least at 4K, aside from the usual UBI jank. 

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1 hour ago, Man of Culture said:

 

 

 

 

Walking/Running, Flying Drones or using a Spider Bot, I get a nice, consistent 55-60fps. As soon as I start driving a car, the game decides it wants to start tanking to 40fps. Gives me some real Saints Row 2 port hatchet job vibes.

 

What type of drive is the game installed to?

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4 minutes ago, Man of Culture said:

 

 

Everything. My HTPC, my Laptops my work computers. I use WD Black in my HTPC and Laptops, everything else is on Intel M.2 drives.

Very nice! I have 2 2.5 SSDs I holding out with now until I just to a mobo with PCIe 4.0, then I'll buy replacements of whatever is fastest at the time. 

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