More of my favorite racing game ever made sure as shit ain't a bad thing - even with some repetition issues and a bit of devious rubber-banding from time to time. Going into this I was mostly in the dark about Senna and his career - so not only did I find this to be interesting and informative, but the love these developers (and, by extension, their country) have for this man is just radiating off the screen here. What a palpably fond tribute to an icon - fits like a glove that such a skilled technician gets his own place in a game that already rewards pinpoint, breakneck precision and high risk/reward systems. And of course Leitch's music still slaps the fuck OUT 👌🤌 Could stand to have 100 more of these DLCs. I want to live in these backgrounds.

"You ever wish you'd 'committed' to being that other guy?"
"All the time."

"There is no scheme. No old enemy out for revenge. Just fucked up people doing fucked up shit to each other."

"🎶 And you won't have to quit doing fucked up shit, for anyone buut meee! 🎶" - Alkaline Trio, "Private Eye" (2001).

Blood-spattered, cybernetic fan service fetish histrionics - far and away the finest product out of this IP since the first Watch Dogs. A love letter to the series. Felt just like old times capping skulls with Aiden, but moreover (outside of its no-no ending) this is a perfect encapsulation of what this series should always have been about: deeply traumatized, mentally disfigured, unkillable people given access to world-changing tech to just totally lay waste towards everything in their orbit - enabling one another because they secretly think the other is a super awesome badass. Gives off the same aura as a dismembered foot in plastic wrap with a colorful gift bow on top. Successfully lends pathos to characters who seriously needed a rewrite in their original games - here snapping together perfectly like LEGO bricks in a surprisingly tragic diagnosis of modern corporate platitudes and impotent nepo baby cryptobros. Also did you see that fuckin' sweet huge drone that shoots shock grenades and those robots with the golden assault rifles?? Adding nothing new to the pot by saying Ubisoft should have ditched the airless "recruitment" feature to double down and made this Legion's main campaign.

Inexcusably stripped-back from not only what it originally promised, but from the first game in general (2016 btw) - though even if you're willing to ignore that in addition to Blizzard's performative woke-isms whenever they get caught doing something shitty, and one of the single most predatory + ludicrously overpriced video game stores you'll ever see - it's still only fun for like 15 seconds before it gets spoiled by the sweatiest, most gelatinous, downright intolerable players imaginable. So unwelcoming for new arrivals, at least in those old CoD lobbies it seemed like everyone got a piece of the toxic pie mostly in jest, so a lot of us took that in stride as part of the core experience. But these people seem to deliberately want to make the game as un-fun as possible. Also serious balance issues still persist in lieu of all Blizzard's supposed "QoL improvements".