Insufferably mediocre. Irritating characters, an ugly aesthetic, and gameplay so stripped back from its predecessors that you may as well be playing an entirely different series.
The plot is forgettable, with tired cliches and a sixth former's sense of political commentary awkwardly inserted between forced attempts at humour. Watch Dogs took itself too seriously. Watch Dogs 2 didn't often take itself seriously enough. This is a bizarre, Frankensteined bridge between the two and it never ever works in my opinion. I hate to refer to a game's dialogue as cringeworthy, but this really is some shite.
That said - the Legion idea is fascinating. Every NPC potentially being a playable character? The routine system? The permadeath mode? The actual city of London that's probably the most well-realised since The Getaway in 2002? Great ideas! Shame they're in Watch_Dogs: Legion. This might have killed the series, I reckon. I hope.
Seemed to pull a desperate nostalgia bait by bringing Aiden Pearce back for the DLC, but even he is a shadow of his former self. Funnily enough, I'm convinced that transplanting Aiden into London would have worked if the entire game were just like the original in terms of tone and gameplay.
The plot is forgettable, with tired cliches and a sixth former's sense of political commentary awkwardly inserted between forced attempts at humour. Watch Dogs took itself too seriously. Watch Dogs 2 didn't often take itself seriously enough. This is a bizarre, Frankensteined bridge between the two and it never ever works in my opinion. I hate to refer to a game's dialogue as cringeworthy, but this really is some shite.
That said - the Legion idea is fascinating. Every NPC potentially being a playable character? The routine system? The permadeath mode? The actual city of London that's probably the most well-realised since The Getaway in 2002? Great ideas! Shame they're in Watch_Dogs: Legion. This might have killed the series, I reckon. I hope.
Seemed to pull a desperate nostalgia bait by bringing Aiden Pearce back for the DLC, but even he is a shadow of his former self. Funnily enough, I'm convinced that transplanting Aiden into London would have worked if the entire game were just like the original in terms of tone and gameplay.