![]() Stapleton briefly touched on "some overt political themes in play here," while Stewart avoided any mention of real-world parallels to the game's narrative entirely.Īlessangro Fillari delved deeply into the game's politics and how effectively it communicates them in an 8 out of 10 review for GameSpot. While the review scores were largely clustered around the higher end of the spectrum, there was far more diversity in just how reviewers engaged with the game's story. It's delightfully silly to command a group resembling a tech-savvy Village People, and the game doesn't take itself too seriously, making it fun to revel in the absurdity." Techies hack devices faster, investors rake in more money, protesters can rally bystanders to fight, and spies bring gadgets and combat expertise. "For example, one of my favorite members was a futuristic beekeeper who commanded swarms of robotic hornets. "I felt like a kid in a candy store scanning Londoners thanks to the cool combinations of skills each can bring," Stewart said. "While this murderous take on spring cleaning is hilarious, being able to simply fire someone would be even better - especially since optimizing your team is such a central part of Watch Dogs: Legion's appeal." Watch Dogs Legion leans on its play-as-anyone featureĭespite that, Stewart clearly appreciated the game's play-as-anyone system, awarding Watch Dogs Legion a score of 9 out of 10. "Because I wasn't allowed to ditch recruits, I had to start throwing any dead weight off skyscrapers or into speeding buses," Stewart confessed. Game Informer's Marcus Stewart also played with permadeath on, but described a very different experience once he bumped into the game's limit on team sizes. That angst was by no means universally felt. "And thanks to permadeath, they were worth careful play, because losing one delivered the kind of angst I'd only felt when a trusty operative was killed in XCOM." "Watch Dogs: Legion got me to play with this medic, and as a lot of people I never would have created in an ordinary character builder or avatar customizer," Owen S. "Losing one delivered the kind of angst I'd only felt when a trusty operative was killed in XCOM" Owen S. ![]() Numerous reviewers mentioned the way that system pushes players to try new approaches and explore the game's mechanics, particularly if the player opts to have permadeath turned on and their favored agents fall prey to mishaps and misadventures. IGN's Dan Stapleton said the system gives the game a more sandboxy feel than its predecessors, while TheGamer's Kirk McKeand said it was one of the most mechanically interesting AAA games in memory, even if the characters wind up feeling replaceable in large part because they have to be. ![]() Everyone has a different set of abilities that can contribute to the resistance, and the series' hacker collective known as DedSec will need to use the combined power of the people to upend their oppressors. Set in a near-future London overtaken by authoritarian forces, Watch Dogs Legion forgoes the standard AAA protagonist route and instead allows players to recruit a team of revolutionaries from any of the multitude of procedurally generated NPCs that wander the streets. ![]() The game's central conceit ties its gameplay together with its narrative. The review embargo for Watch Dogs Legion passed this morning, and the initial wave of reviews for Ubisoft Toronto's open-world action sequel is largely positive, with cheers for its central play-as-anyone feature tempered somewhat by a variety of complaints. ![]()
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