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The premise of Watch Dogs Legion is simple: London is in the grip of tyrannical private security firm Albion, and anyone in its open world is a potential playable character who can join your hacker group to take back control. While Legion makes this work technically, it’s very surfacelevel, resulting in a lifeless entry in the series.
After the brief tutorial, everyone you play is essentially a random person you’ve recruited, starting with one and increasing in number as you profile individuals with your phone, then complete cookie-cutter missions to win them over. Occasionally this works, but more often than not it leads to canned lines – characters repeating the same things, and even different people having the same dialogue and intonations.
PEOPLE PERSON
Despite ostensibly being about rebuilding a resistance movement, half the time I’m playing, I struggle to remember my characters’ names, let alone worry about each as a person. Distinctions all boil down to what unique skills they have. It always feels like ‘what can you do for me?’
This story is from the Christmas 2020 edition of Official PlayStation Magazine - UK Edition.
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