It made me wish I had recruited an Albion guard for some of the earlier missions I tackled. Not having to hide opened up new vectors of attack: hacking a Cargo Drone to crush one guard with a crate, or simply walking up to a guard and hammering him in the face with a wrench. I had two side missions on a construction site during my demo, and Vicky was able to waltz into both, right next to guards. Adding an Albion contractor to your team helps to tackle missions involving the security firm. Need to break into a police station? Recruit a cop. Even certain security measures like scanners will let you past, making infiltration much easier. Much like the Hitman series, wearing certain uniforms means you can walk into certain restricted areas unopposed, as long as you maintain a low-profile by moving slowly and not straying into more suspect parts of a building. This is called "Uniform Access" in Legion. The main key with Vicky is she has a construction worker's outfit. (Much like Watch Dogs 2's cueball sock, getting cold-clocked by a heavy Wrench doesn't seem non-lethal to me.) She can also summon a Cargo Drone, the rideable heavy drone shown in Watch Dogs: Legion's first E3 appearance. As a construction worker, Vicky has access to unique weapons, the nail gun, and the wrench. Bryn Williams is a police constable, so I skipped right over him to Vicky. My other two characters leaned further into some of the new flavors of characters now offered in Watch Dogs: Legion. Hacktivist Julie Salehi has access to a wider variety of hacks than Jadzia-like being able to steal digital keys from any range-but only carries a non-lethal stun gun and controllable spiderbot. Take one of my starting characters, Jadzia Wojcik, a hitman who started with a Desert Eagle, a G36 assault rifle, a stun mine, and the deadly art of gun kata, offering nearly-instant lethal takedowns.
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While the vestiges of that system remain, it no longer looks to be the foundation of Legion.Įvery character now leans on a series of varying jobs that determine which weapons, gadgets, and abilities they have access to. Last year, when Ubisoft showed off Watch Dogs: Legion, characters were fit to three broad classes: Enforcer, Hacker, and Infiltrator. | Mike Williams/USG, Ubisoftįollowing the prologue, I'm dropped into a slightly later stage of the game with four randomly-generated characters. Instead of just one protagonist, you're given several characters to now project your whims onto, with even more ways to approach any situation. The distribution of character is the differentiator in Legion. I could almost convince myself I was still playing Watch Dogs 2. Jumping from camera to camera, from drone to drone to scout out locations. A CtOS-enabled phone allows you to hack doors, drones, cameras, and more, making distractions and taking enemies out of the fight. The moment-to-moment mechanics of hacking, stealth, and combat haven't changed much from Watch Dogs 2. Watch Dogs: Legion is largely… Watch Dogs. It's up to you to gather up new members of DedSec, avoid Albion, and ultimately find out who Zero Day is. The story picks up some time later, as the private military security group Albion steps in to protect London, turning it into a police state. The mission goes horribly wrong as an organization called Zero Day sets off multiple bombs around the city, killing Dalton, arresting Sabine, and blaming DedSec for the attacks. Dalton sneaks into the Palace of Westminster to prevent a terrorist attack, grounding you in the basics of Watch Dogs: Legion. The local cell is a robust operation run by gruff hacker queen Sabine in tandem with Bagley, a smug AI it looks more like Marvel's SHIELD rather than the loose hacker collective from Watch Dogs 2. I stepped into the Bond-esque shoes of Dalton, a secret agent working in tandem with DedSec. The prologue mission sets the stage for Ubisoft's near-future London. | Mike Williams/USG, Ubisoft Welcome to the Resistance And who "you" are is a pretty flexible concept, as I found in my 3-hour demo. In Legion, you're building out your crew, the local cell of DedSec in London, England. Now Ubisoft proudly touts "Play as Anyone" as one of the focuses of Watch Dogs: Legion. Gone are the days where you play a singular hero, whether that's bland Aiden Pearce or the young punk Marcus Holloway in the previous Watch Dogs games. Nancy Choi is the first character I recruited in Watch Dogs: Legion. Nancy doesn't even have a day job, or at least she didn't when she became a part of my crew. Nancy lacks a cool sword or an outlandish gun with a name like, Thunderhorn, Blessed Core of Fallen. She cannot parkour across the rooftops hell, she can't actually move all that fast. Nancy Choi is not your average video game protagonist.
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