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Watch Dogs: Legion
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Watch Dogs Legion is undoubtedly fun, and the Recruitment System effectively shakes up Ubisoft’s open-world template. But the game feels a mile wide and an inch deep – what promises to be endless variety quickly devolves into repetitive gameplay and tired plot tropes.
Game Info
In Watch Dogs: Legion, near future London is facing its downfall…unless you do something about it. Build a resistance, fight back, and give the city back to the people. It’s time to rise up.
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Total Reviews: 129
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GENRES:
- Action, Adventure
DEVELOPER(S):
- Ubisoft Toronto
PUBLISHER(S):
- Ubisoft Entertainment
SERIES/FRANCHISE:
- Watch Dogs
GAME MODES:
- Co-operative, Single player
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RATING & REVIEWS
Ratings & Reviews
129
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Dan Stapleton (IGN)
[Date Unavailable]
8/10
“Watch Dogs: Legion’s bold use of roguelike mechanics in an open-world action game pay off in interesting ways, making this visit to near-future London feel more varied than the previous two games.”
Alex Avard (GamesRadar+)
[Date Unavailable]
3.5/5 stars
“Legion royally shakes up Watch Dogs’ open-world template with a Play as Anyone mechanic that just about outweighs any headaches left by its rough edges.”
Diego Perez (Attack of the Fanboy)
[Date Unavailable]
3.5/5 stars
“Watch Dogs: Legion is incredibly ambitious, but the play as anyone system needs a little more work. The story suffers from the lack of a central protagonist, and it’s hard to get attached to any of your characters when the character models and animations are stiff and robotic. Still, there’s a lot of fun to be had in futuristic London.”
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Score Ranges
Read the Reviews (129 total)
| Outlet | Author | Score | Date | Quote | Read |
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| 3DNews | Алексей Лихачев | 9 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion doesn’t have the main protagonist, instead we have a city full of oppressed and tired people with their own stories. Other than that this is the usual Watch Dogs game and fans of the first two should be pleased with what it can offer. | Read review |
| ACG | Jeremy Penter | Not Recommended | 10-28-2020 | Video Review | Read review |
| Ars Technica | Kyle Orland | Not Recommended | 10-28-2020 | In the end, the London of Watch Dogs: Legion feels a mile wide but only a few feet deep. What promises to be endless variety in character choice and hack-driven gameplay options quickly boils down to the repetition of the same old gameplay and plot tropes. | Read review |
| Atomix | Rodolfo León | 80 / 100 | 10-30-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion feels like a huge step forward for the franchise, but the ridiculous amount of bugs and glitches make playing through the experiencia a real headache. | Read review |
| Attack of the Fanboy | Diego Perez | 3.5 / 5 stars | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion is incredibly ambitious, but the play as anyone system needs a little more work. The story suffers from the lack of a central protagonist, and it’s hard to get attached to any of your characters when the character models and animations are stiff and robotic. Still, there’s a lot of fun to be had in futuristic London. | Read review |
| AusGamers | KostaAndreadis | 7.5 / 10 | 11-02-2020 | In the end, with more varied activities that went beyond the usual by-the-numbers story missions, say, a more emergent city full of events to match the unpredictability of who you control | Read review |
| BaziCenter | Bahram Bigharaz | 6.5 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | After so much anticipation, Watch Dogs: Legion is finally here, failing to impress. Almost every single problem that prevented the 2 previous version to reach their full potential is still there, and the ability to play as all NPCs added even more issues to the game. Yes, the world is beautiful and you have all the freedom that you want, but as a game, Watch Dogs Legion is shallow and suffers from poor level and character design. A strong contender for the most disappointing game of the year. | Read review |
| Bazimag | Vahid Zohrabi Nejad | 5.6 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs Legion is yet another open-world game like other Ubisoft’s games, full of great ideas, but in action, they don’t have enough depth and don’t perform well in general. A soulless world with poor level designs and exhausting missions make a graveyard for the series’s real potential. | Read review |
| Cerealkillerz | Manuel Barthes | 8 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Until now the story of Watch Dogs was an up and down, which doesn’t change that much in Watch Dogs: Legion. The energy that went into the unique recruiting mechanic leaves a lot missing in the actual game world and the story, which makes the trip to london a bit cloudy, classic british. | Read review |
| Cheat Code Central | Jon Gronli | 5 / 5 stars | 10-29-2020 | Even though Watch Dogs Legion already gives you an impressive amount to do as well as a lot of options on how to do it, it’s still going to be growing. I can’t wait to see what’s coming next and how It is going to affect what’s already in place. I’m also looking forward to the multiplayer component, which I’m more than willing to write about when it comes out. So, come on. Join the resistance. | Read review |
| Checkpoint Gaming | Lisa Pollifroni | 8 / 10 | 11-04-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion is about getting a bunch of pissed off “we’re not gonna take it anymore” people to hit back with their special abilities and give back to the people what is rightfully theirs. People coming together to fight a common evil? I can’t think of something that is more 2020 than that. | Read review |
| COGconnected | Michael Chow | 75 / 100 | 10-28-2020 | Overall, Watch Dogs: Legion is a fun game with a nifty new mechanic that can be utilized in different ways in the future. | Read review |
| Critical Hit | Darryn Bonthuys | 7.5 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion is a fascinating game, massively ambitious and crawling with technology that isn’t just on the bleeding edge of what’s possible, it’s pure magic to see unfold. All of that may sound impressive but slick software and a bustling metropolis of people power can’t hide the dull gameplay and shallow approach to the sandbox shenanigans of Watch Dogs: Legion. It’s still a fascinating game to experience in short bursts, and it’s going to be fascinating to see how Ubisoft evolves London to make it vox pop as a next-gen headliner. | Read review |
| Cubed3 | Luke Hemming | 7 / 10 | 11-04-2020 | The latest Watch Dogs does seem ripe for criticism, but at its core is a solid, fun title that is yet to leave the disk tray. Cruising through the London suburbs is a thoroughly enjoyable experience with a lot of replay-ability, if only to use the games camera mode to snap a selfie with a landmark. Some of the missions are also creatively designed and structured in a way that will live long in the memory and be the talking points with any friends on the fence about purchasing. The biggest downfall of Watch Dogs: Legion is the promise of something more. With no real incentive for recruitment outside characters given in missions, it remains very much a title for the generation. With a little more thought put into the mechanics and gameplay, focusing on how they could really have been revolutionised, this could have been an experience as future-proof as the world portrayed within it. | Read review |
| Cultured Vultures | Darryl Edge | 7 / 10 | 11-02-2020 | Despite a few issues throughout and bland playable characters, the recruitment system and campaign manage to offer just enough for Watch Dogs: Legion to be worth hacking into. | Read review |
| Daily Star | Unknown | 4 / 5 stars | 10-28-2020 | One that is very English, packed full of wild and interesting characters, each with their own story to tell. | Read review |
| DASHGAMER.com | Dan Rizzo | 8 / 10 | 11-03-2020 | The free range flow of this foray into the world of London, the power you have to control every piece of tech, the hilarity of controlling a Police car at your fingertips, and the engaging scenarios that elevate the tension given in its campaign all deliver one of the best title’s of 2020, and a fantastic way to end out our current generation. | Read review |
| Destructoid | Chris Moyse | 6 / 10 | 11-07-2020 | For all its themes of rule-breaking anarchy, Watch Dogs: Legion toes the line as a formulaic, though ambitious, open-world adventure. While it boasts one of the most visually exciting and stunningly authentic locales in the genre’s history, Watch Dogs: Legion’s gameplay is mechanical, over-familiar, and repetitive, struggling to capture the exciting promise of a fist-pumping, system-smashing revolution. | Read review |
| Digital Chumps | Ben Sheene | 9 / 10 | 07-15-2020 | While its dystopian, futuristic London may smell of Grand Theft Auto open worlds, Watch Dogs Legion’s approach to recruiting any NPC differentiates the formula in a unique way, creating a fascinating blend of freedom, action, stealth, and roguelikes. | Read review |
| Digital Trends | Tom Caswell | 2.5 / 5 stars | 10-28-2020 | While Ubisoft presents its best open world to date, the main gameplay hook falls flat. | Read review |
| Digitally Downloaded | Trent P | 4 / 5 stars | 10-29-2020 | What players will find when picking up Watch Dogs: Legion is a game that is prepared for a long post-launch game-as-a-service experience. The additional DLC announced so far leans into the strengths of the game and established ideas that the series does well. The beekeepers, paintball guns and magician tricks all bring a sense of playful humour to the series, but it is worth noting that anyone who is (rightfully) tired of Ubisoft’s content approach to games is going to find this one a very content-driven game. | Read review |
| DualShockers | Ben Bayliss | 7.5 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion offers an incredibly vast recruitment system that wonderfully complements its hacking mechanics while boasting the darkest story in the series. | Read review |
| Easy Allies | Brandon Jones | 4 / 5 stars | 11-03-2020 | Dedsec is now openly recruiting for its troubled London branch, giving you a few dozen personalities to manage as you cause chaos and uncover the city’s biggest secrets. Does the overall story in Legion suffer by not having a central protagonist? Or has Watch Dogs discovered the future of the franchise? | Read review |
| Echo Boomer | David Fialho | Not Recommended | 11-16-2020 | There’s ambition in this new episode, the tech behind the procedural generation of playable NPCs stands out as much as the inclusion of visual features like ray-tracing, but beyond that and the neo-punk aesthetic, Watch Dogs: Legion lacks the substance to get us really hooked. | Read review |
| EGM | Michael Goroff | 8 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion pushes through Ubisoft’s generally noncommittal attitude towards storytelling and exploiting current events to create something that feels like a genuine shift, or at least the prototype of that shift. It might be a sloppy game in many regards, but Legion offers a novel way to experience an open world, with its interconnected NPCs and the introduction of permadeath to the genre. | Read review |
| Eurogamer | Vikki Blake | Not Recommended | 11-03-2020 | Legion’s near-future London is almost too close for comfort, though the game it hosts is a characterless slog. | Read review |
| Everyeye.it | Alessandro Bruni | 7.6 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Ultimately, while perfectly able to offer players a good number of hours of fun, Watch Dogs Legion fails to fully realize the potential of its basic concept, yielding to the flattery of an open world model that, at the end of the console generation, loudly requires more innovation. | Read review |
| Expansive | Jay Jones | Recommended | 11-02-2020 | I’ve really been enjoying spending time in London and I really hope Watch Dogs finds the success it deserves from here on out. The concept piloted here needs to be allowed time to blossom and grow as much as it possibly can throughout this generation. While Watch Dogs 2 is still the series high, Legion feels like something of a renaissance for the series – similar to how Origins changed the fortunes of Assassin’s Creed. It’s not perfect – and at times does still feel a little bit bland with more limited mission variety – but there’s some really smart and clever ideas here that could pave the way for some truly special games in the years to come. | Read review |
| Game Debate | Chad Norton | 7.5 / 10 | 11-08-2020 | Watch Dogs Legion is a fun and satisfying open world sandbox, with lots of tools for destruction and various strategies to go about completing your objective. It’s great in short bursts, but rarely has you hooked on any one thing to keep you coming back. | Read review |
| Game Informer | Marcus Stewart | 9 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Legion offers a refreshing and fun change-up to the Watch Dogs formula that succeeds in letting players forge their own path like never before | Read review |
| Game Revolution | Paul Tamburro | 4 / 5 stars | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion‘s beautiful London and its array of recruitable denizens make it one of the most enjoyable games of the year. | Read review |
| Game Volt | Mohamed Ashmawy | 8 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs Legion introduced the best instalment of the series in terms of storytelling and Level Design in addition to the graphic leap, a game that was very happy to experience it and lived within it without any boredom, it’s a new start for the series classified as a very strong series in the future for the company and with the company’s attention to this series and the continuation of this level in the upcoming releases will be one of the franchise sees itself as one of the main franchises of the company, just kept this level and added to it and continued to explore new places outside America as happened in this part. | Read review |
| Gameblog | Rami Bououd | 7 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs Legion is a fun title with interesting and clever gameplay. | Read review |
| GameCrate | Angelo D’Argenio | 8.5 / 10 | 11-02-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion is an interesting game with an innovative system and a compelling story. It’s not a blockbuster hit and it probably won’t make the running for GOTY this year, but its experimental systems and socially resonant plot make it worth checking out. | Read review |
| Gamefa | Mostafa Zahedi | 7.8 / 10 | 10-29-2020 | Watch Dogs Legion is another amusing installment from these beloved series. The gameplay is fun, character variety is really impressive and London is gorgeous and alive. Still, the game suffers from issues like technical problems, lack of variety in missions and predictable story. Nevertheless, Watch Dogs Legion is a super entertaining game that can keep you busy for hours in London and it is worth your time. | Read review |
| GameGrin | Anna Duncan | 6.5 / 10 | 11-24-2020 | Ubisoft have done well with this game but if you get frustrated easily I would maybe wait till this game has had a few more updates first before playing it. | Read review |
| GameHaunt | Andrei Cortez | 4.5 / 5 stars | 10-29-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion is a refined realization of the hacker fantasy that the first title wanted to capture. | Read review |
| GameMAG | Александр Логинов | 7 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | On the one hand Watch Dogs: Legion is a revolutionary game with ambitious open world and thousands upon thousands of characters, probably created by some kind of neural network. The gameplay is fine, and if you love original Watch Dogs, you will feel right at home with this new title. But on the other hand Legion clearly lacks a strong narrative lead. | Read review |
| GamePro | Hannes Rossow, Markus Schwerdtel | 79 / 100 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion relies on a unique concept that offers many possibilities, but for which many compromises are also made. | Read review |
| Gamerheadquarters | Jason Stettner | 7.8 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion is great, it features an intricately detailed open world London to explore where you can recruit basically anyone though the story could have been more intriguing and the performance while driving could have been better. | Read review |
| Gamers Heroes | Johnny Hurricane | 6 / 10 | 11-11-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion is more of the same, albeit with more technical problems. Even the most diehard of Watch Dogs fans should wait for a patch or two before jumping in. | Read review |
| Gamersky | 不倒翁蜀黍 | 8.5 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion is the most ambitious and innovative one in the franchise. You can play as anyone and finish your job in any way. The open-world of future London is so beautiful and so well-crafted that I always can find something interesting to do. | Read review |
| GameSkinny | Mark Delaney | 8 / 10 | 10-27-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion throws out a decade of Ubisoft’s cluttered-map open worlds in favor of exciting systems that deliver unique emergent moments consistently. | Read review |
| GameSpew | Kim Snaith | 9 / 10 | 11-04-2020 | I’ve loved all three Watch Dogs games, but Watch Dogs Legion may be my favourite. Perhaps it’s the familiarity of London, or perhaps it’s the unique joy of being able to take control of pretty much any character you want. There’s so much to see and do; the amount of character and life breathed into the city is unrivalled by pretty much any other open world game. | Read review |
| GameSpot | Alessandro Fillari | 8 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion struggles with tone at times, but its empowering message about unity and justice still shines in a game that is as absurd as it is impactful. | Read review |
| GamesRadar+ | Alex Avard | 3.5 / 5 stars | 10-28-2020 | Legion royally shakes up Watch Dogs’ open-world template with a Play as Anyone mechanic that just about outweighs any headaches left by its rough edges. | Read review |
| GameWatcher | Marcello Perricone | 6 / 10 | 11-05-2020 | A surprisingly inaccurate recreation of London ties into simplistic gameplay and terrible performance to create a deeply flawed and shallow game. | Read review |
| GameZone | Cade Onder | 6 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | While it has its moments, Watch Dogs Legion doesn’t have enough to feel like a fun place to escape to. The gameplay is too repetitive and too restrictive to allow for anything tremendously exciting over a long period of time. It’s a game that shows all of its tricks within the first few hours and leaves you with nothing but jank for the remainder of your playthrough. | Read review |
| Gaming Nexus | Eric Hauter | 9 / 10 | 11-04-2020 | Much of Watch Dogs: Legion feels revolutionary, from its “play as anyone” hook to its Black Mirror-esque science fiction setting. While the gameplay only iterates slightly on previous games, new wrinkles provided by character traits keep things fresh. Watch Dogs: Legion delivers a stark warning about what our future may hold, but maintains its entertainment level throughout. Legion is a witty, bracing wake-up call. | Read review |
| GamingBolt | Shubhankar Parijat | 9 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion is definitely the best game in the series so far- and dare I say, one of the most engaging and inventive open world games I have played in years. | Read review |
| GamingTrend | David Flynn | 75 / 100 | 11-19-2020 | If your connection is strong enough to reliably stream it, Stadia is a good place to play Watch Dogs: Legion. The technology focused stealth compensates for the input lag nicely, and the game looks and runs far better than my mid to low range desktop could hope to. | Read review |
| GBAtemp | Pranavsingh Dhunnoo | 6.8 / 10 | 11-16-2020 | This score represents the experience of the PC version which is, even weeks after launch, in a sorry state of buggy mess for many players. Nevertheless, Watch Dogs: Legion does offer some decent fun overall with its sandbox approach to missions and standout feature of playing as virtually anyone in London. | Read review |
| Generación Xbox | Javier Gutierrez Bassols | 8.2 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs Legion is the new and ambitious release of the Ubisoft saga, a title that manages to catch you from the first moment and that fulfills its promise to perfection: to play with any NPC. | Read review |
| God is a Geek | Mick Fraser | 8.5 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion suffers from a little jank in the tank, but the recruitment system is fantastic and there’s just so much to see and do. The open world is full of detail, and the whole experience is full of heart. | Read review |
| GotGame | Dragos Dobre | 8 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | The post-Brexit dystopian London is exactly the right amount of craziness and fun I was expecting from a Watch Dogs game. Even though the original recipe hasn’t changed a lot in the past few years, you can see the progress they made with Watch Dogs: Legion, polishing the game with every iteration. | Read review |
| GRYOnline.pl | Michał Grygorcewicz | 7.5 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | I had really low expectations and Watch Dogs: Legion turned out to be a pleasant surprise. It’s a decent action game with some cool ideas and mechanics that yield several dozens of hours of fun, prvided you like wandering around virtual cities doing the same thing over and over again. | Read review |
| Guardian | Keza MacDonald | 4 / 5 stars | 11-03-2020 | I haven’t played a game as odd as Legion in a very long time. Unlike the glossy, beautiful, but samey open-worlds that have dominated the genre in the past few years, it is ambitious, imperfect and unashamedly weird. To me it’s a fascinating, flawed, well-intentioned experiment in what a game can have to say, and how it can say it, while still conforming to the established fun-first template of an open-world action game. London’s landmarks are all here, from the Tower to the Eye, but rather than reducing the city to a pretty backdrop for generic madcap violence, it lets you find your own fun – or even your own meaning – in what you do there. | Read review |
| Hardcore Gamer | Kyle LeClair | 3 / 5 stars | 11-01-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion aims to be a truly ambitious entry in the series with its Legion system, but to paraphrase Ian Malcolm, the developers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. | Read review |
| Heavy | Jack Fennimore | 6 / 10 | 11-12-2020 | Watch Dogs Legion, like most of Ubisoft’s big budget games, is disposable – a value-sized bag of chips. The gameplay experience is pleasurable and addicting by nature, making you want to play even if you don’t feel like it. And when you get sick of it, you just throw it away. | Read review |
| Hobby Consolas | Álvaro Alonso | 80 / 100 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion elevates the formula allowing to control every character in the game, a unique and complex game mechanic with many possibilities… That doesn’t go well with the narrative. But still, it’s a fantastic action, stealth and hacking open world game. | Read review |
| Hynerd.it | Fabio Pecorini | 7.9 / 10 | 11-08-2020 | Watch Dogs Legion is a title that lives up to expectations, Ubisoft’s London, alive and pulsating, totally immerses the player. The plot is well built and offers villains characterized at best, but presenting an ending that does not live up to expectations. We appreciate the inclusion of free recruitment, even if it is repetitive in the long run. The driving system is improved, however not yet satisfactory. Despite the flaws, Watch Dogs Legion is a title that must be played and deepened, the efforts made by Ubisoft to renew its IP are clearly visible and lay an excellent foundation for the future. | Read review |
| IGN | Dan Stapleton | 8 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion’s bold use of roguelike mechanics in an open-world action game pay off in interesting ways, making this visit to near-future London feel more varied than the previous two games. | Read review |
| IGN Spain | Álex Pareja | 8 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs Legion is a very traditional open world that relies on its new recruiting system, with almost limitless possibilities. The figure of a protagonist and a little more evolution is missed, but getting lost in London is always fun. | Read review |
| Impulsegamer | John Werner | 4.8 / 5 stars | 10-28-2020 | Without a doubt, “Watch Dogs: Legion” ticks all the boxes required to be a true Watch Dogs game, embracing elements from both previous games while brining its own flavour to the table. | Read review |
| INDIANTVCZ | Lukáš Lindner | 8 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion is for the most part similar experience to Watch Dogs 2, just refreshed with some new mechanics. The main novelty | Read review |
| Jump Dash Roll | Derek Johnson | 6 / 10 | 11-05-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion has some good ideas, but its story is downright terrible and it suffers from so many technical problems that it’s hard to recommend the game over a different, more refined, Ubisoft sandbox game. | Read review |
| Just Push Start | Mark Fajardo | 4.45 / 5 stars | 11-02-2020 | In a lot of ways, Watch Dogs: Legion gets the open-world game just right. There are seemingly endless things to do, outfits to try on and people to help. Some modern features give players the opportunity to remove annoying aspects like driving, making it a bit more accessible. Toss in a wide variety of tactics and there is something for everyone. Outside of some cumbersome mechanics, confusing prompts, and needless options, there is little to dislike here. So, if you want an open-world game to hold you over until the next major release, I strongly suggest looking into Watch Dogs: Legion. | Read review |
| Marooners’ Rock | Andrew Peggs | 8.4 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Overall, I feel as if Ubisoft has dug back into what made Watch Dogs enjoyable to play. With some improvements to the overall gameplay and tweaks as time goes by, I can see others enjoying the game. | Read review |
| Merlin’in Kazanı | Emre Yurt | 70 / 100 | 10-28-2020 | If a little more attention was paid to the missions, character and vehicle handling mechanics, it could be one of the most sound games of this year | Read review |
| Metro GameCentral | Unknown | 6 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | A disappointingly tame vision of a near future dystopia, that represents a perfectly competent use of the Ubisoft formula but falters in its attempts to add anything new to it. | Read review |
| New Game Network | Alex Varankou | 65 / 100 | 10-28-2020 | Being able to Play As Anyone in Watch Dogs: Legion is impressive at first, but it becomes a detriment to the core experience that’s in need of revitalization. The hacking and stealth infiltrations haven’t changed a bit, and with repetitive mission design and numerous technical issues, this latest chapter finds DedSec in an identity crisis. | Read review |
| Noisy Pixel | Azario Lopez | 8 / 10 | 11-03-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion is an interesting game in that it doesn’t feature a real main protagonist outside of the comical AI, Bagley. You may not care about each individual character, but their collective goal makes the narrative worth seeing through. The way you can take on missions any way you wish rings truest in this title, and what better set piece to do it all in than a fully realized London. Looking past some of the open-world janks may be required, but Watch Dogs: Legion is a hacking great time. | Read review |
| NoobFeed | Adam Siddiqui | 70 / 100 | 10-30-2020 | Watch Dogs has had an interesting history. The first game was full of problematic stories involving a downgraded PC version and a game full of bland repetitive missions with poor rewards. The second game was a huge step forward in the right direction by offering a new diverse cast of characters, cleverly crafted missions, and a more engaging story as technology is used to control the populist in realistic ways such as tracking their health and daily lives. So where does that leave Watch Dogs Legion, right in the middle? Well, yea. The game’s concept of recruiting London citizens off the street to fight against the tyrants who run the city sounds amazing until you get halfway and realize that the random collection of NPCs that make your team are just that, random NPCs. Instead, Watch Dogs Legion is more of what the first game should’ve been and a step back from Watch Dogs 2. | Read review |
| Oyungezer Online | Ali Sezgin | 7.5 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion offers a Ubisoft-quality experience, but fails to deliver the innovative ideas it promises. It has all the potential to be an innovative game, but it chooses to become repetitive instead. | Read review |
| Paste Magazine | Jackson Tyler | 4 / 10 | 11-10-2020 | It sells a London where you shoot rockets from a drone into the London Eye and then unlock the “Lambeth Defiant” rewards. A London where you can recruit and control everyone on the street, but can’t reach out and touch them, or talk, or interact in any way that isn’t knocking them out or shooting them in the head. A London where the city fades to background noise as you drive from waypoint to waypoint, and then stealth, and fight, and shoot, because there’s nothing else to do. | Read review |
| PC Gamer | Christopher Livingston | 80 / 100 | 10-28-2020 | Playing as anyone works great in Legion—once you’ve finally found the right group of anyones. | Read review |
| PC Invasion | Tim McDonald | 7.5 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | The connected, living world here is a genuine revelation, and it’s well worth exploring if you’re willing to mess around and make your own fun. It’s just a shame that some of the vibrancy and depth of Watch Dogs 2 has been lost in the process. | Read review |
| PCGamesN | Dustin Bailey | 7 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Richly realised systems and empowering abilities create a tremendously fun sandbox to dig into, but another toothless story ensures these flashes of brilliance never cohere, leaving Legion feeling less than the sum of its parts. | Read review |
| Player2.net.au | Matt Hewson | Recommended | 11-03-2020 | A great idea that never quite reaches its full promise, Watch Dogs: Legion is still a cracking bit of techno fun. Come for the hacking and stay for the engaging story and cockney accents. | Read review |
| PlayStation Universe | Neil Bolt | 6 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | While Watch Dogs: Legion does the basics well and has a refreshing change of scenery, it moves backwards from Watch Dogs 2 in terms of characters and storytelling. It’s still quite enjoyable to get up to tech-based naughtiness in London despite that, but the underlying open-world template Ubisoft keeps using ends up feeling overexposed here. | Read review |
| Polygon | Owen Good | Recommended | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion’s cast of randos makes a surprisingly winning team | Read review |
| PowerUp! | Paul Verhoeven | 6.3 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | And that’s the real issue here: the previous game was a story and a damned good one. Watch Dogs Legion is a playground and a damned good one. All it took was a shift in priorities to make the open-world feel less like a world, and more like… well, a game. | Read review |
| Press Start | James Mitchell | 8 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs Legion builds upon the solid foundation established by Watch Dogs 2 while adding its own ambitious twist with mixed results. Having literally every character playable is a gargantuan task, and from a gameplay perspective it works to cement Legion as the best Watch Dogs game thus far. Narratively speaking, however, it collapses under its own aspiration to offer an intriguing concept with spotty execution. Regardless, Legion is a triumph for making good on most of its lofty promise and a triumph for the series. | Read review |
| PSX Brasil | Rui Celso | 70 / 100 | 11-09-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion promised a lot, however, the excess of information ends up not giving due focus to what he really sells: recruiting agents. With many passable, tiring side quests and several bugs, Legion delivers an inferior product than its predecessor. | Read review |
| Pure Playstation | Chris Harding | 8 / 10 | 11-05-2020 | Watch Dogs Legion is a fantastic continuation of the franchise. It doesn’t reinvent the wheel with its gameplay, even if it does flip tradition by ditching a main character to follow. The new systems in place work really well and hacking around London is as good as it ever was in previous games. Where next? | Read review |
| Push Square | Liam Croft | 5 / 10 | 10-30-2020 | Considering the potential Watch Dogs Legion was packing prior to launch, the final release can only be chalked up as an anticlimax. Its “play as anyone” concept doesn’t lend itself well to the sort of experience Ubisoft has crafted with seriously lacklustre character options and a narrative that went down the drain as a result. While longtime fans may find its recycled gameplay loop just enough of a reason to keep playing, those enamoured with the possibility of playing as anyone and everyone will wish they never bothered. Watch Dogs Legion is the dullest of the lot. | Read review |
| Rapid Reviews UK | Dan Yuill | 4.5 / 5 stars | 11-03-2020 | It would be fair to say that the Watch Dogs series of games has had its share of ups and downs, from unfulfilled promises to trailers that weren’t representative of the final product. All of this had an impact on the trust of the gaming community and the series fan base. When Ubisoft first revealed Watch Dogs: Legion back at E3 2019, the stakes were high. They promised an expansive open world where any NPC (non-player character) could be recruited into your team and they would have unique missions, skills and personality. This went beyond anything that a game had promised before, but did Ubisoft pull it off? We’re pleased to say that they most certainly did and have made Watch Dogs: Legion a must-buy for any action-adventure loving gamer. | Read review |
| Rectify Gaming | Ryan Welch | 7 / 10 | 11-25-2020 | An ambitious undertaking that is marred by poor writing and bugs. | Read review |
| Rock, Paper, Shotgun | Nate Crowley | Recommended | 10-28-2020 | While I may not identify with any of my guerrillas and their grab-bag backstories, nor feel any sense of real investment in the fate of DedSec as a whole, I’m still attached to this strange band of possessed berserkers. We’ve had a good time together, in this nonsense dystopian playground. | Read review |
| Rocket Chainsaw | David Latham | 4 / 5 stars | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion brings new ideas to the franchise while keeping within the world of Blume Corp’s ctOS. | Read review |
| Saudi Gamer | صالح بازرعة | 7 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Play As Anyone’ is insanity itself, and WDL’s best trick, even if it could’ve been utilized even better, and with a world rich in content and fun activities, this passes as a fun open world romp, even if the story and events feel lacking. | Read review |
| Saving Content | Ed Acosta | 4 / 5 stars | 12-07-2020 | Watch Dogs Legion is good fun, even if I’m not a big fan of it’s setting. The “Be Anyone” mechanic is a welcome addition to the series and one I would miss if it were not included in future titles. In fact, I think you have to include it in all titles going forward as it’s that fun to have. I do hope they improve on the storytelling and voice modulation for future titles using this feature though. | Read review |
| Screen Rant | Leo Faierman | 3 / 5 stars | 10-28-2020 | The takeaway is this: Watch Dogs: Legion is an ambitious simulation which reliably fails whenever players push against its boundaries. Like the cargo drones which grant them the ability to freely fly, it hits an invisible ceiling that prevents players from soaring above London’s skyscrapers. | Read review |
| SECTOR.sk | Peter Dragula | 7.5 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs spreads with new members in your team and futuristic technologies. However AI, animations and gameplay should be more improved. | Read review |
| Shacknews | Donovan Erskine | 8 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion is a hacking good time and a great addition to Ubisoft’s technology-based saga. | Read review |
| Sirus Gaming | Lexuzze Tablante | 7 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs Legion tries so hard to innovate the franchise, but in doing so, it feels like a product that was either rushed or there was no love for it. Ubisoft Toronto did their best to give us a whole new Watch Dogs experience, but when the second installment of the franchise is the benchmark, it’s hard for me not to nitpick on these issues I find in the game. I love the franchise, but this isn’t the kind of innovation I’ve expected Watch Dogs to have. | Read review |
| Skill Up | Ralph Panebianco | Recommended | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion is an ambitious title. Perhaps a little too ambitious. As much as certain parts of the game shine, you can’t help but feel that the game is too clever by half. | Read review |
| Slant Magazine | Steven Scaife | 2.5 / 5 stars | 10-28-2020 | It’s difficult to escape a sense that the game’s ambition far outstrips the number of unique people it can plausibly render. | Read review |
| Softpedia | Cosmin Vasile | 8.5 / 10 | 11-02-2020 | Anyone who liked any of the previous games will absolutely love Watch Dogs Legion. It offers a lot of content that you can go through with a customized team of hackers, so no playthrough should be the same. | Read review |
| SomHráč.sk | Martin Černický | 75 / 100 | 11-06-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion is the weakest title of the series and suffers a bit from the innovative concept of randomly generated player characters. Despite this and some technical issues, there is still some enjoyment to be had. | Read review |
| SpazioGames | Paolo Sirio | 7 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Legion certainly gives the Watch Dogs franchise a future, obviously dystopian, to look forward to. | Read review |
| Stevivor | Luke Lawrie | 6 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | There’s some fun to be had in Watch Dogs Legion, but it becomes so repetitive that by the end of the game everything feels like a chore — one I was desperately wanting to be over hours before its credits rolled. | Read review |
| TechRaptor | James Bentley | 7 / 10 | 11-05-2020 | I enjoyed my time with Watch Dogs: Legion but the whole time I played it, I was phishing for more. | Read review |
| Telegraph | Tom Hoggins | 3 / 5 stars | 11-13-2020 | Watch Dogs Legion’s innovative ‘play as anyone’ gimmick gives a fresh twist to the open-world template | Read review |
| The Digital Fix | Andrew Shaw | 8 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | The best Watch Dogs game yet. While it’s dragged down by long load times and some repetition, Legion is a hugely enjoyable game that offers players a level of freedom that is rarely seen in this genre. | Read review |
| The Game Fanatics | Trevor Paul | 8.5 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Overall, Watch Dogs Legion is a ton of fun. There is so much to do and experience in this game and so many different ways to do it. The hacking puzzles are familiar but still fun and sometimes challenging. The real star of this game is the variety of characters you can recruit and the backstories that come with them. | Read review |
| The Games Machine | Simone Rampazzi | 8 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion starts with some really intriguing background ideas, ideas that try to dig deep and to leave us with many more questions about the near future. The overwhelming control of a state willing to know everything about its citizens, however, does not prevent a few uncertainties about the gameplay, a sore note that prevents the game from shining as hoped. However, it remains an enjoyable offer, ready to satisfy the taste of lovers of the genre. | Read review |
| The Outerhaven Productions | Keith Mitchell | 4 / 5 stars | 11-05-2020 | While Watch Dogs: Legion lacks a main protagonist and has some performance issues, it is a solid entry in the Watch Dogs series. | Read review |
| TheSixthAxis | Miguel Moran | 8 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs Legion is a different type of sequel to Watch Dogs 2, contrasting in its approach to creating a hackable open world playground, but with no less impressive results. Playing as any citizen in London leads to some less-than-engaging story moments, but the web of relationships and activities that crop up as a result of the systemic design is mind-blowing. I rarely did the same thing twice in Watch Dogs Legion, and if I did, I wasn’t doing it the same way twice. Watch Dogs Legion truly feels like a living, breathing world, and it’s a world that I plan to revisit often, even though I’ve seen the credits on the main story roll. | Read review |
| ThisGenGaming | Robby Bisschop | 9 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion is a massive game with perhaps the biggest recruitable main cast of characters we’ve ever seen. With its varied gameplay and its tried-and-true Ubisoft open-world experience, it offers dozens of hours of entertainment and isn’t to be missed. | Read review |
| Too Much Gaming | Unknown | 8 / 10 | 11-16-2020 | As I did with the first two entries, I came into Watch Dogs: Legion with pretty mellow expectations, and like them, Legion impressed me just enough. The gimmick works as advertised, and seeing all the extra effort they put into it warrants at least some praise. Given the setting and tragic setup, it’s easier this time around to justify why characters would be cool with gunning down waves of soldiers and gang members. And while the story doesn’t know what it wants to be half the time, the cast of villains is mercifully more interesting. | Read review |
| TrueAchievements | Sean Carey | 3 / 5 stars | 10-29-2020 | Ubisoft is known for making great open-world experiences and Watch Dogs: Legion is almost that. With a darker storyline and a wonderfully re-imagined London that is the star of the show, the third entry into the franchise feels as if it’s slightly matured from Watch Dogs 2. The new ‘play as anyone’ mechanic is innovative but sadly soon becomes redundant. Numerous bugs and glitches also mar the overall experience. Having the game crash several times and losing about 20 minutes worth of progress each time is not something that should be happening with a big-budget title such as Legion. Even after downloading the latest hotfix, crashing issues still persisted. This will likely be fixed with more patches later on down the line, but it will still be disappointing for those who purchase the game on day one. However, if you can keep a stiff upper lip about some of the bugs, you’ll have a lot of fun with Legion. Even if someone does end up calling you a twatwaffle. | Read review |
| TrueGaming | محمد جابر الصهيبي | 8.5 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch dogs legion gives you freedom and it’s accentuated in the new recruiting system which makes this title worth playing even before the release of next gen version. | Read review |
| Twinfinite | Zhiqing Wan | 3.5 / 5 stars | 10-30-2020 | Ultimately, Watch Dogs: Legion’s main mechanic feels like an incredibly ambitious move that almost pays off for Ubisoft, but not quite. In favor of cramming as many playable NPCs into the game as possible, Legion ends up sacrificing story and character investment. Ubisoft’s vision of near-future London is a beautifully realized sandbox world that I loved spending time in, but it’s also forgettable and not one that I see myself returning to anytime soon. | Read review |
| Unboxholics | Κυριάκος Στεργιάδης | Recommended | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs Legion is not by any means a perfect experience, but it is great fun. Ubisoft finally nailed the formula with the third try. | Read review |
| USgamer | Mike Williams | 3.5 / 5 stars | 10-29-2020 | The new “Play As Anyone” system is as impressive as it sounds on paper, creating a host of intriguing characters if you choose to dive into their backgrounds. Crafting your own version of DedSec is a ton of fun, especially early on. The problem is the gameplay of Watch Dogs Legion is mostly the same as its predecessors and the missions are quite repetitive overall. It’s not a step back for the series, but the hacking and stealth core of the series does need an overhaul. | Read review |
| VG247 | Lauren Aitken | Not Recommended | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs fans and more die-hard anarchists among you might enjoy it more, but between the short storylines, underwhelming tech and mission types and the general “everything is on fire” vibe, it just doesn’t rate highly for me. | Read review |
| VGChartz | Paul Broussard | 4 / 10 | 11-25-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion is Ubisoft’s third attempt to make the open world/hacking combination work, and despite containing a few interesting ideas, it falls flat just as quickly as the others. | Read review |
| VGN | Davide Frontera | 8.7 / 10 | 11-09-2020 | Now in its third interaction, Watch Dogs: Legion finally reaches maturity, showing all the potential that we had glimpsed in the first chapters characterized by important ideas but never fully realized. We are faced with a complete, fun, varied game, with a campaign that does not shine for originality but that remains enjoyable and well narrated, with well-dashed and charismatic characters. | Read review |
| Video Games Chronicle | Andy Robinson | 5 / 5 stars | 10-28-2020 | Ubisoft Toronto’s ‘Play as Anyone’ system results in the publisher’s most unique open-world game in years. Just don’t take it too seriously. | Read review |
| VideoGamer | Josh Wise | 5 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Where the action comes alive is in the leaving behind of bodies altogether. Most missions involve breaking and entering, and the thrill lies in the absence of any breaking. | Read review |
| WayTooManyGames | Leonardo Faria | 8.5 / 10 | 10-30-2020 | I knew Watch Dogs: Legion was going to be interesting and entertaining, but even though I already had really high expectations, Ubisoft still managed to surpass them. It’s one of their few sandbox games in which fooling around is a legit fun activity. It’s a game with a bold premise that actually delivers. | Read review |
| Wccftech | Rosh Kelly | 7.9 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs Legion is a great step forward for the series, with enough experimental new gameplay features to complement the familiar mechanics. London is incredible, and exploring it is an almost visceral experience. It’s just a shame that the story doesn’t hold the same familiarity that the map does. | Read review |
| We Got This Covered | Todd Rigney | 3 / 5 stars | 10-28-2020 | Although the recruitment system provides a few hours of entertainment, Watch Dogs: Legion feels like a series of systems masquerading as an open-world adventure game. Compared to the first two entries, Legion is a massive step backward, both in terms of story and execution. This is paint-by-numbers Ubisoft on autopilot. | Read review |
| WellPlayed | Zach Jackson | 8 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | With a surprisingly good narrative that excels thanks to the unique ability to turn anyone into a DedSec hacker, Watch Dogs: Legion is a damn good time | Read review |
| Windows Central | Carli Velocci | 4.5 / 5 stars | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion is a departure from the typical Ubisoft brand, and it’s better for it. The play as anybody system just works, there’s a lot to do, and it’s unabashedly political in a way that feels important in 2020. | Read review |
| Worth Playing | Adam Pavlacka | 8 / 10 | 11-02-2020 | While it may not win any awards for the story, Watch Dogs: Legion is an enjoyable sandbox that gives you plenty of room to play around and experiment with objectives. If stealth gameplay is your thing, put this one on your pickup list. | Read review |
| Zoomg | Ali Goudarzi | 8.5 / 10 | 10-28-2020 | Watch Dogs: Legion is not only a great sequel for Watch Dogs series but also a great open-world game. Legion blends amazing story with well built game play mechanics. even tough Legion suffers from technical problems and bugs, but other elements are so good that even these can’t ruin the experiences. with Watch Dogs: Legion, Ubisoft has found that successful open-world formula again and the game is well worth the time and money you pay for. | Read review |
| ZTGD | Anthony Mann | 6.5 / 10 | 11-25-2020 | My gripes really stem from the place of being a fan. Anyone entering Watch Dogs: Legion looking for a by the books open world game is going to find a lot to enjoy. There are small puzzles to solve, plenty of collectibles, lots of missions and I would say the shooting and driving are the best this series has ever been. Fans of the series like myself however will be disappointed by the lack of enjoyable characters as well as stand out missions and story beats. With how close Legion is releasing to Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and Immortals Fenyx Rising it feels like Watch Dogs: Legion was left to fight for your attention and your money with less money put into development. I would recommend both Watch Dogs 1 & 2 as well as plenty of other Ubisoft experiences from the last few years before Legion at full price. | Read review |
Watch Dogs: Legion Credits
CREDITS
DIRECTOR(S):
Clint Hocking, Kent Hudson
PRODUCER(S):
Sean Crooks
DESIGNER(S):
Wesley Pincombe, Liz England
PROGRAMMER(S):
Gavin Whitlock, Matt Delbosc, Guillaume Plourde
ARTIST(S):
Joshua Cook, Patrick Ingoldsby, Po Yuen Kenny Lam
WRITER(S):
Nitai Bessette, Cameron Labine
COMPOSER(S):
Stephen Barton
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