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Watch Dogs Legion: The dogs bark and the caravan passes

Ubisoft's ambitious new project is the kind of games that are far more fun than they are quality.

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Thursday, 26 November 2020, 00:01

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The game Watch Dogs (PR)

Peace.

I'm leaving.

I do not want you to accompany me on.

London of course is not waiting for me, because of the Corona and everything - but I'm also content with its digital version, showcased in the new Open World game Watch Dogs: Legion - the third in Ubisoft's technology open world game series, recently released for PC and all consoles except Switch.

What else does this game include besides the English capital?

A gloomy future, brave hackers and oh yes - the possibility of enlisting each of the city's residents in your own private army.

One for all, all for one

In the not-too-distant future, London is under terrorist attack.

But not terrorism as you know it today, but cyber terrorism.

Cyber!

Admit it's a scary word, cyber.

Anyway, in order to deal with cyber terrorism the law enforcement authorities have left the city in the hands of a private army, and if that sounds like a bad idea to you then wait until you play the game yourself and see what evil deeds this private army does.

not nice.

In order to overthrow the army from its new position of power, and restore security to the streets, an army must be established.

And to deal with a cyber threat, it needs to be an army of hackers.

How lucky that DeadSec, the hacker organization of this game series, is ready for the task.

"One for all, all for one" (Photo: PR)

Wait, did I write "ready for the job"?

So this is, not exactly.

The hacker attack that paralyzed London also paralyzed DeadSec, and you have to make the task of reassembling the organization.

Every London citizen you meet during the game will be able to enlist in the organization and become a hacker-fighter for glory.

This means that unlike other games, this game does not have a single main character, but thousands of potential characters.

At the beginning of the game you will be asked to choose a random character, who will be the first soldier in your hacker army.

You will soon be asked to go for a walk and recruit new friends.

The recruitment process is simple: find an interesting candidate, talk to him, solve a small problem for him ("mobsters kidnapped my friend", "AI system took over my workplace", etc.), and hop, he joins your group of hackers.

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Each character has special abilities, which can range from "able to absorb more damage and use advanced weapons" to "fart a lot so enemies can locate him easily".

There are also characters with special "uniforms", which help them easily sneak into enemy bases, such as construction workers or security guards.

Some of the characters are more successful in gun battles, and others will be more helpful to you if you take advantage of them to sneak into dangerous areas.

In short: there is an advantage in recruiting as many new members as possible, at least at the beginning of the game.

After you recruit the characters you can travel with them to London and take them on multiple missions, where they will uncover a huge conspiracy (of course) and try to save London.

Their skills as hackers allow all your characters to break into almost anything: from security cameras that will allow them to design safe paths, through robotic spiders (!) To machine guns: if it runs on electricity, chances are you can break into it and use it to your advantage.

"After you recruit the characters, you can travel with them to London and take them on multiple missions, where they will reveal a huge conspiracy" (Photo: PR)

Everything looks the same

To fulfill the game's ambitious vision, Ubisoft has built an algorithm that "builds" the recruiting tasks and characters in an almost random way.

At first glance, they did a great job.

In the first hours of the game I felt diversity and did not stop being surprised by new discoveries.

But after the first 5-6 hours you get into a routine, and realize that most of the tasks in the game are built exactly the same: there is an area infested with enemies that needs to be broken into, find a certain object (computer, server or car), press a button and then escape without dying.

Even the main tasks, created manually by the development team, work in the same stanza.

At some point they realize that the dubbing of the characters is also repetitive and includes funny accents created by a computer in a not very reliable way.

"After the first 5-6 hours, you get into a routine, and realize that most of the tasks in the game are built exactly the same" (Photo: PR)

When one realizes that everything is repeating itself, the game loses some of its power.

The story also quickly becomes quite predictable and chewy, and this also adds to the impression that this is a not particularly high-quality game.

On the other hand, where there is not necessarily high quality there is definitely fun.

Despite the repetition, the game itself is very fun.

It's always fun to try new action strategies, find more potential characters or just travel around London and enjoy the scenery.

And finally, technical matters.

I played the game on both the old Xbox One X (wow, I can not believe I'm writing this) and also on the shiny new Xbox Series X.

This "previous generation" game featured monstrous loading times and ran in a rather jerky way.

In the new generation, the charging times have improved miraculously, beautiful reflections have been added thanks to Ray Tracing technology and it runs a little smoother, but still far from 60 frames per second.

The conclusion?

If you have the option, it's best to play Legion on a new console or a powerful PC.

Unless waiting for long minutes on charging screens is your thing.

"When you realize that everything is repeating itself, the game loses some of its power" (Photo: PR)

The bottom line

Watch Dogs: Legion tries to do a lot of things.

Not everyone succeeds.

His story tries to be gloomy and thought-provoking, but in practice he is mostly ridiculous.

Recruiting Londoners to your hacker army is nice, but at some point it becomes unimportant and greatly slows down the pace of the game.

So true, the new Assassin's Creed will give you a tighter open world experience and the new Call of Duty will provide you with faster and more accurate action - but where they are and where to travel like crazy around London, hack Big Ben and send robotic spiders to eliminate mobsters.

Despite its shortcomings, the new Watch Dogs is a fun game for Allah, and fun is what really matters.

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