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What is Watch Dogs: Legion?

Legion is the third installment of the Watch Dogs series, which tells the story of the struggle of the secret hacker society DedSec against a state system that increasingly restricts civil liberties. The gameplay is based on a typical Ubisoft's approach to such games busting around a large open world, which in the Watch Dogs series is always some real metropolis. This time we will move to London in the near future, where after Brexit, Albion military organization has grown in strength and posters ordinary citizens on a daily basis. DedSec is at the forefront of the Resistance fighting against it.

The main character? Londoners!

The biggest new feature in Watch Dogs: Legion will be the ability to play as any NPC character as the game's protagonist. Recruiting people of different professions to DedSec will allow them to perform missions in different ways, e.g. a security guard may inadvertently get into a building, and a police officer may force his way in. A perk suitable for each character will help with this.

The authors promise a wide variety of characters' faces and voices so as not to play with repetitive clones. However, while the gameplay mechanisms are interesting, the vibe of this game, which with its crazy style contrasts sharply with the serious issues of social freedom that the plot addresses, may be a matter of debate.

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WHY AM I WAITING?

I started waiting for Watch Dogs: Legion with moderate interest at some point – still alienated by how Ubisoft treated gamers, announcing part one, which proved to be mediocre (and the distance to the series was not diminished in my case even by the decent sequel). The trick of taking control of any citizen who has a chance to join the eponymous legion of rebels, however, may prove to be quite an interesting option – as well as setting the game outside the States (which many players are already fed up with). Such experiments have been conducted before – e.g. with Deus Ex located in Prague, Czech Republic - so why don't we see a AAA game one day, which will tell the story happening in Poland? But going back to Watch Dogs: Legion... it may not be the game of the year, but it promises to be pretty decent – if, of course, you can look at it while ignoring the Ubisoft gaming craze that many players resent.

Michael Pajda