Watch Dogs: Legion
Main game
2.99 average rating based on 351 ratings
- Developers
- Ubisoft Toronto
- Publishers
- Ubisoft Entertainment
- Franchises
- Watch_Dogs
- Series
- Watch Dogs
- Events
- Stadia Connect 08.19.19, Ubisoft E3 2019 Conference
- Platforms
- Google Stadia, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S
- Genres
- Adventure, Role-playing (RPG), Shooter
- Themes
- Action, Open world, Science fiction, Stealth
- Steam
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Bad. Just so damn bad.
how anyone who calls himself a gamer could find anything likeable in this game is beyond my mind...
and i really WANTED to like this game. All this hacking stuff, really good idea, but the realization is just so awful..
WATCH this game crash again DOGS
This review is for the Xbox Series X|S version
Before I talk about the game I have to talk about why it is a 1 star. This might be specific to XBOX. The game runs on only autosaves(!), which BREAK if you suspend the game, leave the "App", play without closing out of the app completely!
So my first experience was playing 10 hours not realising that NOTHING WAS SAVED when it crashed to home! I looked it up and saw it was a known issue from when it came out and SIX YEARS LATER was still broken?!?!
Also, most times I launched the game (which again, I have to do EVERY time I play) it would crash to home. I would just have to launch the game multiple times until it would actually load to the main menu. I have never played anything on Xbox so... broken!
Anyway, 1 star! Now onto the game...
It would probably be a 2 or 3-star experience. It is very redundant. You revisit the same locations 100s of times literally! Also the mission types feel more same-y than most open-world games and for a Watch Dogs especially so.
The "be anyone, recruit anyone" idea is interesting but the game is so broad …
Before I talk about the game I have to talk about why it is a 1 star. This might be specific to XBOX. The game runs on only autosaves(!), which BREAK if you suspend the game, leave the "App", play without closing out of the app completely!
So my first experience was playing 10 hours not realising that NOTHING WAS SAVED when it crashed to home! I looked it up and saw it was a known issue from when it came out and SIX YEARS LATER was still broken?!?!
Also, most times I launched the game (which again, I have to do EVERY time I play) it would crash to home. I would just have to launch the game multiple times until it would actually load to the main menu. I have never played anything on Xbox so... broken!
Anyway, 1 star! Now onto the game...
It would probably be a 2 or 3-star experience. It is very redundant. You revisit the same locations 100s of times literally! Also the mission types feel more same-y than most open-world games and for a Watch Dogs especially so.
The "be anyone, recruit anyone" idea is interesting but the game is so broad in scope and LONG so it ends up being too diluted and dull. There is a lot of like but they needed a more focused story and adventure to highlight all the cool stuff.
I still would want another Watch Dogs and I am not even against using this system again but they really need to figure out how to prevent how diluted and dull everything gets.
Watch Dogs: Spiderbot
Playtime: 46h45m (main story + most side quests completed, includes 2h15 played of DLC)
Played: 2023, 2025
Intro
This is the third Watch Dogs legion, a third-person action game in which you do a lot of hacking and operating a spiderbot.
The Good
- Fairly impressive representation of London.
- Playing as various characters is cool.
- Messing with enemies by hacking is fun.
- A few really solid quests (she did what with her mom?!).
- Core gameplay is pretty fun.
The Bad
- Core gameplay changes very little over the course of the game.
- Tries too hard to be cool.
- Half the missions are "defend X position for Y amount of time".
- Completely forgettable story.
- Player characters is quit frail and never gets tougher.
- Half of the game has you using the OP spiderbot.
The Ugly
- Terrible boss battle (Cass)
- Even worse "escape through alley" sequence with infinitely spawning enemies. I had to lower the difficulty to Easy to get through.
- Several other instances of insanely unfair fights against endlessly spawning enemies.
Conclusion
Watch Dogs Legion is a fun if shallow playground that wears out its welcome. I had to take a break of over a year to complete it, but it did like …
Playtime: 46h45m (main story + most side quests completed, includes 2h15 played of DLC)
Played: 2023, 2025
Intro
This is the third Watch Dogs legion, a third-person action game in which you do a lot of hacking and operating a spiderbot.
The Good
- Fairly impressive representation of London.
- Playing as various characters is cool.
- Messing with enemies by hacking is fun.
- A few really solid quests (she did what with her mom?!).
- Core gameplay is pretty fun.
The Bad
- Core gameplay changes very little over the course of the game.
- Tries too hard to be cool.
- Half the missions are "defend X position for Y amount of time".
- Completely forgettable story.
- Player characters is quit frail and never gets tougher.
- Half of the game has you using the OP spiderbot.
The Ugly
- Terrible boss battle (Cass)
- Even worse "escape through alley" sequence with infinitely spawning enemies. I had to lower the difficulty to Easy to get through.
- Several other instances of insanely unfair fights against endlessly spawning enemies.
Conclusion
Watch Dogs Legion is a fun if shallow playground that wears out its welcome. I had to take a break of over a year to complete it, but it did like it despite its mediocrity.
7/10
Got Nigel! He was rlly easy compared to his drone boss fight but glad I finally got the mf
Finally going after Nigel Cass and Albion. I think I’m getting close to completing the game. Maybe another 10 hours or so😂
Just started going after Nigel Cass and Albion. Game has been a blast so far
First time playing this game and if I'm honest I'm playing purely for the experience of messing around in a virtual recreation of London. There's something very comforting about hearing your own accent and seeing familiar locations in a video game and I think this will likely make my overall impressions very bias.
The podcasts / audio snippets dotted around the map offer interesting and actually rather deep dialogue surrounding issues of cyber security, capitalism, and privacy. Really enjoyed the podcast snippet from 'BuccanEar: Human Commodities'. Am I slowly becoming one of those people who gets excited over trivial lore in games?
So far I'm loving the environment work that they've done for London. The roads and buildings look great and the streets look busy with people / events going on. The combat is quite satisfying especially the melee combat.
Note to self: stop recruiting members and play the missions.
(Narrator: "He kept recruiting")
Hold up, Bolt Thrower and Extreme Noise Terror are on the soundtrack. If I had known that, would have probably started this sooner.
I feel as if I'm going to put far too much time into this. Played for about 8 hours so far, but only 1 and a half towards the main missions/story.
But at least an entry in the series actually feels fleshed out.
one of the main problems with this game is that it forces you into combat situations all the time, and the game's combat isn't good
This actually might almost be worse than I expected. I’m playing as part of the free weekend and I think I’m completely done with this series. Ubisoft’s brand of not-political but political games are wearing thin. I can’t believe around a decade or so ago I almost took a job at Ubisoft Toronto. Dodged a bullet there. I don’t think I’d want to be on the team that thought Watch Dogs: Legion was a good idea.
Interesting review of the game that a friend linked me to earlier:
https://www.pastemagazine.com/games/watch-dogs-legion/watch-dogs-legion-review/
conflicted on this one, recruiting anyone feels like a potential generational leap in terms of gameplay and the way NPCs are treated, but in this game feels unnecessary once you recruit people with various types of access. storyline is also crap so far. again, maybe a more different developer will take the idea and make something truly great with it
Got it today, I just can’t wait to explore London! :)
so far a big step down from watch dogs 2
I miss my boyfriend marcus holloway
another ubisoft game that feels like R&D for a better game some other developer will end up making