Watch Dogs: Legion Reviews

Watch Dogs: Legion is ranked in the 56th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
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Zdeněk Samec
7 / 10.0
Dec 31, 2020

Watch Dogs: Legion is a great game with impressive graphics, original gameplay and a lively and relatively large world. However, it won't impress you with a rather average story, full of clichés about hacker "goons" and futuristic crypto-anarchy. However, it can be interesting as a slightly less morbid alternative to the popular Grand Theft Auto, against which it is generally much more optimistic.

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Dec 7, 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.

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6 / 10.0
Nov 27, 2020

What you end up with is an experience that shows a ton of promise, but ends up being entirely average. It's hard to call Watch Dogs Legion a bad game outright. It's a serviceable, if traditional, open-world game with a boring story and novelty mechanics that play out better on paper than in execution. The PS5 version makes expected improvements to visuals and load times, but isn't a standout example of a "next-gen" title.

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7 / 10.0
Nov 25, 2020

An ambitious undertaking that is marred by poor writing and bugs.

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ZTGD
Top Critic
6.5 / 10.0
Nov 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.

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4 / 10.0
Nov 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.

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7 / 10.0
Nov 24, 2020

Playing (pre-release) on Xbox One we experienced a chuggy frame rate and several crashes, but our experience on Xbox Series X has been smooth as butter. More than that, London rendered on next-generation consoles is pretty as a picture, with beautiful lighting effects that include puddles on its wet roads that perfect reflect the city and its gorgeously overcast sky.

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Unscored
Nov 24, 2020

Watch Dogs: Legion is an ambitious effort with a lot of unique ideas that unfortunately doesn’t quite stick the landing.

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GameGrin
Top Critic
6.5 / 10.0
Nov 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.

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6.5 / 10.0
Nov 23, 2020

Watch Dogs: Legion is a far more palatable experience on PS5 thanks to its vastly-improved load times and splendid visual upgrades. The only real technical gripes are that there's little in the way of DualSense implementation, and the framerate, while steady, hasn't been upped. Its base problems of open-world fatigue and messy storytelling are still problems that can't be so easily fixed and still remain a significant barrier to enjoyment. It'll give you a dazzling trip to London, but you wouldn't want to stay there.

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5 / 5.0
Nov 22, 2020

Set in a plausible alternate future, "Watch Dogs: Legion" is the third open-world action-adventure game in the Watch Dogs series, following on from the events of both previous games.

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5 / 10
Nov 21, 2020

Watch Dogs Legion might look and run better than ever on PS5, but that means little when the game itself struggles to break the boundaries of mediocrity. This next-gen version remains unchanged from its PS4 counterpart as far as gameplay goes, so the boosted performance does little to hide the title's underlying issues. No matter how well it runs, Watch Dogs Legion needs to sort out how it plays.

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6.5 / 10.0
Nov 20, 2020

Even though it may sound as if the game is avoidable after reading through this review, there’s still some fun to be had, especially for the hardcore Watch Dogs fans if that is such a thing. Going into this, I was craving another Ubisoft style, check-box frenzy of a game, and this just didn’t do it for me in the slightest. It didn’t help that Assassin’s Creed Valhalla released just a handful of days after this and is exactly the style of game we were looking for. So should you jump in? That largely depends on you. If you played the first two games, I can certainly recommend a go at this one just to stay fresh on story elements and be prepared for the hopeful revitalization of the franchise when we get Watch Dogs: Black Flag. For everyone else, you can probably look away this time, especially with so many things releasing right now in the new generation of console gaming.

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75 / 100
Nov 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.

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5 / 10.0
Nov 18, 2020

Watch Dogs: Legions should’ve been an interesting game due to its “recruit everyone” nature. But for that to work it needs a city that properly reacts to the players’ actions. Sadly, the dystopian London is nothing but another theme park for you do what you want. It lacks proper context and is too afraid to tell a story that isn’t as safe as possible.

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Unscored
Nov 18, 2020

Ubisoft's hacker title shines on Xbox Series X.

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8 / 10
Nov 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.

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Meh
Nov 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.

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8 / 10.0
Nov 16, 2020

Watch Dogs Legion is one of the most fun, unique and innovative games I’ve played this year.

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6.8 / 10.0
Nov 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.

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