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E3 2019 came and went like a whirlwind but left us with some jaw-dropping announcements that have shifted the tides from underneath our feet. One of such big and ambitious announcement was none other than the third entry in Ubisoft's popular hacker crime drama series-Watch Dogs: Legion.
Ubisoft started off their E3 2019 showcase with a lengthy 17 minutes gameplay footage of Watch Dogs Legion, showing different aspects of the game world, it's beautiful post-Brexit London setting which is flourishing with neon colours and futuristic gadgets and vehicles, but most importantly it's NPC's.
Without any further due, let's just get into four things that you absolutely need to know about Watch Dogs Legion:-
#1.Setting:-
Watch Dogs Legion is set in a near future post-Brexit London setting which is drop dead gorgeous take on the city, and is littered with tiny details everywhere. It features all the famous landmarks from the real life London such as the Big Ben, Camden Market, New Scotland yard and many more.
The 45 minutes gameplay demo which was provided to the E3 atteendess to try for themselves featured missions centered around two of the above location.
Camden Market- one of London's finest crafts and antique's is now overrun by terriost organizations and serves as a black market. One of the mission which was featured in the gameplay demo took place in this area as the player character was flying around sitting on a drone while taking out enemies from afar.
The London in Watch Dogs Legion seems to have a more colourful flavour than the real life London. Grafitis can be found all around the world, the game seems to have a special emphasise on it's art design this time. Tatoo shops littered with holographic projection indicates very well that we are in a futuristic London.
#2. Play as ANYONE:-
The biggest and most ambitious feature of Watch Dogs Legion, that set's it apart from all the open world games out there is that it doesn't have a pre-defined main character.
In Watch Dogs: Legion you can play as anyone. That means every NPC of the game you come across is different and you can recruit them in your band of resistance.
The NPC's in Watch Dogs Legion will be procedurally generated that means that every character will have a different look, voice, behaviour and habits, back story, as well as different skills that would set them apart from, let's say any other NPC in your radar.
This ambitious feature will lay down the groundwork for Watch Dogs: Legion's entirety of gameplay. Players will be given the freedom to choose any NPC as their character according to their liking. For example:-
One of the characters that was featured in the gameplay "liked to pick fights in a bar", meaning that he had a special ability of "75 melee damage while drunk", giving players a completley different approach to the gameplay.
Just like that, the world of Watch Dogs Legion will feature several other interesting characters for you to recruit and play as, given that you first perform some specific tasks for them and gain their trust.
#3.Classes:-
In Watch Dogs Legion; after recruiting a specific character, players will be provided with a decision to assign one of the three classes to their character.
These classes are:-
*Enforcer(focuses on heavy weapons and melee combat)
*Hacker( can use various varieties of drones and other futuristic gadgets)
*Infiltrator( focuses on stealth and can get invisible)
All the above classes are pretty self-explanatory like the Enforcer being able to equip different types of guns and even indulge hand to hand combat which seems to have been refined a lot from the previous entries.
The Hacker can use various drones to take out their enemies without even entering the compound. Some of the drones we are aware of as of now are assault drones, wifi drones, cargo drones, each having their own functionality and hence providing a different gameplay experience.
The Infiltrator meanwhile has unique abilities and preferabble by people who likes non-lethal sneaky approach. One of the special abilitty an infiltrator has the ability to make him invisible from the camera for a little amount of time.
All the classes will come with different perk ablities that will be unlocked as the game progesses.
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#4.Missions:-
Even though Watch Dogs Legion's first priority seems to be its gameplay and the open world playground, the game will still be a heavy story-driven adventure like its predecessor.
However don't expect it to be the game's focus because if the devs themselves don't know what character you'll playing as during a specific mission, it's pretty difficult to create a compelling narrative segment.
Watch Dogs Legion will have about sixty plus missions spread across five different storylines taking place throughout the game. It is said to align more with the type of story telling found James Bond movies than the previous entries of the game.
In a recent interview, Actor and Comedian Aisha Tyler also suggested that the game will feature a darker theme, more in common with Netflix's Black Mirror TV series.
Watch Dogs Legion launches on 6 March 2020 on PC, PS4, Xbox One and Stadia.
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