Review: Watch Dogs, Legion

Published November 11, 2020 5:35pm ET



Ubisoft games’ new outing, Watch Dogs: Legion, offers an extraordinary, interactive tour of inner-city London.

Resident and regular visitors of London will take to a vehicle and quickly find themselves exploring what is, by all accounts, the most accurate ground-level rendering of a cityscape in gaming history. Playing the game over the past two weeks, I’ve been struck by just how accurate Legion’s London really is. All the major sites are there. If you want to do so, you can take a jaunt to the Cabinet or Foreign Offices, and leap over into Downing Street. Buckingham Palace is also accessible if you’re able to recruit one of her majesty’s foot guards. So are the London Eye, Parliament, and The Shard. I’ve spent most of my time just experimenting if places of memory are in the game. Far more often than not, they are. This includes otherwise nondescript buildings that will have unique memory or meaning, or no meaning at all, for each player.

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