E3 2019: ‘Watch Dogs: Legion’ lets you play as anyone in futuristic post-Brexit London

The Ubisoft conference at E3 2019 started on the right foot: the announcement of its newest title in the Watch Dogs series, as we were all anticipating after some leaks here and there. The world premiere did not fail to be desired and has conquered even more the various fans of the saga, who now already have a great amount of material to increase the anxiety until the launch of the game!

Watch Dogs: Legion will be held in post-Brexit futuristic London, where now private military control the city and the state oppresses its citizens with even more powerful surveillance devices than we have seen previously in the first and second titles, but the big news is for the incredible mechanics of the game.

In Legion, we will not control only one character, but dozens! This idea ended up giving developers a lot of headaches due to their enormous complexity, and this is proven in the trailer and advertising materials released by Ubisoft.

London post-Brexit sunk in surveillance and fear

At the event, Clint Hocking, creative director of Ubisoft Toronto, took the stage to reveal that the game is happening in London, “one of the largest cities in the world and that has had a massive influence throughout our culture for centuries.” He spoke about how difficult it is to know what can be reserved for the future of the city, the country, and the world after Brexit’s decision, and that in the future of Watch Dogs Legion, we will be seeing the decline of London.

“The UK has become a state of surveillance and freedom has been replaced by fear. Armed drones patrol the streets, deportation squads take people out of their homes and grandfather uses cryptography to buy a new kidney on the black market. surrender. “

Hocking detailed that in Legion, the users’ mission is to create a popular resistance to fight against the totalitarian regime of the new London. And for that users will need to recruit and play just like anyone else.

Play with all available NPCs

The new mechanic allows players to control any NPC. Yes: everyone in the game can be played by you! To do this, you will need to recruit more and more people for the DecSec cause in London, and you need to outline potential candidates and seek out the best features to form your group.

“In our game, each of the Londoners is completely simulated with persistent life and relationships, and all of them from the entire population can be recruited for their team.”

The player will have to hack the profiles that interest him, play the mission of origin and conquer them for the cause of the Resistance, each of them with unique characteristics, different perspectives, personalities, and past, and completely animated and dubbed in a specific way.

All the kinematics of the game will be different depending on who you are playing at the moment. “Do you want to form a group of British classic spies?” “No problem.” “Want to form a team of children from Savvy Street?” “From a county of hipsters to body modification groups, Afropunk or gangsters.”

And he even quotes the women from Bletchley Park, a former secret military facility where 75 percent of the employees were women and who discovered secrets from other countries and hence how to break down cryptography and hacking.