


Some are equipped with a uniform for their day job, allowing you to slip in to certain areas without avoiding suspicion, though you can't let anyone make eye contact for too long or you'll be caught out and all hell breaks loose. While others might have prior wrap sheets meaning once caught will spend more time in jail or even just an awful case of the hiccups in high stress stealth situations, which isn't ideal when infiltrating large compounds full of enemies. This dark future which in places often feels somewhat close to the knuckle, is almost at odds with the gameplay loop and characterisation you're being presented with. Ultimately you're unsuccessful, and this leads to Albion taking over London with an iron grip and Dedsec twisting in the wind, until they can rebuild the hacker collective. The game opens with you playing as Dalton, a spy much like Taron Egerton from Kingsman, fighting his way through Parliament to stop a terrorist bombing.

The vision of dystopian London with drones filling the sky and self-driving cars flooding the roads is also home to blood-soaked gulags in Battersea Power Station, gangs harvesting peoples organs in Camden Market and the government housing 'illegals' in their own version of Guantanamo Bay right in the heart of London. Taking place on the streets of London, a city ripe for exploring similar fun ideas, it's pretty bleak fare instead. Watch Dogs Legion, then, is something of an odd call for the next stage in this hacking-focused series. Related: Best Xbox Series S and Series X deals - Console offers, accessories, games and more Going after big tech companies and greedy famous figures – the stakes were high but there was a good balance, and it never lost its bright colours and zany outcomes.

It opted to create a fun group of young hackers led by Marcus Holloway, who oozed style, could laugh at himself and was your gateway into a world of fun adventures. Watch Dogs 2 built upon the foundations of its predecessor and did away with the stern yet altogether uninteresting character of Aiden Pierce.
