Watch Dogs: Legion is a game where players have to start a revolution, clean their organization’s name, and fight for what they believe is right. In this installment of the series, you’ll get to explore the streets of a futuristic and borderline dystopian London, where an all-seeing surveillance state controls the city, causing Landaaners to be continually monitored.
In this open-world game, you’ll get main and side quests, choose what approach to use with each one, and even change what character you use for specific missions, using the new recruitment option. With this kind of liberty comes many ways you can misbehave and do some rather nasty things to those around you. Take a look at just how dark you can be in Watch Dogs: Legion.
9 Electrocuting People Directly On The Face
One gadget that completely changes Watch Dogs Legion’s gameplay is the Infiltrator Spiderbot. This little guy can neutralize enemies without being visible to them or take any fall damage, and it helps you keep a stealthy path.
This little robot can access hard to reach places, make itself invisible, and perform non-lethal takedowns by, you guessed it, electrocuting enemies directly on the face. While it may be “non-lethal,” the electric shock causes some actual damage to the body to the person on the receiving end, like pain, weakness, or difficulty moving limbs. It can also affect the central nervous system, making the person suffer from amnesia, seizures, or respiratory arrest. Keep that in mind next time you’re using the Spiderbot to face-hug anyone in Landaan.
8 Unlimited Hacking
Sure, the Watch Dogs series prides itself on the ability to hack everything and everyone. So, as you may suspect, hacking is a core mechanic for this game’s gameplay. Via hacking, you can neutralize enemies and advance throughout the game’s mission to defeat Albion.
However, in Landaan, hacking knows no limits. You can use your superpower to steal hard-earned money from people or Deep Profile them, so you’ll know their schedule and more personal information to manipulate them into joining your cause.
7 Killing Yourself By Killing NPCs
If Grand Theft Auto taught gamers anything, it’s that any game that lets you drive in an open-world will end in many NPC’s deaths. But, when you can play as anyone, NPCs stop being non-playable and become potentially playable.
Sure, the maximum recruit limit in Watch Dogs: Legion is 45, so there’s a limit to how many people you can be. However, that guy you just rolled over with the car? He could have been an excellent addition to DedSec lines, but now you’ll never know.
6 Killing People
Granted, a huge part of every video-game is making your way through hordes of enemies; this usually means killing the vast majority of them. However, Since the first game, Watch Dogs has been trying to give players the possibility of a less lethal approach.
In Watch Dogs: Legion, half of the weapons are non-lethal; on the same note, some recruits have special abilities like the pocket watch or a swarm of bees to neutralize enemies. If this isn’t enough, you can play around with gadgets like the Spiderbot. Finally, enemies will take a non-lethal approach unless you do otherwise, so with all of these options, killing everyone you face seems a bit mean at this point.
5 Seducing The Liaison
One of Watch Dogs: Legion’s missions (Honey Trap) requires players to use the best moves in their playbook to seduce the liaison in a pub. She will reject the first operative you use on her, so you’ll have to switch to another one of the opposite sex and try again.
Once you talk to the liaison again, she’ll be way more open to your operatives’ advances. After a few quirky pick-up lines, the two of you end up sealing the deal, and your character will get the pictures Malik needs. At the end of the mission, the liaison will find out what you’ve done and call you out. They say that the end justifies the means, but sleeping with someone just to take advantage of them is a big red flag, even if a revolution is at stake.
4 Attacking Your Operatives
In a game where you can play as anyone, people can start to feel disposable after a while. After all, if they die or get injured, you can just switch to another one. And while Ubisoft allows players the option to dismiss any recruit they don’t like, some players find it funny to attack them while they are off duty.
After you switch operatives, the last one you used will remain for a little while in the same area, so you can go to their location and run them over with a car or shoot them; this will put the operative in the hospital.
3 Take Revenge
After playing with certain operatives, it is only normal to develop an emotional bond with your characters. However, things can go wrong when you’re fighting against an all-seeing surveillance state. So your character can end up dead, especially if you’re playing with permadeath mode on, meaning that when an operative dies, he or she is gone for good.
Watch Dogs: Legion gives players the possibility to avenge their fallen members. After the mission is over, the person who killed your operative will become persistent in the world, so there’s a pretty good chance you’ll see them again, It is up to you what to do next, but as sweet as revenge can be, it won’t bring anyone back.
2 Killing Ada
In the main mission, Coming Home, players are tasked with going to Skye Larsen’s house. After a series of puzzle-solving, they’ll get access to a remote cottage under the house. Once there, players will learn more about Skye’s past and how she became the person she is today.
Among the things you find out about, you’ll learn the Larsen’s first experiment was done on her pet, Ada. Skye killed Ada and uploaded her into a Spiderbot to test the neural mapping process. While Skye claims that the dog is perfectly ok, what kind of life can a dog’s conscious have trapped for all eternity in a glass box with only a ball to play with? So you do what you must and deactivate Ada’s power source, killing her for a second time.
1 Deciding On Skye Larsen’s Fate
At the end of the 404 storyline, players decide what happens with Skye Larsen, one of Watch Dogs: Legion’s antagonists. She is a transhumanist who thinks neural mapping is the future of humankind.
Among Larsen’s atrocious deeds are uploading her dog to a spider bot or sedating her mother and neural mapping her against her will. In the end, you’ll be the judge of Larsen; is she a monster or a visionary? The game gives you the option to kill her for good, making her pay for everything she’s done, or you could upload her, giving her immortality and the same fate she gave to her mother.
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