Watch Dogs: Legion is a picture-perfect example of a video game meant to entertain. It’s set in an open-world city that is begging for players to mess around with it like a kid in a sandbox. The game opens up almost right away, so there isn’t much barring people from jumping right into the good stuff, i.e. wreaking havoc on the citizens of London through technological mayhem.
It can be fun, but also because it’s a video game, there are some things that don’t make sense from both a realistic standpoint as well as from the standpoint of the presented lore. That said, these inconsistencies aren’t truly outrageous and are more fun to poke at rather than scream about, so let’s have a good time with these points.
10 Phones Too Powerful
Phones in this universe have always been way too overpowered. The craziest part about them, besides the fact that they can control cars and technology at the drop of a hat, is the battery life. What is that battery pack made out of? Plutonium? All of it is unrealistic even in a futuristic setting for Watch Dogs: Legion. The idea that random citizens can get hired and given this power is also crazy.
9 DedSec Random Appearances
This one only doesn’t make sense if players buy the DLC pack, or special edition of Watch Dogs: Legion. In it are rare characters. The game begins with seemingly the last DedSec agent called into action and their job is to recruit others. After the tutorial they walk into what was an empty room to one filled with agents all of a sudden. Where did they come from? Again, it’s only a thing if players get the royalty treatment but still silly nonetheless.
8 Is This The Best Way?
On the subject of recruiting NPCs to become agents, it’s all a little strange. From a video game standpoint it is an interesting mechanic to place in a game. It’s kind of like the Nemesis system from Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor in terms of revolutionary gameplay.
That said, who can one really trust off the street? This game should take place within months cut with montages of training and interrogation sequences that show players thoroughly vetting candidates.
7 Everyone Can Become A Soldier?
On top of the secrecy of it all, it’s also hard to imagine some of these people doing the actions players are required to perform. From taking down enemies like they’re a trained sniper with decades of combat experience to the ability to scale a building. How can an eighty year old man like Evan Moore climb a pipe? He literally hobbles around with little to no ability but he can climb? It’s all a little senseless.
6 On The Down Low
One last aspect of recruitment that doesn’t make sense is the fact that London is in a constant state of surveillance. Sure, DedSec probably has ways to nullify their voices or scramble video feeds, but talking to strangers openly in the streets seems like one is asking for trouble. On top of that having a bar be the location of the hideout, which houses and employs non-DedSec enthusiasts, is also a bad move. No wonder they were caught the first time.
5 Auto Driving Cars
Some of the technology leaps in Watch Dogs: Legion is understandable. For example, the prevalent use of drones from news drones with cameras to giant cargo drones used to deliver packages. It all sort of makes sense, but to have traffic with not just a few driverless taxis, but legions of them around, seems unsafe. Why are there so many sports cars without owners just driving around? It seems like a waste of space and energy.
4 Where Are The Kids?
This one is an easy question to answer. The reason why developers are hesitant to include children in open-world city games like this is that they are understandably afraid of blowback. Killing adult pedestrians is one thing but going on a rampage to kill a bunch of kids is too extreme.
It makes sense from that standpoint but not from a story perspective. Maybe this is a Children of Men situation and people can’t have kids.
3 Where Is The Equipment?
When one is running around the city, they probably have their mask and guns put away. No need to attract attention with a pistol waving about in a crowded area. What doesn’t make sense is where all of these agents keep everything. A pistol is one thing but multiple weapons like a shotgun as well as a giant mask is a bit hard to swallow especially in some of the skimpy clothing both guys and gals can wear. One can even run around in their underwear.
2 Buying Clothes Digitally
Speaking of running around nude, on the opposite end of the spectrum there are plenty of clothing options to deck out one’s character, or characters, to their liking. Some stores have clothing outside while others are just accessed digitally outside of the store. If this is the case then where are the clothes coming from? Are they being digitally downloaded on some sort of clothing 3D printer or what? That’s not that hard to imagine but the game never says.
1 The Batman Syndrome
This is titled as such because Batman is all about non-lethal takedowns. That is to say he is unwillingly to kill even though he knows his foes, like Joker and Two-Face, are going to escape and steal and/or kill again. That said, the amount of damage he does to low level thugs is basically a fate worse than death, and the same can be said about some of the takedowns players can dish out in Watch Dogs: Legion. Is shooting someone point blank with a stun shotgun to the head really non-lethal?
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