This will unlock a similar "please do me a favor" chain of two to three missions. Find a moment in their schedule that looks sensitive, like dealing with a debt collector, then show up at the listed time and location to help them out (usually with brute force). More stubborn Londoners will have a red "thumbs-down" icon on their scanned profiles, which means you'll need to study their entire itinerary (yes, your phone can reveal all of their calendar data). If the person is already sympathetic to the cause, then it's a matter of asking them what favor they might need done, at which point you take on a chain of two to three missions. Now in WGL, you're expected to leverage this information for the sake of Dedsec recruitment. Like in Watch Dogs 2, players can use a supercharged smartphone to scan anybody walking past, revealing deeply personal information. In my demo, Ubisoft was clearly proud of this core play-as-anyone functionality, as I was told to recruit whoever I wanted. Do that again and again to enlist more strangers.
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One citizen takes up the mantle, then does someone a favor (in WD:L's case, a series of open-world video game missions) to convince someone to join the group. Though Ubisoft didn't show us the game's intro, the intro appears to revolve around a single converted Londoner starting a grassroots Dedsec revival. And while the play-as-anyone conceit really works as advertised and is impressive as a feat of engineering, its execution within a video game is currently hard to recommend.
(The game will also launch on next-gen consoles "upon their launch," Ubisoft reps have told Ars.) In the meantime, I got to play a preview build for nearly four hours last week to find out for myself.
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It's certainly a first for a GTA-like: why run people over with your car when you can sign them up to your cause?īut is this twist enough to boost the Watch Dogs series to a compelling romp, years after its " GTA with hacking" conceit was already wearing thin? After a delay from its original 2019 launch window, players across the world will find out October 29 on PC (UPlay, Epic Games Store), Stadia, Xbox One, and PS4. Security guards, grandmas, and even members of rival factions can be "recruited" to become a playable character (with some being trickier to convince than others).
Last year, Watch Dogs: Legion emerged from Ubisoft's coffers with an ambitious pitch for the open-world genre: play as any character in the game.