Watch Dogs: Legion

Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One, Xbox Series X
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publisher: Ubisoft
Developer: Ubisoft Toronto
Release Date: Oct. 29, 2020

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'Watch Dogs: Legion' Free to Play This Weekend On PS4, PS5, PC and Stadia

by Rainier on Sept. 1, 2021 @ 10:28 a.m. PDT

Watch Dogs: Legion is set in a near-future, dystopian version of London. It's a post-Brexit world in which society, politics and technology have changed and altered London's fortunes.

In Watch Dogs: Legion, London is facing its downfall. Amidst the growing unrest of a restless London, a mysterious entity known as Zero-Day has framed secret underground resistance DedSec for coordinated bombings across London. In the aftermath, criminal opportunists from every dark corner of London took hold and filled the void left by a defeated government. As a member of DedSec, players will be going up against criminal opportunists in Watch Dogs: Legion; sadists, mercenaries, cybercriminals, and more; they’ll have to be prepared for a variety of situations. Players must recruit members into their DedSec Resistance to take on these criminal opportunists, liberate London and uncover the mystery behind Zero-Day.

Built with a next-gen concept, Watch Dogs: Legion introduces "Play as Anyone," a never-before-seen gameplay innovation created by Ubisoft Toronto. Play as Anyone gives players the entire city of London to choose their roster of resistance members from. Every single person in the open world can be recruited and played, is unique and has a backstory, personality and skillset.

Watch Dogs: Legion lets players recruit anyone they can see in the open world to be part of their DedSec Resistance up to 40 characters at a time. The London setting gives players the perfect backdrop to recruit all kinds of characters – who each have unique skills and weapons – to their Resistance: from an MI6 agent to a bareknuckle fighter, from a brilliant hacker to a getaway driver, from a football hooligan to an inconspicuous old lady. Players can play as any character from their roster of recruits and approach a situation based on their preference; whether the approach is from the sky while riding high on a cargo drone as a construction worker, or on the ground as a spy using high-tech gadgets like a gun-jamming watch and a prototype of a rocket-firing car, the choice is for the player to make.

In Watch Dogs: Legion, the players' choices have real consequences. If non-lethal force is used, the enemy will attempt to subdue and arrest the player. But if the player shoots to kill, their characters could be wounded or even permanently killed.

In Watch Dogs: Legion, players can even bring their team online and team up with their friends in four-player co-op, while sharing their progression between single-player and online.

Watch Dogs: Legion will be available to play for free from September 3 through September 5 on PS5, PS4, PC (Epic Games Store / Ubisoft Store) and Stadia.

Players will have access to the single-player campaign and online mode. 

Players who want to continue their fight with DedSec in Watch Dogs: Legion will get to keep their game progression and enjoy discounts on the game and Season Pass during the Free Weekend:

  • PC via Ubisoft Store and Epic Games Store: 60 percent off of the Standard, Deluxe, Gold and Ultimate Editions, and 25% off of the Season Pass.
  • PC via Stadia Pro: 55 percent off of the Deluxe Edition and 50% off of the Gold Edition.
  • PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4: 67% off of the Deluxe and Gold Editions.

New players will be able to pre-load the game today, September 1.

Watch Dogs: Legion supports hardware-accelerated DirectX Raytracing on Xbox Series X and use real-time ray tracing and other advanced NVIDIA gaming technologies on Nvidia RTX-equipped PC devices to create stunning visuals in the highly anticipated third installment of the AAA, open world, action-adventure Watch Dogs franchise. Ray tracing is the advanced graphics technique used to give movies their ultra-realistic visual effects. NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs contain specialized processor cores designed specifically to accelerate ray tracing so the visual effects in games can be rendered in real time.

Watch Dogs: Legion leverages Smart Delivery allowing access to both the Xbox One title and Xbox Series X title when available. Watch Dogs: Legion PS4 Digital and Blu-Ray games gives access to the corresponding Watch Dogs: Legion PS5 Digital version at no additional cost, when available. Requires a PS5 or a PS5 Digital Edition, the game disc (if owned on Blu-Ray) must be kept inserted in the PS5 disc tray to play, a PlayStation Network registration, additional storage & Broadband internet connection. May incur bandwidth usage fees.

Watch Dogs: Legion is available Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, PS5, Stadia and for PC (Epic Games, Uplay/UPlay+).


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