"The core ideas of Watch Dogs have always been as engrossing as they are prescient. Playing as a hacker on the fringes of a surveillance state is an inherently cool setup for an open-world game, and when you add in a bunch of novel tech-based abilities that let you alter the world around you, you've got a franchise that meaningfully breaks away from more popular titles in the genre."
"The first Watch Dogs was a decent if forgettable Chicago-set romp with an unlikable protagonist at the center of its glum story. Watch Dogs 2 made this world as fun to exist in as it was to play, with a much better lead character and the sunnier setting of San Francisco. The steady improvement between the first two games set up the third title for a hat trick. Instead, 2020's Watch Dogs: Legion took the foundation and experimented."
Watch Dogs centers on hacking within a surveillance state and uses tech-based abilities to let players alter an open-world environment. The series moved from a forgettable Chicago-set first game to a brighter, character-driven Watch Dogs 2 set in San Francisco. Watch Dogs: Legion relocates to London and produces a standout recreation that blends historic streets with modern tech aesthetics. Legion experiments with franchise structure by framing DedSec, introducing a private military response, and integrating ctOS. The game's atmosphere and city design excel, but many experimental choices undermine the series' core strengths in narrative and gameplay.
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