In this episode of THE BURN, hosts Aviv Icel Manoach and Omer Timetwister Kaplan help break London free in Watch Dogs: Legion, and discuss the turmoil in the gaming industry with the news about Microsoft big purchase.
Original recording date - January 28, 2022.
Game of the Show: Watch Dogs: Legion
Published by Ubisoft Toronto, MSRP $60, Buy the game (Humble partner link)
The game that got me into the Watch Dogs series! Really disliked the original, played the sequel for 5 hours before giving up but this one really hit home, I tried to think about why that is -
London, probably my #2 favourite city in the world after NYC, can’t say the same about SF. Very accessible, support the ‘wet’ approach to missions and didn’t feel it forced me into being stealthy (which I enjoy in moderate amount but rather go in guns blazing). Play as anyone is really well executed and fun, I got to form an emotional connection with a bunch of strangers and I’m sure people’s experiences will be different.
As with the previous games in the series, they are trying to take current bleeding-edge tech and make a “what if” those were an integral part of everyday life. But in Legion, they also tried to tie into it some of the political climates of 2018-2019 with privatised police forces, European detention camps in England and mandatory instalment of tracking chips.
All of this could have worked if not for COVID. Two years into the pandemic we see exactly how likely draconic regulations are to work – not very. The England of today could not enforce those regulations on its citizens, even if they wanted to – and it’s debatable if they even agreed on any of it.
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