![]() Like the flying motorcycle riders and the dismayed ?Oof? sound pedestrians make when you run them over, the old shock groups gag is something that should have worn out its welcome, but never did. ![]() I vaguely remember that being in the first two games, but it seems much easier to do here - and, what?s more, Watch Dogs: Legion allows you to make a shock chain reaction when people are standing near each other, so if you time it right, you can make small crowds topple over. Similarly, the game allows you to shock people with your smartphone. Immature? Absolutely, but I have no regrets. Oh, and when I discovered that when you crashed motorcycles, the riders would catapult into the air and suddenly vanish as if they?d spontaneously ascended into a higher plane of being…well, after that every time I saw a motorcycle, I?d stop what I was doing to see how far I could launch a rider before they?d pop out of existence. While you don?t seem to be able to control the traffic lights (which was a huge source of joy for me in Watch Dogs 2), everything else is fair game, and it wasn?t long until I had tears streaming down my face from laughing so hard at the mayhem the game allowed me to cause. So if you want to, say, drive cars into a blockade across a street (taking out tonnes of pedestrians in the process), then drive more and more cars into the blockade until they all go off in a massive chain reaction explosion, you can do that here. And I don?t mean you can get into every vehicle and drive, I mean that right off the bat, the game allows you to control cars with your in-game smartphone. My favourite by far was the fact that the game gives you full control over every vehicle on the road. I embraced the game?s idiotic ideas, mostly ignored what its developers intended for me to do, and just had fun with all the stupid ideas. See, I loved Watch Dogs: Legion not despite its stupidity, but because of it. This may seem contradictory, but it?s really not. I regularly called my wife in to show her whatever I was doing in the game, because I was having such a blast with it. I found myself playing it for hours and hours, and completely losing track of time. Like those two games, Watch Dogs: Legion is fuelled by lots of big ideas and allegedly deep thoughts about technology, except none of them quite land, and the end result feels more mediocre than anything else.Īnd yet: I loved it. In this respect, I guess, it?s kind of like the previous two Watch Dogs games. ![]() ![]() It?s just a brain-dead game that aspires to be much, much more than it is. While I?ve certainly played dumber games - and here I?m thinking of Earth Defense Force or latter-day Saints Row - they generally were trying to be stupid, whereas I don?t think it?s intentional in Watch Dogs: Legion. Almost every thing about it is dumb enough that it will make your brain hurt if you think about it too hard, from its techno-thriller plot, to its characters, to its promise of letting players enlist everyone in London behind their cause. Let me just say this up front: Watch Dogs: Legion is a monumentally stupid game. ![]()
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