During last night’s Ubisoft Forward 2020, Ubisoft has finally announced the release date of the upcoming Watch Dogs: Legion. Fans have been waiting for a long time for news about Watch Dogs: Legion and now they will be glad to know that Watch Dogs: Legion will release on October 29, 2020, on Xbox One, PS4, PC, Sadia, and PC via Epic Games Store and Uplay. Subscribers of UPLAY+ will also get access to Watch Dogs: Legion right at the launch. A next-gen release is also planned when PS5 and Xbox Series X are released later this year.
Watch Dogs: Legion has been made with the next-gen concept and it brings with it a brand new ‘Play as Anyone’ mechanic. This unique gameplay innovation has been created by Ubisoft Toronto which is the main developer of Watch Dogs: Legion. With this unique ‘Play as Anyone’ mechanic, you get the entire city of London to choose your roster of resistance members from. Every person that you see in the open world can be recruited to your cause and comes with a unique backstory, skillset, and personality.
Everyone who buys the PS4 or Xbox One version of Watch Dogs: Legion will be able to upgrade to the PS5 and Xbox Series X version of the game for free. The game supports hardware-accelerated DirectX Raytracing on Xbox Series X and full ray-tracing support on Nvidia RTX-equipped PCs. This helps the engine to bring real-time ray-tracing reflections to the streets of London in the game. Watch Dogs Legion is officially described as:
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.
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.
Along with the release of gameplay and the release date, Ubisoft has also detailed the different editions of Watch Dogs: Legion that you can purchase. Pre-orders are now live for all versions.
- Gold Edition includes the base game and the Season Pass, including new story expansions, extra DedSec missions, four unique heroes, the Complete Edition of the original Watch Dogs game from 2014, and more.
- Ultimate Edition includes Gold Edition and Ultimate digital content, including three new playable heroes, four weeks VIP Status to earn currency faster, and new masks.
- Collector’s Edition includes the Ultimate Edition plus the LED Ded Coronet Mask Replica, an exclusive SteelBook®, a set of three stickers, and a recto-verso propaganda poster, all inspired by the game’s universe, and instant access to the mask in-game. Collector’s Edition is exclusive to the Ubisoft Store.
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