Plus, he’s just a more fun and iconic-looking character than old uncle Aiden. Thankfully the second protagonist of this expansion, Watch Dogs 2’s Wrench, has a massive kit of weapons and abilities that are much more interesting to use. Thinking outside of the box and using a variety of hacking tools to complete your mission is way more satisfying than just running in and shooting everything that moves. I leaned into his abilities and tackled a fair number of missions with a more run-and-gun approach, but all that did was remind me why Watch Dogs 2 and Legion are so much better than the first game. He’s got a dynamic reload system that buffs your gun damage if you double-tap the reload button at the right time, and you can also use his Focus ability to enter a slo-mo aiming mode immediately after performing a stealth takedown. His unique abilities, though, are all about guns. Once Aiden arrives, his tools of the trade are in line with what your heroes from the base game are capable of. Jordi Chen – the actual fan favourite character from Watch Dogs 1 – tasks Aiden with traveling to London to take on this heist contract for Thomas Rempart, but Aiden only agrees because his adult nephew Jackson Pierce happens to live in London. My biggest issue with the anyone-is-your-hero system of the base game is that few of my characters ever looked or felt special, so it’s wild that Ubisoft brought back the protagonist of the original game and made him look just as plain and forgettable as those NPCs. He was a broody white dude with questionable fashion choices, and his aged appearance in Watch Dogs Legion – Bloodline somehow amps that up to 11.
It had plenty of gripping moments and memorable, endearing characters… but Aiden Pierce wasn’t exactly at the top of that list. With that being said, I genuinely loved the story of that game. Much like the original Assassin’s Creed, I think it was a clunky game with promising ideas that weren’t fully delivered on until the sequel arrived. One entire console generation on from its release, plenty of people love to hate on the first Watch Dogs. This is where our sour and dour and incredibly lukewarm protagonist from the original Watch Dogs, Aiden Pierce, makes his comeback.
There are no anarchist hackers, tech rebels or sarcastic AIs in this version of London, but there are still threats to modern society bubbling under the surface – namely, a tech giant named Thomas Rempart who’s building some pretty evil robots and needs to steal a bit of tech in order to make them work. Watch Dogs Legion: Bloodline takes place after the Zero Day terror attacks that occur in the prologue of the main game, but before the establishment of a new DedSec uprising that kicks off the rest of the game. Yet, in focusing the experience on them and removing the character-recruitment system that made Watch Dogs Legion so unique, the end result is a much less exciting experience than the game it intends to expand on. Half a year on, and the Bloodline DLC brings back two iconic Watch Dogs characters to serve as your playable heroes. It made the story of the game a little less exciting thanks to the sometimes clunky way your recruited heroes are procedurally fitted into cutscenes, but this was still vastly overshadowed by how much fun the character system was – it created an addictive ecosystem of social manipulation where half the fun of the game was the act of discovering, persuading, and recruiting new characters.
Anyone who inhabited the game world could become your hero, with the game letting you recruit pretty much any NPC you see and make them part of your DedSec army. When Watch Dogs Legion came out last year, one of the biggest revelations for the open-world hacker adventure was the fact that there was no central protagonist.
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