14 DAY TRIAL // We're less than a month away from Ubisoft's first big launch of the year, Watch Dogs: Legion. We had the chance to spend around four hours with the game and we've got the feeling that this might be the best in the series. You can read our Watch Dogs: Legion preview to learn more about the game's mechanics.
It seems that Ubisoft is just as confident that Watch Dogs: Legion will find a bigger audience than the previous titles in the series. The French company revealed recently some of the post-launch content it plans to add to Watch Dogs: Legion in the months to come.
First off, we have an Online mode that will be released on December 3 as part of a free update. It will allow players to free-roam the open-world of the game alongside their friends. In Online mode, players can team up with their friends for up to four-player co-op and explore the city of London and participate in side activities.
The Online mode will include new co-op missions for two-to-four players using new co-op gameplay mechanics, four-player co-op Tactical Ops missions, as well as the first available PvP mode, Spiderbot Arena, where four-to-eight players control armed spiders and compete in free-for-all deathmatches.
As far as solo players go, they will get new characters with new abilities, new mission content, and a New Game Plus mode in a future free update scheduled for release in 2021. Those who purchase the Season Pass will get access to Watch Dogs: Legion – Bloodline, a new storyline which includes Aiden Pearce from the original Watch Dogs game and Wrench from Watch Dogs 2, fully playable in the single-player campaign and online, along with two other characters: Darcy, a member of the Assassin Order, and Mina, a subject of transhuman experiments, who possesses the ability to mind control individuals.
Apart from the playable characters and a new story expansion, Season Pass owners will also receive extra DedSec missions, the original Watch Dogs Complete Edition, and more.
Along with information about post-launch content, Ubisoft released the story trailer for Watch Dogs: Legion that places the fate of London in players' hands. Zero-Day, an unknown entity, has framed the secret underground resistance, DedSec, for the bombings that contributed to the fall of London.
Watch Dogs: Legion will release on October 29 on Xbox One, PlayStation4, Google Stadia, and PC (via Epic Games and uPlay). The game will also be available on UPLAY+, Ubisoft’s subscription service. Watch Dogs: Legion will also release on Xbox Series X/S on November 10 and digitally on PlayStation 5 alongside the console on November 12.
The physical version of the game on PlayStation 5 will be available on November 24. Watch Dogs: Legion will also be available on Amazon Luna when the Ubisoft channel launches.