While everyone will be playing within the city of London and all that entails, it’s a slightly different version from the single-player campaign. Up to four players can join up online to take on missions or enjoy the kind of freeform mayhem that often comes with these kinds of systemic open-world games. That’s exactly what you’ll be able to do with Watch Dogs: Legion’s multiplayer. Spiderbot Arena is fantastic, but to say that it would be enough to keep Legion’s multiplayer audience placated as they wait for more content would be an over-exaggeration at best.If the idea of jumping into London with a few of your mates sounds appealing, well, you’re not alone.
Conceptually, it doesn’t do anything exciting if I’m being honest co-op missions are alright, but the ability to play through the campaign in co-op would’ve been even better. Rather, it’s scheduled for some time down the line.ĭespite the extra time in the oven, Watch Dogs: Legion’s multiplayer gives off the impression that it was maybe rushed out. The closest thing Watch Dogs: Legion is getting to a drop-in multiplayer mode will be the Invasions mode, which won’t be coming alongside the release of the multiplayer. Watch Dogs: Legion, on the other hand, would have benefited considerably by just adding some drop-in/drop-out co-op multiplayer. For GTA5, it makes sense that multiplayer would be its own cordoned off things. GTA 5’s central premise – heists – were wonderfully converted into co-op adventures in GTA Online. GTA Online’s core gameplay is simple you steal vehicles, drive, run around, and shoot things. The Longevity of Watch Dogs: Legion’s Multiplayer Could Be in Invasions Mode There’s simply a lot more to do in GTA Online that’s a lot more fun. While it’s trying to do a lot of the same things as GTA Online, it is severely lacking when it comes to actual content. Add on top the fact that it lacks quite a bit of charm that made Watch Dogs 2 so engrossing since just about every character – with the exception of a few here and there – is procedurally generated.Īs it stands right now, Rockstar doesn’t have much to worry about from Watch Dogs: Legion. Legion perhaps suffers from being too complex to make sense for multiplayer, honestly, with all the different gadgets and abilities players can have.
Doubling down on this through more missions in multiplayer may not be the best thing for the game, especially since there isn’t a particularly large number of things to do after you’re done with the co-op missions at launch. Like I said in my hands-on preview of Watch Dogs: Legion’s PvP mode, Spiderbot Arena, the core gameplay loop of Watch Dogs: Legion can get exhausting at times. I don’t think Watch Dogs: Legion is doing enough to differentiate itself from the competition here.
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Ubisoft promises further content down the line, expanding on the series of casual and serious co-op missions Legion’s multiplayer already has. The only thing really missing is the ability to kill other players in the open-world (for the better, might I add). Watch Dogs: Legion Multiplayer Versus GTA OnlineĪt its core, Legion’s multiplayer isn’t too dissimilar from GTA Online you and your buddies can mess around in the open-world or take on co-op missions.
Ubisoft has opted to give the multiplayer its own bespoke missions, an open world that’s largely empty with little to do, and PvP cordoned off into its own little section of the multiplayer menu. And this trend continues with Watch Dogs: Legion. Far Cry as a franchise employs multiplayer quite differently from something like Ghost Recon: Breakpoint.
Ubisoft’s approach to co-op in its open world games has really lacked any real consistency. It’s only natural that, once its launch-period kinks were worked out, GTA Online would be a massive success with fans of Grand Theft Auto – a franchise that’s quite easily one of the biggest, most popular one in gaming. We’ve been asking for a way to play GTA with or against our friends since the release of the seminal Grand Theft Auto 3, after all. The popularity of GTA Online is strange, but quite understandable.