In a near future, London is on the brink of destruction: the population is oppressed by a police state exercising total surveillance, private militias take control of the streets and the weakest fall prey to organized crime. London's fate depends only on you and your ability to fight back. Welcome to the Resistance.

What is Watch Dogs?

Watch Dogs games explore the impact of technology on our society, highlighting the conflict of information and connected data questions.

DedSec, a hacker group, defies the abuse of technology and seeks to show the weaknesses of the system.

In Watch Dogs: Legion specifically, players must face a military corruption while fighting against a state which continuously spy on its inhabitants.

The goal is to overcome oppression at all costs by forming a team with varied skills and using the right tactics.

GAMEPLAY EXPERIENCE

Type of game:

• Solo and Multiplayer (up to 4 players) online game: mandatory connection to the internet.

• A third-person shooter game (players view the action as if from a position behind the character they are controlling (external point of view).

Player’s goals:

To recruit new members for the Resistance against the enemies, players must help Londoners in their daily lives and complete missions. Players can embody any character of their squad in order to carry out their mission. When one of the characters in the team dies, it is impossible to back down: death is permanent.

Players can:

• Recruit new members and access their skills and acquaintances list to know beforehand if it makes sense to recruit them or not.

• Move around the map: walk, run, jump, drive, use lethal and non-lethal weapons according to the class of the agent chosen (Enforcer, Infiltrator and Hacker)

This video game is primarily intended for a desensitized audience.
The goal of this game is to stage subversive content: raw violence, very suggestive content, raw humor, gambling, drugs. The game is clearly not recommended for minors.

TIME PER SESSION

For every game:

There is no perfect duration for a session. Each player or parent must decide. In any case, the time per session should not be detrimental to basic needs: eating, sleeping, socializing with friends and family, going to school…

More specifically for this game:

The game can be interrupted at any time without harming the experience of the player as there is an automatic save mode.

The average completion time for the main story depends on the time spent traveling the world or completing the supporting content.

ONLINE CONTENT

For every game:

Additional content that can be purchased online and added on to a video game, as to enhance its features exist. This “downloadable content” can be free or payable.

DLCs are extensions of the game in the form of additional episodes or the acquisition of new equipment and skills for the character. This “downloadable content” can be free or can be purchased (individually or gathered in a season pass). Other DLCs are credits that can be used to unlock items, game money, ingredients ...

More specifically for this game:

Watch Dogs Season Pass will allow players to access to post-game story expansions, new heroes, each with new abilities, new visual customization of game elements and new missions.

MEANINGFUL QUESTIONS FROM SPECTATORS TO PLAYERS

• Which areas of London have you discovered, and which one is your favorite area?
• Why would you want to form a hacker group to resist in the first place?
• Who’s this character and why did you recruit them?
• What does your resistance group as a whole look like? Can you show me your different characters?

ACCESSIBILITY

This game has many accessibility features:

COGNITIVE:

• In-game tutorial helpers (readable any time from the menus).
• Hints and Help options for in-game action

HEARING:

• Speech-to-text (depending on the Support): when the player speak aloud, words get written.
• Audio Subtitles customization
• Limiting the microphone and chat options (for the Multiplayer version)

MOTOR:

• Aiming assistance (aim-lock-on/aim assist)
• Devices Customization (keyboard, mouse control, joystick buttons, gamepad controller)

VISUAL:

• A visual aid (GPS path, waypoint/interaction markers, …)
• Subtitles’ options (size, colors, fonts)
• Colorblindness’ options
• Motion Sickness repeller
• Text-to-speech options: the player hears what is written
• A toxic language filter through PC (for the Multiplayer version)