Again, I tracked down the residence of its evil leader, this time her name is Skye Larsen. My mission was to investigate an AI tech giant called Broca Tech, and this led to another example of Watch Dogs: Legion's unexpected turn towards the horrific. Aside from implanted microchips allowing Kelley to control people in the aforementioned mission branch, I played through a related but different set of missions-this time it's about the horrors of artificial intelligence gone wrong. Watch Dogs always had a chilling undertone as it related to the dangers of tech and the implications of a world governed by it, but Legion is playing this up in a much more explicit, sometimes grotesque, fashion. We've seen these types of dark high-tech stories before-it's provocative, but Legion is also playing with fire here. I'm caught off guard a bit by these turns in the story, though I can't really say I'm into it based on a preview. And while there's of course more to uncover in this story thread, and our DedSec protagonists acknowledge the horrifying nature of it all, Watch Dogs: Legion has a lot of work cut out in order to make this style of violence and trauma work in its real-world narrative context. That's how the Clan Kelley story branch concluded in the preview demo. In the mission's concluding cutscene you watch as one of her victims is punished for trying to escape, facing acts of violence and a speech from Kelley about how she's 'saving' them from their previous lives, and that her victims have nowhere else to go. You fly a drone through the mansion, and past rooms of people being held captive against their will, to solve circuit puzzles and eventually hack a computer to get hold of her surveillance system. This particular mission branch then leads you to Mary Kelley's secret mansion where she has dozens of these people working as her slaves, controlled by the fact that Kelley can seize their bodies or decide to kill them with a push of a button. In the spirit of a content warning, I think folks should know that this can be traumatizing from the conceptual level. Especially with the implication of poor, marginalized, and/or immigrant people being the targets of a truly evil organized criminal ring. While the contents of these missions aren't explicitly gory, the subject matter and visual presentation of it all is enough to clearly get the point across-and in some capacity, it's rather horrifying. Bombings around London kick off Legion's story, and it has fueled xenophobia and racist law enforcement. This then provides a lead that brings you to the location of a heavily guarded incinerator that houses an underground operation where those same victims are being harvested for organs, and their corpses left to burn to ash. Then you figure out that these people are being controlled and subjugated through a microchip that gets implanted into their bodies-it's essentially a killswitch. In this one mission, you sneak into the detainment camp to meet with your undercover DedSec contact and trace the whereabouts of Angel, who fell victim to this horrible system. Yeah, it's straight up human trafficking. But the knife is twisted even deeper once you reveal this system provides a cover and an avenue for Kelley to kidnap and enslave these people.
It's all plainly stated in dialogue between your character and your AI assistant, as you're trying to track down a victim and DedSec affiliate named Angel Lopez. Albion authorities (the PMC that now runs London) have been leveraging anti-immigrant sentiment to enforce racist policies and illegally round up vulnerable, marginalized people and detain them in refugee camps. Now Playing: 20 Minutes of Surprisingly Serious Gameplay - Watch Dogs: LegionĪs you reveal the truths of Clan Kelley and its leader Mary Kelley, you discover that she's been collecting people to force them into servitude, and, well, eventual victims of organ harvesting. By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's
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