Monday, June 10, 6 PM PT - Square Enix Press Conference.

Monday, June 10, 4:30 PM PT - Kinda Funny Showcase.

Hocking wraps up by saying it's a game about 'the heroes that live in each of us.' E3 2019 Conference Schedule Each one is fully voiced and animated, and every cinematic will change depending on who you're playing as. Every Londoner is fully simulated', they have their own lives, different backstories, and you can play their origin mission to win them over to your cause.

'Your mission is building a resistance to fight back against the 'authoritarian regime'' he starts out saying. You have to recruit people to play as them, and a montage shows there is a veritable boatload of potential playable characters, with every NPC in London a possible recruit.Ĭlint Hocking, creative director at Ubisoft Toronto, expanded on how recruiting other characters works and feeds into Legion's narrative. Permadeath is confirmed, and upon Ian's death the player is taken to a team menu where they switch to another character, an older lady called Helen, who has access to a spider drone that she uses to help infiltrate and take out a New Scotland Yard police station near the London Eye.Īfter rescuing Jimmy and showing a cutscene in a pub (naturally), the demo concludes by unlocking a new playable operative: Jimmy Shaw, himself. After using some kind of stealth technology to flee from a drone, he hops in a black cab and is later shot and killed after tangling with the authorities-an oppressive forced called Albion. The gameplay demo shown during Ubisoft's E3 press conference starts with a guy called Ian.

There are multiple player characters, each with their own distinct skill sets and perks to unlock. The game is set for release on Mafor PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.Īs the leak suggested, Watch Dogs Legion is set in London in a post-Brexit version of the near future. Even though a retailer leak forced Ubisoft to acknowledge the game's existence early, the publisher officially pulled back the curtain on Watch Dogs Legion during its E3 2019 press conference.

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