Watch dogs legion s dystopian post brexit london in ubisoft s forthcoming game london has become a surveillance state run by authoritarian populists and its citizens must come together to fight.
Watch dogs legion brexit. In the game s lore it happened on the original scheduled day of march 29 2019 and the years that come after it are less than rosy. Yes actual brexit is real part of watch dogs legion. Developed at ubisoft s toronto studio the same technology used to. Legion is set several years after brexit with a defeated government leading to london being in the hands of mercenaries and criminal gangs.
Lewis a columnist for the atlantic and a former new. The plot behind watch dogs. Legion also tackles issues such as automation and the prospect of ai replacing workers at every level of society as underlying issues that caused the disgruntlement that leads to the brexit vote. Despite being the springboard for the game s world brexit itself.
Watch dogs legion was to be set in london before the vote on brexit for a developer and publisher that attempts to shy away from knotty political subjects ubisoft s decision to choose. Legion inside the video game itself. Legion has cut a voice appearance from the gender critical journalist helen lewis over her views on transgender people. Legion london is a revolution waiting to happen.
You re in control of. Taking watch dogs hacktivist action out of america for the first time legion is set in a post brexit imagining of london.