I proudly took on the daunting task of rebuilding DedSec, recruiting people of the street. After that, the organization is headless, except for Sabine and Bagley, who serve the purpose of dispatching missions to the player. The bad guys get off to a good start when they eliminate Dalton, one of the lead agents of DedSec in the very first scene. Gangster Mary Kelley seizes power in the vacuum, and DedSec is held together by a lone survivor, Sabine, and a hilarious AI assistant named Bagley. The private military contractor Albion, run by the would-be dictator Nigel Cass, takes over from the police to suppress the population. DedSec is taken down at the beginning, blamed for terrorist attacks that were actually perpetrated by a mysterious group called Zero Day. In 2016, Watch Dogs 2 featured Marcus Holloway as the DedSec hero who turned the surveillance networks against the CEOs of tech giants in San Francisco.īut in Watch Dog: Legion’s London, you have no leader. When Watch Dogs debuted in 2014, it starred the character Aiden Pearce as a vigilante hacker who could break into the city’s operating system and bring down all of its surveillance networks in the city of Chicago. I was worried about this from the very first time that I heard about the game’s design. The villains turn out to be so much more interesting as characters than the extras, who might be construction workers or graffiti artists. It’s akin to taking actor Anthony Hopkins and making him the memorable villain, and then pitting an unknown extra as the hero who is supposed to take Hopkins down. As I pointed out in previews, the absence of the main character is a problem because the heroes are nobodies, picked off the streets almost at random.