The group organized face-to-face meetings with former MI5 agents, urban explorers, hackers, the mayor of Lambeth, Nigerian immigrants, and some “not people you find by Googling,” says Hocking. To get there, two dozen Watch Dogs: Legion developers took a multiweek trip to London in 2016, organized by Ubisoft’s “World Texture Facility,” or WTF-a dedicated research team that puts dev boots on the ground in locations they’re simulating. I think we wanted to be more accurate.” He views Watch Dogs: Legion as speculative fiction rather than science fiction, more 1984 than Foundation. “And I think we’re still nebulously far ahead. They wanted to be “a little bit ahead of where technology was," he says. In our interview, Hocking described how his team was largely bullish on its tech predictions. “Of course, there's always a technology company that’s willing to, you know, profit off of everybody's misery,” said Hocking in a Ubisoft roundtable event for Watch Dogs: Legion.
(In Watch Dogs: Legion, bees have already gone extinct.)
Charmingly, a futuristic beekeeper wields a swarm of cyberbees that pollinate all of London’s flowers. I hacked into and controlled autonomous vehicles, which have no human drivers. I remotely disabled checkpoint turrets and electric door locks. To infiltrate organizations, I hijacked security cameras and used my handheld device to scan nearby areas and reveal dataflows, which appeared like airplane floor escape lights. I embodied a stealthy spiderbot and several drones, including a huge cargo drone I gleefully rode on top of to steal a server from a rooftop. Watch Dogs: Legion is in its element when it puts your point of view inside tech. But most of the quests I've played were terse and transactional, a bit of back and forth that invariably leads back to DeadSec recruitment, faces in my “Operatives” file. One NPC might ask you to erase a medical debt notice from a server another, to acquire some drugs to help wean a friend off addiction. Some of the stories have a whiff of humanity.
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Canned, spy-flick voice lines pigeonhole Watch Dogs: Legion as a pulpy action game, full stop, like a surveillance-state Grand Theft Auto. Some guy named Crypto King-again, very 2015-muses on the radio (not some YouTube-like) about DeadSec and conspiracy theories. The song “Bliss” by Muse plays softly as a construction worker you met on the street tells you, “I’m ready to join the resistance.” A cyberpunk mercenary player-character known as “the Leopard” says, “Wow, everything we do really is recorded in some way,” as he watches an AR reconstruction of a past scene. Why would (… checks notes) old-lady opera singer Chioma Audu be trying to take down a human-trafficking crime organization? Why is this random production VP Yongyuan Chow immediately telling me his heist plan to steal cryptocurrency? How does he know the decryption key is in a mobile server in a car sitting at Dorrel Hand Car Wash? The human stories in Watch Dogs: Legion feel like a techno-dystopian game of Mad Libs. But even pushing aside the unpredictable, like the Covid-19 pandemic, Watch Dogs: Legion’s vision for the impending surveillance dystopia flounders because it tracked tech, not people. Hocking’s team didn’t have a crystal ball, or an all-knowing AI, to tell the future. Except these forecasts are from just yesterday. It’s cute, like remembering how in the ’80s, your geeky friend wouldn’t shut up about how Star Trek’s holodecks would so totally happen. On October 29, Watch Dogs: Legion will release as both a game and a time capsule from 2015, back when a couple of big, stock-inflating daydreams painted a picture for 2020 that’s still far from materializing. Navigating the marketing babble, his team overshot the mark. “Technology companies-Tesla, Amazon-had started talking publicly about pretty aggressive timelines, schedules, and regulations,” Hocking said in an interview with WIRED. For a speculative fiction game about mass surveillance, that creates some problems. Technology moves faster than game development. Everyone would be using cryptocurrency, playing AR games, and making stuff on 3D printers. Back in 2015, when creative director Clint Hocking and his team began crafting the near-future world of Watch Dogs: Legion, some of the biggest tech companies in the world were confidently predicting skies buzzing with package-delivery drones and streets full of autonomous vehicles.
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