Watch Dogs Every Game Ranked According to Critics

Watch Dogs: Every Game Ranked, According to Critics

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With Legion ending support, the future of Watch Dogs is somewhat uncertain, despite the high quality of many of the franchise’s entries.

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Watch Dogs Every Game Ranked According to Critics

The Watch Dogs games have often split opinions. Some love the fact that they are built on the novel concept of hacking and technological disruption in an open-world playground, while others see them as Ubisoft merely rehashing its old formulae and transposing worn-out ideas from other properties to a superficially novel setting.

Following the news that Legion will no longer be updated and with the entire franchise’s future now seemingly called into question as Ubisoft look to focus on the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Infinity, here is the critical ranking of the Watch Dogs series as an aggregation of each title’s Metacritic and IGDB critic scores.

Legion Failed to Quite Live up to its Billing (75.5/100)

Watch Dogs Every Game Ranked According to Critics

Watch Dogs: Legion was a case of so much promise let down by a failure in proper execution. Like many contemporary AAA titles, Legion suffered from bugs and issues on release, relying on patches and patience to rectify its rocky birth. Legion’s critic review aggregate on Metacritic is a solid 81, but its user score is a dismal 5.4 and it only earns a modest 70 on the IGDB.

As is an increasing issue with ultra-modern titles, Legion was beset by launch issues, but it also failed to truly evolve into the game many fans hoped it could be. The idea of hacking one’s way around futuristic, despotic London should’ve been enthralling, but critics bemoaned a surprising lack of innovation from a title that promised so much more. Legion has its fans and certainly fares well on the Metacritic aggregator, but the game never escaped a sense that it was ultimately a bit of a step backward.

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Bad Blood Gave Players a More Likable Protagonist (76/100)

Watch Dogs Every Game Ranked According to Critics

Bad Blood was the only DLC available for the first game in the Watch Dogs series, shifting its focus to one of Aiden’s part-time associates and collaborators, Raymond ‘T-Bone’ Kenny, a more charismatic and sympathetic lead than his main title counterpart. Bad Blood didn’t do a lot to break from the template laid down by Watch Dogs, but critics were won over by some neat gameplay tweaks and the greater hacking focus brought by T-Bone’s role as the DLC’s protagonist.

While T-Bone might not have been a particularly deep lead, his flippant, airy attitude was well-suited to a DLC rather than a main feature. Such was the warm reception to Mr. Kenny that he even ended up appearing in Watch Dogs 2 as a supporting character.

Bloodline is a Decent if Non-Essential Expansion (76.5/100)

Watch Dogs Every Game Ranked According to Critics

“Aiden Pierce is back” excitedly claimed the PlayStation Store’s blurb for Bloodline, the Season Pass expansion to Watch Dogs: Legion. While this is not perhaps the way to generate hype among a fan base who seem to universally agree that Pierce was precisely everything wrong with the first game in the series, Bloodline ended up doing quite a good job of giving its protagonist some form of redemption.

With Aiden reluctantly taking a job in London, he gets the chance to reconnect with nephew Jackson, a dynamic between past and present that gives Bloodline some narrative texture. Legion is the least acclaimed of the three mainline Watch Dog titles, but Bloodline is a competent expansion that lives and dies on how much affection players have for the game from which it is taken.

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Watch Dogs Impressed Critics But Not Players (80.5/100)

Watch Dogs Every Game Ranked According to Critics

Watch Dogs was the vanguard of the eighth generation of console gaming, dropping in the summer of 2014 when the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One were still relatively new pieces of hardware. With a Metacritic score of 80 and an IGDB score of 81, the first game in the series boasts a respectable critical reception for a game with the tricky task of trying to establish a new franchise.

Despite reservations over the game’s bland and forgettable protagonist Aiden Pierce, critics were impressed with Watch Dogs for its focus on hacking, a relative novelty in gaming circles at the time, as well as its well-realized world and varied combat and tech available to players. Because of its status as a big AAA release from a recognized studio, Watch Dogs was arguably hindered as much by its hype as its own failings.

Watch Dogs 2 Was a Monumental Relaunch (81.5/100)

Watch Dogs 2 is considered by fans and critics alike to be the finest game in the series, and it isn’t hard to see why. Out went the slightly grim, depressing setting of central Chicago and in came the sprawling, sun-soaked playground of San Francisco, replete with vibrant neighborhoods and the buzz of youthful endeavor and the creative spillover of Silicone Valley.

Out, too, went Aiden Pearce, replaced by a colorful and diverse cast of more youthful protagonists, a change that critics and gamers both agreed was to the series’ benefit. With a Metacritic score of 82 and an IGDB score of 81, Watch Dogs 2 rectified many of its predecessor’s issues by not taking itself as seriously, combining a beautiful open world with some genuinely quirky gaming mechanics to create the best Watch Dogs experience thus far.

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