Watch Dogs 2 was a step in the right direction for a series that initially went over like a wet fart. It traded in the all business plank of wood protagonist know as Aiden Pierce for Marcus Holloway, a young hacker leading hacking collective Deadsec on adventures taking down greedy corporate douchebags and mustache-twirling pharmaceutical and tech companies. Essentially it turned a boring over serious open-world game and turned it into a wacky adventure overflowing with style and charm. It’s strange then that Watch Dogs Legion manages to keep a lot of that fun and style intact while struggling to find a balance between a hack the planet type adventure and a decidedly dark tone.
Review: The Last of Us Part II
Violence in games tends to be easier to justify than violence in films. If the protagonist of a summer blockbuster set in the post-apocalypse murdered thirty men in cold blood only to hesitate to take out a single character a room over we would all collectively roll our eyes, but when Nathan Drake does it we’re forced to contend with the puckish rogue being a mass murder between cut scenes. If not, gameplay could get pretty boring.