Watch Dogs Legion has sounded ambitious from the word go, and the more we hear about it, the crazier and crazier it sounds. As you may already know, the game lets you play as loads of different characters, all of them randomly generated to some degree. Each and every character comes with their own strengths, weaknesses, name, and appearance. The system was shown off quite well during the title's E3 2019 gameplay demo.
But how is all of this going to impact the story? What about cutscenes? Well, speaking to EDGE, creative director Clint Hocking dives into some juicy details. According to Hocking, there will actually be 20 different versions of the script, meaning that even cutscenes can differ drastically depending on your characters. "There’s no dude on the box who’s there to start all the cinematics and the people you recruit are just the supporting cast. There are 20 different versions of Legion’s script and I don’t just mean people saying the same lines. We’re talking different characters, different personas, different voices, different acting," Hocking explains.
Interestingly, Hocking delves deeper into the technology behind such an undertaking: "We’re using technology to alter all the voices so that even if you happen to recruit Joe and John and they have the same actor and the same personality when they talk to each other, you won’t know it’s the same actor because we modulate the voices. We used photogrammetry to capture dozens of different faces, which have been combined using innovative animation techniques to produce literally thousands of unique heads." Sounds mental, doesn't it?
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[source gamesradar.com]
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I’m still sceptical about it actually coming together but I have to say I’m intrigued.
20 is a lot, though I'll guess that most of them will only have very minor differences.
I've got bang into Watch Dogs 2 over the past few weeks so I'm looking forward to this one. Hopefully there'll be some decent characters amongst the huge selection.
It's a really interesting idea but with that many versions is that quality really gonna be there?
I went from someone who didn't care about Watch Dogs at all to being seriously excited about this. It is possible to have this much variation in narrative if you have enough writing done for it.
I love the ambition of this and I hope they pull it off.
that means 20 mediocre scrips with slight variances between them. i wonder why people are so gullible
I still don't know about this one.I absolutely loved the first game and hated the second (well the cast of characters,the actual gameplay was improved)and yet still i was excited for a third game but this isant what I was hoping for.
This is either going to be really amazing or just a really amazing train wreck. I'm cautiously optimistic...just because I want my senior citizen brigade.
Too ambitious. Ubisoft is already known for great ideas but poor execution. I will wait for reviews on this one.
I don't believe any of this. There's no way Ubisoft is competent enough to pull all this off.
Dunno. I'll get this anyway because Watch Dogs, just like Assassin's Creed, is one of the series of which I buy everything that comes out, regardless of quality.
The first Watch dogs had a great story and decent gameplay, Watch Dogs 2 had a kind of meh story and incredibly fun gameplay.
Third time's the charm, I hope... Maybe they'll get both right this time... Or they'll make a horrible mess of it...
Loved the first game. Storyline, check...Vigilante, check...Stealth, check...Guns blazin, check...Supporting cast, check... Jordi Chin for me is the best support cast in any game I have played, hilarious and badass. WD2 was different (albeit an enjoyable game, bar the people invoved) A Vigilante with 1m helpers is not exactly a lone wolf. The only reason for me to play WD3 is to kill the old trout when you take over a mission. She seems to be some sort of covert assasin, man you could knock her over with a balloon full of piss. To really hurt her just introduce her to some diversity. that would dsetroy her. Ubisoft covering all the bases, there maybe some grannies out there who feel under represented.
Swap over, back of head, job done...Rant over
I want to play this game day one but I think it'll have a lot of bugs at launch so I'm just going to wait a few months and get it.
Plus, Ubi, EA, etc. games go on sale really quickly after launch from what I've seen this gen.
@LinMan Please watch the language.
Definitely won't be a day one purchase after I bought the last watch dogs day one & it had terrible unlikeable characters & was full of bugs
I don't understand the hate for the characters in WD2. I think they're a fun and likeable bunch of characters who work well off of each other. The part where Wrench lost his mask showed that he was more than just the clown of the crew.
Sounds great now, but in reality I bet it will be nothing like this and everyone will be moaning they were sold a pup.
I just want another game like the first one.
I'm hyped and intrigued
@Tasuki
Seriously!
Prey tell O wise one, O keeper of the gate. What heinous crime has my "Language" committed to upset anyone.
Has someone been triggered by my words on a frivolous take of a game that I love? 1 like, no dislikes so...enlighten me.
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