The three Watch Dogs games have been delighting their fans with open game worlds and creative hacking features since 2014. The first two titles involved hacking through the fictional Chicago and San Francisco.
The games brought a lot of new gadgets into their open world: causing chaos at intersections by hacking traffic lights Watch Dogs no problem. The of Ubisoft But the games were not the milestones advertised. The first part in particular couldn't keep up with the development studio's promises graphically.
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In Watch Dogs Legion, after the just released Season 4, there will only be Season 5 as new content for the multiplayer mode.
Can this Watch Dogs Legion feature save the series?
Watch Dogs Legion (buy now / €8.5 ) brought a breath of fresh air to the series in 2020. One feature was widely announced by Ubisoft: NPCs could easily be taken over on the street. Stealth passages with a grandma or a scuffle with a paramedic – funny moments like these made for a lot of fun when the game was released.
However, Legion still received mixed reviews. The game wasn't particularly well received by fans of the series. Some missions were too easy and the combat system was too monotonous.
Since the release of Watch Dogs Legion, things have been quiet around the brand. That's why Ubisoft is said to have canceled some projects in the series. This also included, among other things, the implementation of a battle royale offshoot. This is what the Ubisoft-focused French content creator called “xj0nathan” claims on X (formerly Twitter).
Source: X (formerly Twitter)
There he was asked about the future of the game series, to which he replied: “Watch Dogs is usually dead and buried.” The reason for this is not least the lack of success of Watch Dogs Legion.
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Can fans still hope for a Watch Dogs 4?
How much insight “xJ0nathan” really has into Ubisoft’s plans is unclear. However, in recent years he has been correct a few times with his leaks. It still remains to be seen whether the brand has actually been pulled.
Only recently was there concrete news about the long-planned event Watch Dogs movie. More than ten years have passed since the announcement and now a director has been found for the film adaptation. The Frenchman Mathieu Turi is known for the Netflix sci-fi thriller Oxygen and is now set to direct the project. There is no further information about the plot of the film yet.