Perhaps essentially the most attention-grabbing idea in Watch Dogs Legion is that each single character in its world is playable – together with a descendant of Assassin’s Creed’s Jacob Frye.
For these unacquainted with Jacob Frye, he was one of many two protagonists of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, alongside his older twin, Evie. A Master Assassin of the British Brotherhood, Jacob was energetic throughout the Victorian period in London.
Watch Dogs Legion transpires nearly two centuries after Syndicate, but in addition takes place in London – that’s why it is smart for the game to indulge certainly one of Ubisoft’s different largest sequence, introducing an innocuous however nonetheless current joint world.
Here’s a tweet displaying off Jacob and Evie Frye’s descendant, who works as knowledgeable hitman in post-Brexit London.
Watch Dogs Legion will allow you to play as a descendant of Jacob Frye. Pretty neat connection between each franchises. pic.twitter.com/9jjTRH3m0A
— Simi/سيمي (@ANerdWonder) July 13, 2020
“Watch Dogs Legion will let you play as a descendant of Jacob Frye,” reads the tweet. “Pretty neat connection between both franchises.”
As you possibly can see, the character in query is called Sandra Cassidy. She’s knowledgeable hitman who legs it round with a Desert Eagle – hopefully one with barely much less kickback than the one in COD 4.
Anyway, the logic backing this up is that Cassidy confirmed up after somebody previewing the game emphatically plugged in some names from Assassin’s Creed.
You can see below her occupation that the participant particularly looked for “Jacob Frye descendants” – whether or not or not there are different individuals descended out of your favorite assassins isn’t identified at current, however the Frye twins most likely take advantage of sense as ancestors resulting from their London-based exercise.
There’s additionally another cool Assassin’s Creed Easter egg in Watch Dogs Legion, that means that the devs may need included a number of refined nods to the sequence.
Watch Dogs Legion is because of launch on October 29, 2020. If you’re eager to know extra, we spent three hours with the game final week – listed here are our hands-on impressions.
