Watch Dogs: Legion - Bloodline

Bloodline ties all three Watch Dogs games together in a satisfying and meaningful way

Watch Dogs Legion is a better game these days, and Bloodline manages to build a stronger narrative out of its various mechanics and gameplay systems. It's more of the same under the surface, but playable characters Aiden and Wrench bring new enjoyment to the core campaign and evolving online modes, while simultaneously padding out the series' overall lore with their own storyline.

Bloodline expands on Watch Dogs Legion's London, with new missions, returning characters, and a slightly different setting to explore. While it doesn't add much in the way of new features, it's the perfect reason to come back to the Old Smoke and give it the middle finger once again.

Watch Dogs: Legion Bloodline tries hard to cover the weaknesses of the original game, and actually does a pretty good job, but in the process of focusing on story and character development, fails to deliver the same gameplay standards.

At the end of the day, it’s hard for me to recommend Watch Dogs Bloodlines when I can’t even recommend Legion. All I can say is that if you’ve already purchased Legion, then getting Bloodlines can be worth getting providing that you already like the base game.

The expansion gives me hope for future games in this franchise as it shows there’s more stories that can be told in this world, and I would gladly see more of it. If a new game does happen, I just wish it’s a new lead character, or at the very least someone already established and known to many.

Despite the great premises of the story, in short, it is an old-fashioned additional content: in terms of quantity there is little to complain about, Ubisoft knows how to package products that are worth the asking price and it is no coincidence that even after the end credits you can continue to play freely; but, overall, we have on our hands something that reshuffs what has already been seen in the original title without major heartaches or commitments on production values, if not in the coherent and accurate realization of the two characters dear to the public of the saga.

Watch Dogs: Legion - Bloodline injects new fun into the vanilla game, but stumbles a bit. Returning characters improve the narrative, but this DLC add-on lacks the base game’s free-form, squad-based action.

Watch Dogs: Legion - Bloodline is a shallow narrative expansion, with a good storyline undermined by a lazy structure and the choice of giving far less importance to London, which was the best element of the original game.

The first narrative expansion of Watch Dogs Legion: Bloodline is a strange creature: a kind of hybrid between the classic course of the series and the more libertarian approach followed with the latest iteration of the brand.