You know how dreams have their own rules? In Tanner’s, you can leave your body at any time, zoom out into the Bay Area fog, and inhabit the consciousness of another driver on the road. Go back a few years with Watch Dogs collaborators Ubisoft Reflections and you come to Driver: San Francisco, a brilliantly bizarre reboot of the car chase series that takes place inside the mind of comatose cop Tanner. It’s an excitingly fresh concept, but it has precedent in open world gaming. Watch Dogs’ new pitch is that you can play as anyone and their mum, provided their mum can be persuaded to join the cause of an anti-establishment hacker group and still has the use of her knees. Try all of them and you’ll have messed with the toolset that powers Legion, long before it comes out on March 6 next year. You can recruit allies by completing dynamically generated missions, and even visit a post-Brexit UK. Play the games below and you can hop between protagonists at will, or cause chaos in an open world London. It might be the hot newness, a promise of new experiences in a near-future London, but it’s built from an amalgam of stuff we’ve seen before. They break into systems and twist them for their own purpose, regardless of intended use. Hackers don’t make tools - they take them.
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