Brexit casts shadow over video game's dystopian London


In Watch Dogs: Legion, players can recruit everyday Londoners to the resistance, taking advantage of their skills to complete the quest. — Ubisoft/AFP

BRUSSELS: The dystopian near-future London depicted in Watch Dogs: Legion, the video game released on Oct 29 by French studio Ubisoft, is haunted by authoritarian surveillance and the ghost of Brexit.

A cyberpunk faction is battling to liberate the city from a privatised police force, and players can recruit everyday Londoners to the resistance, taking advantage of their skills to complete the quest.

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