Watch Dogs Legion used real political podcasters to deliver in-game talk radio

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Watch Dogs Legion used real political podcasters to deliver in-game talk radioPower to the podcasters

Power to the podcasters

Watch Dogs Legionmay be set in future London but it’s not short on contemporary celebrity cameos. Ubisoft themselves announced before launch that you canfind Stormzy in Watch Dogs Legion, but players have now spotted another cameo collection. Political podcast “Oh God, What Now?” have provided their writing and voices to some political analysis over the radio in Legion.

A clip of a familiar voice has been shared around. It’s journalist Helen Lewis dissecting the rise of fascism in Legion’s tech-y future London.

For all that Legion is meant to be set in some near-ish future London, Lewis' radio segment sure feels eerily current.

“Unfortunately one of the things we’re very bad at as humans is recognising different things when they don’t look like previous examples. So I think in pre-crisis Britain we had an idea that when fascism came it would look again like the 1930s. It would look like a single, charismatic leader. It would look like jackboots in the street and huge flags. But it didn’t look like that. It looked like social media groups. It looked like poisoning the well so that no information could be trusted.”

Hello darkness, my old friend!

RPS’sWatch Dogs Legion reviewsays that this kind of earnest, political commentary is appreciated, even if it’s often at odds with the way Legion plays: like a Guy Ritchie romp starring Jason Statham and pals, cockney hollering and all.

“I will say this up front:Watch Dogs Legionactually manages much greater political coherence than I was expecting,” Nate says. “I think it abstracts the struggle against fascism a little too far into Saturday morning simplicity […] But fuck it, it’s at least unapologetic about which side of history it wants to be on, and there’s little bet-hedging here for the sake of being ‘apolitical’. So on the whole, good job.”

Good job indeed, Legion.

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