The official Watch Dogs Twitter account has just tweeted a short teaser trailer, confirming the title Watch Dogs Legion, as well as the game's appearance at E3 next week.
A listing for a game titled Watch Dogs Legion surfaced late yesterday on the online retailer's UK website, revealing significant plot details about the rumored sequel to Watch Dogs 2, while confirming the London setting that has long been whispered about up till now.
According to the Amazon page, Watch Dogs Legion is set in "a post-Brexit world in which society, politics and technology have changed and altered London's fortunes", where "every individual you meet in the open world, has a full set of animations, voice over, character traits and visuals that are generated & guided by gameplay systems", thus allowing users to "play as anyone."
It's par for the course for any Ubisoft game to be leaked ahead of its official release, but there have been clues that the next Watch Dogs would take place in London for some time. It was speculated last week that Watch Dogs 3 will have "a more serious tone" and a "greater focus on creepy future tech a la Black Mirror", which all turned out to be true, so far.
The details of the game, albeit unconfirmed at the time, have been confirmed by multiple outlets citing internal sources, with Kotaku stating that the aforementioned NPC technology has been the reason it's taken so long for Watch Dogs 3 to get out the door, and VG247 reporting that Clint Hocking, the Creative Director of Far Cry 2, is heading up this iteration in the tech-focused open world franchise.
The Amazon page has since been taken down, but it's looking almost certain that Watch Dogs Legion will be revealed as an E3 2019 game in just a few days time. Strangely, a previous Watch Dogs 3 leak earlier this year stated that Legion was the codename for a new Assassin's Creed game on the way in 2020, which is supposedly set in Ancient Rome.
Ubisoft itself will have more to say on the matter once the E3 2019 schedule kicks off in earnest later this week. We'll also watch out for updates, so stay tuned.
