Watch Dogs: Legion, Ubisoft’s open-world hacker game, will be free to play on Xbox, PlayStation and PC starting March 25, developer said announced today in a blog post.
The trial version gives you full access to the game’s open world. While you can complete Legion‘s critical path in less than 20 hours– enough for one weekend marathon – no idea: with the free trial version you can’t get beyond the mission of the “Skye Larsen” campaign, which takes place mid-game.
You can also try out the recently released multiplayer mode, which, while sporadically entertaining with friends, is underwhelming when playing with strangersEarlier today, the multiplayer received its first tactical operation (think: cooperative raid-style multiplayer mission), but you won’t be able to tweak that during the trial. You can only play the short co-op missions and the Spiderbot Arena mode.
According to Ubisoft’s blog post, the free period ends on March 29, but a video will be uploaded to YouTube says it will end on March 28th. (Update 5:05 PM ET: In a statement to Kotaku, a spokesman for Ubisoft son clarified that LegionThe free trial ends on May 29.)
In addition to today’s free trial, Ubisoft has the summer roadmap for Watch Dogs: Legion
- Next month, Mina, a new hero, will be joining the game, but it will only be available to those who own the Season Pass.
- In May, the game’s multiplayer mode will get a second tactical operation.
- Two new competitive modes – Extraction and Invasion – will also be playable in May. It’s not immediately clear how those modes will play. Hopefully they contain real people, rather than spider bots.
- The first major expansion of the game will be released in June: BloodlinesIt will contain two characters from the previous one Guard dogs games: Aiden Pearce (the humorless protagonist of the first game) and Wrench (your DJ masked comrade from Watch Dogs 2Season pass owners can play as both.
- In August, Season Pass owners can play as Darcy, a member of Ubisoft’s Assassin order Assassin’s Creed series.