Ubisoft is among the many publishers that were featured at E3 2021 today. The publisher dropped a new trailer for Watch Dogs: Legion Bloodline in its Ubisoft Forward presentation, which is an upcoming major expansion for the game scheduled to release on July 6, 2021.
As announced before E3 2021, the latest Watch Dogs: LegionBloodline trailer showed a brief preview of the DLC's playable characters: Aiden Pearce from Watch Dogs 1 and Wrench from Watch Dogs 2. Although the trailer was brief, it showed a glimpse of the story that the DLC will explore, and based on what was shown so far, it appears that Bloodline will be a more direct continuation of Watch Dogs 1 and 2 than the main Watch Dogs Legion campaign.
How Watch Dogs: Legion Bloodline Ties The Game To Watch Dogs 1 and 2
Before the E3 trailer was showcased today, Ubisoft released the intro for Watch Dogs: Legion Bloodline, showing Aiden Pearce receiving a call from Jordi. In their conversation, Jordi explains that he wants to hire Aiden for a job, which he initially refused. However, Jordi explained that the job will be in London, which caught the attention of Aiden given that his nephew Jackson now resides there.
The latest trailer shown for Watch Dogs: Legion Bloodline at E3 today saw Aiden arriving in London to reconnect with Jackson. He was supposed to retrieve some sort of device at a Brocha Tech lab but was beaten to it by Wrench. After failing the mission, Aiden now finds himself in trouble with the people who hired him, taking Jackson as their captive, forcing Aiden to hunt down Wrench, and players should expect a grand showdown between the two popular characters from previous Watch Dogs games.
Although Watch Dogs: Legion is the official sequel to Watch Dogs 2, many veteran players feel that the game is more of a spin-off than a true sequel. Appreciating Watch Dogs: Legion doesn't really require players to know every event that transpired in Watch Dogs 1 and 2, especially since the game doesn't have a set protagonist given that Ubisoft wanted players to have the ability to play as anyone in Legion. However, the same couldn't be said for the upcoming Bloodline DLC, given that players would need to know a little bit of Aiden and Wrench's stories from previous games to comprehend the plot that Bloodline will explore.
How Watch Dogs Legion Bloodline Could Affect The Next Watch Dogs Game
Currently, Ubisoft still hasn't expressed any plans to make another Watch Dogs game. However, given that the franchise has a solid fanbase, it wouldn't be unlikely if a sequel to Watch Dogs: Legion is in Ubisoft's pipeline sometime in the future. With the return of Aiden and Wrench to the Watch Dogs franchise, it is interesting to see whether Ubisoft's decision to feature them in the DLC is a setup of what could happen in the next installment.
It is still unknown how Aiden and Wrench's pairing in the DLC will play out, but it is possible that what happens in Bloodline could affect the next Watch Dogs game. Bloodline could see a newly forged partnership between Aiden and Wrench. Or it could set up a rivalry between the two that will be fully explored in the next game. It could be anything at this point, and maybe players will even see a surprise cameo by Watch Dogs 2's Marcus Holloway. In the end, although Bloodline is but a mere expansion, its continuation of the stories of Aiden and Wrench offers players a glimpse of what Watch Dogs: Legion could have been if Ubisoft followed this storyline right at the start and made it the plot of the main campaign.
Watch Dogs: Legion Bloodline expansion arrives on July 6, 2021, for PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
