And beyond the trains, there’s a whole world of forgotten underground locations in the city. Imagine holding a train 10 seconds longer so that you can reach it while pursued by police, then blending into the crush of commuters as it pulls away. The tube is stuffed full of opportunities for both electronic interference and social stealth. It’s an obvious one, but Ubisoft will be loath to release Watch Dogs 3 without giving us a chance to play with London’s biggest toy train set, the Underground. Maybe Marcus is helping to get a London outpost up and running. And in Watch Dogs 2’s extended ending sequence, two unidentified voices note that DedSec cells are springing up all over the world in reaction to San Francisco’s Blume scandal. Increased use of controversial stop and search techniques has seen London’s minority black population disproportionately affected in recent years. What’s more, as a young victim of racial profiling through predictive surveillance tech, Marcus is perfectly placed to channel local disillusionment with authority. I want to see an airport retail assistant openly laugh at Marcus for not knowing which coins are which, the way I experienced it the first time I travelled from the UK to San Francisco. But the developer is likely to stick with his successor, Marcus Holloway, whose anti-establishment energy instilled the series with a new sense of righteous fun.Īs far as we know - and aside from a brief interlude at a Burning Man-style festival in Watch Dogs 2’s late game - Marcus has never left the Bay Area, so there’s plenty of entertainment to be derived from the culture shock of arriving in London. It’s easy to see why Ubisoft Montreal dropped Aiden Pearce for Watch Dogs’ second go around - Chicago’s growliest psychopath proved divisive, his grimdark revenge motive failed to connect with enough players, and that relentless self-obsession just didn’t suit the communal, hacktivist themes of the sequel.

As such, we’ve had a big ol’ think about exactly what a shift from the capital of tech to the capital of the UK might mean for the hack 'n' dash series. Given that the game has already been the platform for one surreptitious Ubisoft announcement, there’s no reason to doubt DedSec’s information a second time. You could call them leaks, but the most substantial evidence exists in Watch Dogs 2 itself, which was updated two years ago to include coordinates to Brixton in its ending. There are whispers that Watch Dogs 3 will be set in London.

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