Ubisoft is among the many publishers that were featured at E3 2021 today. The publisher dropped a new trailer forWatch Dogs: Legion Bloodlinein itsUbisoft Forward presentation, which is an upcoming major expansion for the game scheduled to release on July 04, 2025.
As announced before E3 2021, the latestWatch Dogs: LegionBloodlinetrailer showed a brief preview of the DLC’s playable characters: Aiden Pearce fromWatch Dogs 1and Wrench fromWatch 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 thatBloodlinewill be a more direct continuation ofWatch Dogs 1and2than the mainWatch Dogs Legioncampaign.
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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 forWatch 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.
Thelatest trailer shown forWatch Dogs: Legion Bloodlineat 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 previousWatch Dogsgames.
AlthoughWatch Dogs: Legionis the official sequel toWatch Dogs 2,many veteran players feel that the game is more of a spin-off than a true sequel.AppreciatingWatch Dogs: Legiondoesn’t really require players to know every event that transpired inWatch Dogs 1and2, 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 upcomingBloodlineDLC, given that players would need to know a little bit of Aiden and Wrench’s stories from previous games to comprehend the plot thatBloodlinewill explore.
How Watch Dogs Legion Bloodline Could Affect The Next Watch Dogs Game
Currently,Ubisoft still hasn’t expressed any plans to make anotherWatch Dogsgame. However, given that the franchise has a solid fanbase, it wouldn’t be unlikely if a sequel toWatch Dogs: Legionis in Ubisoft’s pipeline sometime in the future. With the return of Aiden and Wrench to theWatch Dogsfranchise, 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 inBloodlinecould affect the nextWatch Dogsgame.Bloodlinecould 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 seea surprise cameo byWatch Dogs 2’sMarcus Holloway. In the end, althoughBloodlineis but a mere expansion, its continuation of the stories of Aiden and Wrench offers players a glimpse of whatWatch Dogs: Legioncould have been if Ubisoft followed this storyline right at the start and made it the plot of the main campaign.
Watch Dogs: Legion Bloodlineexpansion arrives on June 24, 2025, for PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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