![]() ![]() The things that caused Brexit are the causes of the problems in our dystopia A wave of inward migration has sparked another political crisis, leading to more people than ever before being rounded up, placed in multiplying deportation centres and removed from the country. The pound has been routed, the citizenry has switched to cryptocurrencies and the government has been bankrupted by the resulting fall in tax revenues. This London is post-Brexit, post-Scottish independence – and post-democracy. Other changes are in service of the dystopian future the game depicts – a world in which the tech trends of today have combined to destabilise the old order, and cast millions into a precarious existence. ![]() The underground, used as a fast travel network in-game, is askew: Trafalgar Square station reappears despite being renamed in 1979, and the Tube map has been given a neon-on-black redesign that, one hopes, the real TfL would never OK. There are no main characters, but a network of citizens in Watch Dogs Legion.
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