Ubisoft has a bad habit of saying its games aren?t political, yet when I look out across the landscape of games, Ubisoft is making some of the most politically thematic games. Maybe the exact message they are trying to deliver remains in a way apolitical, such as Far Cry 5, but that setting in rural America, surrounded by conservative folk and religious zealots, was just about as political as one could get. It said they same thing about The Division 2, a game that takes place in the heart of America?s political nerve center. And again, maybe the exact story wasn?t trying to send a political message, but the setting and themes were far from apolitical. I mean, the game starts out with a thinly veiled statement on gun ownership, a hotly debated political topic. And then Watch Dogs Legion leaked today, and its description puts it in a post-Brexit world in one of the most highly surveilled cities in the world. You also get to play as every NPC you meet (which has to stand for ?now playable character? rather than ?non-playable character,? given the implication of the gameplay mechanic). Generally a legion is a group with a solidarity stemming from one particular idea or way of thinking. So what?s not political about unifying a peoples in a singular movement" Furthermore, the game is described as a post-Brexit, dystopian version of London in the near future, which again is a very specific and political setting.

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