Who are all of those people on the street in video games walking past, living out their dramas, distracted by AI routines? Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs series tried writing these lives out beyond the usual simplistic NPC clone out of hundreds. The second game subverted many expectations of open world games, emphasizing platforming, hacking puzzles, social engineering, and B&E, along with some action and drone warfare. Now, finally, Watch Dogs: Legion reveals the series’ greatest leap forward in the AAA open world experiment...