Watch Dogs Legion lets players assume the role of an Assassin’s Creed protagonist’s relative, it has been confirmed. Ubisoft has teased the various skills offered by Watch Dogs Legion’s characters and this could be extremely helpful to players trying to complete harder missions.

A Watch Dogs Legion preview video posted by YouTuber JorRaptor and screenshotted by Twitter user ANerdWonder revealed an Assassin’s Creed protagonist descendant who features in the game. Sandra Cassidy is a professional hitman who comes up in a character’s search for “Jacob Frye descendants” in the DedSec operatives database. Jacob Frye, for those who haven’t played other Assassin’s Creed games, is one pf the protagonists of 2015 release Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, the other being Jacob’s twin sister Evie.

While it’s unclear how easily Watch Dogs Legion players will be able to find Sandra Cassidy, or any other descendant of an Assassin’s Creed protagonist, there will be a few professional hitmen in the game. A new Watch Dogs Legion gameplay trailer also showed players using a hitman to infiltrate Mary Kelly’s gang, to disrupt her organ harvesting operation. Using that character, the player garrotes one guard before expertly taking out half a dozen more with some well-placed pistol shots.

Players will be able to take on missions as they see fit, so Sandra Cassidy or any other descendants with assassin or hitman-style skills will give fans just one option. One popular character choice will likely be the Taser-wielding grandma seen in last year’s Watch Dogs Legion trailers. Trailers have also shown a construction worker who can call in a drone, a drone hacker, and an Albion guard.

Sandra Cassidy is also unlikely to be the only Assassin’s Creed Easter egg that fans can find in the game. In another new Watch Dogs Legion gameplay video, fans can see that same construction worker performing a leap of faith off of a building.

Jacob Frye is also just one of several Assassin’s Creed protagonists meaning there could be descendants of others. New game Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is set in England, just like Watch Dogs Legion, which makes it possible that the games will feature some of the same locations. This hasn’t been confirmed, but as Ubisoft developers seem to really enjoy putting Easter eggs in their games, it does seem likely.

Watch Dogs Legion releases October 29, 2020 for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

Source: YouTube - JorRaptor