10 Video Game DLCs Better Than The Game
5. Bloodline - Watch Dogs: Legion
Watch Dogs: Legion is one of the more underwhelming AAA releases of recent years - a game with an intriguing play-as-anyone hook that quickly revealed itself to be as wide as an ocean but as deep as a puddle.
But the next year, after most players had long since bounced off the game, Ubisoft released the Bloodline DLC - a prequel to Legion revolving around original Watch Dogs protagonist Aiden Pearce and Watch Dogs 2's supporting character Wrench.
Though clocking it at less than half the length of the main campaign, Bloodline is a testament to both the power of brevity and releasing a game with an actual, identifiable protagonist.
While nobody's going to sit here and pretend that Aiden Pearce is an all-timer video game hero, the specificity of centering the story around him - compared to the basically endless array of recruitable NPCs in the main game - makes it immediately more engaging.
The dynamic between Aiden and Wrench is a lot of fun throughout, and fun is really the keyword here - if Legion was a strangely dull slog despite its innovative ideas, Bloodline was a fun and fizzy sprint which got in, did its thing, and got out long before it could outstay its welcome.