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Published 11:01 16 Jun 2019 BST
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Toby Young was not a fan at all, staying (via Eurogamer) that "As a Brexit supporter the temptation is to become outraged they're portraying Brexit as being such a disaster when actually so far no disaster has materialised.
"[The game shows] these feverish apocalyptic fantasies, these conspiracy theories, something which was true of the popularist right. But since Brexit and Trump's victory in 2016, the paranoid style, these paranoid apocalyptic fever dreams, seem to have migrated to the left, and this feels like an example of that."
Miatta Fahnbulleh, of the New Economics Foundation, then championed the game for highlighting some of the fears around Brexit in the game:
"It may not be the dystopia, but the underlying drivers of Brexit, yes there were people who voted for the European Union, but for a lot of people it was despair and discontent with the economic system, with an economic system that still benefits a tiny proportion of people where people aren't feeling the benefit in the majority.
"The problem in all of the debate of the last three years is we've gone away from that. And we're not talking about those issues and we're not talking about how we need to respond. We're talking about the ins and outs of whether we leave or how we leave, and that is a problem.
"If it takes the gaming industry to shine a spotlight on that? Thank you very much."
The full episode is still up for you to watch on BBC iPlayer.
We can find out for ourselves just how bad this version of Brexit will turn out to be when Watch Dogs: Legion arrives on PS4, Xbox One, and PC on 6 March 2020.
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