Consequentially, he is often required to escape from pursuers due to him being a wanted man. He is also skilled in countersurveillance, often shown when he is escaping various thugs, Fixers, and police officers with ease. His hand-to-hand combat skills are shown to be a variety of both dangerously efficient martial arts and deadly street fighting techniques, probably learned through his career as a thief and former Fixer. He can chain together actions in rapid succession such as vaulting over a fence while hacking an electrical relay box to neutralize a criminal. Pearce is extremely skilled, vastly experienced, highly trained and very deadly in hand-to-hand combat, lethal and non-lethal battle and stealth tactics, offensive and defensive driving, gunplay, advanced hacking, and parkour/freerunning.
Aiden also wears a two tone black/olive cap with a logo that can be debated to be either a stylized 'Nexus' logo or a fox. He also has a deep, gravelly voice.Īiden also keeps a neckwarmer scarf tucked into the neck of his sweater, which he may pull up so that it covers his face up to the bridge of his nose. Aiden wears dark blue jeans with zippers over the back pockets and black boots with light grey highlights based off real life Polo Conquest 2 boots. On top of the sweater, Aiden wears a two tone brown modern, knee-length trench coat with a leather strip that runs horizontally across the chest. In the trailers Aiden wears a long-sleeve, zip-neck usually un-tucked, though his clothes can be changed to several other jackets of similar style. While having his mugshot taken, it is shown that he is around 6 ft 2 in and appears to be of mesomorphic build. During his criminal years, Aiden became acquainted with a fellow hacker, Damien Brenks, where the two taught each other specific hacking skills and the two proved to be a strong team.Īiden is an adult male with green eyes, brown mid-length hair, and light facial hair.
He personally paid to learn about combat and how to wield weapons, which contributed to his career as a thief. Aiden grew up in a rough neighborhood, and frequently had to fend for himself, his sister grew up idolizing him and was noted for his cars, hockey and his friends were described as 'gross'.Įventually he became part of a criminal gang. It is implied in an audio log that his mother took both him and his sister, Nicole Pearce, to the United States in order to escape their father. Follow him on Twitter.History of Aiden Pearce Background Īiden Pearce was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on May 2, 1974. Joe Skrebels is IGN's Executive Editor of News. We recently played a near-final version of the game, saying it had a "potentially staggering amount of rabbit holes to tumble down as you take a very hands-on approach to recruiting new comrades for the uprising." We also poijnted out that the Census System powering its Play-As-Anyone mechanic feels next-gen on its own.
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It will arrive on PS5 digitally on November 12, and physically on November 24.
Watch Dogs: Legion will be released for PS4, Xbox One and PC on October 29, and will be a launch title for Xbox Series X and S on November 10. can't wait to see everyone's version of Aiden and Wrench." He also responded to a question about customisation, saying that all four new characters can be altered to the players' taste: "Once they are on your team, you can customize them as you wish. It's not clear if the other three will be playable in the main campaign, but Thillainathan confirmed that all of them will be playable both in single player and online modes. When you replay the main missions again, Aiden will be integrated into all the original cinematics."Īiden will be added alongside three other playable characters - Wrench from Watch Dogs 2, Darcy, an Assassin, and Mina, a victim of transhuman experiements who has psychic powers.
We are writing the full single player story again with personality. "Aiden will be treated as another member of the team. Asked how Aiden will slot into the main campaign given that he's a set character - unlike Legion's NPC-recruited protagonists - Thillainathan explained that he'll be treated like any other character, but will have his personality and character written into the main campaign's cutscenes: