Friday 8 May 2015

Tom Clancy's The Division - Where is it at?

Since being shown at E3 2013 The Division has been one of the most promising games set to come out on the next generation consoles, yet we've almost heard nothing about the game since. Tom Clancy's The Division is being developed by Ubisoft Massive, Ubisoft Reflection and Red Storm Entertainment under the Tom Clancy brand.

The games story follows a chaotic New York city, A disease has spread across the united states causing the government to collapse and chaos ensures. You play as a Division agent who has been given authority to take any means necessary to bring the chaos under control.



  

  So where exactly is this game at? Since E3 2013 trailer there has only been one other trailer and that was released at E3 2014. On May 15, 2014 It was announced The Division was going to be pushed back to a 2015 release without any indication of a date.Since that announcement there hasn't been much heard from the developers, apart from a small pod cast or update on the Tom Clancy site leaving all those who were so hyped for the game feeling somewhat empty. It seems only the real hardcore fans have stuck with the updates with the game. It's safe to say that if we haven't been given a release date 5 months in to 2015 that this game is going to be pushed back to 2016 and beyond.    

    


So what exactly is there to look forward to? Has the development for this game gone sour? It's hard to tell really. With this game promising so much such as a thriving massive open RPG world with players, AI and trading it could be a safe bet that ubisoft is in over it's head. We haven't even seen a real, proper thriving RPG world on with players in it on consoles, nothing like a World of Warcraft or Runescape.  The closets RPG online thriving worlds we have on console are pretty much Destiny which many consider a flop. That being said, The Ubisoft developers clearly have ambition to go above and beyond to create something different. You can see what they're trying to create and the goal is definitely not out of reach. If Ubisoft and co can pull this game off, it will go down as one of the best console games of this generation.

If you're interested in checking out more of this game or recieving updates about it, check out  http://tomclancy-thedivision.ubi.com/game/en-us/home/

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