Division 2

Tom Clancy’s The Division is an online-only action role-playing video game developed by Massive Entertainment and published in 2016 by Ubisoft, with assistance from Red Storm Entertainment, Ubisoft Reflections and Ubisoft Annecy, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It is set in a near future New York City in the aftermath of a viral pandemic; the player, a Special Agent of the Strategic Homeland Division, is tasked with helping the group rebuild its operations in Manhattan, investigate the nature of the outbreak, and combat criminal activity in its wake. The Division is structured with elements of role-playing games, as well as cooperative and player versus player online multiplayer. The game is the first game to use Massive and Ubisoft’s Snowdrop game engine.

Reviews for The Division were generally positive, with praise towards the combat, visuals, and post-apocalyptic-like setting, though it faced criticism for its lack of content at launch, bullet-sponge enemies, story, and technical bugs. The game was a commercial success, with Ubisoft stating that the game broke the company’s record for highest number of first-day sales. Furthermore, one week after the game’s release, Ubisoft stated that The Division was the company’s best-selling game, and the industry’s biggest first-week launch for a new game franchise, which generated an estimated amount of $330 million globally. A sequel, Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, was released on March 15, 2019.