Tom Clancy's The Division

Tom Clancy's The Division is an upcoming open world third-person shooter role-playing video game with survival elements developed by Ubisoft Annecy, Ubisoft Massive, Ubisoft Reflections and Red Storm Entertainment under the Tom Clancy brand for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It was announced during Ubisoft's E3 2013 press conference, together with a seven-minute gameplay demo and is set to release on March 8, 2016.

Gameplay

Players may take cover behind objects during firefights to avoid taking damage from enemies, and to give them a tactical advantage when attacking.

The Division takes place in mid-crisis New York, and the player's mission is to restore order by investigating the source of the virus. Players have to team up with other Division agents as they progress. As the game is set in a third-person perspective, the character model is visible. Players can customize their character, backpack and level up weapons, gear, and skills. The game features a dynamic, time based weather system. Players can use this for strategic advantage.^[3]

Plot

In the game, a pandemic that spreads on Black Friday causes the United States Government to collapse in five days; basic services fail one by one, and without access to food or water, the country quickly descends into chaos. In the wake of the devastating pandemic that sweeps through cities across the country, including New York City, it is discovered that the spread of the disease is transmitted through germs on banknotes.^[4] As a last resort, the player is part of a classified unit of self-supported tactical agents, known as the "Strategic Homeland Division (SHD)", or "The Division" for short. Leading seemingly ordinary lives, SHD agents are trained to operate independently of command when all else fails. This group is established to combat the threat brought about by the outbreak and are given direct authority by the President of the United States to do whatever it takes to prevent the fall of society and piece the city back together in a massive multiplayer online situation, putting them against AI-controlled enemies, as well as other players in the game. Throughout the game, the agents will find themselves caught in a worldwide conspiracy and will be forced to combat both the threats of the virus as well as those who unleashed it.