Ubisoft ended their conference with Tom Clancy’s The Division, another new IP, and almost mimicked their conference last year, where they initially revealed Watch_Dogs.
The Division is set three weeks after a deadly pandemic hits New York City on Black Friday (the most holiest of days) and quickly spreads from person to person, due to how long the virus can survive on a single dollar. The Ubisoft Blog had this to say, to fill in some of the history of The Division:
“Back in 2001, a group of scientists and politicians launched a project called Dark Winter, an exercise to test the emergency response to a bio-terrorist attack. The simulation revealed how quickly everything would fall apart, with massive civilian casualties and a complete breakdown of civil society. Or, as the narration in The Division’s launch trailer says, we’ve created a system so complicated that we don’t even know how to control it. Our society is a too-elegant house of cards: remove just one, and everything topples.”
The game also poses us with one question: What will it take to save those fading remnants of civilization that cower in the dark crevices?
Check out the game’s gameplay reveal below and get ready for Tom Clancy’s The Division to release in 2014 on Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
