You start out with the bare essentials the first time you make your way to the White House. As an agent who’s been called in by the Division, your job is to help address that hooligan problem while helping the city’s makeshift settlements get back on their feet. Of course, instead of a gaggle of protestors outside its gates armed with signs, you have a band of horses, er, hooligans armed with guns.
It certainly adds some life and dynamism to a setting that should otherwise be dead and crumbling.Įven the White House, in its less than glorious state, retains a certain dignity despite being Frankensteined into a makeshift defensive outpost. I also like how I’ll sometimes enter a long skirmish at night, get stuff done and be welcomed by sunrise once I come out - making me feel like I put in a long night’s work. This isn’t limited to structures or lighting but also applies to little things like flora and animals, which can suddenly pop up while demonstrating behaviors that can hew pretty closely to their real-life counterparts. Anyway, the Division 2 does an excellent job recreating the city, with an impressive attention to detail that’ll make you do a double take at times. These include the air and space museum, which kind of seems like a mish-mash of the Smithsonian’s two aerospace museums, though maybe my memory is just foggy. a few times, including a recent trip last summer, it was interesting to see familiar landmarks and neighborhoods re-interpreted into a post-apocalyptic landscape. Instead, you have a few remnants left that are desperately holding ground amid a wave of roving lawless factions with bad intentions.Īs someone who’s been to D.C. This is a capital that’s turned into a shell of its former self after a weaponized super virus decimated the city and the government institutions that used to run the entire country. Speaking of mumbo sauce, the Division 2 moves its locale from the frosty streets of New York City in the first Division to hot and humid Washington, D.C.
It’s a sign of a team that learned from its own mistakes as well as that of others - something that always nets goodwill from a customer base that has gotten a lot more jaded in recent years thanks to some of the shenanigans pulled by some game companies. Division 2 is a much more fulsome and polished product right off the starting line, which is an even more impressive feat in this day and age when some highly anticipated games launch incomplete with less-than-expected content and more-than-expected issues. It also gets off on much better footing than the first Division game, which launched with some issues. But the resulting game can still be a tasty treat, even if you end up getting chicken with mumbo sauce instead of Buffalo hot wings. The Division 2 might not walk like Tom Clancy or quack like Tom Clancy, in the metaphorical sense, of course.
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