It was inevitable that Tom Clancy’s The Division from Ubisoft came down to Earth. The game has been hyped ever since Ubisoft unveiled the game at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in 2013. Now that Ubisoft has let the press and gamers play its closed beta test, I’ve had a good first look at the gameplay.
And it feels like the ambitions have been scaled back, which is a disappointment because The Division is the biggest high-end game slated for launch so far this year. With its vast simulated open world powered by a proprietary game technology, The Division was supposed to represent the very best of what a team of hundreds of developers working for five years can do. And it will set the tone for major video game releases in the $26 billion console game industry.
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