Tom Clancys The Division 2 is coming in 2019.
Tom Clancy's The Division 2 is coming in 2019.
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The Division 2 hands-on preview — taking D.C. back, one monument at a time

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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French video game publisher Ubisoft showed off hours of content for Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 at a preview event that I attended last week. The game debuts on March 15 on the PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, but Ubisoft is starting to show private betas of the game starting on February 7.

At the outset of the campaign, I found it to be tougher than I expected and not because the enemies were “bullet sponges” or able to take a clip of fire and still keep standing. The enemies ducked under cover when I fired at them, and then they tried to outflank me by moving while I was pinned down. It took a few deaths and respawns for me to reach my first destination, the White House.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.