"Tom Clancy's The Division" by Ubisoft is officially arriving on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on March 8, 2016. The announcement was made by the game company during its presentation at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2015, as reported by IGN. This will mark a four-year development and a two-year delay as the game was initially meant to be released back in 2014.
"It is never an easy decision to move a launch date," Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot explained about the game's constant delay. He also stated that each delay the game experience has "always benefited the company."
According to the report from IGN, the beta test for the game will be launched for all three platforms early next year, allowing a few select players to give the game a try and help the developers identify rough spots, bugs, and areas that need to be improved, changed, or deleted.
During the presentation, Ubisoft let fans have a first-hand look at the cooperative and competitive nature of the gameplay. In the video, a group of three form a temporary alliance with two random strangers they come across. As a bigger group, they kill off some opponents, take whatever loot they can, and head to the extraction point.
However, after calling in for a chopper, the original three turn rogue and start firing at the two they formed an alliance with. Before the shoot-out is over, one of the original three then turns against his own allies and kills them as well, taking all of the loot for himself.
"Tom Clancy's The Division" is an open world third-person shooter RPG set in the United States after a virus causes the nation's collapse in just five days. Players will have to work together to help piece the nation back and rebuild civilization, fighting AI and human-controlled enemies that are either focused on their own survival or are spreading the disease even further.
