At long last, the closed beta for "Tom Clancy's The Division" has finally commenced. It started a day early on the Xbox One (courtesy of Microsoft's one-day exclusive) the PS4 and PC players got to join in the fun.
Unfortunately, the latter beta testers were welcomed with issues. Some players were not able to access the beta but developer Ubisoft promised to fix the glitch as soon as possible and it came through.
It did not take long before the game studio eliminated the barricade to finally let the participants (aka gamers who pre-ordered the title) in on the fun of trying out "Tom Clancy's The Division" way before it releases in March.
"We've reached Steam and they have updated their configuration which should resolve the issue," Ubisoft reported in its online forums. "Thank you for your patience. Go save New York!" the developer wrote.
The closed beta for "Tom Clancy's The Division" will end on Jan. 31 and to make the most out of it all, participants can check Gamespot's list of known issues regarding the beta so as to know how to deal with them.
In the wee hours of checking the game out, Ars Technica said that its anticipation about the shooter "dulled quite a bit." While the game does live up to the expectation it set in the previous trailers, the site says the gameplay was "uninspiring."
"The shooting action seems to draw direct inspiration from the Gears of War series, particularly in the way you can snap behind cover and move between safe points with the press of a button," the publication stated.
"That's a fine idea in theory. In execution, though, the controls are quite a bit clunkier than [developer] Epic's high-octane shooters," it wrote. Screen Rant, which also had the chance to try "Tom Clancy's The Division," seems to share the same sentiment.
In the end though, it is still about the players' individual preferences. But from the looks of it, the good about "Tom Clancy's The Division" seems to outweigh the bad. The open world third-person shooter RPG officially launches March 8.
