Tom Clancy’s The Division
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Ambient and scripted dialogue from agents and hostile factions includes moderate profanity.
Realistic cover-based gunfights with firearms and explosives against human enemy factions; enemies bleed and drop, but there is no dismemberment or gore.
The world is built around a lethal viral pandemic, societal breakdown, mass civilian death, quarantine zones, and body bags.
Drug and alcohol references surface in the pandemic-collapse setting; no player use is a core mechanic.
Some quarantine and contaminated areas carry a bleak, tense atmosphere, but there is no horror-focused gameplay.
Enemy factions loot, kidnap, and execute civilians amid the collapse, and the player fights these criminal groups.
Optional real-money purchases exist for cosmetic outfits and appearance items.
Hostile factions such as the Cleaners burn people and carry out executions of civilians, shown or referenced in the environment and story.
Cosmetic purchases are optional and not required for progression.
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What it is
Tom Clancy's The Division is an online third-person cover shooter set in a snowbound New York City weeks after a smallpox-based virus, spread through contaminated banknotes, has caused a deadly pandemic and the collapse of society. Playing as a government 'Division' agent, you fight through realistic firefights against armed human factions of looters, prison gangs, and rogue paramilitaries, using rifles, pistols, grenades, and gadgets while looting and upgrading weapons and gear. Combat is realistic with blood effects but no gore or dismemberment. The setting leans heavily on dark subject matter — a mass-casualty outbreak, quarantine, corpses and body bags, and recorded stories of desperate survivors. The game can be played solo or in online co-op, and the optional Dark Zone pits players against both enemies and one another. Voice and text chat with strangers are present, along with optional real-money purchases for cosmetic items and expansions.
How it's framed
The game frames the player as a sanctioned agent restoring order and protecting civilians against violent factions exploiting the chaos, so violence is presented as duty and rescue rather than villainy. Its tone is somber and cautionary about societal fragility, using environmental storytelling and audio logs to dwell on loss and human desperation rather than glorifying the mayhem.
Details
- Developer
- Massive Entertainment
- Publisher
- Ubisoft
- Released
- Mar 7, 2016
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