Tom Clancy’s The Division™

I still play on and off. It is a grind to get good loot. But what game isnt? Still plays great. Looks good. It is still a good game.

This Game is where My Love for the Franchise Began back on PS4 at Launch with all 4 Maxed Endgame Characters, before again Buying it with all DLC Expansions for PC azwell.

I just Love the Cover Based or Mad Tank DPS Gameplay and World Loop.

I just Really do Hope that when UBISOFT do decide to shut down the Servers, that they Implement an Offline Mode for Gamers who still wanna play these two Great Games in Singleplayer.

Bring On THE DIVISION 3! 👌🏾😁

This game is to this day one of my favorites. I go back and play it every winter because of the vibes. Very sad to see the global events are over though...

How does this game look so good all these years later.

It has an awesome UI design, the image quality is great and the gun play is so satisfying.

This is such a fun time with friends.

I'd absolutely recommend this.

A beautiful game with super repetitive and boring side missions/encounters , main missions are somewhat fun.
If you can't bear with Ubisoft's formula you'll get bored real fast , only get this on sale when you got nothing else to play.

The gun fight feels so real and natural. Much better gun fight than Far Cry series.

Looks like I am 9 years late to the party. Great game but if you are looking for co-op, you will find no players.

Pros: Breath taking scenarios that really immerse the player in this apocaliptical world.

Cons:
-Extremely repetitive looter shooter objectives
-Enemies are damage sponges (some base enemies take 5 headshots with a rifle to kill. These enemies are widespread making encounters unnecessarily lengthy, some missions have 50 or even more enemies with hp pools varying from 5 headshots to 20 to kill, sometimes even more if you're under-leveled, making the game a weird stylistic Frankenstein, divided between realism and fantasy and not excelling in neither.
-again, the game doesn't decide between fantasy and realism, constantly breaking immersion for its inconsistencies.
-the game varies from extremely easy to extremely unfair, never being challenging nor enjoyable. When the game is at its hardest, it feels like you need to repeat the same strategy 10 times before proceeding, as if you depend entirely on the enemy ai being dumb and of course, luck, discouraging creative thinking.
-The abilities are very boring and barelly do anything, the same can be said for weapon upgrades, sometimes you get a 1% improvement on some passive stat, which of course is meaningless.
-Gameplay variety is non existent, it doesn't matter what weapon you pick, there is no stealth, viable melee build or any significantlly different playstyle other than your avarage run and gun strategy, ocasionally improving your position.
-very buggy, making it boderline unplayable at times (specially wjhen it comes to player input response)

Overall it's just your generic garbage ubisoft game, with agressive microtransactions and the whole ubisoft package, which is really sad since the E3 reveal generated so much hype back then. As of dec 2024, far from the blindness that the hype created, the game is still super generic and feels awful to play, maybe you like me, will have some fun at the first hour, then you will understand why most content creators never got past the first impressions, there is just no soul here whatsoever.

3.5/10, if you want a shooter or even an looter shooter, there are plenty free games out there that are 10X more fun than this, once human, marvel rivals, the battlefield series, there are tons of options for all genres and they are all better and more inspired than this generic garbage.

Its like Borderlands but in Third Person, with the name Tom Clancy brand slapped into it, your main character has no personality and without Spider-Man in it. Post-Apocalyptic New York is amazing here and you get to explore the whole city on foot just with civilians, rioters, cleaners, US army and the military agents all over the place. The world is so detailed here, it makes the interiors of every building 100 times more accessible than in GTA 4. In fact, you don't even have to go to New York to get the feel of the city in real life. Just imagine it if the city was the Ground Zero for Cov!d.

A few years ago I tried out The Division for the first time with a friend that really loved the game. She had insisted that I really didn't want to play the main campaign and had powerleveled me in the span of four and a half hours. I really didn't like this way of approaching the content all that much, I like experiencing these things for myself. Nevertheless, we kept playing for a few more hours after that, but eventually life got in the way and we ended up dropping the game for more important things in our lives. Over the past few years I had tried to get into this game either by myself or with other people, constantly getting to the halfway point and then dropping it. By the time I was able to gather a group of people to play this with, I had amassed twenty-four hours of game time. I had figured the reason I didn't get into this game was because of my first playthrough where I was powerleveled, or the fact that I didn't have anyone to play through this legit with, but now I realize that I just don't like this game.

Let me rephrase that, I LOVE certain things about this game. The gear systems, the act of shooting things, the novel idea of setting an ARPG in a real world setting but still somewhat leaning into some of the over the top nature of the genre was refreshing... but I don't like everything else around it whatsoever.

Story wise, the game has the setup to be interesting. Its premise comes from a cynicism with the government, which hey that's based, but is much more empathetic than the average Ubisoft game, simply trying to keep New York safe from groups taking advantage of the martial law situation or groups who are disturbingly misguided in their attempts to clean the game's fictional "Dollar Flu" virus from the city. It makes for some really unique imagery, like the sewers of NY becoming morgues for Relief Efforts as the morgues themselves overflow or the streets filling with walls of garbage bags as no one comes to collect them anymore. Aside from imagery and premise, this game does absolutely NOTHING to make you care for the world around you. Missions received from the main four Division heads Lau, Kandel, Benitez, and Rhodes are just come and go with them drivelling on over the radio about what you need to do. No real engaging dialogue outside of some of Benitez's jokes, just really overdone cliches, like the conflicted Black Ops operative, the annoying doctor, the dad energy officer, and the gritty PMC. Not to mention most of the main threats of the story are just dropped on you out of nowhere, hell not even the first Borderlands game was this bad with factions.

Shooting aside, the core Division experience is just so aggressively uninteresting. This playthrough took me and two friends sixteen hours, and about four hours of that were actually playing the campaign, which had the most interesting combat encounters in the game. The other twelve hours were side activities in a bland open world. There are two types of base game content: canned patrol activities and side missions, which those are either repeats of those canned patrol activities or missions where you and your squad of two other dip shits with varying attention spans are expected to sit there and let lore get shoveled into your mouth. That is the entire main game, playing only four hours of the decently designed campaign, and having to sift through terrible content for the rest of it.

The endgame itself is just not engaging anymore, a ton of these activities are dependent on matchmaking, such as Survival and Last Stand, which I was unfortunately unable to play. I was able to play Dark Zone, Incursions, and Underground however. Incursions being repeatable dungeons with tense as hell combat encounters and more enemy variety than the base game, sort of like a Destiny strike. Underground is proceduraly generated dungeons, which fits the game, but I find it funny that you have to pay extra for it.

Dark Zone was the main draw of the game and it just doesn't hold up today. The lack of players in any bracket other than World Tier Five makes the Dark Zone feel like it is missing half of its main draw for most of the runtime. Going into the game on lower levels just feels like a slightly harder version of what I had already been doing, without the thrill of fighting another player for high tier gear.

This game has its fans, no doubt, and I don't blame them for it, but I have absolutely NO desire to dig through this game for tens or hundreds of hours just to get to "the good parts." My friend was somewhat right in saying that I probably wouldn't want to play the base game, but as of now I don't even want to play the rest of the game if it just doesn't respect my time.

i dig this game story and feel. great vibe and visuals. good co-op fun and cool PvP too. absolute gem.

I would recommend this game if you need another looter shooter to play and are willing to try this game out. However, I would only recommend this game when the gold version is 75% off. Getting the base game is fine, but you will be missing out on a replayable DLC (kinda like a dungeon with different floors) and the very great Survival DLC (Rouge-like extraction shooter).

Atmosphere: Absolutely gorgeous and easily the best you can get to a Christmas apocalypse in NYC

Gameplay: the only problem is bullet sponge enemies. Finding other agents is hard, so expect to solo this game.

So much fun to play with my son. The story is relatable and believable (thanks to C0rona experience :D). Such a great game.

Legal, mas como eu joguei o segundo antes desse, se percebe como esse é bem mais travadão. Mas foi legal zerar só a campanha e secundárias.

Played this when it came on in 2016. Got it today in the winter sale and love it as much as I did back then. No other game is as atmospheric and immersing as The Division's wintery NYC. 10/10

I mean, this is the 3rd time ive bought the game and have played a total of about 100 Hours in Div and about 700 in Div2. Both outstanding and the community is amazing. Devs keeping the game alive are the real VIPs. Cant wait for more. I will say it does repeat alot of missions and side mission but thats not too much of an annoyance!

The absolute epitome of a Christmas game. Still beats Division 2 out of the water

Fun bud too much game errors, messages like The Division services are at the moment not available, please try again later.

This game helped me understand why CoD is the best, although, unlike CoD. The Division is actually fucking good. It reminds me of how good gaming used to be before companies added microtransactions n' sheet like that. Please play this game when you have a chance - EVERYTHING FEELS NATURAL COMPARED TO COD.

300/300 STARS

New York City during the holiday season with snow and Christmas decorations lining the streets. Quite simply one of the prettiest and most ambient game worlds I have ever experienced, which is ironic considering how depressing the story is.

Score 8,5/10
Score 8,5 / 10.

Great co-op in an atmospheric environment. Fits well with a casual play style.
The game is already well polished, still has online players in case you're looking for someone to group with.
My advice would be to start playing it together with a friend or two and go through it from zero at the same pace.

Ubisoft knows how to reenact an urban environment and NY looks great in this game, uses a lot of indoor and outdoor spaces, which gives it a special feel.

Compared to the second Division, there's the possibility to select the difficulty for the main missions, if you like something a bit more challenging, go for it.

Ok games pretty good now that there are fixes to the issue of crashing on startup after the recent ubisoft launcher update! XD

Genuinely love this game.

I've played by myself all these hours, and loved the setting, story, and gameplay.

I'm entirely convinced the game is much more fun when playing with friends, and it definitely feels like it is made to do so. But to my own surprise this game has become one of my favorites.

Its a gorgeous rendering of new york, gameplay is fun, but enemies feel like bullet sponges

Timeless masterpiece with a decent amount of people still playing. Be sure to grab it (+ the season pass if possible) during a sale!

10/10 - abandoned gem

Bought the base for my steam deck on sale. Runs great! I already had all the DLC on UPlay and thankfully this all got transferred over. I dont usually re-buy games. But it was cheap.

The Division puts me in the Christmas mood. Nothing quite like running around New York in winter, am I right?

they ruined this game then left it there to rot with players inside. I wouldnt reccomend this game until they revert it back to maybe patch 1.3 or 1.2. cause the game now is just an absolute neglected laggy server piece of trash .
Never get drops you need. you can recalibrate and upgrade all you want and you will never beat some guy who modified his game and the game dosnt really give two good farts about it. I see chinese hackers in this game literally non stop in the dz and survival pvp.
explain to me how this is fun in pvp? when you can never farm the gear you need for the set that you wanna build. never get the right rolls ect.
Dark zone is unenjoyable now. 1.3 it was really fun. this game is really bad now.

this game is absolutly ( I spelt that wrong ) worth every penny the game is realistic and very fun to play

coming back to the game after so many years, used to play on console. Survival mode DLC is where the fun is at imo

recently re downloaded this game to see how everything was after all the updates (last played around 2018 on ps4) and its so cool to still see other people playing. if you do download this game you HAVE to try out the survival mode!

The Atmosphere of this game is UNMATCHED you cant beat it! The dense fog and snow coming down all the cars and buildings that are street level. there is so much to do on this game completing it 100% is something i dont think you can actually achive. Now for the missions and side missions they are fun and can be very hard to beat. BUT if you want 100% death then please visit the DZ (Dark Zone). i was in there today, clapping yellow level 34's picking up gear. i then turned around and im looking at another agent pointing a shotgun at my dome. i died. then died 4 more times. by the same guy! then ranaway then died 2 more times by LMB soldiers.

I bought The Division 2 first and really enjoyed it. So I picked this up for my kid and I to play and am having a blast! Still a great game in 2024, just wish more people played MP still!

If this game had a star rating, it would be zero. I played for one hour and encountered 4 -- count them FOUR -- game-ending bugs that made progress stop. The first one was the first step in the tutorial. Certain things just stop working randomly like running or interacting with doors and you have to fully exit the game and restart to get them to work again. If you're on a mission, you have to start over and hope it doesn't break again. Not to mention the fact that the keyboard controls are weird, over-complicated, and downright unintuitive. I wanted to like this game, but if I can't actually play it, how can I give it a thumbs up?

This game is currently broken. I've been invincible for the past two sessions and can only be damaged by melee, abilities, and grenades in PVE. PVP is not fun at all and the coolest area in the game is full of players who will go rogue and then quickly down you before you can do anything about it. Pretty lame. I've played a lot of this one but the second game has much worse writing. The writing in this game is passable but the writing in Division 2 is just cringe.

For a game released 8 years ago it is great!
Game mechanics feel a bit dated compared
to modern titles.

A good Christmas time game if you don't mind typical Ubisoft shit (server disconnects, bullet sponge enemies, game breaking bugs).

Multiplayer is almost dead...

Its too bad that ubisoft is behind this game because Massive Entertainment did a fantastic job but the need for the uplay launcher and the reliability of the online-only gameplay are serious turn offs. In my opinion, if you can get this game on discount then I highly recommend it.

This game is real good. I enjoy basically all the content for this game.

Pros ::
- If you like single player games for story, the campaign is long by todays standards and fun. You can play co-op with your friends and you can pretend the game doesn't have PvP or anything like that in it.
- This game has a decent amount of PvE endgame content also. Missions can be replayed on higher difficulty, and it feels real good to be able to beat them when all the enemies are harder.
- Gear sets, exotic items, and gear talents allow for a huge variety of engame gear line-ups that all work well and allow you to customize how you play.
- Division Tech abilities are real cool and fun to use. They feel good when you use them well.
- Darkzone is real fun (when hackers aren't too involved!). I get the same sort of thrill from the darkzone in this game that I would get from a game like DayZ, where when you run into other people, you don't know if they will try to kill you, or if you can talk to them and maybe even join up. OR you can just go rogue and see how many people you can murder and rob before they take you down or you get away!
- PvP balance is better than... maybe any shooter where you have RPG/Borderlands style stats? Still far from perfect, see 'cons'.
- Gears of War style cover system. Not as flawless and seamless as GoW, but if you enjoy controlling your character like this, it will feel good.

Cons ::
- After you beat the main story that came with the game, there has only been a small amount of additional story since, even though they released several large patches and 3 expansions.
- While having cool Division Tech abilities in general is really cool, they are not all created equal. Some abilities or particular mods are -very- good and easy to use, while others are so bad they are essentially useless. This hopefully continues to be less true as the game gets more patches, but we will see.
- PvP can be a real bad experience if you run into hackers. I know this is true with any game, but the PvP in this game goes really hard with the "high risk, high reward" feel. So to lose all of your loot/progress to someone who isn't playing fair doesn't feel great.
- Visual character customization is garbage. The polar opposite of how good it feels to equip whatever sets of gear you want. You get a handful of faces and hairstyles, and then I guess tattoos if you want to look a little unique. 99% of the cosmetic wearables you get are -very- similar looking, and they count the same item of a different color to be a completely different item. This means you will be gathering clothing basically forever, and changing your looks is real tedious because you have to thumb through 10 different "puffy jackets" that only vaguely look different than the "all-weather jackets". And the colors available are usually some variety of gray or beige, with the rare purple or something tossed in. Also, none of them are even alphabetically organized. Just awful.
- Currently (patch 1.6) there is no "search" functionality for looking at your items. This game could benefit heavily from something like this, as it is awful to put loadouts together like this. Do note that Loadouts are a thing that is coming to the game, but it would still be nice to be able to search and sort gear.
- General performance issues keep people with lower power PCs from playing this game. Like, this game is good looking, but that mostly comes from the incredible attention to detail in everything. The actual graphics look real bleh for how hard this thing rails on graphics cards.
- Ubisoft TAINTS everything they touch.

All in all, I think this game is worth the money at it's full currant price. Most of the people leaving negative reviews here on Steam even often say they like the game, but it's not as good as it could be. This game has many solid hours of entertainment behind it, and future patches promise more.

EASILY one of my favorite games of all time! The combat is very fun and satisfying, the story and characters are so good and the setting is one of THE best I've seen in any game in a long time (I <3 the vast, snowy, empty Manhattan setting so much)

don't buy this game. the shield commedations don't work and the Global Event service is dead making the grind for classified gear fucking miserable.

if you already own the game with the DLCs on Ubisoft and want a "loisence" for Steam, just buy the standard edition. the licenses are cross-compatible

its just has an amazing feel to it very atmospheric the cold winter New York scene. I keep coming back to it every time to scratch that looter shooter itch which by the way the second game never did. its very much still alive and well even after all these years you still find players to join or to fight against. Also it has a very fleshed out end game which you just so addicted and make you want to keep coming back to it

I have put hundreds of hours into this game on my Xbox and I finally got a pc and this is the first game I got on it. It is so nice to play again, especially with the great graphics

Something that I've found out very recently is that if you lose access to the ubisoft account that you used to play this in the very first time, you can't play it anymore. It's over. The DLCs are somehow tied to the ubisoft connect account, if you can't log in the same account the game will issue an error, as if you were trying to "lend your game to another account" (which also shouldn't be a problem) and theres this weird DRM thing that blocks you opening the game.

I really wanted to like this game as it has the coolest aesthetics, brilliant atmosphere, and engaging shoot outs, but what kills it entirely is the RPG systems and mechanics. Ubisoft struggle with RPG mechanics regularly and it fucking shows here

fine game but the world is soooo boring and dead, if the world was more interactive, it would be a good game, also the combat is sometimes broken, get it in discount or crack it

game has no real direction they make the later game literally impossible in solo hole game is just a waste of time i mean if you wanna see how far tom Clancy games have fallen this is for you then games experience was so bad after this review i plan on removing the game completely from my account because i don't mind wasting some money on something that's actually playable understandable and has a clear direction instead of aimlessly wondering a town if i wanted to struggle playing a game id go play struggling

played a lot of division2, but never division1, so now´s the time to see if I agree with the ppl who say "div1 is better". in short: i think not.
it´s different! darker, grittier, tries to be more of a story shooter, but also clunkier to navigate, because there is more debris and stuff lying around and not every climbable area is clearly marked. environmental graphics are beautiful, but ppl /npcs are not well animated. div2 looks better in almost every aspect, except the amount of stuff lying around.

also, the fking ubisoft connect is still running in the background, and it´s the reason why the game takes forever to load. yeah, that´s ubisoft for you.

all in all I think it´s still worth playing if you get it at a discount, but div2 is the better looter shooter, because it doesn´t even try to offer a "real" story except "shoot all bad guys".

The gameplay is starting to show its age, controls can get a bit wonky on Mouse & Keyboard. Enemy sponginess can be a real pain sometimes but all is made up for with the vibes of this game alone.

The world-building is top-notch, you can really feel the desolation of a dying city in the harsh winter. The grim atmosphere is realistic in its tone and pairs well with the chaotic shootouts on car-ridden streets. Especially with gamemodes like Dark-Zone & Survival (DLC needed for latter). Both are fun twists on an otherwise pretty mediocre game.

Graphics hold up surprisingly well today, although currently I have some issues with stuttering that I haven't been able to solve. Might be a bottleneck issue on my end.

All in all, what the game may lack a bit in its gameplay mechanics and main-storyline's repetitiveness, it makes up for with the general atmosphere and two solid gamemodes that build off of it. I'd never recommend buying full price however, wait for a steam sale or find a steam key online somewhere (Be careful with that).

Massive made something special here. The nearly perfect atmosphere and world building. The city is impressively immersive. The game is a mood that you need to experience to understand. Looks better than most AAA games today. Underground and Survival DLC are very fun. Might be my favorite gaming experience from the 2010 decade.

Division is a great game, worth purchasing the Gold Edition for Survival DLC etc.