My gripes with advancement aside, The Division feels like a game caught between wanting to say something and not caring enough to finish out its thought. It builds a strong foundation on the gameplay front, offering up rewarding combat and simple skills, but doesn't follow that with anything...

Explore New York City devastated by smallpox. Find loot from fallen enemies or purchase with currency. A great co-operative shooter experience. Travel into The Dark Zone for high end items. Impressively destructible environments.

Destructible environments – Good co-op gameplay

No end game – Plenty of glitches that can break immersion

It's ok. story line seems repetitive, especially the side mission .. you just walk around and shoot 3-4 bad guys over and over again. Got boring after 3 days.

Junk absolute junk

Multi-player

Everything

The big apple.

So much to do; The Dark Zone is exceptional; Immersive; atmospheric world

Minor technical issues; Matchmaking needs work; Menus can be fiddly

It seems like developers have been wanting to create an MMO in the console space for a while, but doing it successfully is easier said than done. There have been a few good attempts (my favorite was the instantly-ignored Defiance ) and several bad ones, but the launch of Destiny was Bungie swooping...

Getting through a tough mission with a full squad; everyone at their best

Seeing the same water treatment mission over and over

Persistent always-online games are never the same now than when they first released, a lifetime of updates continuously changing the player experience. Getting there requires strong foundations, and Tom Clancy's The Division is busy building them.

Great weapons system to dive into; Cover shooter gameplay is nicely polished; A beautiful; desolate; and vicious setting

Highly repetitive side quests; Crafting suffers from too much randomness; Dark Zone PvP still needs plenty of tweaking

The Division took our breath away when we first gazed upon its gorgeous Snowdrop engine back in 2013. The game has gone through so many ups and downs regarding its release date, that by the time 2015 rolled along, I was so resigned from the game ever surfacing, that I thought I wouldn't even lament...

Let's start off with Manhattan, your sprawling playground that's purportedly a near 1:1 recreation of the real thing; While it's certainly not the biggest map I've seen in a game like this, not even by a long shot, the attention to detail is what really sells it as an actual location.

As polished as the environment and the core mechanics of the game are, the game suffers from a ton of bugs; Whether they're graphical glitches where the environment turns black when examining your inventory, falling through the geometry when rolling, or being rolled into, enemies not losing health...

Frankly, I'm going to be playing this game for such a long time, I enjoyed pretty much every aspect of the game, and I still am, the only thing I have yet to experiance is the Dark Zone, the online mulitplayer, which I shall cover in an upcoming review, so please check back for that one.