In The Division 1, the virus is unleashed during the christmas holidays, so when everyone was dying, no one worried about the decorations and just left them up. So it's christmas themed, but not exactly christmas time. There is a story, you are trying to find the people who created and distributed the virus. You go from region to region and deal with the different hostile factions in each of them as you try and find a cure and the people responsible. The same story basically continues in The Division 2. It is post-apocalypse pretty much, the watch lighting up was just "this is how some division agents were called" blackflash thing. There are factions with advanced technology, but most people are living like it's the early 1900's again, but with whatever technology communities can salvage and maintain to help ease things along.
Except when you start getting into the seasons in Division 2, it makes you question whether the Division agents are actually the good guys. That’s why I created my Division 2 character based on my Division 1 character.
@@Gtmine133 Yeah anad if you look at past manhunt dates. These two games have been out for a decade now but the timelapse of both games is less than a year as far as ingame time goes.
The "Green Poison" (or Dollar Flu) was released on Black Friday using cash contaminated with a manufactured super virus. According to game lore (and if memory serves) it ends up wiping out 80% of the world's population. Division 2 takes place approximately 6 months later
Technically it was during black friday. It was a variation of the small pox virus that was applied to dollar bills during black friday to maximise the spread of the virus. As the city infrastructure falls apart several gangs emerge including The Rikers (escaped convicts from Riker's Island", The Cleaners (Sanitation workers using flame throwers to purge the virus) and Last Man Battalion (A private military company). The first wave of agents who went in turned rogue and became the bad guys, you are part of the 2nd division wave of agents sent to try to discover what happened with the virus and the rogue agents. Its a multiplayer story driven game. You can play solo or team up with others to tackle harder content. There are missions dotted around the different zones as well as smaller operations such as hostage rescue, command post takeovers and bounty hunting. As you play and complete missions you collect weapons and gear to upgrade your agent and make him stronger. Its primarily player vs environment but there are player vs player zones where you compete against other players for better "loot" I've played waaaay too much of both division games and still play division 2 to this day.
I don't know, I quite liked Division 2 environment, though not as much as Division 1 as I played both. Division 2 has a more post-apocalypes vibe to it. And when I say post, I mean as it's after the worst of everything, Division 1 is right in the think of it, your job in Division 1 is basically make sure shit doesn't get any worse than it already is, stabilizing the situation. Division 2 feels more like the recovery, the rebuilding, and giving the hope that there is a tomorrow. But that's just my two cents
It is a fairly complex story. The US government runs a simulation of what would happen if a bio attack were to occur. Things went VERY bad in the simulation. In response, the US government makes The Division as one of the solutions of how to address it. Fast forward and the event actually happens. The method was a modified version of small pox strategically placed on currency during the Black Friday sales. This is the first weekend after Thanksgiving and the biggest weekend of the Christmas sales in the US retail market. This is where all the Christmas motif comes from. The attack was targeting Christmas specifically. Things go really badly as predicted in the simulation, but The Division is mobilized to retake a fallen New York City. In the chaos, various factions seized control of parts of the city. As a member of The Division, the player has to establish order by defeating the faction in control while also rebuilding infrastructure and helping any citizens caught in the area. You shoot a bunch of guys but also hand out bottles of water and repair solar panels.
You're right. One of the most atmospheric games I have ever played. Even now I come back to NY just to slowly wander the city streets. Still on my hard drive
The one where you said the branding was falling apart was for a book they published that is kind of an ARG/companion book to the game. Has locations and further clues into the back story, and the girl who is in the trailer you can find her apartment and clues on her story in the game. The book is really amazing, I love it.
Tom Clancy based his games on real potential scenarios, Directive 51 is a real directive, as well as Operation Dark Winter was real which is kind of scary.
I remember my uncle was so excited about the release of this game back in 2016, he got me to download the beta and he even bought me the game just for him to get bored of it before the game even released, he got bored within the time span of the beta lmao. I ended up playing the game quite consistently for about 1 /12- 2 years and ended meeting a lot of people and making multiple virtual friends on there. Some of them even visiting each other in real life cause one of them was a truck driver. Shout out to, David Ramos Birdman Ankman Sarko Vanquished Davis Lee Gheeo legend J Money TonyCapp
Stil play both Division 1 and 2, some of the best games ive ever played. the story is ongoing from game 1 and to game 2 and six years into game two its still going strong, with several books and audiodramas as well to flesh out the lore.
One of my favourite games of the last decade with over 3000 hours played. Absolutely superb scene setting, graphics and lore. The Cleaners are one of the best villain groups in any game.
Hope this helps... the Division are sleeper agents around america that got activated to help out with the Chaos that happened with the events of a super virus spreading around the world. In the game you play as one of the members of the division and help to take control of the city with standard and slightly sci-fiish weapons like smart grenades (the ball you saw), drones and turrets. Was a blast at the time, but fell flat over time with how the game was managed.
Both games imo are amazing and the lore is brilliant. If you have time, I highly recommend checking out the short film that Ubisoft made for this game on TH-cam; i believe its called The Division - Origins. It is an online game but it does have a campaign and is very story rich and there are many stories interwined, hence the many different factions you see in the trailers. Also, the division agents are part of Homeland and were already agents before the pandemic, they just have to wait to be called up. The people you see with watches in the final trailer were part of the First Wave.
"Start the collapse" was a real simulation of the fall of society. On the site, you selected the city in which you live, and the site asked you to decide how you would react to the news about the pandemic, for example, would you go to the hospital or immediately pack your things and go to the airport. Based on your decisions and the decisions of other people, the site calculated how quickly the virus would spread on Earth. I have to admit, it was an exciting and frightening experience.
I love The Division. Im excited for the next DLC for The Division 2. Some Division lore: Division agents are all from different walks of life they could be your freind , neighbour and maybe your romantic partner or even the guy who owns the Hot dog stand. They go through rigorous training that consists of: Physical Weapons Tech They are also tested mentally and are pushed to their limits mentally. The Division Agents are expected to keep up their peak physical condition 24/7. They also live 2 different lives: 1 living a normal life 2 Being a Division Agent Those who are chosen to be Division Agents are expected to keep the fact that the Division exists a secret. Division Agents are only activated when everything else has fallen. They are the last line of defence.
Coincidentally, I played both the Division 1 & 2 from day one. The first time I entered 'The Dark Zone', (a quarentine zone in the middle of the gamemap) in the middle of a snowstorm, and ran up on another player, was one of the most amazing and iconic moments in all my time gaming. Division 1 is hands down one of the most amazing games out there.
Looking at the in-game side, story is told through a few different lenses. One part is the thread of tracking down how "Green Poison" was spread to begin with, and that's the main mission line. Some stories come in the form of side quests, but there are three things that speaks in a more exploring sense. One is collectable phone recordings, each of these sets of recordings tell a story of their own. Another are these holographic reconstructions you can activate and interact with, activating snippets of what people said during the event of the holographic snapshot. And lastly but easily the biggest part is simply the level design. This is not a strictly linear level; It's a bunch of blocks of New York city recreated, but of course altered for the game setting. And there's a fair chunk of buildings you can actually go inside of, so it isn't just tons of big building exterior exposition. While it is an online PvE / PvP game, I would strongly recommend playing it just for the main story and setting.
Anything with Tom Clancy's name on it , Books, Games, Films, you just know it's going to be intense but also very relevant at the time of release. The Division are sleepers, much like the Russian sleepers in the US and Europe from the cold war era only this time the sleepers are the good guys. The plot is a mad scientist gets hold of a smallpox variant of a virus, places it on bank notes and enters these notes into general circulation at the economically busiest time of the year, Black Friday. In the game you have the opportunity to "flashback" in certain marked areas to get important clues which helps to trace the source of the infection and work forward or backwards from there. The game is quite intense and can be played as a single player but is best played in co-op. The Division is set in New York and The Division 2 in Washington DC with a DLC, Warlords of NY which takes you back to Manhattan.
This was a very good game and the story telling happens over time as you clear out parts of the city and explore the space. You find cellphones that you can hear call logs and records from. The Division was signed in 2007 in the game and they get called upon 9 years later, but not all at once. They're activated in stages as they're needed. You're apart of the second or third group that gets called in when your predecessors go missing. It's definitely worth a play through.
The interesting thing here is that it all builds on a real Simulation that is actually called Darkwinter like in one of the trailers that the US did in 2001 to calculate what would happen in case of a smallpox terror attack. In the Fictional Game world the US creates Directive 51 as said in one of the trailers, which consists of basically trained sleeper agents in their own country and you play as one of those in the Game. This is the short explanation, there is a lot more to the actual game story and lore, with betrayal, goverment secrets, revenge and the search for the people who created the virus and all that. I could also recommend the The Division: The Agent Origins but what I personally really liked is the Audio Play which is free on Audible, or at least it was I don't know if it still is, called "The DIvision: Hearts on fire" whith Katee Sackhoff doing a really good job as the main character. Overall, Division 1 and 2 are open world looter shooters which are more or less Online RPGs with the massively multiplayer part. You have multiplayer hubs but unless you are in a group or in the Darkzone ( the pvp area) you are in your own instanced world. It is somewhat build like mmos with dungeons and raids and most of the lore of the world itself is told through information you find in the world, like texts and audiotapes but there is a linear story you follow as a second wave agent looking for what happened to the first wave. Wave here meaning who, as a sleeper agent was activated in the first group and so on.
In the game reality, Directive 51 was signed years before the outbreak in case something were to happen. It takes people living out their normal lives and calls upon them to be agents when disaster strikes. They are called The Division. So on Black Friday (huge shopping day after Thanksgiving in the US) the infected bills started circulating. Within weeks millions were infected and/or dead. The Division agents were activated. You play one of the agents in New York..... Great now I want to play through it again. (This will be my fourth time through the campaign)
The Division IP started with the best game. it was run into the ground by being abandoned and the sequel missing what made the first game epic. now imagine playing this game during the pandemic. i think the attack amherst made was during black friday sales. the sights in dark zone 9 really bring home the scale. or a thousandth of the scale of the death toll from the virus. part of the problem with the Division 2 was... it was 7 months after the pandemic mainly burned out, in an empty city. with contrived crisis.
the division 1 is a fantastic game and incredible story. there is so much lore it's impossible to unpack in one sitting. despite any of it's classic ubisoft flaws it was an amazing experience. 2 failed to capture the glory of 1 despite having massively improved graphics. and its sad. i did not expect any division 1 react content in 2024 so imagine my shock seeing a channel I come to check out every now and then reacting to it. the parallels that we can draw now after a global pandemic scare is interesting.
Some of the other amazing trailers I would recommend you to watch for cinematography and art-style. Based on what you already watched, might as well give them a try- 1. Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Final Trailer 2. Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild 2017 Trailer 3. Metal Gear Solid V Phantom Pain E3 2014 Trailer 4. Death Stranding E3 2018 Trailer 5. Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2010 E3 Reveal Trailer 6. Uncharted 4 A Thief's End Story Trailer 7. Silent Hill 2 Remake Teaser Trailer 8. Majora'a Mask- Terrible Fate 9. Final Fantasy 15 Omen Trailer 10. Far Cry 6 Official Reveal Trailer 11. Beyond Good and Evil 2 E3 2017 Trailer
The trailers were on the nose that the Division (the people with the watches) are basically sleeper cells set in place to react in the case of society falling apart in apocalyptic proportions. The issue is that you didn't pause for your commentary and because of that sadly talked over that section.
Exploring New York in this game was eerily beautiful in a way. And while yes, factions do have their own territories, they'll go in and try to attack other factions in their area.
I fell in love with the franchise by just walking around the destroyed city in the cold winter, giving food or medic resources to people in the streets and helping build the shelters it really felt inmersive
the trailers are one thing..but under the hood, this game and the division 2 have video clips that you collect along your travels that are absolutely brutal..shocking and down right graphic...most people who played thru the games never even took the time to watch them. They are little glimpses into the factions of the game and there leaders and there absolute brutality..if you never watched these go into your collection and watch the video logs and clips..you will be absolutely shocked at what is in there..we are talking ultra brutality and realistically disturbing.
The division is truly for me one of the best games I have ever played...ever since this hyperlapse trailer 1st came out I was totally invested in that world and how the division works with its agents being activated as a last line of defence....inreally hope the movie thats now in development with Jake gyllenhaal and Jessica chastain is gonna be whopper....ive read all of the division books too...really good.
I think the one consideration that isnt made in regards to all the different trailers here is that they were released over a larger period of time. So people would not be watching them in sequence like here. Therefore there is a certain bit of "forgetfulness" that happens, and re-establishing and re-painting the world is very much needed, so the impact that these trailers would have on a potential player would be very different. Say that your first point of contact is the the live action trailer, that might have piqued your interest enough to seek out other stuff, or you half forget about it and see one of the later ones closer to the actual release of the game, and you've then recreated this "recognition" for the potential player and again he'd be more likely to seek out more. This would be strengthen by each piece of content he'd encounter in the pre-launch period. The actual main-line gamers that shoot these games straight into their veins like crack cocaine dont really need as many steps. Chances are they see either of the early ones and go straight to the gameplay presentation, which was what hooked most people. Its hard not to remember the "OMG THE CAR DOORS CLOSE" moments from so many people around the time of the presentation.
While not animated beyond the tech you gotta watch the irl trailers shows they made showing the activation of a squad of Agents and where they all were
with the talk of simulated pandamic scenario in the trailer, you should check out the blood plague in World of Warcraft, a bug allowed a damage over time to remain on players and spread every tick of damage and spread it did
For me best part of this game was exploring. Ubisoft always can create awesome map and it's not different here. Running around New York during winter blizzards...something special.
The game is set during the Christmas holiday time that's how the virus spread so fast. during the game there are many factions but in the first game it features the division which is normal people that have been "activated" to bring law and order back but the division agents can go rouge and that is part of the story but that's also how the PVP aspect of the game works. The ones with fire weapons are called cleaners they believe if they burn everything it will stop and kill the virus. There is a 2nd game which is in DC, and there is a 3rd game coming.
I agree the trailer pack did seem to give off identity issues but as someone who played this game I can only say it didnt do the game justice. I played long after its release and without seeing a single trailer. So I was watching these for the first time too and I must admit I agree that it didnt make me want to go out and buy it. Thank goodness I didnt see any of the trailers as I would have missed out on what I believe to be one of the best post apocalyptic games ever made. The story and the discovered comms ... man some of those are heartbreaking
This game is more of a online kind of game; it's a mixture of a story mode and a pvp sort of game; the pvp portion comes from the area in the game called, 'The Dark Zone'.
It is online. But it can also be played solo. If you want to play with other people you have to go to a safe house and either interact with people directly (if you allow seeing players in safe areas), or you can use matchmaking terminals to find players Also, about the game itself. It is a bit strange. Although the trailers are cool, they had separate videos talking about the game and world. The basic premise is that on Black Friday a virus was released, Green Poison, which ravaged New York City. The location of the outbreak. Directive 51 was enacted and the first wave of Division agents went in to secure NYC. They disappeared. Almost without a trace. So you/your team goes in as part of the second wave to pick up where the first wave left off and figure out what happened to them. I would say it's worth playing because it does have a good story to it. And the whole game can be played solo.
Go play The Division game as its worth a bash and you'll see what each faction represents in the game ,You'li have lowish crime areas around the city until you get the The Darek Zone where its brutal earrly on ,where its plagent verses agent verses the enviroment of hostiles .
The game is basically a virus outbreak that takes place in New York City with you as a Covert agent of the Division. The goal is to bring order back to the city by fighting against different enemy factions Rioters: civilians that banded together for chaos and survival Cleaners: NY sanitation Last man Battalion: a private military organization The game is an online multiplayer where you can team up with up to 3 other players.
Yo KAI, i've seen your comments on that Apex reaction video, so i already know that you'll do a video about the "Stories from the Outlands" But man am i anxious to see how you will react to them, so i gotta know, if you already have a date planned to release it to us. Cheers!
Apex that is? It's on my list to record later this month as in nearer the end. I've got God of War to finish, there's Halo Infinite coming and Warframe 1999. Once they are done, the next wave will start, Apex is in there.
Yeah the first is in my mind one of the best game trailers ever, still have goosebumbs watching it and will neve forget seeing it for the first time. Honestly quite like the "pharma"-like trailers, too. If you want to see something very different in terms of game advertisment, you should check out the Crysis 3 trailers, especially the "7 wonders of crysis".
It's is Post-Apocalyptic setting. But The Division is formed way before this event happen just to handle situation like this, the agents of division are like soldier that are off-duty and live thier daily life until you get the call, that where orange circle light lit up and they get back to duty. What make you confuse maybe because you don't carefully listen to the narrators but I don't blame you because you try to explain to us. but if you watch it again by yourself maybe you understand better
When I got this game I was skeptical if this was worth playing, so happy I was wrong, this is one of my favorite video games ever, very good reaction video. P.S.: please react to the sequel The Division 2.
If you want a better grasp on the story and lore, I recommend checking out the short film they did, "Division: Origins". Ubisoft collaborated with several TH-camrs to make it, which makes each bit unique in it's own way. 😁👍
I thnk it woud have been better to see the 'chronology of a disaster' (I don't remeber how they titled it) before the 'invisible' one. So you spend less time wondering what is shown and soak in the ambiance more. This one hits hard when you just watch it...
I would love to see you check out the Team Fortress 2 trailers. They're a bit old now, but they laid the groundwork for a lot of character-driven shooters such as Overwatch, which you've already checked out. I love your commentary and think you would really enjoy the writing of those trailers
Thank you lordial I was waiting for this guy to react to the trailers. (sorry if I spelt your name wrong) Back after watching the video, this game is post apocalyptic especially the sequel if you look at the second game’s stuff as well one day. It’s just less ruined I guess you can say than most post apocalyptic games like TLOU, Destiny, FC:ND. Think of it like Dying Light but most things are still running and police, emt, firefighters and other government entities are there and are called the JTF because they are put together into one whole force but the JTF are very squishy compared to the enemies you face in the game. There’s also a story to it, just not conveyed through the trailers aside from virus outbreak in NY, civil unrest and the JTF not being ready for something like this. The Division is like a back up plan to help the JTF. (Spoiler warning) The Division was also not ready for the outbreak as the First Wave has basically disappeared, your player character is sent in as the Second Wave to finish what the first left and to find out what happened to the First Wave and also where the virus came from.
It's strange that you can't understand the concept when we all literally went through this scenario with COVID. I played the Division over lockdown and had to stop several times because images of New York were so similar to the game.
I don't know if you're talking to me? If so, I'll answer. I understand the concept alright, I just don't understand what the story was due to the mixed messaging in the branding. The first ad told me everything, dystopian future, the guys and girls stepping up. The last ad told me something completely different, the division was already about, not put together in the the dystopian future. Was there a dystopian future in the end? A confused mind will always say no. For that reason I didn't continue to research the game and ultimately didn't purchase it.
@@kaizammit Thanks for the reply. The branding is in the Tom Clancy name. It's a franchise known for modern day espionage. The other game releasing within that time was Ghost Recon. When I saw early marketing (E3 and others outlets), the virus was the focus. The later trailers aired closer to the release date.
@kaizammit it doesn't help that the vid you watched is out of order. It should have started with the last video, then went from there. This was shown in order of release, not with story in mind unfortunately
Like what a lot of people are saying, if these grabbed your interest at all, you should definitely check out the (I think 3) Origin stories. From what I remember, I put them story/lore wise, much closer to the quality of the first video. To be honest, I was really hoping that they were included, until I say the length of the video. Hope that at some point you give them a watch! When I watched them the first time, I watched them multiple times and it definitely made me want to play, but it even more so made me wish for more video content. Kind of like how, at this point, I would love an Overwatch movies/animation series over the actual game (though still wishing we had a large single player game experience.) Edit: it looks like there are 4 videos. Forgot they are all live action, still pretty decent. No lore but gives you a "in the day when they activated" vibe.
I played multiply Tom Clancy's games, I like them, as Ghost Recon Future soldier, Wildland, Breakpoints, But Division was the first which one hit me hard. This bring the war into a City, with a realistic situation, what can be happen. And Division 2 just bring it forward. Division is Online Co-op mainly, with PVP zones. But you can make it in solo too.
Played this game since the 1st one dropped, could have been so much mure but ubisoft dropped the ball BIG time. Still play both of em from time to time. Just finished playing about an hour ago lol. Story wise, i actually enjoyed it.
Division 1 was amazing in some areas. Their representation of New York is unparalleled, especially for the time. Their choice to use a post-apocalyptic NYC in the dead of winter with the trappings of Christmas everywhere was inspired. The Survival DLC was a blueprint for extraction shooters before Tarkov was remotely popular. And they did nothing interesting with it. Such a waste.
I remember watching these and waiting to be able to play with my friend. Then when the covid hit, it brought up some memories. Luckily it wasn't as bad as the "worst case" scenario is. But let's say smallpox came back and it'd start from some metropol of the world. How quickly things would go south once it would be discovered that s*it has hit the fan. Sadly the second game took it away from the downfall of society to the always boring conspiracy of shadow goverment(s) in a way. Still the first games athmosphere is one of the bests there is.
Not watching the Agent Origins that Ubisoft had made from various youtube groups, like @Corridor, I think was a miss here. While some are long, like "Escape" being 10min, they tell a way more compelling view point of the agents you are supposed to be playing as.
I preordered the first and second game. The lore is bottomless. The storytelling is beautiful. The world is cold and dark and desolate. Atmosphere like nothing I've ever experienced. As for the genre, it's basically an MMO. Like world of Warcraft with guns instead of magic. Cannot recommend it enough.
They put out a series of live action shorts about various agents being activated. They're up on TH-cam now. I still watch them at least once a year. They're phenomenal.
I absolutely love thw Division games. However these trailers, at least the first one made me think it was a horror/zombie game, so i never picked up the games till far later than everyone else.
I haven’t played much of Tom Clancy’s games. I’ve become a bit interested in The Division recently but still figuring out if I want to play or not haha I have played Ghost Recon: Wildlands and Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. A big open-world military simulator was something I was looking for in mil-sims for a while. Wildlands, favorite so far.
@Seyomint if you see the division on sale, it's definitely worth picking up. The second game is way different, but they've continuing to support it and there will be a third one coming. If you happen to be on PC and want someone to play with, hit me up. I'll start either game with you gladly! The athmosphere of the first game is just something so special. It's winter, there are still civilians around... when the weather gets to a snowstorm, you can't really see and you feel alone.
The Division isn't a future dystopian game per say. It takes place on a timeline close to ours minus the pandemic being very deadly compared to covid that happened later in 2020 a few years after the first game released. You play as a Division Agent. This is someone that has been recruited by the USA federal government to be the last line of defense if all else fails. The Agents we play as in the game are part of the Second Wave. The first wave of Agents have either gone missing or where killed. As the Agents before you, our agent reports to the highest portion of the surviving government and takes orders from no one else. Typically, Agents are hidden in all aspects of society and have a set of useful skills before they are recruited. Some have backgrounds in medical, ex-military or police, trades, ect. The virus in the game was bio engineered by a individual who is very complex and smart (trying to not spoil stuff). Your job as an Division Agent to is to bring order back to NYC and hunt down the one responsible for releasing the virus. This leads down a long rabbit whole in the second game that takes place in Washington DC. You can play with up to 4 friends (coop game) running missions like restore power to the grid, tracking down research, eliminate a hostile faction holding a key location (example: the cleaners, rikers, ect). There are also areas of the game map that are pvp zones, these are called the Dark Zones. Areas where the government had to fall back and wall off parts of the city due to lack of resources, man power and too much crime. In the Dark Zone (DZ), Division Agents can find higher end gear. This area is off the grid so whatever happens in the DZ does not leave the DZ communication wise. Agents have the ability to go Rogue and kill other agents/take the gear they were trying to extract. Gear in the DZ has to be Extracted and decontaminated. This process is done by Helicopter Evac by shooting a flare and holding the evac location for a set time. There is also, a lot of lore in this game hidden around the map in the form of audio logs that you collect. Some of the factions like the cleaners (dump trucks and flamethrower guys) started off helping the government when everything started. But were abandoned due to lack of resources/gov. structure, which sent them down a dark path. Bad actors would later step in and use these groups to fight those who left them to survive on their own. The Rikers, were prisoners that were basically left to starve to death in Rikers Prison. The 5th Man Battalion (private Military Company) is another faction that showed up in the aftermath to take an advantage of the situation. There are a few TH-camrs who do amazing breakdowns for the lore of the game like NGN. The game is a looter shooter if you are considering getting it and be warned the enemies are bullet sponges. That being said, over time of leveling up your Agent and Gear you can eliminate them faster with well made gearset builds. The first game does hold a dear spot in my heart though, the atmosphere in the first game still holds up today. Ive spent so many hours strolling the streets of NYC looking for easter eggs/audio logs and always ended up getting lost just watching the snow fall at night under the street lights. The second game that takes place in DC is still releasing new seasons and events with new gear and a still expanding story. Recommend playing with friends as there is end game content that requires 4 people and raids require 8 people. But the majority of the content can be enjoyed solo. Before buying, recommend checking the game reddit pages and asking questions there. As someone who deeply loves these games, hopefully I helped explain the game a little bit without ruining it. I'd love to see you review the TH-cam Channel made shorts that Ubisoft commissioned. I believe there are 3 or 4 shorts that follow agents right when they are activated. These were made by large TH-cam special effects channels (at the time) that were told to make a short story about an Agent being activated. Each Agent would meet up in a final short story. That being said, the tone varies from short story to short story based off the director so keep that in mind. Sorry for the long rant.
Wasn't a big fan of the first game, but the second one was good. The story gets really interesting, but it's pretty long winded. Full of secret government organisations, double crossing and not knowing who the true enemy really is whilst you're trying to restore some form of order. Gameplay is pretty fun largely because of the gadgets that change things up from a normal shooter. And yeah, the ads weren't great. Classic ubisoft spending half their time trying to sell stuff and push live services rather than trying to immerse people into the world. It was certainly interesting playing it during the covid stuff going on lol.
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In The Division 1, the virus is unleashed during the christmas holidays, so when everyone was dying, no one worried about the decorations and just left them up. So it's christmas themed, but not exactly christmas time.
There is a story, you are trying to find the people who created and distributed the virus. You go from region to region and deal with the different hostile factions in each of them as you try and find a cure and the people responsible. The same story basically continues in The Division 2.
It is post-apocalypse pretty much, the watch lighting up was just "this is how some division agents were called" blackflash thing. There are factions with advanced technology, but most people are living like it's the early 1900's again, but with whatever technology communities can salvage and maintain to help ease things along.
Except when you start getting into the seasons in Division 2, it makes you question whether the Division agents are actually the good guys. That’s why I created my Division 2 character based on my Division 1 character.
@@Gtmine133 Yeah anad if you look at past manhunt dates. These two games have been out for a decade now but the timelapse of both games is less than a year as far as ingame time goes.
The "Green Poison" (or Dollar Flu) was released on Black Friday using cash contaminated with a manufactured super virus.
According to game lore (and if memory serves) it ends up wiping out 80% of the world's population.
Division 2 takes place approximately 6 months later
Technically it was during black friday. It was a variation of the small pox virus that was applied to dollar bills during black friday to maximise the spread of the virus. As the city infrastructure falls apart several gangs emerge including The Rikers (escaped convicts from Riker's Island", The Cleaners (Sanitation workers using flame throwers to purge the virus) and Last Man Battalion (A private military company). The first wave of agents who went in turned rogue and became the bad guys, you are part of the 2nd division wave of agents sent to try to discover what happened with the virus and the rogue agents.
Its a multiplayer story driven game. You can play solo or team up with others to tackle harder content. There are missions dotted around the different zones as well as smaller operations such as hostage rescue, command post takeovers and bounty hunting. As you play and complete missions you collect weapons and gear to upgrade your agent and make him stronger.
Its primarily player vs environment but there are player vs player zones where you compete against other players for better "loot"
I've played waaaay too much of both division games and still play division 2 to this day.
The atmosphere in the first game is just something else.
It feels perfect while playing it.
The first few hours of walking around New York's abandoned streets, covered in snow, was really something special.
Gunfights during a snow storm always felt other worldly.
The second game just way too bright, it ruined the experience for me. I would much rather go back and play the first for half that reason alone.
@@EpsilonSG Felt the same the first time playing the second one.
The magic was missing:(
I don't know, I quite liked Division 2 environment, though not as much as Division 1 as I played both. Division 2 has a more post-apocalypes vibe to it. And when I say post, I mean as it's after the worst of everything, Division 1 is right in the think of it, your job in Division 1 is basically make sure shit doesn't get any worse than it already is, stabilizing the situation. Division 2 feels more like the recovery, the rebuilding, and giving the hope that there is a tomorrow.
But that's just my two cents
It crazy to think quarantine started 6 days after the 4 year anniversary of The Division
First thing that came to my mind when Covid started up was this game.
It is a fairly complex story. The US government runs a simulation of what would happen if a bio attack were to occur. Things went VERY bad in the simulation. In response, the US government makes The Division as one of the solutions of how to address it. Fast forward and the event actually happens. The method was a modified version of small pox strategically placed on currency during the Black Friday sales. This is the first weekend after Thanksgiving and the biggest weekend of the Christmas sales in the US retail market. This is where all the Christmas motif comes from. The attack was targeting Christmas specifically. Things go really badly as predicted in the simulation, but The Division is mobilized to retake a fallen New York City. In the chaos, various factions seized control of parts of the city. As a member of The Division, the player has to establish order by defeating the faction in control while also rebuilding infrastructure and helping any citizens caught in the area. You shoot a bunch of guys but also hand out bottles of water and repair solar panels.
Did someone say The Division… 🍿🤘🏼
^^ course you would be here.. cheers!
Legend ❤ love the content
The Legend is here!
Where's NGN?
This was not only a game, it's a masterpiece
Ubisoft, I hope u find u way back
So do i. This was masterpiece even when many features did not make it into the game and it was downgraded because of console release.
You're right. One of the most atmospheric games I have ever played. Even now I come back to NY just to slowly wander the city streets. Still on my hard drive
That first trailer hits hard. It's so gut wrenching, knowing how much tragedy happens and you can't see any of it.
The one where you said the branding was falling apart was for a book they published that is kind of an ARG/companion book to the game. Has locations and further clues into the back story, and the girl who is in the trailer you can find her apartment and clues on her story in the game. The book is really amazing, I love it.
Tom Clancy based his games on real potential scenarios, Directive 51 is a real directive, as well as Operation Dark Winter was real which is kind of scary.
I remember my uncle was so excited about the release of this game back in 2016, he got me to download the beta and he even bought me the game just for him to get bored of it before the game even released, he got bored within the time span of the beta lmao.
I ended up playing the game quite consistently for about 1 /12- 2 years and ended meeting a lot of people and making multiple virtual friends on there. Some of them even visiting each other in real life cause one of them was a truck driver.
Shout out to,
David Ramos
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Awesome story fella!
Get your uncle into it again. Definitely worth it!
Stil play both Division 1 and 2, some of the best games ive ever played. the story is ongoing from game 1 and to game 2 and six years into game two its still going strong, with several books and audiodramas as well to flesh out the lore.
One of my favourite games of the last decade with over 3000 hours played. Absolutely superb scene setting, graphics and lore. The Cleaners are one of the best villain groups in any game.
Hope this helps... the Division are sleeper agents around america that got activated to help out with the Chaos that happened with the events of a super virus spreading around the world. In the game you play as one of the members of the division and help to take control of the city with standard and slightly sci-fiish weapons like smart grenades (the ball you saw), drones and turrets. Was a blast at the time, but fell flat over time with how the game was managed.
Well said.
Though it's making a comeback (still mildly mismanaged tho lol)
Both games imo are amazing and the lore is brilliant. If you have time, I highly recommend checking out the short film that Ubisoft made for this game on TH-cam; i believe its called The Division - Origins. It is an online game but it does have a campaign and is very story rich and there are many stories interwined, hence the many different factions you see in the trailers.
Also, the division agents are part of Homeland and were already agents before the pandemic, they just have to wait to be called up. The people you see with watches in the final trailer were part of the First Wave.
Yeah, I really hope he checks out the Origin stories. Those are great. Definitely worth a look.
If you know Corridor Digital, they were contracted by Ubisoft to make that short it amazing!
"Start the collapse" was a real simulation of the fall of society. On the site, you selected the city in which you live, and the site asked you to decide how you would react to the news about the pandemic, for example, would you go to the hospital or immediately pack your things and go to the airport.
Based on your decisions and the decisions of other people, the site calculated how quickly the virus would spread on Earth.
I have to admit, it was an exciting and frightening experience.
I love The Division. Im excited for the next DLC for The Division 2.
Some Division lore:
Division agents are all from different walks of life they could be your freind , neighbour and maybe your romantic partner or even the guy who owns the Hot dog stand.
They go through rigorous training that consists of:
Physical
Weapons
Tech
They are also tested mentally and are pushed to their limits mentally.
The Division Agents are expected to keep up their peak physical condition 24/7. They also live 2 different lives:
1 living a normal life
2 Being a Division Agent
Those who are chosen to be Division Agents are expected to keep the fact that the Division exists a secret.
Division Agents are only activated when everything else has fallen. They are the last line of defence.
Coincidentally, I played both the Division 1 & 2 from day one. The first time I entered 'The Dark Zone', (a quarentine zone in the middle of the gamemap) in the middle of a snowstorm, and ran up on another player, was one of the most amazing and iconic moments in all my time gaming. Division 1 is hands down one of the most amazing games out there.
Truth.
There's no other game like the Division 1 when it was first released.
Looking at the in-game side, story is told through a few different lenses. One part is the thread of tracking down how "Green Poison" was spread to begin with, and that's the main mission line. Some stories come in the form of side quests, but there are three things that speaks in a more exploring sense. One is collectable phone recordings, each of these sets of recordings tell a story of their own. Another are these holographic reconstructions you can activate and interact with, activating snippets of what people said during the event of the holographic snapshot. And lastly but easily the biggest part is simply the level design. This is not a strictly linear level; It's a bunch of blocks of New York city recreated, but of course altered for the game setting. And there's a fair chunk of buildings you can actually go inside of, so it isn't just tons of big building exterior exposition. While it is an online PvE / PvP game, I would strongly recommend playing it just for the main story and setting.
i played the division 1/2 with my friends during the real pandemic, it was surreal.
The live action trailers for the Division 2 are so good! You should definitely react to those sometime
You somehow always find a way to cover my favorite games; love to see it!
Anything with Tom Clancy's name on it , Books, Games, Films, you just know it's going to be intense but also very relevant at the time of release. The Division are sleepers, much like the Russian sleepers in the US and Europe from the cold war era only this time the sleepers are the good guys. The plot is a mad scientist gets hold of a smallpox variant of a virus, places it on bank notes and enters these notes into general circulation at the economically busiest time of the year, Black Friday. In the game you have the opportunity to "flashback" in certain marked areas to get important clues which helps to trace the source of the infection and work forward or backwards from there. The game is quite intense and can be played as a single player but is best played in co-op. The Division is set in New York and The Division 2 in Washington DC with a DLC, Warlords of NY which takes you back to Manhattan.
This was a very good game and the story telling happens over time as you clear out parts of the city and explore the space. You find cellphones that you can hear call logs and records from.
The Division was signed in 2007 in the game and they get called upon 9 years later, but not all at once. They're activated in stages as they're needed. You're apart of the second or third group that gets called in when your predecessors go missing. It's definitely worth a play through.
One cant believe that this was Ubisoft... extremely well made cinematics and really good story telling.
And look at them now :(
I LOVE this game. I really hope the movie comes out soon
The interesting thing here is that it all builds on a real Simulation that is actually called Darkwinter like in one of the trailers that the US did in 2001 to calculate what would happen in case of a smallpox terror attack. In the Fictional Game world the US creates Directive 51 as said in one of the trailers, which consists of basically trained sleeper agents in their own country and you play as one of those in the Game.
This is the short explanation, there is a lot more to the actual game story and lore, with betrayal, goverment secrets, revenge and the search for the people who created the virus and all that.
I could also recommend the The Division: The Agent Origins but what I personally really liked is the Audio Play which is free on Audible, or at least it was I don't know if it still is, called "The DIvision: Hearts on fire" whith Katee Sackhoff doing a really good job as the main character.
Overall, Division 1 and 2 are open world looter shooters which are more or less Online RPGs with the massively multiplayer part. You have multiplayer hubs but unless you are in a group or in the Darkzone ( the pvp area) you are in your own instanced world. It is somewhat build like mmos with dungeons and raids and most of the lore of the world itself is told through information you find in the world, like texts and audiotapes but there is a linear story you follow as a second wave agent looking for what happened to the first wave. Wave here meaning who, as a sleeper agent was activated in the first group and so on.
In the game reality, Directive 51 was signed years before the outbreak in case something were to happen. It takes people living out their normal lives and calls upon them to be agents when disaster strikes. They are called The Division. So on Black Friday (huge shopping day after Thanksgiving in the US) the infected bills started circulating. Within weeks millions were infected and/or dead. The Division agents were activated. You play one of the agents in New York..... Great now I want to play through it again. (This will be my fourth time through the campaign)
Dope ass game! The idea of a virus breaking out during Black Friday was a scary idea. Covid brought back memories of this game.
Watching this with the VID in mind was kind of scary tbh.
Ngl watching this after experiencing COVID really hits hard about how bad it couldve been😅
Honestly the first game was so magical when you finally start exploring
The Division IP started with the best game. it was run into the ground by being abandoned and the sequel missing what made the first game epic. now imagine playing this game during the pandemic. i think the attack amherst made was during black friday sales. the sights in dark zone 9 really bring home the scale. or a thousandth of the scale of the death toll from the virus.
part of the problem with the Division 2 was... it was 7 months after the pandemic mainly burned out, in an empty city. with contrived crisis.
the Division is DURING the apocalypse. the division 2 which did far less well was post apocalypse but without armies of zombies.
Never saw that April Kelleher tv spot. That was dope.
PLEASE KEEP REACTING TO THE DIVISION
the division 1 is a fantastic game and incredible story. there is so much lore it's impossible to unpack in one sitting. despite any of it's classic ubisoft flaws it was an amazing experience. 2 failed to capture the glory of 1 despite having massively improved graphics. and its sad. i did not expect any division 1 react content in 2024 so imagine my shock seeing a channel I come to check out every now and then reacting to it. the parallels that we can draw now after a global pandemic scare is interesting.
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Some of the other amazing trailers I would recommend you to watch for cinematography and art-style. Based on what you already watched, might as well give them a try-
1. Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Final Trailer
2. Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild 2017 Trailer
3. Metal Gear Solid V Phantom Pain E3 2014 Trailer
4. Death Stranding E3 2018 Trailer
5. Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2010 E3 Reveal Trailer
6. Uncharted 4 A Thief's End Story Trailer
7. Silent Hill 2 Remake Teaser Trailer
8. Majora'a Mask- Terrible Fate
9. Final Fantasy 15 Omen Trailer
10. Far Cry 6 Official Reveal Trailer
11. Beyond Good and Evil 2 E3 2017 Trailer
One of the many Ubisoft masterpieces.
The trailers were on the nose that the Division (the people with the watches) are basically sleeper cells set in place to react in the case of society falling apart in apocalyptic proportions.
The issue is that you didn't pause for your commentary and because of that sadly talked over that section.
This game was a looter shooter MMO, it was really good, great story. There is also a Division 2 that still a live game.
I absolutely loved the first Division game. The second one was alright, in my opinion, but it never made me feel the same way the first one did.
Exploring New York in this game was eerily beautiful in a way. And while yes, factions do have their own territories, they'll go in and try to attack other factions in their area.
I fell in love with the franchise by just walking around the destroyed city in the cold winter, giving food or medic resources to people in the streets and helping build the shelters it really felt inmersive
Yeah it did. The vibe of Division 1 was/is epic.
the trailers are one thing..but under the hood, this game and the division 2 have video clips that you collect along your travels that are absolutely brutal..shocking and down right graphic...most people who played thru the games never even took the time to watch them. They are little glimpses into the factions of the game and there leaders and there absolute brutality..if you never watched these go into your collection and watch the video logs and clips..you will be absolutely shocked at what is in there..we are talking ultra brutality and realistically disturbing.
Also Division Agents are called in case of an emergency, like minutemen. I recommend looking into lore videos to get the jist of it.
The division is truly for me one of the best games I have ever played...ever since this hyperlapse trailer 1st came out I was totally invested in that world and how the division works with its agents being activated as a last line of defence....inreally hope the movie thats now in development with Jake gyllenhaal and Jessica chastain is gonna be whopper....ive read all of the division books too...really good.
The short series ''Tom Clancy's The Division: Agent Origins'' will help you understand a bit more about what is happening..
My game. Almost 9k hours played, over 160k players killed with Div1 and Div2…
Very interesting perspective
I think the one consideration that isnt made in regards to all the different trailers here is that they were released over a larger period of time. So people would not be watching them in sequence like here. Therefore there is a certain bit of "forgetfulness" that happens, and re-establishing and re-painting the world is very much needed, so the impact that these trailers would have on a potential player would be very different. Say that your first point of contact is the the live action trailer, that might have piqued your interest enough to seek out other stuff, or you half forget about it and see one of the later ones closer to the actual release of the game, and you've then recreated this "recognition" for the potential player and again he'd be more likely to seek out more. This would be strengthen by each piece of content he'd encounter in the pre-launch period. The actual main-line gamers that shoot these games straight into their veins like crack cocaine dont really need as many steps. Chances are they see either of the early ones and go straight to the gameplay presentation, which was what hooked most people. Its hard not to remember the "OMG THE CAR DOORS CLOSE" moments from so many people around the time of the presentation.
While not animated beyond the tech you gotta watch the irl trailers shows they made showing the activation of a squad of Agents and where they all were
with the talk of simulated pandamic scenario in the trailer, you should check out the blood plague in World of Warcraft, a bug allowed a damage over time to remain on players and spread every tick of damage and spread it did
For me best part of this game was exploring. Ubisoft always can create awesome map and it's not different here. Running around New York during winter blizzards...something special.
The game is set during the Christmas holiday time that's how the virus spread so fast. during the game there are many factions but in the first game it features the division which is normal people that have been "activated" to bring law and order back but the division agents can go rouge and that is part of the story but that's also how the PVP aspect of the game works. The ones with fire weapons are called cleaners they believe if they burn everything it will stop and kill the virus. There is a 2nd game which is in DC, and there is a 3rd game coming.
Many Hours in Div1 played, atmosphere is 2nd to none, have even more hours in Div2… peace ✝️
I agree the trailer pack did seem to give off identity issues but as someone who played this game I can only say it didnt do the game justice. I played long after its release and without seeing a single trailer. So I was watching these for the first time too and I must admit I agree that it didnt make me want to go out and buy it. Thank goodness I didnt see any of the trailers as I would have missed out on what I believe to be one of the best post apocalyptic games ever made. The story and the discovered comms ... man some of those are heartbreaking
This game is more of a online kind of game; it's a mixture of a story mode and a pvp sort of game; the pvp portion comes from the area in the game called, 'The Dark Zone'.
It is online. But it can also be played solo. If you want to play with other people you have to go to a safe house and either interact with people directly (if you allow seeing players in safe areas), or you can use matchmaking terminals to find players
Also, about the game itself. It is a bit strange. Although the trailers are cool, they had separate videos talking about the game and world. The basic premise is that on Black Friday a virus was released, Green Poison, which ravaged New York City. The location of the outbreak. Directive 51 was enacted and the first wave of Division agents went in to secure NYC. They disappeared. Almost without a trace. So you/your team goes in as part of the second wave to pick up where the first wave left off and figure out what happened to them.
I would say it's worth playing because it does have a good story to it. And the whole game can be played solo.
Go play The Division game as its worth a bash and you'll see what each faction represents in the game ,You'li have lowish crime areas around the city until you get the The Darek Zone where its brutal earrly on ,where its plagent verses agent verses the enviroment of hostiles .
The game is basically a virus outbreak that takes place in New York City with you as a Covert agent of the Division. The goal is to bring order back to the city by fighting against different enemy factions
Rioters: civilians that banded together for chaos and survival
Cleaners: NY sanitation
Last man Battalion: a private military organization
The game is an online multiplayer where you can team up with up to 3 other players.
as a fan and player its good when you play and understand the story
Yo KAI, i've seen your comments on that Apex reaction video, so i already know that you'll do a video about the "Stories from the Outlands"
But man am i anxious to see how you will react to them, so i gotta know, if you already have a date planned to release it to us. Cheers!
Apex that is? It's on my list to record later this month as in nearer the end. I've got God of War to finish, there's Halo Infinite coming and Warframe 1999. Once they are done, the next wave will start, Apex is in there.
@kaizammit Nice, i'll be there!
Ugh i remember the first Division Trailer well, it was so devastating.
Arron Keener is the bloody boogie man of character, the spook of spookes in Division and love it. I have no idea where it will go next.
But is he? 🤫😉🤔
Yeah the first is in my mind one of the best game trailers ever, still have goosebumbs watching it and will neve forget seeing it for the first time.
Honestly quite like the "pharma"-like trailers, too.
If you want to see something very different in terms of game advertisment, you should check out the Crysis 3 trailers, especially the "7 wonders of crysis".
It's is Post-Apocalyptic setting. But The Division is formed way before this event happen just to handle situation like this, the agents of division are like soldier that are off-duty and live thier daily life until you get the call, that where orange circle light lit up and they get back to duty.
What make you confuse maybe because you don't carefully listen to the narrators but I don't blame you because you try to explain to us. but if you watch it again by yourself maybe you understand better
They usewd real footage of black friday shops, its crazy, mixed with actors ofc.
There is a movie for The Division, would love to see you reaction to it, now that you've seen the game trailers.
that first trailer narrator... was that Keanu Reeves?
When I got this game I was skeptical if this was worth playing, so happy I was wrong, this is one of my favorite video games ever,
very good reaction video.
P.S.: please react to the sequel The Division 2.
You should check out Small Soldiers War for the Nekron as well as the Total War Three Kingdoms trailers
and there was a netflix exclusive live actin proper movie in production (with Jake Gyllenhall and Jessica Chastain), but it has been put on hold
Hopefully they send you Division 2 content
Division 1&2 are IMO the best games when it comes to Looter/Shooter
Great Story too but unnecessary difficulty to get into
Div 1 was so brilliant. I am ashamed to say I had thousands and thousands of hours in it
If you want a better grasp on the story and lore, I recommend checking out the short film they did, "Division: Origins". Ubisoft collaborated with several TH-camrs to make it, which makes each bit unique in it's own way. 😁👍
Yes. I wish they made more of these
Currently working on a fan film, hoping to do these trailers justice lol
Sounds exciting!
I thnk it woud have been better to see the 'chronology of a disaster' (I don't remeber how they titled it) before the 'invisible' one. So you spend less time wondering what is shown and soak in the ambiance more.
This one hits hard when you just watch it...
I would love to see you check out the Team Fortress 2 trailers. They're a bit old now, but they laid the groundwork for a lot of character-driven shooters such as Overwatch, which you've already checked out. I love your commentary and think you would really enjoy the writing of those trailers
Thank you lordial I was waiting for this guy to react to the trailers. (sorry if I spelt your name wrong)
Back after watching the video, this game is post apocalyptic especially the sequel if you look at the second game’s stuff as well one day. It’s just less ruined I guess you can say than most post apocalyptic games like TLOU, Destiny, FC:ND. Think of it like Dying Light but most things are still running and police, emt, firefighters and other government entities are there and are called the JTF because they are put together into one whole force but the JTF are very squishy compared to the enemies you face in the game.
There’s also a story to it, just not conveyed through the trailers aside from virus outbreak in NY, civil unrest and the JTF not being ready for something like this. The Division is like a back up plan to help the JTF.
(Spoiler warning)
The Division was also not ready for the outbreak as the First Wave has basically disappeared, your player character is sent in as the Second Wave to finish what the first left and to find out what happened to the First Wave and also where the virus came from.
Highly recommend a doing a play through. The game had many faults but the story was brilliant 👏
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It's strange that you can't understand the concept when we all literally went through this scenario with COVID. I played the Division over lockdown and had to stop several times because images of New York were so similar to the game.
I don't know if you're talking to me? If so, I'll answer. I understand the concept alright, I just don't understand what the story was due to the mixed messaging in the branding.
The first ad told me everything, dystopian future, the guys and girls stepping up. The last ad told me something completely different, the division was already about, not put together in the the dystopian future. Was there a dystopian future in the end?
A confused mind will always say no. For that reason I didn't continue to research the game and ultimately didn't purchase it.
@@kaizammit Thanks for the reply. The branding is in the Tom Clancy name. It's a franchise known for modern day espionage. The other game releasing within that time was Ghost Recon. When I saw early marketing (E3 and others outlets), the virus was the focus. The later trailers aired closer to the release date.
@kaizammit it doesn't help that the vid you watched is out of order.
It should have started with the last video, then went from there.
This was shown in order of release, not with story in mind unfortunately
Like what a lot of people are saying, if these grabbed your interest at all, you should definitely check out the (I think 3) Origin stories. From what I remember, I put them story/lore wise, much closer to the quality of the first video. To be honest, I was really hoping that they were included, until I say the length of the video. Hope that at some point you give them a watch! When I watched them the first time, I watched them multiple times and it definitely made me want to play, but it even more so made me wish for more video content. Kind of like how, at this point, I would love an Overwatch movies/animation series over the actual game (though still wishing we had a large single player game experience.) Edit: it looks like there are 4 videos. Forgot they are all live action, still pretty decent. No lore but gives you a "in the day when they activated" vibe.
I played multiply Tom Clancy's games, I like them, as Ghost Recon Future soldier, Wildland, Breakpoints, But Division was the first which one hit me hard. This bring the war into a City, with a realistic situation, what can be happen. And Division 2 just bring it forward.
Division is Online Co-op mainly, with PVP zones. But you can make it in solo too.
Played this game since the 1st one dropped, could have been so much mure but ubisoft dropped the ball BIG time. Still play both of em from time to time. Just finished playing about an hour ago lol. Story wise, i actually enjoyed it.
Division 1 was goated
Damn, I can make so many ticks on my list of stuff I wanted to see you react to :D Keep it up mate, can't wait to see more Tom Clancy stuff from ya!
Directive 51 is actually real, but we don't know what it is.
So is Dark Winter, Apparently
Division 1 was amazing in some areas. Their representation of New York is unparalleled, especially for the time. Their choice to use a post-apocalyptic NYC in the dead of winter with the trappings of Christmas everywhere was inspired.
The Survival DLC was a blueprint for extraction shooters before Tarkov was remotely popular.
And they did nothing interesting with it. Such a waste.
I remember watching these and waiting to be able to play with my friend. Then when the covid hit, it brought up some memories. Luckily it wasn't as bad as the "worst case" scenario is. But let's say smallpox came back and it'd start from some metropol of the world. How quickly things would go south once it would be discovered that s*it has hit the fan.
Sadly the second game took it away from the downfall of society to the always boring conspiracy of shadow goverment(s) in a way.
Still the first games athmosphere is one of the bests there is.
You really should react to hellblad seneu sacrifice it's a masterpiece of a videogame
Could you react to the "Cod Modern warfare" full campaign? inc the missions as some of them are quite cinematic
Not watching the Agent Origins that Ubisoft had made from various youtube groups, like @Corridor, I think was a miss here. While some are long, like "Escape" being 10min, they tell a way more compelling view point of the agents you are supposed to be playing as.
I loved the division so very much. It's such a shame what they've done with it.
I preordered the first and second game. The lore is bottomless. The storytelling is beautiful. The world is cold and dark and desolate. Atmosphere like nothing I've ever experienced. As for the genre, it's basically an MMO. Like world of Warcraft with guns instead of magic. Cannot recommend it enough.
They put out a series of live action shorts about various agents being activated. They're up on TH-cam now. I still watch them at least once a year. They're phenomenal.
I absolutely love thw Division games. However these trailers, at least the first one made me think it was a horror/zombie game, so i never picked up the games till far later than everyone else.
you should react to the forever winters cinematic trailer its cool
This was such a good game. I love the first trailer so much
I haven’t played much of Tom Clancy’s games. I’ve become a bit interested in The Division recently but still figuring out if I want to play or not haha
I have played Ghost Recon: Wildlands and Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. A big open-world military simulator was something I was looking for in mil-sims for a while. Wildlands, favorite so far.
@Seyomint if you see the division on sale, it's definitely worth picking up. The second game is way different, but they've continuing to support it and there will be a third one coming. If you happen to be on PC and want someone to play with, hit me up. I'll start either game with you gladly!
The athmosphere of the first game is just something so special. It's winter, there are still civilians around... when the weather gets to a snowstorm, you can't really see and you feel alone.
Definitely worth playing
The Division isn't a future dystopian game per say. It takes place on a timeline close to ours minus the pandemic being very deadly compared to covid that happened later in 2020 a few years after the first game released. You play as a Division Agent. This is someone that has been recruited by the USA federal government to be the last line of defense if all else fails. The Agents we play as in the game are part of the Second Wave. The first wave of Agents have either gone missing or where killed. As the Agents before you, our agent reports to the highest portion of the surviving government and takes orders from no one else. Typically, Agents are hidden in all aspects of society and have a set of useful skills before they are recruited. Some have backgrounds in medical, ex-military or police, trades, ect. The virus in the game was bio engineered by a individual who is very complex and smart (trying to not spoil stuff). Your job as an Division Agent to is to bring order back to NYC and hunt down the one responsible for releasing the virus. This leads down a long rabbit whole in the second game that takes place in Washington DC. You can play with up to 4 friends (coop game) running missions like restore power to the grid, tracking down research, eliminate a hostile faction holding a key location (example: the cleaners, rikers, ect). There are also areas of the game map that are pvp zones, these are called the Dark Zones. Areas where the government had to fall back and wall off parts of the city due to lack of resources, man power and too much crime. In the Dark Zone (DZ), Division Agents can find higher end gear. This area is off the grid so whatever happens in the DZ does not leave the DZ communication wise. Agents have the ability to go Rogue and kill other agents/take the gear they were trying to extract. Gear in the DZ has to be Extracted and decontaminated. This process is done by Helicopter Evac by shooting a flare and holding the evac location for a set time. There is also, a lot of lore in this game hidden around the map in the form of audio logs that you collect. Some of the factions like the cleaners (dump trucks and flamethrower guys) started off helping the government when everything started. But were abandoned due to lack of resources/gov. structure, which sent them down a dark path. Bad actors would later step in and use these groups to fight those who left them to survive on their own. The Rikers, were prisoners that were basically left to starve to death in Rikers Prison. The 5th Man Battalion (private Military Company) is another faction that showed up in the aftermath to take an advantage of the situation.
There are a few TH-camrs who do amazing breakdowns for the lore of the game like NGN. The game is a looter shooter if you are considering getting it and be warned the enemies are bullet sponges. That being said, over time of leveling up your Agent and Gear you can eliminate them faster with well made gearset builds. The first game does hold a dear spot in my heart though, the atmosphere in the first game still holds up today. Ive spent so many hours strolling the streets of NYC looking for easter eggs/audio logs and always ended up getting lost just watching the snow fall at night under the street lights. The second game that takes place in DC is still releasing new seasons and events with new gear and a still expanding story. Recommend playing with friends as there is end game content that requires 4 people and raids require 8 people. But the majority of the content can be enjoyed solo. Before buying, recommend checking the game reddit pages and asking questions there.
As someone who deeply loves these games, hopefully I helped explain the game a little bit without ruining it. I'd love to see you review the TH-cam Channel made shorts that Ubisoft commissioned. I believe there are 3 or 4 shorts that follow agents right when they are activated. These were made by large TH-cam special effects channels (at the time) that were told to make a short story about an Agent being activated. Each Agent would meet up in a final short story. That being said, the tone varies from short story to short story based off the director so keep that in mind. Sorry for the long rant.
You need to react to Ghost Recon: Wild lands trailers and the cinematics. It's such an awesome game with so many layers.
Wasn't a big fan of the first game, but the second one was good. The story gets really interesting, but it's pretty long winded. Full of secret government organisations, double crossing and not knowing who the true enemy really is whilst you're trying to restore some form of order. Gameplay is pretty fun largely because of the gadgets that change things up from a normal shooter.
And yeah, the ads weren't great. Classic ubisoft spending half their time trying to sell stuff and push live services rather than trying to immerse people into the world.
It was certainly interesting playing it during the covid stuff going on lol.