This game is a joke, read the book its better (and thats not sarcasim)

First off let me say that i realy wanted to like this game, and for the first little bit i did. i realy enjoyed it. I mean as im typing this im wearing the watch that came with the collectors edition. But i have to say this game is by fare one of the bigest piles of dung ive seen come out of Ubisoft in years. I diddnt think it could get worse than AC:Unity but WOW was i wrong. Theres so much wrong with this game that Im making a longer intro to this review cause as i type i cant decide were to begin.

The Story:
If it can even be called that, Is so thin it couldnt support the weight of a feather. Your treated to a short intro cinimatic explaning whats going on, what The Division is, and so on and so forth. After that your tossed into the game and at first every thing is going fine. As I was playing the game for the first time I saw a set of about 10 or so story missions (theres a ton of side missions but most are pointless). Ok im thinking thats cool, cause at this point im thinking that after i finish these missions that it will unlock another set of missions or another chapter in the story, and I couldnt have been more wrong. The missions your given are not only extreamly short but todler easy. It will take you 2-3 hours to beat the story missions and as i said the story isnt even a good one. You run into a few characters , and i do mean a few, but they are your typical copy and paste lame characters youve seen in almost every other game. Thers the hard as nails Police captan that runs security, The tinfoil hat sporting tech wiz that runs your tech wing, and the socialy distant doctor that runs your medical wing, and finaly the comander who is hurt and cant go into the field and is angry about it. And thats all i can remember. Seriousely put a gun to my head and i couldnt tell you anything about the bad guys cause they are so poorly writen and forgetable. The story isnt even lazy, its like they diddnt even try at all. Not only is it sad but its border line false advertising since not only do the ads for the game hype the lore but the external media for the game is a million times better than the game its self. Theres 2 different peices of external media for this game: The Agent Origins short film , and the book titled The New York Collapse. Both are awesome and both are far more interesting than the game. Honestly Pick up the book its realy awesome. Its a fake survival guide that has lots of awesome things. For example has notes and journal entries from a person who suposedly owned the book before you written all over it (notes as the events that took place prior to the game unfold). It also has neat pull out things like post it notes and missing posters and everything. Its sad that you have to go out side the game to get interested in its lore. Im getting some serious Destiny grimore flash backs. But perhaps the games bigest short fall in terms of story is your character. Your a silent protagonist that has no back story, no personality and honestly no effect on the story at all.

The Single Player
Like i said before, this games SP portion is a joke, Boring copy and paste shoot everything that moves gameplay. There isnt much to say. The story is short and thats a good thing because its so boring youll be glad to say goodbye to it.

The Multiplayer:
Its clear from the start that this is the meat and potatoes of the whole game. You will discover very quickly that you are ment to spend most of your time in the PvPvE arena that the game calls ""The Dark Zone"" (real creative huh?). The whole point of the DZ is that your supose to take risks here to get the best loot, but its useless cause 99% of the time the drops you get are garbage. I Was in DZ06 (the ""hardest"" of the DZ) and no matter what NCP boss i would kill or what crate i would open i would always get items with base stats that where far below the base stats of not only what i was currently equiped with but many times lower than what i was able to find outside the DZ or was able to craft myself. Now your able to ""Go Rouge"" but even that is pointless because theres no benifit to it. Yeha you can steal the loot off of others but it paints a big target on you that all other players can see. So not only do you not get anything from going rouge but you lose alot when you die. See when you die in the DZ you lose DZ credits, DZ keys (that open the above mentioned chests) and DZ XP, and that brings me to another thing, the level system. you have seperate ranks in this game, one for both inside and outside the DZ and the Inside one is the only one that realy matters cause that controls what you can and cant buy/equipt.

Final Thoughts:
The only real thing this game has going for it is its enviornemnt. The game did recive a MASSIVE downgrade in graphics between E3 and releasebut it still looks good and I diddnt realy run into any problems. But then again im running at max settings with 2 EVGA GTX 980TIs running in SLI so users with less powerfull setups may have issues. Although i will say that i was able to run this on my Laptop that has a 970m at low settings so who knows. The MP is so imballanced its like trying to ride a teeder todder with a tank. it all comes down to stats and gear, it dosent matter how good you are or what your tactics are if you run into somebody with better gear you will loose 100% of the time. The world is some good eye candy and feels real with little copy and paste with enviornemts. The major problem with this game is that its always online. So if the servers are down or your internet goes out you cant play your game. And think about that for a moment, what happens when this game stops raking in the cash and Ubi shutsdown the servers? When that day comes not only will you not beable to play your game but the hundreds of hours you pump into this game will have all been for nothing. All that said this game is just a waist, with a story thats more shallow than a bird bath and has an end game MP setup that is so imballanced and repetitive that i just cant recomend the investment of not only your money but the hundreds of hours youd have to play it.