Tom Clancy's The Division is an online-only action role-playing video game developed by Massive Entertainment and published in 2016 by Ubisoft, for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It is set in a near future New York City in the aftermath of a viral pandemic; the player, a Special Agent of the Strategic Homeland Division, is tasked with helping the group rebuild its operations in Manhattan, investigate the nature of the outbreak, and combat criminal activity in its wake. The Division is structured with elements of role-playing games, as well as cooperative and player versus player online multiplayer. This game also marks the debut of Massive and Ubisoft's Snowdrop game engine.
Reviews for The Division were
generally positive, with praise towards the combat, visuals, and
soundtrack, though it faced criticism for its lack of content at launch,
bullet-sponge enemies, story, and technical bugs. The game was a
commercial success, with Ubisoft stating that the game broke the
company's record for highest number of first-day sales. Furthermore, one
week after the game's release, Ubisoft stated that The Division was
the company's best-selling game, and the industry's biggest first-week
launch for a new game franchise, which generated an estimated amount of
$330 million globally. A sequel, Tom Clancy's The Division 2, was released on March 15, 2019.