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  1. Jun 28, 2019
    6
    Despite of being a visually good looking and detailed game, it suffers from an uninteresting story and narrative and a poor mission design in which every single mission you come across have the same structure and objective in other word is a 100% repetitive game and after leveling up your character for a few moments the game gets boring and there's no reason to play it again or even keepDespite of being a visually good looking and detailed game, it suffers from an uninteresting story and narrative and a poor mission design in which every single mission you come across have the same structure and objective in other word is a 100% repetitive game and after leveling up your character for a few moments the game gets boring and there's no reason to play it again or even keep playing it. Expand
  2. Jun 22, 2021
    6
    Critics gives it 8s and users giving it 0s, it defeats the whole point of metacritic, this is obviously not a perfect game and it's obviously very far from a bad game, so let's stay objective guys...
    Very impressed by the first Division, one of the smoothest coded games I've played, at least it ran so well on my PC. Beautiful textures, sounds, lighting, the whole atmosphere is great, a
    Critics gives it 8s and users giving it 0s, it defeats the whole point of metacritic, this is obviously not a perfect game and it's obviously very far from a bad game, so let's stay objective guys...
    Very impressed by the first Division, one of the smoothest coded games I've played, at least it ran so well on my PC. Beautiful textures, sounds, lighting, the whole atmosphere is great, a bit repetetive but cool missions as well, I think I gave it 8/10. This however is much of the same but it feels just a tad bit worse in every aspect. That the first characters you meet in a city turned upside down are 8 out of 10 women, which is very unlikely and they are extremely uninteresting, bland in looks and voiceacting. The missions feels a bit more repetetive but it could be because I didnt finish the game too long ago the first time. Graphics are still beautiful and the combat works, though the map is really ugly and unorganized. I felt that the first game had more character and atmosphere and I feel that a 6/10 is the right rating and I hope that a 3rd one is in the making.
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  3. Apr 26, 2021
    6
    I had 40 hours fun when I could play the game, delta-03 is still a big problem and I had to disable my antivirus before the game worked. The story is okay fun and there is alot to do, the gameplay is fun and IMO the new mod system is better then it was in the first game, I still like the old story system better where it was divided in 3 story system with the medic, tech and security.
    I do
    I had 40 hours fun when I could play the game, delta-03 is still a big problem and I had to disable my antivirus before the game worked. The story is okay fun and there is alot to do, the gameplay is fun and IMO the new mod system is better then it was in the first game, I still like the old story system better where it was divided in 3 story system with the medic, tech and security.
    I do wish the specialization unlocked before the endgame sins it is fun and nice to have a talent tree you can progress through.
    About the endgame, I don't like it, all the work you have put into make does red marks disappear on the map, for it only to get put back on after you finished the story, and it not only 1 time it do it, it do it for every single world tier, I hate it stupid and should not be a thing.
    The dark zone is meh it don't fill that important or dangerous as it did in the first game, and I never felt the need to go in there beside get some easy elite kills for projects, but it so much easyer to just redo a mission.

    It is a okay game to play solo as I did, probable more fun with a friend.
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  4. Apr 11, 2019
    6
    Created an account just for this review since EPIC games nor Ubisoft have the balls to include reviews on either platform.

    Division 1: 400 hours Division 2 (When I made this review): 79 hrs @ GS509 I wanted to give a fair review since most 10's in here criticize important game features but somehow it doesn't retract from a perfect score? Most 0's reviews don't give credit where
    Created an account just for this review since EPIC games nor Ubisoft have the balls to include reviews on either platform.

    Division 1: 400 hours
    Division 2 (When I made this review): 79 hrs @ GS509

    I wanted to give a fair review since most 10's in here criticize important game features but somehow it doesn't retract from a perfect score? Most 0's reviews don't give credit where credit is due.

    Pros:
    Great Atmosphere, graphics, quantity of guns and gear. Plenty of loot to choose from that can be customized to excessively with mods and combinations. Plenty of world activities, especially for the first play through at tier 1. You will not be disappointed completing the base game activities. And if that is all you're interested in for 60 bucks, you will not be disappointed.

    Cons:
    Pretty much everything else unfortunately (meaning the endgame). And before you jump to any conclusions I'm just hating on the game, I have a collective 479 hours total for the series, and to my knowledge im not a masochist.

    End game content is BROKEN.

    Gear: As of this review, the class sets (greens) are useless and inferior to anything yellow high end gear can provided. The perks they give have marginal effects on enemies and marginal beneficial effects on players. The only way to actually be relevant is to max out DPS, and focus fully on damage, and damage alone. Defense and tech capabilities just don't do any damage. This means no customizing play styles to match different enemy types or gaming preferences. Its all about point and shoot x100000. Which isn't helped by the fact that enemies are tanky bullet sponges. You and your buddies will literally follow bosses around dumping 10 mags each into his/her's face while the boss casually runs/walks around as if they're being pelted with spitballs. This pretty much sums up all smaller enemies with health bar slight bordering on 3 mags/kill (2 mags for headshots).

    With regards to weapons, the best firearms are consistently assault rifles and LMGs. Everything else, is useless save for the exception when you need a sniper to pick off a distant enemy (Which is far and few between). This becomes a frustrating and simply boring process of mindlessly shooting bullet sponges. At least in Div 1 you could try different playstyles (support/medic/assault) in order to focus on various roles. Without that, and dealing with bullet sponges, it just becomes a repetitive grindy game with no excitement in playing against AI's with the intellectual capacity of 2 brain cells (They will literally runs in circles or hop over the same piece of cover 10 times before choosing a spot)

    Additionally, the lack of polish exacerbates the aformentioned flaws. There are glitches EVERYWHERE. They happen consistently enough that you'll be dealing with them every game you play. This becomes extremely annoying when fighting on challenging or heroic, where small glitches can literally cost you the mission, forcing you start lengthy segments all over again. Glitches include:

    1. Can't revive allies
    2. Getting stuck and unable to move
    3. Equipment not deploying
    4. Failure of the UI to respond to commands such as changing cover, rolling, basic movement, deploying gear.
    5. Enemies literally popping in and out of existence. One second you be alone, the next you're surround by 4 yellow health bar enemies.
    6. Unstable server connection causing: enemy rubberbanding, delayed response, general lag
    7. Enemy health bars won't respond to damage dealt, or there is some odd delay before the game registers an enemy is out of health before "killing" that enemy
    8. Game doesn't balance out factions with lower level friends. One second we'll be playing through a mission taking appropriate damage and dealing appropriate damage, the next people are getting one shotted from no where.
    9. Enemies shoot through cover. This one is extremely annoying and frequent. I have lost track of times where enemies are firing through cement, cars, roadblocks, etc while the enemy is literally pointing their weapon through the ground or the enemy is in a regular cover animation.

    Generally speaking the game suffers from lack of balancing for gear (most gear and weapons are useless and there's not point in striving to obtain gearsets yet) as well as what seems to be complete lack of polish in the sever connection integrity and polish in gameplay represented by numerous/frequent glitches. 6.0-6.5 Average user rating is good representation for this games current state. I would highly suggest waiting a couple months for appropriate balancing to be implemented and cleaning up of the numerous glitches before spending hard earned money.
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  5. Oct 31, 2019
    6
    kinda better then last time (i mean 1st division), but it's still worst looter shooter that we have at current time. on my mind if you want to grind guns with your friends better play in destiny or borderlands.
  6. May 16, 2019
    6
    I love Division and still play it. Division 2 had a tough predecessor to live up to, no doubt. Initially I was impressed but the shininess has worn off. The story isn't nearly as compelling as it was in Div 1. There's far too much garbage in the world, and I know it's trying to help sell this version of DC, but honestly I get sick of running around a giant garbage dump. Fog, rain,I love Division and still play it. Division 2 had a tough predecessor to live up to, no doubt. Initially I was impressed but the shininess has worn off. The story isn't nearly as compelling as it was in Div 1. There's far too much garbage in the world, and I know it's trying to help sell this version of DC, but honestly I get sick of running around a giant garbage dump. Fog, rain, weather is amazing in this game, as is shooting. Until the last update looting was decent too but since the update I haven't seen a single common or green drop, it's all blue, purple, yellow. These are supposed to be rare and rarer but now it's all just common trash loot for the most part. Completely taken the joy of getting a rare item out of the game, which I think is really an integral part of the loot shooter genre.

    As for gameplay, until like level 23 the game is far too easy. What i loved about Div 1 is that it was hard but man when you finished a mission you felt amazing. I just ran through missions in this game. I barely ever died, and I'm not that good. Also, i hate that I'll do a rescue mission and like an hour later i can do it again?

    Skills - i see no point at all in it. I get my drone for healing and my turret, and I don't honestly give a crap about the rest. Perks same thing, by level 15 i hate maxed them all, only ones left were those locked to level 30. So i have all these points from caches and nothing to spend them on. There's no joy here either.

    Crafting/weapon mod system is better in this game. I wish they'd applied these improvements to gear mods as well.

    Projects are cool. Love the settlements idea.

    Overall only a 6 out of 10. Even though shooting weapons feels amazing, the world is gross and the game lacks the challenge I loved in the first one. I think the perks and skill system are bad. I think looting is broken. Shooting range challenges are a weird addition that make no sense, but then again neither does the whole premise of this game, really.
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  7. Dec 16, 2020
    6
    Sadly, game dropped away all rewards for missions and fortresses just because re-logging after two enemies had troubles with clipping through container which cause soft-locked game. This made me use auto-level pass which come with DLC and skipped nearly two weeks of progression. It's have not so much bugs, but some of them are game-breaking.
  8. Nov 27, 2019
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game is really boring. Firts impression is amazing, but couple hours later you gonna realize its not going anywhere. Expand
  9. Mar 8, 2020
    6
    Still the same issues as the last game. Plus they managed to make the AI even worse. My biggest issue with the AI is how they talked up that it was going to be so good, and then it ended up being the worst I've ever seen in a game. The AI is smart though... they know that they can't die from a single player shooting them so they run in guns blazing and murder you super easy. Basically theStill the same issues as the last game. Plus they managed to make the AI even worse. My biggest issue with the AI is how they talked up that it was going to be so good, and then it ended up being the worst I've ever seen in a game. The AI is smart though... they know that they can't die from a single player shooting them so they run in guns blazing and murder you super easy. Basically the devs did not think it through at all before they put it in the game and then didn't even update it for the paid expansion. Just disappointing. I'd honestly rather have the AI from the first game back. Expand
  10. Apr 2, 2020
    6
    It's a decent looter shooter, very generic story and repetitive missions (suppose that's expected from Ubi). But the gun-play/combat is where it's at; the various abilities to use are a lot of fun and the variety of weapons makes it worth a buy (When it's on sale). There's also quite a lot of bugs, albeit not game-breaking, they are still there. Imo not worth it at the full price.
  11. kky
    Jul 1, 2020
    6
    The game was fine the first day it came out, however...every pactch massive made, they added more bug into the game. Compare to the first game, overall is a boost, but from the player suffer from bugs and lag(mostly from server), maybe a 7 is too hight for it
  12. Feb 6, 2023
    6
    **** this **** I wasted my money on the expansion!
    If you are going to buy the game buy it through G2A so they do not get any money!
    Thanks to Angry Joe's news and internet Historian videos I could sit through the grind!
    A waste of money!
    The net code, server stability is a mess!
    I do not recommend the game!
  13. Mar 18, 2019
    5
    This game is literally a copy and paste of the first game with changed environments. The graphics are okay but nothing special .The physics are beyond horrible and unrealistic at the end it is just an arcade shooter made for kids...The missions are boring and repetitive and YES bullet sponge enemies are still here just like in the first game.. Story is bland and nothing interesting. GameThis game is literally a copy and paste of the first game with changed environments. The graphics are okay but nothing special .The physics are beyond horrible and unrealistic at the end it is just an arcade shooter made for kids...The missions are boring and repetitive and YES bullet sponge enemies are still here just like in the first game.. Story is bland and nothing interesting. Game is average at best Expand
  14. Jun 20, 2019
    5
    Positives
    + Graphics
    + Gadgets (skills)

    Negatives
    - Story is boring
    - Quests are dull
    - Voice acting is terrible
    - Requirements to get signature weapons are ridiculous (or buy the year pass....)
    - Small enemy variety
    - Repetitive zones and quests
    - Gear “upgrades” don’t feel rewarding
  15. Apr 27, 2019
    5
    Being a long time player of The Division, it's with a heavy heart that I don't give this game a 10. The Division is among my favorite first person shooters, surpassing Rainbow Six and Ghosts among the Tom Clancy games, however The Division 2 was not what I expected. It seemed cumbersome at times and the game play, even with a mid tier to high end system, was passable at best. GraphicsBeing a long time player of The Division, it's with a heavy heart that I don't give this game a 10. The Division is among my favorite first person shooters, surpassing Rainbow Six and Ghosts among the Tom Clancy games, however The Division 2 was not what I expected. It seemed cumbersome at times and the game play, even with a mid tier to high end system, was passable at best. Graphics suffer and are not much better than the original, this is with a Radeon Vega 56 at Ultra on 1440p. The game play seems worse, in my opinion. The added equipment options? Pointless in many regards, you're going to use the same exact skills and equips as everyone else. Gear? Same. It's supposed innovations, seem less innovative and more like sabotage. My suggestion, this is a game to buy on sale, don't pay full price. Expand
  16. Mar 20, 2019
    5
    I dislike a graphics a lot, on one hand there are many objects, but on the other hand the quality of that objects look like from CS1.6, and it heavily contrasts with visual atmosphere, it's killing the atmosphere, cos your eye is focusing this objects, because they stand out from the big picture, also it's very grounded, it does not look like something artistic or inspired in visual side.I dislike a graphics a lot, on one hand there are many objects, but on the other hand the quality of that objects look like from CS1.6, and it heavily contrasts with visual atmosphere, it's killing the atmosphere, cos your eye is focusing this objects, because they stand out from the big picture, also it's very grounded, it does not look like something artistic or inspired in visual side. Also Optimization sucks, especially for such visual quality, on PC it looks worse than ARK:SE on Consoles, but requires more resources to run properly than ARK:SE on Highest settings...
    Shadow and Light work is very bad for 2019 game, even BDO from 2014 looks better in graphics and especially in Shadow-works.
    Reflections also suck.
    particles are annoying and some battles are very eye-heavy and annoying (yes, I understand that it's subjective, and that there are people who like it, but for me it's a huge -).
    Also sound is quite bleh, some weapon sound like a nailgun, but not like a weapon, also they feel like that too.
    Gameplay is also bleh, not fun for me, not bad, not good, very common for modern games.
    And Macrotransactions make it one more Fee to Play game, even F2P games do not do such things anymore...
    It's just a very common game. 5/10 -1 for bad optimization and uninspired graphics.
    So only reason to play is Pseudo-Realistic Concept and if you love grounded and uninspired games for $80.
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  17. May 25, 2020
    5
    This game isn't broken, and it's quite polished for an Ubisoft title... the problem is that it is just dull and boring to play
    I didn't even finished it, it isn't worth my time the extreme repetition and extremely predictable gameplay loop the game has.
  18. Apr 30, 2020
    5
    The Division 2 is a beautiful looter shooter with barely an interesting loot system and even more boring missions and activities. While my first impression is positive, as the game handles well and combat feels satisfying, it gets progressively dull and unexciting as the hours tick.
  19. Mar 12, 2020
    5
    Todo desenvolvedor deveria tomar uma decisão séria antes de começar uma nova produção: ou um jogo possui história e essa história é desenvolvida da melhor forma possível, ou então faça o game sem história. The Division 2 não faz nem um nem outro: a história é pessimamente explorada, até pra servir como pano de fundo(sabemos que narrativa costuma não ser o ponto forte de MMORPGS). A trilhaTodo desenvolvedor deveria tomar uma decisão séria antes de começar uma nova produção: ou um jogo possui história e essa história é desenvolvida da melhor forma possível, ou então faça o game sem história. The Division 2 não faz nem um nem outro: a história é pessimamente explorada, até pra servir como pano de fundo(sabemos que narrativa costuma não ser o ponto forte de MMORPGS). A trilha sonora é simplória demais e repetitiva, tendo eu inclusive tendo que colocar em segundo plano as minhas playlists de Guerra do Vietnã para ver se dava uma animada na gameplay. O game não inova muito, segue a mesma receita do antecessor, este outro sim um pouco mais inovador. O ponto forte mesmo fica por conta dos cenários extremamente detalhados e fiéis com a real Washington D.C..O game é repetitivo ao extremo com missões que não empolgam. Expand
  20. Mar 8, 2020
    5
    Багів море. Контрольні точки не захоплюються через застрягання союзний npc на одному місці хоча вже ворогів немає. Фінальні арени з босами завдань досить малі і там заходять тільки ті білди і зброя які виживуть під спамом масових атак ворогів. Деякі інтерактивні контейнери чи придмети не відкликаються на натискання кнопки F. Таке враження що розробники випустили сиру і не доопрацьовануБагів море. Контрольні точки не захоплюються через застрягання союзний npc на одному місці хоча вже ворогів немає. Фінальні арени з босами завдань досить малі і там заходять тільки ті білди і зброя які виживуть під спамом масових атак ворогів. Деякі інтерактивні контейнери чи придмети не відкликаються на натискання кнопки F. Таке враження що розробники випустили сиру і не доопрацьовану гру. Перша Division мені особисто більше сподобалась. І сетингом і реалізацією. Expand
  21. Mar 16, 2019
    5
    Well, I've played 2 beta versions - close and open one. First impressions of the release. Characters - they are ugly as hell with weak customization. After 2 minutes of gameplay, what do you know, maintenance on servers. Another Ubi game with server and design issues. Ubi became a conveyor of poor games, games on 5 out of 10.
  22. Oct 5, 2019
    5
    Having to shoot enemies for so much to kill them breaks the immersion making this game a chore to play. Also choosing a "body type" when You are actually are choosing gender is weird but does not matter too much. The world is lifeless like most other Ubisoft games. Meh
  23. Jan 19, 2020
    5
    As much as I would enjoy this game, my frustration level from the Constant game Crashes keeps me from truly enjoying any type of play. Start the game... oops crash, send report. get into the game and open inventory... oops crash, send report?, get into a fire fight, and AGAIN the same. My system is not the beefiest, but it does SURPASS the games minimum system requirements. To have noAs much as I would enjoy this game, my frustration level from the Constant game Crashes keeps me from truly enjoying any type of play. Start the game... oops crash, send report. get into the game and open inventory... oops crash, send report?, get into a fire fight, and AGAIN the same. My system is not the beefiest, but it does SURPASS the games minimum system requirements. To have no rhyme or reason for the crashes plus the fact this is the only game that crashes leads me to believe the issue is the game and the game alone. Expand
  24. Mar 18, 2020
    5
    A gorgeous but annoying big a** walking simulator. Worst thing that can happen to you is to die and respawn waaaaaaaaaaaay inside a safe house and walk, YES! walk, your way out.

    We get it, the game is well modeled and all but so many corners, stairs, go up, go down again and again it gets really boring the first time. Why the hell i have to do that every single time i finish a mission?
    A gorgeous but annoying big a** walking simulator. Worst thing that can happen to you is to die and respawn waaaaaaaaaaaay inside a safe house and walk, YES! walk, your way out.

    We get it, the game is well modeled and all but so many corners, stairs, go up, go down again and again it gets really boring the first time. Why the hell i have to do that every single time i finish a mission?

    Besides that, every mission looks the same, go to point B, kill everyone, then kill the boss, then call reinforcements and hold it for X time. Rinse and repeat. Even Wildlands had a better way to make the game more interesting and the map was HUGE.

    Can't Jump... Like... really? I'ts that hard to program or model jumping animations? Hey look, if i can jump from here i don't have to walk outside the base. Hurray for invisible walls, why even bother modeling a world that can't really be explored. Take an example from Dying Light, big map and can move around how you want freely.
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  25. Apr 28, 2020
    5
    Pn the surface, a good game however badly let down by clunky movement you always get stuck around circular objects, poor scaling single player can be too much on higher levels. CoOp does not present any real challenges, Maps are accurate to the locations and the storyline is good for the most part. Weapons are all very similar and off no major differences. Too many bugs are introduced andPn the surface, a good game however badly let down by clunky movement you always get stuck around circular objects, poor scaling single player can be too much on higher levels. CoOp does not present any real challenges, Maps are accurate to the locations and the storyline is good for the most part. Weapons are all very similar and off no major differences. Too many bugs are introduced and not fixed including using aim down sights. Would I buy again in hindsight, probably not Expand
  26. May 16, 2020
    5
    first of all game looks beautiful but games arent all about graphics , its extremely boring , massive wants players to keep engaged in the end game loop but it becomes work instead of being something fun , kill x amount of npcs , play x amount of times x mission to get x gear , recycling old content with modifiers (aka global events) , speed running old stuff , renaming launch content likefirst of all game looks beautiful but games arent all about graphics , its extremely boring , massive wants players to keep engaged in the end game loop but it becomes work instead of being something fun , kill x amount of npcs , play x amount of times x mission to get x gear , recycling old content with modifiers (aka global events) , speed running old stuff , renaming launch content like bounties and calling them manhunts in year 2 in the end is the same thing, not to mention constant changes in the core mechanics of the game like talents, weapons etc because they are in eternal trial and error cycle and they dont have a clue on what they want as result it forces players to re grind everything from scratch because what you had becomes useless , character manueverability is one of the worst you could experience from any video game and its hard to describe , it feels like the character weights 500 pounds , shooting in the game feels good though , level design is amazing , enemy variety and AI is a step up from the first game, however the lack of different game modes is what killed the game for me, yeah i know its supposed to be grindy but at least the first game you could grind gear doing differentiated activities like incursions , DZ , legendaries , underground , survival, last stand , skirmish , resistance , div 2 not so much , game has more rng layers , and on top of that all you do is missions , DZ , open world (which is better than open world in the first game ) , skirmish and raid (which normal mode doesnt have matchmaking) , i would not include expeditions since is not available 100% of the time (not that people is complaining about that because most of player base hate expeditions anyway) what else can i say? i dont mind the game being grindy to be honest but at least give me more game modes so i dont bore myself to death , division 1 had 4 missions with mechanics called incursions , div 2 the only mechanics based mission is the raid which its just doing dps to the bosses most of the time , some missions have mild group mechanics but none is as good as division 1 incursions , other 95% of the missions (which there are plenty) is just running taking cover and shooting, i dont know how they came up with the idea this would be fun tbh , warlords of new york dlc??? yep you guessed more missions , which some of them have a nice apc boss battle which it was great , other than that more running taking cover and shooting , there is going to be a new season pass which is cosmetics and loot centric which i dont care to be honest , game needs more love from the devs i dont think they even enjoy their own game Expand
  27. Dec 10, 2020
    5
    The game is fun for the first hunderd hours and then boredom starts to kick in. The developers made it hard to retrieve good gear and after hundreds of hours invested in the game, they decided to nerf your gear. You will then start the grind again. If you have nothing better to do then buy this game.
  28. Jan 1, 2022
    5
    I'll put five points for this game because at first I like the game, then less often you enter it without even going halfway and then delete it altogether
  29. Mar 24, 2023
    5
    Hard truth, liked when it was released back in 2019. Devs don't care on fixing whats already in the game Raid for example we needed matchmaking thats no brainer, they keep on adding stuff that nobody cares. its like more bugs more problem.
  30. Mar 26, 2019
    4
    you can basically disregard any reviews on this site that mentions the product name an abundance of times. Most of these 10s seem very... strange. r/hailcorporate
Metascore
84

Generally favorable reviews - based on 34 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 34
  2. Negative: 0 out of 34
  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    May 15, 2019
    85
    Perfect reward system, very tactile gunplay and great visuals make Division 2 the best loot shooter on the market, and one of the best co-op games in the recent years. [Issue#237, p.36]
  2. May 2, 2019
    60
    For all the deafening noise and fury of its street battles and set-pieces, The Division 2 is, at heart, a game of co-operative tidying up with incrementally better guns.
  3. Apr 27, 2019
    85
    With the experience accumulated on The Division 1, Massive manages with TD2 to excite our curiosity. Stronger, more generous, better built, the title succeeds where other games as service before it has struggled to. Thanks to its end-game, which renew the experience by adding content and skillfully recycles the existing one, but also thanks to this map of Washington, absolutely fantastic, which allows more than ever to immerse yourself in the universe of the agents of the Division.