There was one game that since its E3 debut I like so many
others was so excited for. This is of course Tom Clancy's The Division. The
division wowed crowds at E3 and did so every single time that it released any
new trailer or the smallest bit of gameplay. So after such a massive hype and
the vast amount of excitement I personally felt over it, does it live up to my expectations?
Short answer, not really.
Now I don't want to say no straight off the bat because that
there is so much that it does well but then there are some parts of it that I
felt really let me down.
This is one of the games that received a "Massive
graphical downgrade" which got a huge amount of media attention. Now, I
have seen this game played on the Playstation, I played it on the Xbox and I
have to say graphical downgrade or not this game looks amazing. The weather is
awesome and actually affects gameplay, visibility sometime being a real issue.
The city looks incredible, and is so full of really rich detail. So graphically
it lived up to my expectations, but sometimes I felt as I played that the
beautiful visuals was all that it had.
Okay so the bad. The game for me lacked variation with the
enemies only having a few classes and there only being a few factions the
enemies got very repetitive after a while. The weapons also suffered from the
realism, I normally love realistic weaponry in games and I'm not usually one
for laser weapons and crazy ass shit all going off everywhere, but I found
myself wishing for more guns. The level system also didn't do it justice, I
don't have a problem with the levelling system in general as Borderlands is one
of my favourite games but the level system coupled with the lack of weapons
added to a sort of ploddy monotony.
So the main game feels like you are always grinding and the
bullet sponge issue that a lot of people have a problem with is a bit of a
problem for me especially with the boss fights. Basically what i like to call
the single player part was a disappointment for me.
The Dark zone is a part of the game that feels very removed
from the main game. It feels like a full game in its own right, which is a plus
for me. The negative I suppose is that I didn't enjoy it. The tension of the
game I quite enjoyed and the excitement of finding loot and trying to extract
it is really good and can be really fun right up until THAT moment. Other
players can be arseholes. I am normally very chilled out and gracious when it
comes to playing any game online but this is totally different. While trying to
extract your new bobble hat you notice that other players have started to come
to the extraction site and there is bound to be at least one dickhead among
them with an overpowered gun that will mow you down because of your tiny
hanging yellow loot bag. I know that some people say that I get frustrated
because I'm not as good at the game or because I have no friends. Well they are
half right, my friends got the game before me and were way to high level to go
looting with a puny level player. As for good at the game, they're right. I
wasn't good at PvP in this game and after finding out I didn't enjoy it I
didn't bother working on it.
So there it is, my most anticipated game of about three
years and with a heavy heart I would give it a disgustingly low 5/10 and no one
is more disappointed than me.
Mad flavour Gamer out
