With the gameplay of The Division 2 already on display a couple of months ago at E3 2018, the team at The Division 2 developer Massive Entertainment took a different tack for its behind closed doors demo at this year’s Gamescom. I was given a deep dive into the lengths that Massive is going to in order to present a compelling and authentic open-world to players, and here are five big takeaways.
It seems like an obvious choice that a game about an ongoing civil war in the United States would take place in the nation’s capital, but Washington, D.C. wasn’t always going to be the setting for The Division 2. Developer Massive Entertainment originally considered both Seattle and New Orleans as potential settings for their open-world shooter sequel, but ultimately settled on D.C. largely due to the sheer diversity in environments that would help push the game experience far beyond the slightly one-note concrete jungle of the original’s New York City.
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It seems like an obvious choice that a game about an ongoing civil war in the United States would take place in the nation’s capital, but Washington, D.C. wasn’t always going to be the setting for The Division 2. Developer Massive Entertainment originally considered both Seattle and New Orleans as potential settings for their open-world shooter sequel, but ultimately settled on D.C. largely due to the sheer diversity in environments that would help push the game experience far beyond the slightly one-note concrete jungle of the original’s New York City.
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