For my first review-in-progress post, I’ll keep this brief (in the interest of getting back in and playing more): the very first thing that struck me about Tom Clancy’s The Division was the introduction to its world.
If you’d rather watch me experience the opening moments for the first time than read about it, you’ll find the video of my first two hours below.
Coming out of a makeshift security checkpoint in Manhattan, daylight blinds me until my eyes adjust, and then I see it - an improvised memorial to those who have given their lives trying to take Manhattan back from the chaos that's swallowed it in the wake of an unprecedented terror attack.
My father was in Manhattan on 9/11. I've seen memorials like this, littered with the helmets of fallen firefighters, and hastily scrawled children's drawings with "thank you" writ large across the top. It is, perhaps, a cheap way to get me emotionally invested in the conflict that drives Tom Clancy's The Division, but an unquestionably effective one.
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If you’d rather watch me experience the opening moments for the first time than read about it, you’ll find the video of my first two hours below.
Coming out of a makeshift security checkpoint in Manhattan, daylight blinds me until my eyes adjust, and then I see it - an improvised memorial to those who have given their lives trying to take Manhattan back from the chaos that's swallowed it in the wake of an unprecedented terror attack.
My father was in Manhattan on 9/11. I've seen memorials like this, littered with the helmets of fallen firefighters, and hastily scrawled children's drawings with "thank you" writ large across the top. It is, perhaps, a cheap way to get me emotionally invested in the conflict that drives Tom Clancy's The Division, but an unquestionably effective one.
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