Tom Clancy’s The Division for Windows

Survival, friends, or foes — an overview

Tom Clancy’s The Division is a squad-focused, third-person shooter from Ubisoft set in a near-future dystopia. The game places players in an atmosphere of suspicion and shifting loyalties where cooperation can be as risky as confrontation.

Manhattan turned into a sealed combat zone

A catastrophic outbreak leaves New York City largely deserted. Streets are littered with abandoned vehicles and military transports, and large portions of Manhattan are placed under quarantine by the Strategic Homeland Division (commonly called The Division). This cordoned-off area becomes a pressure-cooker environment where anyone you meet could be an ally, an enemy, or somewhere in between.

High-stakes recovery and exfiltration

• Call in an extraction and protect the requesting teammate until the pickup arrives; the team’s attention shifts to keeping that person alive.
• Loot found in the field must be returned to base and identified before it becomes usable for improving your character.
• Only by surviving the zone and successfully evacuating can you claim the rewards you’ve gathered — staying alive matters as much as grabbing the best gear.

Be aware that teammates can turn rogue to try to steal a larger payout. Players flagged as rogue face penalties such as delayed extraction, and their former teammates may seek vengeance — creating tense risk-versus-reward scenarios.

Team composition and play variations

• Many encounters happen on open maps where groups run into one another naturally while exploring.
• Some match types pit three separate squads directly against each other in focused combat.
• More gameplay modes are expected to be announced over time as the game evolves.

Teams are typically composed of three players, but how those trios are deployed depends on the mode and map.

Release information

Tom Clancy’s The Division launched for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on March 8, 2016.