[Twirls mustache passive-aggressively]
Jay-Z’s gonna be pissed. Brooklyn goes hard, but not as far as Ubisoft’s next Tom Clancy game is concerned. In fact, it doesn’t go at all.
In an interview with The Examiner, developer Massive Entertainment reveals that the borough of Brooklyn won’t be in The Division. This is notable because the game’s E3 2013 unveiling showed footage set in Brooklyn. That never made the final cut.
Instead, the entirety of The Division will take place in Midtown Manhattan. According to creative director Magnus Jansen, there’s a plot-driven reason for this. “It is because of the one-to-one re-creation and the way the pandemic has [happened]. Basically, everything has been hit and there are no more resources because everyone tried to get out. There is no more gasoline in the cars, there is no traffic, you’re on foot,” he said.
Of course, there’s much more to New York City than Midtown. That leaves open the window of possibility that Brooklyn (or Queens, Staten Island, the Bronx, etc. for that matter) might eventually get added to the game as post-launch content. If that happens, well, it means the plague wasn’t contained very effectively.
Tom Clancy’s The Division Doesn’t Have Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx or Staten Island [The Examiner]
