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The Washington Post building stands tall in the background of a post-apocalyptic District of Columbia in"Tom Clancy's The Division 2." In the foreground, an alarmingly realistic digital rendering of Post reporter Brian Fung.
I still miss the snow. But within the first couple of hours, “The Division 2” does an admirable job persuading you that the crisis is still very real, six months after the events of the first game. Of course, the very first thing I had to do was make the commute to my office and ensure The Post was still standing. Democracy Dies in Darkness, y’all.2. Hightailed it to my office at the @washingtonpost pic.twitter.
Massive should consider a reworked mod system that retains the concept of trade-offs but changes what attributes you’re being asked to select. Wish I had known before I played ... There is definitely a logic to which perks you should spend your points on first. I blew most of them on weapon mods, but you’re better off applying them toward XP boosts, so that you can earn XP more quickly and thus unlock everything else that much faster.Playing “The Division 2” as a Washington resident is like playing “Resident Evil” and finding your actual home in the game. It’s even eerier than it sounds.
Let’s be real: This game didn’t need to do a lot to please me, as I’m still so fresh out of dealing with “Anthem” drama, which you can get caught up with here. If I were going to give an honest breakdown of my first impressions, they go: Also, bonus points to the designers for assuming our streets would run wild with red pandas escaped from the National Zoo.It’s easy to mock Ubisoft’s assembly-line approach to creating open-world experiences. But the fact remains that they’re incredibly efficient at creating high-tier experiences packed with content. It’s hard to say how strong the endgame is, but “Tom Clancy’s The Division 2” is front-loaded with enough things to do to make it worth a dive right out the gate.
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