Review: Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 (PlayStation 4)

In Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, the fate of the free world is on the line. Lead a team of elite agents into a post-pandemic Washington DC to restore order and prevent the collapse of the city.

Pros:

• Amazing graphics.
• 91gb download size.
• I’m depth character creator. Sliders and options for every part you can think of.
• Ubisoft club integration. You can add weekly events into the game for the first time.
• Ongoing tutorial support.
• Can skip cutscenes.
• HDR support.
• Platinum trophy.
• Tactical looters shooter gameplay.
• DS4 touchpad and speaker support.
• Controls are the same as before and familiar in the shooter control layout family.
• Fast travel between settlements and safe houses.
• Map-can set waypoints, fast travel and set the GPS line. The map shows what each icon means.
• Earn EXP and level up to increase base stats but also earn SHD perks and skills.
• SHD perks- earned from leveling up but also found in the game and given as Misson rewards. You use perks to increase things like storage space, mod skills etc.
• Skills-scanner, turret, hive, chem launcher, Firefly, seeker, drone and shield.
• Living breathing world. Rival factions will fight each other, allies will patrol and defend places.
• Play how you want.
• Collectables a plenty from recordings to data tapes.
• Missions-you have story ones, side missions, bounties, opportunity missions.
• Day/night cycle with different weather conditions including heavy rain that reduces sight.
• Clans-create/join. You all work together to do the many challenges and doing so rewards everyone.
• Projects-every settlement has a list of projects that involve actions and materials. Finishing these upgrade the settlement but also reward you with loot/exp/cash/upgrades.
• Strong cover based shooter game.
• Conflict mode- 4v4 online mode.
• Dark zone-pvp mixed with PvE. You can do everything as you do in the normal game like find loot and monuments. Only thing is you need to extract all loot via a helicopter before you can use it. Death means you drop everything. You can become a rogue agent as well.
• Dark zone areas are split across the map.
• The dark zone has its own separate rank and exp/perks.
• Everything has more depth and meaning to it.
• Crafting-you can loot materials then craft gear set to your current level.
• Loot lust is strong and has rarity levels.
• Loot uses a green and red colored number system for quick comparisons.
• Nodes-special places full of a certain material.
• Better Ai-they flank, take cover and even go prone!
• Normalisation-this is where the game attempts to balance everyone’s level in conflict and dark zone areas.
• Matchmaking laptop-random activity/random main mission/open world/darkzome/help.
• Help-setup an alert for people to jump in and help you.
• Missions have Co-op support and you can matchmake/invite from laptops or the mission screen.
• Hud is fully adjustable, you can move all aspects around.
• More set pieces and spectacular explosions.
• Side missions and open world enemies level with you.
• Access ability options a plenty including voiced menu interactions.
• Recalibration-you can combine weapons to increase their stats and abilities.
• Mod-you can add mods to gear/weapons and even skills.
• Activities-air drops, public executions, supply points, hostages and so much more.
• When taking a supply point you send a flare up and call in Ai reinforcements. Once you take it over you get a room of loot and can fast travel to that place.
• Loot everywhere!
• Proficiency cache-reward for leveling up and is like a low-level loot box.

Cons:

• Long initial load times.
• Solo is not as fun due to loading times, having to respawn at set places and losing progress.
• Constant difficulty spikes.
• Can only assign perks and skills at the main HQ.
• Call for backup (help) never feels like it works.
• No dedicated matchmaking option for side missions like main missions.
• Gun loot is the poorest part.
• Matchmaking is slow.
• Clunky UI especially when it comes to modding and assigning new gear.
• Bullet sponge bosses.
• The campaign is stop/start as you need to take time away to level up.
• A lot to take in.
• The menu is slow and not good when I’m a mission and time is of the essence. Some small text pop-ups.