Ubisoft has just announced a new addition to its popular third-person online military looter shooter series, The Division. You probably didn't notice that The Division 3 was revealed, because Ubisoft buried the news in a corporate press release announcing a new executive producer for the "Division brand," confirming that the company has big plans for the series.
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The first game in the series, Tom Clancy's The Division, was released in 2016 and told the story of a bio-terrorist attack in New York City that spread a deadly virus via dollar bills. This horrific event activated a secret team of highly trained agents, the Division agents, who grabbed some guns and began killing every criminal and mildly dangerous person in the city, while also looting apartments for food, clothes, and rare weapons. The Division 2 was released in 2019, which continued the story, but this time the shootings and looting took place in Washington, D.C. Since then, the franchise has announced two games but neither of them has been released. And now Ubisoft has gone and done it again, this time confirming that it is working on another Division project, a third installment in the main franchise.
The news of this new Division 3 didn't come via a flashy CG trailer or some big teaser at a press conference. Instead, it was quietly announced on September 21st in a larger press release that focused on Julian Gerighty, the franchise's new executive producer. He was previously associate creative director on the first game before becoming lead creative director on the sequel. And now, according to Ubisoft, he's "setting his sights" on The Division 3 as well as a "vast array of other projects set in The Division universe."
We don't know much about The Division 3
Ubisoft says Gerighty is forming a team for The Division 3, which will once again be developed by Massive Entertainment. The publisher also confirmed that it will continue to support The Division 2. Beyond that, we don't know much else about this newly announced sequel. And based on what Ubisoft is saying here, we're not sure there's much to announce, as it sounds like the project is just starting development.
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“We may have over 40 million players,” Gerighty said, “but The Division is still in its early years as a franchise. There are so many incredible stories to tell, places to explore, and people to protect.”
However, before Gerighty can hop on the Tom Clancy looter-shooter train, he has to finish work on a different project: Star Wars: Outlaws. He's currently the creative director behind that upcoming open-world Star Wars adventure, and he won't officially begin his duties as a producer on The Division franchise until that game releases in 2024.
While The Division 3 is likely years away at this point, we know that there are at least two other Division games coming soon.
First up is The Division: Resurgence, a free-to-play mobile shooter set in New York City. The other addition is The Division: Heartland, an extraction-style shooter set in the middle of the United States that features more rural environments and survival elements. Maybe one day in the future Ubisoft will stop announcing Division games and actually release one. We'll see.
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source of information:kotaku.com
