Hang on, I think Ubisoft actually cooked with The Division's new mobile game
I didn't expect a mobile Division game to capture the mainline games so well.
The free-to-play mobile game market is rough. For every gem out there, there’s a dozen match-3 games loaded with microtransactions, shovelware constantly interrupted by advertisements, or advertisements promising games that just don’t exist. It’s tough out there on this bitch of an earth to find an involving, fun, free-to-play mobile game, and even a big franchise name isn’t enough to guarantee quality. League of Legends: Wild Rift has gotten increasingly predatory over the years with its microtransactions, and Warhammer 40K: Tacticus is a fun little tactics game constantly interrupted with offers to buy some fancy new character. So, imagine my surprise when I decided to check out Ubisoft’s new Division mobile game, and found it to be a solid little entry in the series.
If you’re not familiar with the Division games, they’re Tom Clancy dystopian fiction, taking place in an alternate future where a bio-engineered virus was distributed on currency, causing a nationwide epidemic after a robust Black Friday. As society falls, a secret agency of elite operatives called the Division are activated by the government. You play as one of these agents heading into a large urban center (New York City in the first game, D.C. in the sequel) and run around an open world, fighting an eclectic group of bad guys and finding collectibles in back alleys and on fire escapes.
The Division Resurgence released on March 31, and it’s become my mobile game of choice in the evenings because I like the Division games, and Resurgence is a Division game. It takes place after the events of The Division but before The Division 2’s Warlords of New York expansion, and it has third-person cover shooter gameplay, a big open world, player classes with cool technological gadgets, and everything you’d expect from a mainline title.
