We’ll see later this year when it launches. If Red Storm really resisted the urge to fill Resurgence with predatory bullshit, it should be rubbing Blizzard’s, and everyone else’s, faces in it. Ubisoft deserves a lot of credit if that’s the case, and if I were in its marketing department I would be screaming that fact from the rooftops right now. If this is a true triple-A MMO mobile game that isn’t junked with pay-to-win microtransactions, it will legitimately be the first of its kind. If that’s the case, Ubisoft should be making a much bigger deal about The Division Resurgence.

It’s a real time-consuming grind of a game, but if you’re into that kind of thing, you’ll soon have a new way to do it. Some might say The Division lacks personality, and I tend to agree. Bosses are damage sponges that absorb tens of thousands of bullets before they go down. Dungeons are bare, industrial spaces that are surprisingly easy to lose your way in. That’s great if you like The Division, but that also means it does all the same things that might turn some people away. I asked the developers constant questions, prodding for anything I could find that makes Resurgence fundamentally different from the other games in the series, and it doesn’t seem like there’s anything missing at all. It has clans, matchmaking, gear progression, and original story, the whole shebang. There’s dungeons to explore, new specializations to customize and upgrade, weapon crafting, and though I didn’t try it myself, PvP Dark Zones and Conflict modes. New York is an open world filled with enemies and objectives that you can explore with up to four players. The gameplay will be familiar to The Division fans. Related: Monster Hunter Now Has Finally Convinced Me To Move On From Pokemon Go

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