The missions themselves are well crafted, and many succeed in delivering a bitesize storyline. However, new activities, like battling roaming patrols of elite enemies, are introduced as you progress and the freedom to tackle your laundry list of tasks in any order you wish keeps it from feeling like an obligatory grind. “There is a clearly similar progression structure to each of the 11 PvE zones as you’re leveling up: you’ll find a safe house or settlement, scour the landscape for Strategic Homeland Defense (S.H.D.) caches, run missions, and capture the handful of control points. It all comes together to provide a space that makes it okay to stop and smell the roses, I never regretted indulging my inner explorer.
The series’ familiar and predictable urban grid gives way to lush, open vistas and iconic monuments overtaken by vines. The capital is painstakingly populated with a fanatical amount of detail and boasts much more in the way of environmental variance than the first game’s depiction of New York City. There are chests and collectibles around every corner, and this generous distribution of loot goes a long way in the context of The Division 2’s phenomenally well-realized recreation of Washington D.C. Gunplay is impactful – enemies react to being shot sooner and die faster, and the world is teeming with enticing reasons to explore it.
Things in The Division 2 seem to pick up right where the original post-pandemic story left off in terms of both plotline and cover-based shooting, but it quickly becomes clear that many aspects of the gameplay have improved in meaningful ways.
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