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Ubisoft of late recommitted itself to The Division 2, only that's not the only iron IT's got therein particular Turkey cock Clancy fire. In a puffy update on the future of the franchise, it revealed that an all-new, free-to-play Division game titled Heartland is besides in development at its Red Storm studio apartment.

"Having worked on Tom Clancy games since 1997, its extensive experience across numerous genres and games, most recently The Division and The Division 2, makes Red Violent storm a perfect fit for this project," Ubisoft said. "Heartland is a standalone game that doesn't require former experience with the serial publication but will provide an each new linear perspective along the universe in a new mount."

In that location are zero details beyond that, but the number or so an "totally unprecedented perspective" makes me think that a Division-based battle royale is a good bet. Activision has had monolithic success with Call of Duty: Warzone and EA's own free-to-encounter battle royale Vertex Legends is a major striking. But Ubisoft's entry into the BR genre, Hyper Flower stalk, has been almost exclusively forgotten—in fact, we included in our leaning of games you forgot released in 2020. A replication for Hyper Scape doesn't seem likely, but a battle royale built around the familiar Tom Clancy stigmatise might give Ubisoft new-made traction.

There is a distant possibility that it's something else entirely. The "Ubisoft Primary" subtitle has echoes of Natural philosophy Arts' EA Originals labels, which publishes more indie-styled fare wish Ravel, Sea of Solitude, and It Takes Two, and this could be something like that: A communicative-focused exploration game, maybe, about a lonely Division agent attempting to live and restore order in the American heartland, utmost from the suffer systems (and gangs of homicidal maniacs) in Sunrise York City and President Washington DC. That could actually be pretty cool.

(My money is still on a battle royale, though.)

Whatever the case, IT seems equiprobable that Heartland will move the series away from the big-city settings of the first two games: The claim is variety of a game show, for one thing, and the matchless double Ubisoft shared, featuring a dilapidated water tower and a whole big bunch of trees, looks same something straight out of Far Cry 5—that is, identical rural.

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Ubisoft also announced that the first-ever Partitioning changeable stake is in development, details of which will live revealed "at a later date," and it's even plugging away at the Netflix movie announced two years ago, starring Jessica Chastain and Jake Gyllenhaal. A novel set after the events of The Division 2 that "explores how the Outbreak affects different regions of the United States As agents fight to guarantee add routes" is likewise on the way.

The Division: Heartland is awaited to be available sometime in 2021-22 on PC and consoles, and if you'd like to arrest in early you can signaling up to take part in upcoming beta testing here.

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