I've been struggling writing a review for this game mostly because I was pretty sure to give it a thumbs up.
- Short summary: Don't get me wrong, I really liked playing The Division, it was a very decent action tps. With a great story line, fun gameplay and even if the entire experience was repetitive I didn't really feel it.
- Ubisoft: Even if Ubisoft is garbage, with poop servers, and poop bugs, it was ok.
- The Dark Zone: God knows how excited I was to leap into it. Find Rogue Agents, Kill them, bring them to justice by myself. Nope, not happening, you will barely see anyone in it, and whenever you do, they'll either try to kill you while you're not watching them, or gang up on you (3v1 fun), or they will wait for you to extract your items (because you loot them from the DarkZone and have an action to perform to get them out of there) kill you, take all of your work and then extract your items for themselves. I loved the idea. But I like to play alone in MMORPG and this is literally impossible, no way you'll succeed. This is why having friends playing the game is a must-have.
- Interaction with other players: Null, void. There's nothing, you can only meet other players in Safehouses or the DZ that you're in for 2 reasons, you're starting up and discovered them for missions or you died. Talking to people suck balls, and the grouping system will then be mostly random for most of the players.
-The grinding: If you didn't join The Division near the begining or soon after. Good luck to catch up with people. If you are a grindaholic, it might be possible, and then go on ahead. You will be able to grind very challenging missions to get some credits, then some "parts" to craft them and do it again. Until... forever.
[ I actually really like grinding in games, so I didn't mind that part. Except, that it's taking literally too long alone for very small results ].
I had a lot of fun, got the season pass as well (i regret it now), played for a bit more than 100 hours. And finally decided to write a review. I'm still going to play from time to time, but it's not going to be the grinding I had fun to do for the first 2-3 weeks.
In the end, buy it with friends or don't.
Conclusion:
If you have friends and are ready to commit: 8/10
If you're alone and want the online experience : 5/10
If you just want to play the story mode : 6/10
If you like grinding: 7/10
If you don't: 4/10
Okay I have read through the end. I found out that most of your indication is just your opinions on the game. I don't see much actual information about the game like "Interaction with other players" I don't think it's necessary to say something like"Talking to people..." is making the article more worse. 3/5