E3 2013: Tom Clancy's The Division

Aside from a minutely curated fever apocalypse, the stand out thing about Tom Clancy's The Division is the clipped, believable radio chatter, framed here as a speculative audience. Ubisoft has ditched on the typical testosterone heavy party chat to focus on presenting an aspirational, egalitarian future shock. The Division promises to be a multiplayer driven RPG, offering something deliberately unlike the bro shooters that have driven this gen's online experience. A notable trend at this E3 has been developers and publishers offering games designed to undermine rather than directly compete with Call of Duty; The Division doing so with a more deliberately paced example of tactical shooting.