Ubisoft has launched a new website showing how quickly The Division’s pandemic would spread where you live.
Using your location data, the site begins by saying you’re feeling ill and asking you which local hospital you decide to visit. The site also refers to local pharmacies and supermarkets before the authorities set up vaccine centres in your city’s cinemas. Naturally, there aren’t enough vaccines and supermarkets quickly run out of food, and riots break out. Eventually, you decide to flee by plane, which only spreads the rate of infection around the world and the number of deaths.
After 17 days, work absenteeism exceeds 50%, soldiers start abandoning their posts, and the first nuclear plants shut down as there’s no one around to maintain essential infrastructure. You can probably guess how things develop from there.
The site uses Street Map, IATA flight routes, and NASA open source data to show the spread of the infection. It’s pretty impressive. For me, the world collapsed after 26 days.
In The Division, New York City falls to a virus outbreak on Black Friday. The metropolis soon falls apart as food, water, and other essential services aren’t delivered to the city and essential services shut down. In a bid to retake the city, sleeper tactical operatives known as The Division are activated to clear out the emerging factions and restore order.
Earlier today, Ubisoft released a new trailer showing PC gameplay captured at 60 frames per second, check it out here.
Tom Clancy’s The Division is set for release on March 8th for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
