During an Ubisoft Forward live stream presentation this weekend (September 10), Ubisoft has revealed the first gameplay trailer for The Division: Heartland.
Described as a survival multiplayer shooter “set in small-town America within the Division universe”, The Division: Heartland has no definitive release date yet, but Ubisoft says it can be expected between 2022 and 2023 for PC, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4.
Ubisoft explains that The Division: Heartland is a “standalone free-to-play” game and introduces new characters in a rural setting, which is quite the contrast from the series’ main game settings of New York and Washington D.C. The developer also confirmed that Red Storm, a “veteran team who has worked on the franchise since the first The Division game” is behind the new instalment.
Players will take on the role of Division agents, fighting alongside and against other agents in order to “explore the secrets” of the new rural environment and answering distress calls “to uncover the ever-evolving mysteries of a rural community in mid-crisis”.
