New Tom Clancy Video Game “The Division” Based on Perfect Storm of Economic & Social Collapse

“Breakdown in Essential Institutions… Civil Disorder… Massive Civilian Casualties”

I’m not one to do a video game review especially on one that isn’t even out yet but I found the back story explained in this trailer quite surreal as it’s clearly tied to our current times. This game is a complete 180 from most story lines for online shooter style games, which are normally based around some type of conflict going on around the world. The Division hits home like no other game IMO set in a time of ECONOMIC & SOCIAL COLLAPSE, put in motion by a pandemic… the perfect storm if you will.

This trailer really makes you think about how far gone we are and how much time we have left. Watching this will leave you thinking “gee this sounds familiar!” This perfect storm is not impossible, we have a weak economic system and as for our current social state everyone is at just about at each others throat. All it would take is some event, a pandemic possibly, to set things in motion for a system barely in balance to finally come apart. Our entire economic system correctly described in the trailer as a “delicate & unstable economy” is based on MAED (Mutual Assured Economic Destruction). Once one country falls the rest will follow like a “house of cards”, it’s not a question of if, but when.

I also found it interesting how they worked in Operation Dark Winter and Directive 51 into the storyline. Directive 51 also known as PDD 51 was signed in 2007 by George Bush for continuity of the federal government in the event of a “catastrophic emergency”. The problem I have noted in the past with it is “catastrophic emergency” is never clearly defined! It could be anything, economic, social, “localized acts of nature, accidents, and technological or attack-related emergencies”, which would allow the serving POTUS to enact powers seizing control over the US!

So what should you take from this? Take it as a trailer for our coming future, another warning that things are getting so bad game makers are now “war gaming” the worst case scenario while gamers play it out to see who survives! When you watch this remove the idea from your head it’s for a video game, it will really get you thinking!

For you gamers out there here is a clip of the gameplay…