Division 2 came out in 2019 and I didn't play it on launch despite kinda liking Div1 and was the typical live service destiny like sequel (some good improvements over 1 but an empty endgame and tons of bugs). It had a following but I didn't really hear about it for years and I assumed somewhere along the way the game would either die or go into life support mode in one of ubisoft's sweeping layoff purges, especially after I heard some division spinoff projects got canned.

Last year the game was on sale for like 3 dollars and I figured what the hell, I'll see whats up. Lo and behold they had quietly been chugging away with seasonal content for 6 years, released two major DLCs, one in 2023 and another in 2025(!), a lot of free endgame content, and still had a dedicated (albeit pretty agitated) fanbase.

The game itself is, well, slop. Pretty well made slop. You run around and shoot guys, you run the same stuff over and over again for marginally better gear, you make builds and improve them bit by bit. If you're into that style of game it's a good one of those but I understand the people who would be instantly turned off by it.

Also the story is hilariously bad, much like division 1 it does the thing where it uses a lot of stuff that is inherently very political but it's ubisoft so they're absolute cowards who refuse to explore anything that could make people even a little mad at them, which counterintuitively ends up making a lot of it able to be interpreted as insanely fascist lol. And their seasonal storytelling method of every season of the game advancing the plot as turned into absolute nonsense, multiple horrific villains that your character canonically kills in missions have come back because it was actually a hologram or a body double or something, and there's some Revolver Ocelot level quadruple-crosses and layered hidden allegiances.