Tom Clancy's The Division Release Date, Gameplay Trailer: Game Will Feature Tablet Controlled Drone, Ubisoft Has 3 Studios Working On Game [VIDEO]

Tom Clancy's "The Division" is coming, and it is going to be a big deal. The release date will be somewhere in 2015, Ubisoft has not been more specific than that.

As the "Splinter Cell" franchise died down there hasn't been a new Tom Clancy based game for awhile. Ubisoft is developing it exclusively for the current gen hardware using the Snowdrop engine, and it will feature an unprecidented realistic depiction of New York City.

The Division was recently shown off in a demo at Gamescom but not openly to the public. Game producer Justin Robey shared some of his thoughts on Twitter.

"Saw The Division running on Xbox One. Jaw dropping gorgeous. Steam and environments were unreal," Justin Tweeted. "Gameplay also looked to be solid. Sold! It was running on Xbox One. It went from dash to in game."

Ubisoft is throwing the entirety of its weight behind the project: Ubisoft Red Storm, Ubisoft Reflections and Massive Entertainment are the ones who are involved in this project.

The games is a real RPG shooter. It will allow the players to loot resources and contruct a base. There will be the branching skill trees of an RPG to tailor your character's abilities the way you prefer, and cover-based shooting is at the core of the action. Your skills and items may help you get passed a certain stage more tactically, but there will always be alternative more gun-drawn entry point.

The story follows characters from the city's "clean up" crew, who are tasked with ridding the streets of the bad and nasty, following a virus outbreak. Your mission is to help the governemt regain control by any means necessary.

Reports suggest the tablet gameplay, which allows a secondary player to join the game with a tablet, runs flawlessly. It's not fully playable from the tablet, instead the tablet controls a drone that has a variety of uses.

Lazygamer got some hands on time with the game and had this to say, "The Division puts you in the shoes of one of the city's clean up agents, trying to return a freshly apocalyptic New York to being habitable once more. A pandemic virus has come along, killing most, leaving the city a shell of its former self. Richly detailed, a great deal of the story is told through emergent game play and the environment; fresh corpses piled up, abandoned homes, the world littered with debris, messages on walls. The narrative is also partially spun by an echo device, which shows memories of a place in 3D. The New York shown is huge, with a rather large mega-map showing just about everything. Each area is graded by three things; present security, level of contagion, and current morale in the area - and each will affect how missions there will play out, what sort of gear is required, and the sort of resistance you'll face."

Again "The Division" release date will be somewhere in 2015. Check back for more information as we get closer to the release date.