Is This an Isolated Case?
In the final virus report you pick up, Amherst talks about exactly why he created and released the virus. Essentially, the guy felt like playing God and restarting a ‘survival of the fittest’ era but with a modified version of the smallpox virus. However, the extent to which the virus spread outside of major cities is unknown.
The question still remains though, what’s actually happening in the rest of the world while all of this is going on? There is never really a proper mention of Europe, Asia, or Africa. Are there similar outbreaks going on there? Has Amherst released outbreaks in a number of different places at the same time? If so, are there Division agents in these places too?
Giving the player a wider context as to what’s going on, especially when the story focuses on a terrorist threat in the middle of one of the major cities in the world, is pretty crucial. After all, the folks over the pond in Britain would probably be pretty concerned about the news of the outbreak. All that is mentioned about the rest of the world is that there are food shortages and that’s only a passing comment on the radio, nothing else is really mentioned, nor do we know why these food shortages have come about.
Does this near-silence from the rest of the world mean that the virus was contained in New York City? Or that the entire world is having to deal with multiple contaminations? Keener’s mysterious ECHO that he left us at the end of the story makes us wonder just how long it is until another outbreak occurs somewhere, or whether, if there are multiple contaminations, Keener intends to build on them further somehow.
There you have some of the unanswered questions that The Division left us with. Perhaps these will be answered in some future planned content? We’ve got a couple ideas of what could be next for The Division too, but for now, we’ll have to wait and see.
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