Given the Heartland name, we can safely assume that the newest game will be set in the rural American Midwest.Īs for gameplay, Ubisoft hasn’t said what format Heartland will take. Players are agents of the fictitious Strategic Homeland Division, trying to keep things under control amidst a devastating pandemic. after the viral outbreak that kicked off 2016’s Tom Clancy’s The Division in New York. The game, developed by Massive Entertainment (with support from Red Storm), is set in Washington, D.C. Ubisoft’s last Division game, Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, was released in March 2019. No word on when Heartland’s testing will begin. Heartland is in development at Ubisoft’s Red Storm studio, the publisher said Thursday, and is expected out in 2021 or 2022.ĭetails on the new game are slim Ubisoft called Heartland a “standalone game that doesn’t require previous experience with the series,” but said the game “will provide an all new perspective on the universe in a new setting.” It’s coming to consoles, Windows PC, and the cloud, Ubisoft said.Īn exact release window wasn’t given - just from 2021 to 2022 - but Ubisoft did provide a link for players to access an early test run of the game. With no price tag attached, this could all add up to a compelling offering, but we'll have to wait until players get their hands on Heartland to really get a sense for how it's shaping up.Ubisoft has announced a new, free-to-play game set in The Division universe: Tom Clancy’s The Division Heartland. The game will have a day-night cycle, with Heartland becoming more dangerous and risky at night, along with lower visibility, while moving patches of contagion will also require gas masks and filters to move through, demanding planning before you take the plunge. If you've played Call of Duty's recently-created DMZ mode, you'll have an idea of the risk-reward setup that this can create, and the tension of being in a fight with your best items in your backpack. This should make for a different feeling and tone, but you'll still have a base of operations to plan your raids and work out what you want to keep in your persistent stash or risk by taking with you. That setting is also a major change - gone are the urban environments we're used to, replaced by small-town Americana and a distinct lack of skyscrapers.
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