Ubisoft may be back in everyone's good graces thanks to back-to-back success in Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Origins, but 2019 sees the studio return to one of their more controversial series: The Division.
Back in 2016, The Division was considered something of an anticlimax to fans and critics. Previous demos at E3 had promised a title jam-packed with detail and meaningful interactions, but the finished product ended up being anything but. Graphics had taken a hit, and the game's RPG elements were found to be lacking, the last thing Ubisoft wanted in the wake of multiple controversies surrounding Watch Dogs and Ghost Recon shortly after.
However, going from what we've seen so far, The Division 2 looks like a step-up over its predecessor, and with Ubi having already managed to make a great sequel to Watch Dogs, who's to say that the same lightning won't strike twice with The Division?
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
