The Division Vs. Destiny: What's The Best Shooter Of 2016?

3. Unique Multiplayer Modes (Dark Zone Vs. Raids)

By far and away, The Division's biggest selling point - or should be its biggest selling point - is the Dark Zone, a cordoned off chunk of central New York where you're free to explore in any direction, knowing high-level enemies and players are around every corner. You can team up to defeat the A.I. opposition or go rogue and become one of the most wanted - or you can do the first, just to obtain fancier gear, then stab your teammates in the back and keep it for yourself anyway. It's a really cool mode that mixes what Kane & Lynch started, with a Dark Souls-style element of sprinting back to where you died in an attempt to claim back what's yours. Destiny's multiplayer offers the standard PVP setup in the Iron Banner mode (The Division's matchmaking happens dynamically unless you make a point of joining a friend, so entering the DZ already links you up with other players), but the big sell was always the various raids. Requiring genuine hours of teamwork to accomplish, they're a big ask that just ended up being too inaccessible to all but the most hardcore of players. Even those that put together the requisite teams to succeed have resorted to running things like The Vault of Glass or Crota's End over and over, just to justify the money spent. You can't argue that the best parts of Destiny were in these late-game stages, but by gating access to them in such an obfuscating manner, it all but killed the appeal in the process. Winner: The Division