Division 2 Director Asks Fans if They'd Want a Single-Player Spin-Off

The Division 2’s creative director has asked for fans’ thoughts on a single-player spin-off of the Tom Clancy looter-shooter.Creative director at Massive Entertainment, Julian Gerighty, retweeted an idea from Tim Spencer, who is level director at Lego studio TT Games. In his tweet, Spencer imagines a narrative-focused, single-player The Division, that would follow an agent attempting to get back to their family after being sent to New York City. He notes in the thread that “None of the stories have explored what a Division agent sacrifices, and what they go through mentally,” which would make good grounds for a single-player offering.

Thoughts? https://t.co/f8sSHuD25V

— Julian Gerighty (@jgerighty) July 13, 2019

Gerighty retweeted Spencer’s tweets, asking for thoughts from his followers. Unsurprisingly, there are hundreds of responses, many of which are enthusiastic about the idea of a single-player Tom Clancy game. Gerighty later followed up his tweet saying that the idea is “Apparently not something people are violently against”.

It’s important to take Gerighty’s tweets as nothing more than conversation, though. Just a few months ago Gerighty tweeted that he was working on the next Splinter Cell game, alongside Far Cry 5 director Dan Hay and For Honor director Roman Campos-Oriola. This infamously turned out to be a joke, with Ubisoft emphasising that it had no announcements to make about a new Splinter Cell. As such, don’t read Gerighty’s tweets as true market research. Still, it’s fun to think of what The Division could look like in a single-player context. Why not send him your own ideas?

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For more on The Division 2, check out the new update that’s adding raid matchmaking, and the news that a The Division movie is being made with Netflix.

Matt Purslow is IGN’s UK News and Entertainment Writer. You can follow him on Twitter.