Out of all the games revealed at E3 so far today, I would have to say that the latest game revealed by Ubisoft, Massive Entertainment’s The Division, quickly jumped up to the top of my most anticipated games list. Now, while this site is a single player centric sites, gamers have made it known to us that since the lines are blurring, it’s still possible to have a single player experience within an MMO, which is why we’re covering The Division.

However, Ubisoft Massive refuses to call The Division an MMO, instead calling it a game that’s a single player centric experience in an online open world. Phew, right? Anyways, onto the juicy details of a game that will certainly be on our radars here at OnlySP.

The main story of the game follows a pandemic that begins on the biggest shopping day of the year, Black Friday. The virus quickly spreads from money, to people, to toys and food and then back to the source. From there, everything collapses. The hospitals begin overflowing with patients in the first day of the pandemic, neighberhoods and whole towns are quarantined, the stock market crashes, the power goes out and looters take everything that remains. Finally, everyone becomes a threat to your survival.

The game follows a group of survivors called, The Division. Created in 2007 by Presidential Directive 51, the group is tasked with bringing society back to its feet in any way they can.

The open world consists of New York. It’s unclear how large it will be, but Manhattan was mentioned and implied to be a visitable place. It looks like players can visit the subway system, too. The map was shown as a holographic popup – which was rather slick – and showed a number of action hotspots. Once a target is chosen, players can advance and complete the objective.

Combat itself seems like typical third person cover shooter fare, although it looks like some interesting little gadgets can mix things up. Shown were an enemy-revealing sonar scan, a placeable turret, an enemy-seeking roller mine, and a long range healing device. Also shown was a quad-rotor copter used for recon and controlled by another player. Interestingly, the player’s name was followed by the [tablet] designation, revealing cross-play that allows tablet users to assist the action without having their boots on the ground.

It looks like scavenging for food, water, weapons, and ammunition will play a part in the game, with players picking up water bottles and ration packs. It’s unknown the effect this will have on gameplay at this point. A cool feature is the ability to scan dead bodies for cause of death.

It looks like there are a variety of skills to buy and upgrade, probably enabling new technologies and tricks to help your Division agent survive. It will be interesting to see how upgrades are bought and applied in-game, since it looks like Ubisoft are focusing on a more realistic approach to online play.

PVP and PVE are supported, which may lead to some interesting situations between players.

Not much more is known just yet, but damn, it looks slick. We’re going to watch this one carefully to see how it goes, but rest assured we’ll keep you updated too.