We still have just under two weeks left before Tom Clancy's highly anticipated The Division arrives March 8, 2016. The open world online role-playing shooter is slated to be one of the biggest early titles of 2016 and will introduce us to the terrifying scenario of New York City fallen to a devastating contagion that rapidly infects millions in the city. Now, Tom Clancy's developer Ubisoft has also released a browser-based game titled Collapse that accompanies The Division.
While Collapse is extremely straightforward in gameplay, the browser mini game is surprisingly compelling and its ending is downright scary. Essentially, the player will represent patient zero in Collapse, the very first person known to be infected with a deadly virus. You will be asked to input your address and select the hospitals you will visit, the pharmacy you will go to retrieve your medicine, the supermarket you will shop supplies from, and the city you will fly to in order to leave the city.
Every decision you make will cause the further spread of the deadly virus until every civilization on the face of the Earth succumbs to disease. In my first playthrough, I managed to completely infect the globe in less than one month.
“Collapse is an online interactive experience that uses real data to create an immersive and personalized projection of the end of society," shared Ubisoft in a Collapse press release. "The user is patient zero of this highly infectious virus and has to make several choices that will have consequences on the spread of the pandemic.
"Based on Open Street Map, NASA open source data and IATA Flight routes, with input from emergency risk specialists and public service employees, Collapse features more than 3800 cities worldwide, home of 95% of the population. The user can compare different scenarios by choosing another epicenter or by making different choices in the simulator, and find the most vulnerable and the safest cities."
Be sure to click here to play the Collapse browser game. How quickly did you manage to wipe out the Earth? Let us know in the comment section below!
