The Division: Hearts on Fire
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The Division: Hearts on Fire by K. C. Wayland
The extended universe The Division needs. ❤️🔥
Hearts on Fire is definitely for those interested in learning more about the lore of The Division. It offers glimpses of answers to a lot of questions raised in the games.
A look behind the scenes. We get to see a side of The Division that we’ve never seen before, a look at their recruiting requirements and their training process. It becomes clear that agents are not just military, they’re specialists. Uniquely adept at one specific skill-set, but then trained in combat.
A different perspective. There are so many video games where I wish there was a mission or two, or maybe DLC, that give you the opportunity to see things from the villains point of view. And while this is still the case with the game, Hearts on Fire gives us the opportunity to see inside the Cleaners: who they were before the outbreak and how they came to be.
The conspiracy theorists. Not so much answering a question as much as confirming what we already knew, but just haven’t seen before. In an example of how much The Division does and would mirror reality, we get to see the conspiracy theorists in action. The ones who blame the government for everything and go on to form the many rogue factions.
But the culmination of all of these insights gives us a glimpse of an answer to what is perhaps the biggest questions in all of The Division: what happened to the first wave? Of course, we don’t get an ultimate answer, but we get to see the mass confusion and hysteria that the first wave was up against.
Lastly, I have to at lease mention the performances, and of course they’re top notch. Katie Sackhoff and company do a perfect job of conveying the story and events in a comprehensive way, especially considering it’s 100% dialogue with no narration between. But I’m bias, as a huge fan of Graphic Audio, I love audiobooks in this is format. I can only hope that the cinematic experience of Hearts on Fire helps green-light the movie that’s been in development hell (see blog post: The Abnormal Potential of The Division Movie).
