Films like the 2011 thriller Contagion have raced up the video streaming charts, as curious populations look to make sense of what’s happening around them. But for those who have played the 2016 video game, Tom Clancy’s The Division, the experience of wandering through the empty streets of the Big Apple is a familiar sight, and the game’s premise is eerily evocative of what the city - and the world at large - faces today.Īs billions of people remain confined to their homes amid a desperate bid to quell the pandemic’s spread, many have turned to science-fiction to help relate. Even more so in New York City, which is the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic in the US. This sort of social gathering is unimaginable these days, with the lockdowns and social distancing rules that are in place in much of the world. The cornonavirus pandemic may be a once-in-a-lifetime world event, but for players of video games like The Division, it seems all too familiarĪs four friends walk side-byside through Manhattan, their footsteps are echoed by the metropolis’ skyscraper-lined streets, piercing a deafening silence wholly uncharacteristic of the city that never sleeps.
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