Hideo Kojima Gives High Praise To Tom Clancy's The Division

It's well established that open-world MMO shooter Tom Clancy's The Division looks pretty great, what with its custom-built Snowdrop engine and everything. But when the creator of Metal Gear Solid, Hideo Kojima, starts giving a game his full and undivided attention, you know it's got to be special.

Examiner's Game On blog has an exclusive interview feature coming up with The Division's David Polfeldt, but they offered up a quote today from Polfeldt about his experience after Massive Entertainment debuted their game at E3 last year:

"What meant more to us than maybe anything else, is that we had every single competing developer come over to our booth and asking for a show," Polfeldt told Game On. "Two minutes after E3 opened, we had Hideo Kojima come over to the Ubisoft booth and he said I want to see The Division. Then the press guy said politely, 'okay so do you want to see the other Ubisoft games?' [Kojima replied] 'nope I just want to see The Division.' The very first presentation we did at E3 was made for Hideo Kojima and his interpreter. Then he leans forward to his interpreter and he says 'you guys are so good, it makes me want to quit my job.' So that was the first presentation at E3, and you can imagine after having been in what we felt like a coal mine for a long time, you get [Hideo Kojima coming over to see The Division] within 5 minutes of the show opens. We were like 'dude this has going to work.' We had DICE over, we had Destiny over, everybody else came over and said guys, 'this is excellent, what have you been doing? Please show it to us.' That was a career highlight, absolutely!"

Aside from the "this has going to work" (I'm assuming that was transcribed incorrectly), that's a pretty awesome story. The Division is really looking like a game-changer (pun intended), and if it's receiving that much attention from some of the best developers and studios in the business, you know it's probably on track to be amazing.