At the time of display it does not necessarily have to have fully functioning gameplay and algorithms running in the background. Its a fulfills its purpose. At the time of release you need a game that fully functions at a desirable frame rate and you find that to have all the other stuff happening in the city at the same time and to go from area to area without loading screen you will have to make some sacrifices. So anytime you see an E3 demo assume it will not look as good by the time it comes out - rule of thumb.

to me it looks more polished and better. The old The division e3 trailer and gameplay was abit more greyish kinda look.

more trash and useless thing does not make game better,if all streets had been like in demo you need 980ti SLi to run 1080p.
game is looking awesome and no need to butt hurt yourself for minor things.
and i bet,those who screaming that is downgrade it is not going to play the game anyways.they are just crying little babies.

It's a downgrade from the E3 2013 vertical slice, as we can expect.
Having said that, the game does look really great.

Ya know, when I watch stuff like this I'd really like to know why so much stuff get's replaced in the final version vs. the E3 demo. Like so many of the cars and just props in general looked so much better and detailed in the E3 demo. They clearly had the models made and all that...so why did nearly all of them get replaced? You already have the work done! Why did you re-do everything?

Otherwise, this is just depressing. While I still think the game looks GREAT and I'm thoroughly enjoying it (seriously have 20 hours in it so far) I can say that the E3 2013 demo still looks, feels, and plays better than the final game in nearly every way.