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  • Here’s A Few More Details On The Order: 1886

    The Order: 1886 has its work cut out for it. It’s an original IP on a next-gen console that has to prove itself to players looking for something new and exciting from their $400 console. Visuals are only going to go so far so the game has to prove that it has some gameplay chops as well.

    In a new behind the scenes video, Ready at Dawn CEO Ru Weerasuriya reveals more details about his company’s first original home console title – The Order: 1886. In it, he reiterates that the game takes place in a 19th century London with a group of knights fighting against mutated humans. He reveals that the characters are based on those from the legend of King Arthur, but the characters in the game are based on the characters from the original legend instead of the more well-known modern retellings.

    As for gameplay, he says that it’s their intention to make a filmic game that strikes a balance between storytelling and player control. In the past, games, like Uncharted 2, have felt like you were playing a movie. With The Order: 1886, Ready at Dawn wants to keep players in that filmic experience while keeping them engaged through seamless transitions to combat and exploration.

    The Order: 1886 will launch exclusively on the PS4 sometime in 2014.

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  • New ‘The Order: 1886’ Details Revealed

    The Order: 1886 was one of the few new PlayStation 4 exclusives that Sony announced during its big E3 conference. The game features monster hunters fighting un-revealed supernatural creatures in a Victorian London. With futuristic weapons. The anachronism made for a very interesting teaser trailer, but many details about the game are still missing.

    Though The Order was missing from Sony’s Gamescom presentation this week, the game hasn’t been fully neglected. Sony has released new details about the setting of the game, including the alternate-history London.

    In a post to the PlayStation blog, developer Ready At Dawn Studios stated that the advanced technology seen in the teaser will “take center stage.” Electric lights will line the city, and electric signs will provide a contrast to the dank architecture. The London underground will be present, but changed for dramatic effect. Airships, called “Sentinels,” patrol the skies over the city, which will feature most of the landmarks London is known for (the Tower Bridge, Big Ben, etc.)

    As for advanced weapons, the characters in the game will carry a variety of devastating firearms. The electricity rifle seen in the teaser, obviously, but also a gun that shoots a combustible cloud of thermite. Period-accurate firearms will also be used, but communication will be sped up through the use of “communicators.”

  • New The Order: 1886 Details Revealed

    New The Order: 1886 Details Revealed

    One of the most intriguing new game reveals at Sony’s big E3 presentation was also the most cryptic. The teaser trailer for The Order: 1886 showed monster hunters in Victorian London fighting an unrevealed supernatural menace using high-tech weapons. That’s it, other than the fact that it will probably utilize guns, gamers were left to question what the trailer suggested about story themes and gameplay.

    Today, Sony and developer Ready At Dawn have finally revealed some details about the game in a blog post to the PlayStation blog. The Order: 1886 will be a third-person action-adventure game with “shooting mechanics,” stated Ready At Dawn co-founder Ru Weerasuriya. It will also be a linear story-based game, implying an Uncharted-type gameplay situation.

    The London setting of the video game will heavily resemble the London of the 18th century, and “real” people and places will appear in the game. However, Weerasurya also stated that there will be some things in the game that, obviously, never existed in the real 1886 London.

    It was also stated that the game will have a “filmic” look, and that different physical lens effects have been built into the game’s engine. This means, according to Weerasuriya, that The Order: 1886 will not feature the “too clean and crisp” look that other games can sometimes have.

    “We thrive in the dirt,” said Weerasuriya. “We just love the fact that it feels dirty. It’s filmed in a very realistic way.”