On this day 11 years ago, players played the shooter The Order: 1886 on the PlayStation 4 console and hung out with Nikola Tesla.
Sony has been very successful in introducing new franchises in the PlayStation 4 era. The Last of Us, Horizon and Ghost of Tsushima are some of the prominent names that had a good reception in the market. However, there were also new ideas that did not stick, and we played one of them on this day in 2015, when it was released The Order: 1886.
It was a third-person shooter set in alternate history London. In that Victorian setting king arthur and his knights of the round table are still alive thanks to a mystical liquid that extended their lifespan. Their existence is imbued with a constant struggle against vampires and werewolves, and during 1886 they also fight against rebel groups on behalf of the ruling body.
We played in the role of Sir Galahad to whom Nikola Tesla generously gave his experimental weapons. Interesting thing, Tesla was played here by Yuri Lowenthal, the same guy who later became Peter Parker in Insomniac’s Spider-Man games.
We played the role of Sir Galahad, who was generously given his experimental weapons by Nikola Tesla.
This interesting plot was the first original game from the studio Ready at Dawn, who had previously proven themselves with the excellent God of War games for the PlayStation Portable. They imagined the game as a cinematic adventure, limiting it to 30 frames per second and putting it in film aspect ratio 2.40:1. The game itself had a lot of staged scenes, and just as many were adapted into them quick time eventi.
The Order: 1886 looked attractive and was one of the more anticipated exclusives for the PlayStation 4. However, by some accident, a video of the entire gameplay was released before the release of the game. And she pointed out that the game for which Sony asked 60 euros can finish in about four hours. It quickly became the complaint that buried this game. The short-lived The Order did not receive the best ratings, and it also did not achieve a notable result in sales.
The Order: 1886 looked attractive and was one of the more anticipated PlayStation 4 exclusives.
Although the ending of this game suggested that the Ready at Dawn studio was ready to continue the story, it never happened. This was the last game that studio created for Sony. After that, they devoted themselves to making several quality VR titles and were taken over by the company Facebook / Meta, and then closed in 2024.
The Order: 1886 is still available for sale at the price of 40 euros.
