• Publisher: SCEA
  • Release Date: Feb 20, 2015
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  1. Sep 9, 2023
    2
    The game is pretty, yes it is. But it plays and feels like a tech-demo. Nothing more, noting less.
  2. Aug 19, 2023
    0
    Worst game ever made and terrible start menu and main menu screen just plain grey
  3. Jul 16, 2023
    3
    Top-notch graphics and nothing else. That is what you should expect from this hiper linear, boring and full of rigid mechanics game. The stealth mechanics are nonsense and the Quick Time Events don't feel natural. If the atory was engaging at least, maybe it could make up for the dull gameplay, but it's not. It's also too short, but you might even be glad of that.
  4. Dec 30, 2022
    2
    I find it hard to illustrate how good or bad this game is, on one hand it isn't the worst product on the market, yet on the other it's almost an embarrassment to video gaming as a whole. I'll give it credit for being occasionally pretty, the visuals can be quite nice even with the FPS issues. Next I'll give it a point for not being riddled with bugs like some other games can be, so that'sI find it hard to illustrate how good or bad this game is, on one hand it isn't the worst product on the market, yet on the other it's almost an embarrassment to video gaming as a whole. I'll give it credit for being occasionally pretty, the visuals can be quite nice even with the FPS issues. Next I'll give it a point for not being riddled with bugs like some other games can be, so that's a positive.

    Now onto the actual game, it's incredibly short. You are looking at around 2.5-3 hours of play time with the rest being cut scenes, some cut scenes are almost 45 minutes long. Straight. Fighting is basic cover, shoot followed by tons on QTE's. As has been mentioned there are even QTE sequences that are literally copied throughout the game. It's the same exact sequences.

    This game has no replay value, no extra modes, no real anything extra. There are no choices, there is no exploring, it's an on the rails cinematic experience with poor FPS and a bad, poorly thought out story. Rent this game, beat it in a couple hours and you will still feel ripped off. This game is the definition of bad. It's the definition of a video game failure. The only reason I won't score lower is because it technically could have been completely broken and never looked pretty at all.
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  5. Nov 24, 2022
    4
    Stunning graphics, a great story, but the stupiest controls I‘ve ever seen in a game like this. The gameplay is horrible with tons of quick time event. It‘s a mess! This game has the potential for a masterpiece, but someone at the developer must soon have been said: „let‘s destroy it.“
  6. Feb 21, 2022
    0
    The worst game in the history of gaming. 75% of the game is filled with cutscenes, and there is no gameplay. One of the worst out there
  7. Feb 20, 2022
    0
    Sony deveria ter vergonha de vender uma demo como jogo. Pouca coisa se aproveita nisso.
  8. Feb 12, 2022
    0
    No merece análisis, una basura de juego Lo jugué día uno digital, y es una mierda
  9. Feb 8, 2022
    4
    bad camera, delayed buttons, stuck with a visitor in a helm, still taking all the shots and lives. what the **** I quit the game, it's a waste of money
  10. Aug 14, 2021
    1
    В этой «игре» плохо все, чего не коснись: сюжет унылый и штампованый, унылые персонажи говорят общими фразами без объяснений и информации, что бесит еще больше. Геймплей на пс4 просто днище, управление как в космосе, но стрелять ты должен как бьерн дален без автонаводки. Искусственно растянутая дебильными одинаковыми как две капли мочи перестрелками с зергами пустая сюжетка. ЧернаяВ этой «игре» плохо все, чего не коснись: сюжет унылый и штампованый, унылые персонажи говорят общими фразами без объяснений и информации, что бесит еще больше. Геймплей на пс4 просто днище, управление как в космосе, но стрелять ты должен как бьерн дален без автонаводки. Искусственно растянутая дебильными одинаковыми как две капли мочи перестрелками с зергами пустая сюжетка. Черная картинка, на которой нихрена не видно, и при этом белый сраный текст на белом фоне в меню где аудиосообщения. Не раскрыто ни одной ветки сюжета нормально- какие вампиры, какие ликантропы, что вообще делают индусы?? Ни одного ответа на вопрос нет за всю игру. К середине каждой главы я забывал что вообще мы делаем и зачем, ибо мотивации персонажа нет. Короче это 1 ликантроп из 10 сраных скопипащеных локаций для говноперестрелок. Expand
  11. Dec 20, 2020
    4
    This game can definitely be skipped. It was agony not being able to skip the God awful cutsenes. No wonder this series died immediately.
  12. Oct 24, 2020
    3
    The good:
    Very good graphics for their release year (2015)
    The bad: Very short. Most of the game are cinematics. Hacked mini-games are not fun. Flooded with QTE limiting gameplay to seeing and pressing X or square. Once the game is finished there is no more, it is not replayable and it is not fun to play. The black “movie sense” bars on a wide screen cover almost 50% of the screen if
    The good:
    Very good graphics for their release year (2015)

    The bad:
    Very short. Most of the game are cinematics. Hacked mini-games are not fun. Flooded with QTE limiting gameplay to seeing and pressing X or square. Once the game is finished there is no more, it is not replayable and it is not fun to play. The black “movie sense” bars on a wide screen cover almost 50% of the screen if you put them together

    Meh it!
    They left open plots for a second part or a DLC that never arrived, nor will it arrive. It does not have multiplayer but the press claimed that it was the "Gears of War Killer"
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  13. Sep 22, 2020
    4
    Stupidly self indulgent. Not nearly as groundbreaking as they thought it would be. Story is weak, tried and already stale. The gameplay is basic and broken by the fixed aspect ratio. Poorly written in every regard. If I spent more than $10 on this I would be pissed.
  14. Sep 22, 2020
    3
    Piece of crap of a game. It's more boring that listening a chess match through radio. Do not buy it
  15. Sep 21, 2020
    4
    I was dissatisfied with the game. The game has mediocre controls, the design also leaves much to be desired, just awful musical background, a very short plot and cut-scene inserted. Cut scenes in games, especially of this genre, just spoil everything.
  16. Aug 14, 2020
    4
    Lo mejor que hace es ser un shotter y lo hace realmente mal. Una historia que es una fumada que ni Kojima. Es corto y se hace largo.
  17. Jul 19, 2020
    4
    HahahahahahahahahahagahahahahagahahahahahahAhaha, my god this is pure **** like why would they do this
  18. Jul 19, 2020
    4
    Le pongo un 4 por los gráficos. Es corto y aburrido. 5 horas dura el juego.
  19. Jul 18, 2020
    4
    Great graphics, but the rest is terrible, from story to gameplay. A lot of wasted potential.
  20. Apr 29, 2020
    1
    No suelo ser muy duro en las reviews, pero The Order: 1886 me parece directamete una estafa en toda regla. Me explico: La campaña publicitaria, la manera en que se anunciaba este juego fue completamente vomitiva. Prácticamente iba a ser la llegada de Jesucristo a la Tierra. Segundo punto, jugablemente el juego es repetitivo, con unas mecánicas más que explotadas, no aporta nada de suNo suelo ser muy duro en las reviews, pero The Order: 1886 me parece directamete una estafa en toda regla. Me explico: La campaña publicitaria, la manera en que se anunciaba este juego fue completamente vomitiva. Prácticamente iba a ser la llegada de Jesucristo a la Tierra. Segundo punto, jugablemente el juego es repetitivo, con unas mecánicas más que explotadas, no aporta nada de su propia cosecha, y es que además tiene bugs. La moda de los "peli-juegos" creo que debe quedar más en un segundo plano y no anunciarse a bombo y platillo por todos lados. Respecto a la trama y sin spoilers, es todo un completo cliché, nada novedosa, cualquier película decente me hubiera entretenido más. Otro punto negativo de este tipo de juegos es que no son rejugables, una vez te lo pasas (o más bien lo ves) se acabó. La rejugabilidad es un punto importantísimo en los videojuegos y este nisiquiera cumple ese punto. Una decepción tras el hype que hubo por el, NO recomiendo su compra, incluso si no disponeis de mucho tiempo, no recomiendo ni jugarlo. Expand
  21. Apr 29, 2020
    4
    An overestimated game, made mostly with marketing and advertising rather than proper game development.
    There is no possibility of upgrading your character, there are tons of useless things to do (like looking at strange objects while rotating them in your hand) and there is not much to play either (in terms of real gameplay). One of the greatest disappointment of the year.....
  22. Apr 11, 2020
    1
    este juego me costo 1000 pesos mexicanos que son aproximadamente 60 dolares de su tiempo. yo tenia muchas esperanzas de este juego me acuerdo que incluso lo compre en preventa estaba tan emocionado por el y vaya error. el juego solo lo juegue 2 horas y me cago solo 2 horas basto para que lo odiara, un juego del montón que agarra mecánicas de otros juegos pero que lo hace peor. el juegoeste juego me costo 1000 pesos mexicanos que son aproximadamente 60 dolares de su tiempo. yo tenia muchas esperanzas de este juego me acuerdo que incluso lo compre en preventa estaba tan emocionado por el y vaya error. el juego solo lo juegue 2 horas y me cago solo 2 horas basto para que lo odiara, un juego del montón que agarra mecánicas de otros juegos pero que lo hace peor. el juego tenia unas barras negras como si fueran de una película. el juego mas aburrido que e jugado sin mencionar que la historia es una mierda y no tiene sentido. gracias a este juego ya no compro cosas en preventa Expand
  23. Jan 5, 2020
    1
    The order a **** game for **** ps4 **** you **** ps4 PS 4 is e ****ttttttt
    **** you
  24. Oct 10, 2019
    1
    mucha cc poco juego en la película esta, tiene unas bandas gigantes en la pantalla solo para resolución visual y aun así esta a 30fps.
  25. Sep 9, 2019
    0
    Gears of war de garrafón del que solo se salvan de la quema pese a sus evidentes recortes los gráficos.
  26. Aug 30, 2019
    3
    This is what you get if you priorities graphics over everything else, game play is non existent and the who thing just turns into a boring experience after around 30mins.
  27. Jun 10, 2019
    1
    This game is the quintessential near miss. Unfortunately it's only aiming as high as "graphical powerhouse" and not "great game."

    It's painful to come down hard on this game, since I imagine it was rushed out to function as a launch exclusive for the PS4. And, boy, did that console need some games in the early days. But this game needed more time, if at least to tighten up the
    This game is the quintessential near miss. Unfortunately it's only aiming as high as "graphical powerhouse" and not "great game."

    It's painful to come down hard on this game, since I imagine it was rushed out to function as a launch exclusive for the PS4. And, boy, did that console need some games in the early days. But this game needed more time, if at least to tighten up the gameplay a bit. As it is, this game is simply not fun to play.

    Credit where credit is due: the visuals in this game are amazing and still outshine most anything seen today. Sure it's only 30 fps, but the richly detailed environments rarely repeat assets. You can tell that an object in the distance is made of glass or stone based on how light hits it. And for the first time ever, subtle facial animations convey subtext during conversations.

    Yet at all turns the game distracts you from its own presentation. The plodding speed at which you move through the world will make you want to pull your hair out--until the games hampers you further during certain sequences. You'll face corridor after corridor of cover-based monotony--only to die from a sudden quick time event. And the amount of screen space your character takes up, blinding you to your surroundings.

    The only other part that is great is the world-building and presentation of the story--even if the story itself is frustratingly standard. All the voice acting is great, and the writing is pretty good most of the time. But the story just doesn't have enough heart to get you to really care. And while I would have loved to see more of this story, the way the game leans into its abrupt cliffhanger ending is laughable.
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  28. Jun 9, 2019
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game has really good graphics but the big issue i have with the game is the story.

    So it starts very well, it has a good build up, but then at the end it disappointed me. It looked like they rushed the ending and it felt short for the good story that it was until the ending.
    I don't recommend it period.
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  29. Mar 11, 2019
    0
    The fact this game wasn't pulled from store shelves is actually outstanding, this isn't a finished product it's literally a tech demo and not a good one, the story just ends at the moment where it should just start, the ending is very anticlimactic.As for the gameplay, well it's not bad nor is it great it's just so mediocore it's not interesting enough to continue playing.
  30. Oct 5, 2018
    4
    The Order: 1886 é um jogo terrível, com a tentativa de misturar o cinema com o video game, sinceramente a única coisa boa que posso citar são seus gráficos, porque de resto não há nada agradável, a sua jogabilidade não chega a ser terrível, mas também não é nada agradável e divertida, sem falar que o jogo por si só é entendiante, não cheguei nem a jogar 2 horas, e já enjoei, o jogo não lheThe Order: 1886 é um jogo terrível, com a tentativa de misturar o cinema com o video game, sinceramente a única coisa boa que posso citar são seus gráficos, porque de resto não há nada agradável, a sua jogabilidade não chega a ser terrível, mas também não é nada agradável e divertida, sem falar que o jogo por si só é entendiante, não cheguei nem a jogar 2 horas, e já enjoei, o jogo não lhe da liberdade alguma para explorar o mapa que aliás também é bem limitado, porém sei que existem pessoas que gostam desse tipo de jogo e somente por isso não dei uma nota menor Expand
  31. Oct 3, 2018
    2
    De longe o pior exclusivo do PS4 que já joguei, jogo com historia chata onde você mais assiste do que joga, o famoso filminho
  32. nop
    Sep 23, 2018
    4
    Yes, it is that bad.
    Not only it only has few hours worth of gameplay, but those not-so-precious hours mostly consist of long repetitive shooting-range-like firefights against seemingly endless hordes of the same dumb and fearless human enemies in a confined environment full of copy-pasted assets. So annoying and repetitive, you wish there were even less. Also has one of the worst stealth
    Yes, it is that bad.
    Not only it only has few hours worth of gameplay, but those not-so-precious hours mostly consist of long repetitive shooting-range-like firefights against seemingly endless hordes of the same dumb and fearless human enemies in a confined environment full of copy-pasted assets. So annoying and repetitive, you wish there were even less. Also has one of the worst stealth segments I’ve ever seen. And sudden QTEs to check that you didn’t fell asleep during the non-skippable non-interactive cinematic segments. Has QTE boss fights too, feeling like something you have done countless times already. There’s no real resolution to the story (which is kinda dumb), ends abruptly and feels like a first chapter of a much longer game which I don’t really want to see. Too bad, they could probably make something much better with these characters, setting and engine(which only looks good because it renders almost monochromatic picture full of instanced objects at < 30 FPS without anisotropic filtering in a reduced screen area thanks to those huge black bars).
    Seen it being compared with MGS, but it is lightyears away from mainline MGS games by the amount of content, gameplay features and the quality of the story. It only deserves to be compared to crappy FMV CD-ROM games from early 90s.
    A score of 5 or 6 would probably be more fitting, as it is still nice-looking & somewhat playable, but I decided to give it highest possible "negative" score, because my opinion is anything but mixed. I don't want more games like this one to be made, sorry. A huge waste of people’s time, money and of development talent.
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  33. Aug 17, 2018
    1
    santa monica studio made a ****
    this game was a pure **** of monkey
    im sorry for the studio
  34. Aug 11, 2018
    1
    No sense believing the 10/10 scores because obviously the game is not that. Set up an account finally to comment on this game. Its basically a 3 hour cutscene with 3 hours of gameplay. The problem in the gameplay is that half the time its a cutscene and it doenst tell you when to fight. I feel pity for the poor gamers that paid full price for this garbage. Play the game in the fewNo sense believing the 10/10 scores because obviously the game is not that. Set up an account finally to comment on this game. Its basically a 3 hour cutscene with 3 hours of gameplay. The problem in the gameplay is that half the time its a cutscene and it doenst tell you when to fight. I feel pity for the poor gamers that paid full price for this garbage. Play the game in the few cutscenes the developers force you through. The game is not worth any amount of money. So glad I dodged the bullet when it first came out.
    Otherwise, graphic are amazing, story is 2/10, gameplay 2/10.
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  35. Jul 30, 2018
    3
    This game is teaching a lesson every video game developer all the over world,it's called better graphics doesn't mean better game.
  36. May 21, 2018
    4
    No merece la pena comprarlo por el precio que vale, la historia del juego no está terminada, sistemas de combates con mecánicas simples y repetitivas, a nivel argumental se queda bastante corto y frío, lo único bueno que tiene el juego son sus gráficos, pero como bien dicen, los gráficos no siempre lo son todo.
  37. May 15, 2018
    4
    Besides the nice gun-play, beautiful graphics, and great voice acting, the game completely fall flat. Extremely short and boring most of the time.
  38. Mar 21, 2018
    2
    O jogo tem uma qualidade gráfica boa uma historia que aparenta ser boa, mas o desenrolar da historia é muito chato!
    Esperava mais
  39. Mar 20, 2018
    3
    A estória do jogo é interessante. O jogo não tem uma boa vida útil, você nem sente vontade de jogar de novo, a ambientação é ótima e fiel, os gráficos do jogo são muito bons. A gameplay é fraca e o jogo é muito curto. Não tem muito o que se fazer além de andar para frente. Eu não recomendo.
  40. Mar 5, 2018
    0
    This game is THE prime example of 1) why a game needs good gameplay, but does not necessarily need good graphics or cinematics and 2) the flaws with console shooter 'duck and cover' mechanics.

    In short - the game simply isn't fun to play. It is almost insulting to call this a game, it is more an interactive movie. The main reason for this, the game continuously shoves cinematic
    This game is THE prime example of 1) why a game needs good gameplay, but does not necessarily need good graphics or cinematics and 2) the flaws with console shooter 'duck and cover' mechanics.

    In short - the game simply isn't fun to play. It is almost insulting to call this a game, it is more an interactive movie.

    The main reason for this, the game continuously shoves cinematic cutscenes down your throat, which you cannot skip or influence in any way. This might be acceptable at the start to explain any game mechanics, in a tutorial, maybe after a big boss fight. But in this case, it is overflooded with them and it destroys the experience. You shoot some enemies, solve a simplistic riddle - cutscene. Over and over and over. Just horrible.

    Let's come to the quality of the cutscenes, the storytelling - uninteresting in every way. The characters are badly written, in some cases caricatures of normal people. The decisions and script is hollywood at its worst, cheesy, boring, cliche. Sometimes it even gets weird, so weird and unbelievable in its story, a reminescent of the best worst movie of all time "The Room". You will laugh when it wasn't intended, because it is so hilariously bad.

    As a movie, this game also would have been a huge failure.

    The gameplay - The fighting scenes start ok, but detoriorate very fast, as you constantly need to hide behind stuff. Pure 'cover' mechanics also at its worst. There just isn't much to do. You press cover, wait for enemies to appear, press shoot to aim and shoot them, get hit, back to cover. Repeat ad infinitum.

    There is one thing only that did not make this a total desaster - the graphics. They look exceptional for an early ps4 game. But. They are also bland. Brown and gray colors dominate everything, but not in a good way. Where other games like Bloodborne creates athmosphere from the used color palette, the Order just misses to do so. It is 'art' in a scientific way, it simply won't be immersive sadly.

    All in all, this is, by far, the worst 'AAA+' game I ever played. I felt ripped off, cheated, to be lured in with graphics only to realize what a monumental failure this game is in any other aspect. I prefer playing 25 year old Wolfenstein 3D to this, because it actually is somewhat fun to play.

    One last thing to mention - the overly positive reviews are simply a mockery. I get thet people have different tastes, different realities. Sometimes they feel the need to justify a purchase, sometimes they have no broad frame of reference and so on. But still. As a sane person and gamer, you simply cannot judge 8 hours of bad gameplay and cinematics (that's basically all the time you will be able to get out of this game) for 60$ starting price as good or even phenomenal. Not with this gameplay and this cinematics. That is outright lying. Those reviews are bought, no doubt in my mind (sometimes very easy to spot when they write something dumb like 'don't listen to the negative critics' - yeah, right...)
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  41. Nov 27, 2017
    2
    I just bought this game for very little.
    The game looks very nice, like a movie. But, and it's a HUGE but, there is no game play, just lots and lots of cinematics.
    As it is, most games have way too many cinematic cut scenes. I hate them all unless they are VEY short. When I buy a game, I want to play a game, I don't want to sit there twiddling my thumbs, I want immediate and constant
    I just bought this game for very little.
    The game looks very nice, like a movie. But, and it's a HUGE but, there is no game play, just lots and lots of cinematics.
    As it is, most games have way too many cinematic cut scenes. I hate them all unless they are VEY short. When I buy a game, I want to play a game, I don't want to sit there twiddling my thumbs, I want immediate and constant action!!.
    This game has very little playable story line, very, very little character development. I love Steampunk movies, just not when I am supposed to be playing a video game.
    Definitely one to miss, I wished I had!!
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  42. Oct 17, 2017
    3
    The Order 1886 é um jogo de ficção científica classificado como sendo de tiro em terceira pessoa. O que vemos não é bem isso.
    A história se passa, como o título já adianta nos anos 1880's, nós controlamos Sir Galahad, um cavaleiro da ordem da távola redonda em uma Londres neo-vitoriana. Além dos rebeldes, que são humanos comuns, nós também lutamos contra licantropos, ou lobisomens, e
    The Order 1886 é um jogo de ficção científica classificado como sendo de tiro em terceira pessoa. O que vemos não é bem isso.
    A história se passa, como o título já adianta nos anos 1880's, nós controlamos Sir Galahad, um cavaleiro da ordem da távola redonda em uma Londres neo-vitoriana. Além dos rebeldes, que são humanos comuns, nós também lutamos contra licantropos, ou lobisomens, e durante uma de suas missões, Galahad faz uma descoberta que o faz se ver forçado a escolher entre sua liberdade ou seguir seus próprios princípios. O game se inicia tendo Galahad como prisioneiro da ordem sendo duramente torturado, então ao perceber uma chance, seu objetivo é fugir daquele lugar, de início percebemos que a linearidade do jogo é de queimar os olhos, tudo é absurdamente scriptado, e você se sente literalmente em um filme arrastado por suas 5 horas de duração, raramente temos a possibilidade de andar livremente pelo cenário, outra coisa que decepciona é a quantidade ridícula de combates contra inimigos, sendo pior ainda contra os licantropos, que temos 3 encontros apenas, e exatamente iguais. O desenrolar da trama é entediante, ficando interessante apenas nos momentos finais com boas reviravoltas. A inteligência artificial é terrível, com os inimigos tendo sempre o mesmo comportamento, os gráficos são lindíssimos, a jogabilidade quando temos possibilidade de explorá-la é muito boa e fluida, a trilha sonora é ótima e a história muito boa, o jogo não tem nenhuma opção de multijogador, que também é algo ridículo, pois não é um jogo barato pro conteúdo que oferece.
    ID: V1ni_queiroz
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  43. Oct 4, 2017
    0
    Seriously though, who is Eric Cappello? I am tired of people posting in the user reviews of games made by Ready At Dawn. It's apparent that he is disliked, but seriously... please deal with this privately.
  44. Jul 26, 2017
    4
    It looks really nice, but everybody saying it's "visually beautiful" or a "graphic masterpiece" is ridiculous. It looks nice, but this game is incredibly boring. The story wasn't great nor compelling; you don't care what happens when you are playing because it doesn't make you. The loooong cut-scenes, forced conversations where "all actions are disabled" slow down the already SLOW pacingIt looks really nice, but everybody saying it's "visually beautiful" or a "graphic masterpiece" is ridiculous. It looks nice, but this game is incredibly boring. The story wasn't great nor compelling; you don't care what happens when you are playing because it doesn't make you. The loooong cut-scenes, forced conversations where "all actions are disabled" slow down the already SLOW pacing of this game, and for something that is so nice to look at, they sure don't let you see much of it. You spend most of your time in sewers or tight quarters on your exceptionally linear path. I won't ruin the ending, but it's just as lame as one could anticipate. Expand
  45. Mar 26, 2017
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. one of the most boring AAA games I ever played. The few positive things about this game are graphic, sound and performance which are great...however, the gameplay and the story are just so mediocre...it is a third person shooter, and apart from one or two cool guns that you only got chance to use one or two times, the game brings nothing new in game... 90% enemy are generic human including the typical brain dead shotgun heavy armor guys and always behind the cover guys, 7% enemy are werewolf like creatures, who, only have one attack pattern and repeat again and again. 3% enemy are werewolf boss with quicktime fight......nothing is even remotely original, new, creative and fun with the gameplay.....
    the story,,,,it is well told but that ending is just so unfinished... i don't mind if the story is short but I cannot stand the developers just release games without a finished story.. with a simple and short story in this game, it is shocking that the ending could leave you with this many loose ends.
    i will give this game a lower score if not I got this game for only 10 euro... the game is short and boring.
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  46. Mar 11, 2017
    0
    Una aberracion de juego, injugable, cortisimo,ni siquiera graficamente me ha gustado.Mientras juegas puedes irte un rato donde quieras, pues todo son cinematicas dentro de una historia simple.
    Me lo pase con mucha paciencia y el dia siguiente lo vendi.HORRIBLE
  47. Mar 4, 2017
    2
    An anemic story, coupled with less than thrilling gunplay, pointless gameplay changes midway through (instant death stealth portions which betray the rest of the style of the game) and annoying black bars at the top and bottom of the screen amount to this counterfeit and clearly inferior Uncharted game. This game is visually stunning, which only serves to show how lacking the rest of the game is.
  48. Jan 1, 2017
    3
    Very boring with good graphics. A lazy gamer might find it passable since it is mostly cut scenes - literally. I didn't believe it was to that extent until I bought on a PSN sale for $8 and saw it for myself. $8 is about right for the actual 3 levels of action you get and those parts were just OK
  49. Dec 19, 2016
    4
    The Order 1886 is really BAD, I mean it's like every other Wolfman story. The Story telling is bad, the length of this game is really small. People will say that its a 7 or 8 hour of campaign so why would anyone say it's a small game, if its 8 hours of story then 3 hours are of cut scenes. There's even a chapter in this game that only has a cut scene and no gameplay. There's one mission inThe Order 1886 is really BAD, I mean it's like every other Wolfman story. The Story telling is bad, the length of this game is really small. People will say that its a 7 or 8 hour of campaign so why would anyone say it's a small game, if its 8 hours of story then 3 hours are of cut scenes. There's even a chapter in this game that only has a cut scene and no gameplay. There's one mission in this game that you have to do it in the dark and its so dark that forget the enemies, not even I could see that where's my player.
    The only good thing about this game is that this is one of the Best Looking Console Game out there, The Graphics are just Amazing and no words to describe it. The design of your player and his looks and his movement and also the movement of his cloths are so detailed that its hard not to praise it.
    So the final verdict is that it would be highly recommended that you don't play this game because of poor story telling, lack of gameplay and really bad final boss fight.
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  50. Sep 2, 2016
    0
    es una puta mierdaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
  51. Aug 12, 2016
    0
    Another Soony first party failure. Bad. Bad. Bad. Bad. Bad. Do. Not. Buy. Do. Not. Buy. Do. Not. Buy. Horrible. Awful. Cut scene simulator. FAILURE of a "game"
  52. Aug 9, 2016
    4
    I waited to get this game for $15 bucks, and I'm glad I didn't pay full price. What really gets my goat is that early on in the game there's a 2 or 3 minute fight with a pack of werewolves that is really awesome. It's spooky, it's fun, it's exciting.

    The other 99.9% of the game is an unsatisfying combination of quick-time-event battles, walking simulator, and low quality cover shooter.
    I waited to get this game for $15 bucks, and I'm glad I didn't pay full price. What really gets my goat is that early on in the game there's a 2 or 3 minute fight with a pack of werewolves that is really awesome. It's spooky, it's fun, it's exciting.

    The other 99.9% of the game is an unsatisfying combination of quick-time-event battles, walking simulator, and low quality cover shooter.

    Why? Why?! did we not have a ton of more action oriented, 0 cover based combat against supernatural creatures?

    Another thing that the game does that pisses me off is it inexplicably takes away my weapons. They'll give me a lightning cannon or a thermite gun and sometimes take it way literally 2 minutes later with no reason or explanation. If you pick up a rifle you like off the ground, frequently the next cutscene will cause the game to start you over again with nothing but a pistol.

    The game seems to be actively trying to stop me from enjoying it.

    The graphics are impressive, in a sense. The draw distance, letterbox format, and fake mirrors stick out as obvious crutches that were necessary to get such a pretty game running on consoles. The visual character design and the look of the city is excellent.
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  53. Jul 7, 2016
    4
    What can i say 'bout this game? it's cinematics with quicktime events, the only thing that gives this game a "4 out of 10" is cause it is a graphical masterpiece. But the graphics don't make the game.
  54. Jun 22, 2016
    1
    The game sucks. its boring dull colorless(i know its in 1886 but more than grey black and white).
    Overall its boring and has a bad story line.
    werewolves just whats the point
  55. May 27, 2016
    1
    In 30 years of gaming this is probably the worst playing, best looking game i have encountered. Its actually not a game, its a series of cutscenes with quicktime moments in between. Almost no interactivity. Would love to play an eldar scrolls game using this graphics engine though...
  56. May 26, 2016
    3
    Let's start off with the good, since this won't take long. The visuals are very nice, at times a little bit dull, but overall look very good and all the set pieces look great. The story is fine, it's not totally uninteresting and the setting is great. The characters are okay, there are only a couple I actually like, but heyo. That's more of a neutral point. The gunplay is largelyLet's start off with the good, since this won't take long. The visuals are very nice, at times a little bit dull, but overall look very good and all the set pieces look great. The story is fine, it's not totally uninteresting and the setting is great. The characters are okay, there are only a couple I actually like, but heyo. That's more of a neutral point. The gunplay is largely satisfying, with some guns feeling genuinely very powerful and fun to use. As the game drags on the combat does get rather tiresome, though.

    Time for the bad. I have a whoooole lot of big and little things wrong with this game. Let's start with the story. The elephant in the room with this game is that the story only clocks in at around 5-6 hours, and considering the game has absolutely zero replay value or side modes outside of the story, that's absolutely unforgivable for a AAA game that retailed for the price it did. Not only this, but even though the game lasted that short a time, I feel like the narrative was dragged out far longer than it should have been, by the 10th chapter (of 15, if I recall correctly) I was already thinking "is this gonna end soon? I hope it does" which is never a good sign. I will admit though it's impressive to only have 5/6 hour campaign and still make it feel like it's dragging on. Nice job, Ready At Dawn.

    Let's get to the problems with the gameplay. I did mention that the gunplay was satisfying, and while that is true, the actual gameplay sequences (including combat) outside of just walking around doing **** all until you get to your objective, are far too few and far between. In the first half of the game this is particularly apparent, with the game seemingly wanting to wrestle control from you at any point it can, with it swapping to a cutscene for the most pointless **** This game has a serious problem with interactivity and people who have played the game will know exactly what I mean. And despite the combat sequences being few and far between, by the end sequences of the game combat just becomes a chore to slog through to get to the next cutscene, and they tend to drag on for 10+ minutes at a time with enemies constantly flooding in and spawning in seemingly until the level designers got bored on placing enemies and decided to move on. The combat sections just feel rather lazily crafted most of the time because of stuff like that, and most of the sequences just feel like padding.

    A small gripe of the story, or specifically the writing is how obviously unaware the characters are of the narrative and other characters. There was more than one point in the game where Galahad (the protagonist) was told the same piece of information twice, and still managed to be confused on the second time. A glaring example of this is when we find out the reason one of the characters trusts us is because of their alliance with another character, and Galahad and the player and clearly told and communicated this, yet when the character mentions it later on, Galahad is totally ****ing befuddled by it.
    The difficulty of the game is also a glaring issue. For most of the game, the combat is unbelievably easy. Enemies can go down in a single shot if you're even slightly familiar with a controller, and the only enemies that don't are the shotgun types. The shotgun enemies are not challenging because they are well crafted, they are only challenging because their weapons are ****ing broken. At several points I had them shooting at me through thick walls and killing me in only one or two hits. Not only this, but they have an unbelievable amount of health, which makes the imbalance they have over the player that much worse. The difficulty, or lack thereof, is also a problem in the total of TWO ABSOLUTELY IDENTICAL boss battles throughout the game. These two short lived battles are essentially glorified quick-time events, and even though you are forced to feel threatened by them, the actual fights are so easy that it's genuinely laughable.

    Let's talk about the bad side of the visuals though. There is only really one big problem I have. The black bars used to obscure the top and the bottom of the screen for 'cinematic effect'. Not only is this a total cop out for the lack of power in the PS4 to get this to run at a full 1080p, but it also becomes a HUGE burden on the player during combat. Working together with the absolutely tiny field of view the player gets, you are almost always completely unaware of your surroundings when in cover in combat, as the camera hangs so low and close to Galahad.

    While the controls are fine for the most part, during some combat segments the controls got in the way of me getting out of the way of harm, and when Galahad is sprinting turning is almost impossible, so I found myself more than once trying to sprint away from enemy fire only to run headfirst into the bullets and subsequently either dying or losing most of my health.

    I wanted to like this, I really did. But I really don't. 3.5/10
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  57. May 19, 2016
    1
    There is several things to like about the game. Firstly, its graphics. It is straight up amazing. Every place, character and location looks atmospheric, stunning and detailed. It is definitely the best looking game in this generation. Secondly, the voice acting is superb. It also has one of the most unique setting I have ever seen in recent years. However, besides these, most other thingsThere is several things to like about the game. Firstly, its graphics. It is straight up amazing. Every place, character and location looks atmospheric, stunning and detailed. It is definitely the best looking game in this generation. Secondly, the voice acting is superb. It also has one of the most unique setting I have ever seen in recent years. However, besides these, most other things fall flat. Firstly, The Order: 1886 try to get many things merged into one together, but none of them were really outstanding. Cover-based shooting is okay, but generic, weapons are overpowered, AI is relatively not smart, pathetic enemy types. Its stealth also feel half-finished. and I have no idea why they even include some puzzle-solving in this game. There is some great moment found in this game, but they are very often too far between. The game also feels linear, you are often forced to do what the game told you to do. You have no choice but to do so. Labeled as a cover-based shooter I actually spent a lot of the time watching cutscenes, which is acceptable. You walk and initiate another cutscene, well I don't really like that. This is also a cinematic experience, as what RAD has promoted. Therefore they add a lot of Quick Time Events (QTE). I do believe that it can help players to further immerse into the story. However, if every action required you to press button then it become something tiring. Most importantly, I don't found playing this game fun. It is straight up boring. The campaign last for 7 hours, which is short when compared with other games in the market. For a already boring game with such length, a multiplayer option would be awesome as it can effectively extend the game's lifespan. Unfortunately it didn't has any. It is really a pity because it have a lot of potential to become a 4-player co-operative games. Even the gameplay aren't done right, the story can still saves the game. It is pretty good and quite engaging. It also has a rich back story, However, for such as a short game, the story is under-developed and there is a huge cliffhanger in the ending of the game. Disappointing. The repetitive color tone can also be a problem. It has made every places feel like the same. Overall it is Crysis 3 again, another tech demo with superb graphics and pathetic length. While Crysis 3 gets its gameplay and multiplayer right. The Order didn't. To me it is surprisingly disappointing. It's hard to believe that the creator of Daxter and God of War will make such a under-performing game. If they planned a sequel (They probably does considering that cliffhanger), I hope they can make the game more rich in content Expand
  58. May 14, 2016
    1
    The Order 1886 me parece uno de los juegos mas malos de la ps4.Si me dijeran define este juego con una palabra diria a-b-u-r-r-i-d-o,el juego jugablemente es el tipico juego shooter en 3 persona,argumentalmente es patetico como acaba el juego sin resolver nada,estoy muy cabreado el juego cada dos por tres te meta cinematicas,tios que se llama videojuego,que tiene que haver jugabilidad y enThe Order 1886 me parece uno de los juegos mas malos de la ps4.Si me dijeran define este juego con una palabra diria a-b-u-r-r-i-d-o,el juego jugablemente es el tipico juego shooter en 3 persona,argumentalmente es patetico como acaba el juego sin resolver nada,estoy muy cabreado el juego cada dos por tres te meta cinematicas,tios que se llama videojuego,que tiene que haver jugabilidad y en cuanto la duración es basura no porque dure muy poco si no porque el juego no es rejugable,no hay aliciente ademas el jefe final es un quick time event,y tengo que recordar que este juego era uno de los exclucivos de la ps4...
    Eso si graficamente es una pasada pero ya esta dan igual los graficos si el juego es una basura,que si que la compania lo habra echo con amor pero esto no se puede permitir.
    En general a 60 euros no se lo compre nadie este juego valdría entre 10 o 15 euros.
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  59. Apr 29, 2016
    4
    Ok let me say this. No game ever should be rated 0 or 1. Do you even know what a 0 rating is? It has to be an absolutely horrendous game to receive a 0. But this is not the case with The Order: 1886. The game looks and sounds GORGEOUS. Hell, it's the best looking game on PS4 right now. But it's just about that. Visuals. The actual gameplay is almost non-existent, with many QTEs , cutscenesOk let me say this. No game ever should be rated 0 or 1. Do you even know what a 0 rating is? It has to be an absolutely horrendous game to receive a 0. But this is not the case with The Order: 1886. The game looks and sounds GORGEOUS. Hell, it's the best looking game on PS4 right now. But it's just about that. Visuals. The actual gameplay is almost non-existent, with many QTEs , cutscenes and absolutely no choices to make. Taking example from Until Dawn, if you want to make an interactive movie, give us the ability to choose paths, change the course etc. There is no replay value here and the game ends too soon. I mean it's only 6-7 hours long. If you take your time and explore the minimal world then you may extend it to 10. But that's it. It does not do anything to make you want to come back to it Expand
  60. Apr 15, 2016
    2
    I thought the reviews were going to be wrong about this game even after i read them i just though 'hey it cant be that bad can it' and well i was wrong it is a terrible game, infact to call it a game is silly its just like a movie but with the occasional lets have you do some bits here, i spent most of my time feeling bored and unhappy whilst playing it, there was no oomf to shooting theI thought the reviews were going to be wrong about this game even after i read them i just though 'hey it cant be that bad can it' and well i was wrong it is a terrible game, infact to call it a game is silly its just like a movie but with the occasional lets have you do some bits here, i spent most of my time feeling bored and unhappy whilst playing it, there was no oomf to shooting the enemies. it has **** quicktime fighting events why cant i just smash sqaure to punch instead of these press sqaure or triangle at the appropriate time, it's boring. i would say its nice to look at if they didn't cut off the top and bottom parts of the screen but not they decided lets try make it look more like a movie, i don't think they realise they are making a game if you want to make a **** movie go make a movie not a video game that is basically a movie with half arsed gameplay. if im honest the most fun i had in the whole game was when i picked a lock that was the best part for some reason, but everything else just felt so dull. the game is so grey i know its set in the victorian times but i dont care it would have been nicer if they just coloured it all in brightley, infact it would have probably made it more playable. I watched the little making of the game before it came out and it spoke about how they wanted the way the werewolfs changed to look realistic and that was far more interesting than the whole game, why is that i don't know. In the end i never completed the game i found myself looking at my phone more than the game and decided that i cannot be arsed wasting time off work to play a bad game. Don't buy the game, dont even borrow it, dont trade it in, just smash it up or bury it in a park it's just a **** awful game i do not recomend wasting your time on it. Expand
  61. Apr 13, 2016
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Este videojuego es lamentable en todos sus aspectos.
    *Tiene un gameplay anticuado para la época, te obliga a jugar de nuevo a Gears of War pero sin el equilibrio entre el peligro y el triunfo que este tenia. Aquí es quédate quieto en un lugar hasta que el respawn de los enemigos deje de funcionar.
    *Los Quick Time Events son asquerosos, ni siquiera están bien hechos, el juego piensa que con solo presionar un botón vamos a sentir algo y no es tan fácil, no son épicos, son aburridos y monótonos.
    *Tiene un apartado técnico impecable(quitando los 30fps) y una ambientación "Victoriana Steampunk" increíble y por eso es una lastima que no lo hallan aprovechado, no tiene ningún pensamiento original y la historia es pésima, llena de momentos estúpidos como el que los malos resulten ser los buenos, personajes históricos mal aprovechados e innecesarios y unos hombres lobos que dan pena.
    *Su contenido, es lamentable. Se pasaría el hecho de una campaña corta si mínimo el juego sobresaliera en esto pero como he mencionado anteriormente ni en esto pasa de lo lamentable, no te da motivos para rejugarlo más que por el modo difícil y carece de multijugador (aquí no es tan fuerte la queja, pero hombre hasta una hora mas de juego se hubiera agradecido).

    The Order 1886 da pena, es una basura completamente, no se lo recomiendo a nadie, enrecio, se van a arrepentir este juego sera olvidado pero quedara como la peor exclusiva en la historia de PS4, es peor que Ryse Son of Rome, mucho peor.
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  62. Apr 12, 2016
    4
    Buena intención, mala ejecución.

    The Order 1886 es una obra difícil de criticar, soy empático por el trabajo y esfuerzo de Ready at Dawn en el papel parece ser un título ambicioso, novedoso y divertido. Lamentablemente no cumple con ninguna de estas tres características. ¿Entonces este juego merece un cero? Desde ya les digo a todos NO, ninguna obra merece un cero si partimos de la
    Buena intención, mala ejecución.

    The Order 1886 es una obra difícil de criticar, soy empático por el trabajo y esfuerzo de Ready at Dawn en el papel parece ser un título ambicioso, novedoso y divertido. Lamentablemente no cumple con ninguna de estas tres características.

    ¿Entonces este juego merece un cero? Desde ya les digo a todos NO, ninguna obra merece un cero si partimos de la base es un producto funcional pero que no cumple con nuestras expectativas. Un cero corresponde a un producto roto o directamente a una estafa, este no es el caso de The Order 1886.

    La reseña es breve tal como la duración del mismo. Esta obra nos presenta en primera instancia una historia y locación completamente original y debe ser respectada por eso. Nuestro protagonista Grayson "Sir Galahad" pertenece a un grupo selecto que trabajan a las orden de la reina y se encargan de casos que la policía no puede manejar, estaremos acompañados gran parte de la aventura por otros tres miembros de esta orden los cuales no controlaremos nunca. También habrán secuencias de exploración, tiroteos, coleccionables, luchas contra hombres lobos entre otras secuencias de acción. El apartado visual, musical, traducciones son de lo mejor que puedes encontrar en una PS4.

    ¿Entonces cual es el problema con este juego? Respuesta corta "decepciona", todos los aspectos jugables y la historia no pasan del promedio.

    Finalmente, "NO" recomiendo la compra de este juego, si existe la posibilidad de jugarlo de forma gratuita o por un porcentaje de su valor me parecería correcto. No es un mal titulo pero no encuentro una razón para recomendarlo que no sea su apartado técnico y esa recomendación duraría menos de un año, se entiende que el apartado técnico esta en constante evolución.

    Una lastima y espero que Ready at Dawn lo siga intentando porque es más loable equivocarse por intentar algo diferente que triunfar por repetir una formula exitosa y desde ya digo que contarán con mi apoyo como jugador.
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  63. Apr 12, 2016
    1
    don't waste your money on this movie, even for free is not worth it, aside from graphics we've already have gears of war to counter this deceiving, better go to watch netfilx or something on youtube
  64. Apr 12, 2016
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. El juego tiene una muy buena historia, la verdad; aunque bastante corta. Además su jefe final es un poco débil y aburrido para ser el jefe final. También hay que decir que para ser un juego de acción es bastante aburrido y tiene muy poca acción, puesto que la gran parte del juego es andar, andar y andar. Luego hay que decir que su variedad de armas no es un poco pobre; pero eso si, sus diseños son bastante buenos al igual que el diseño de los trajes de los personajes. La ambientación de la ciudad en buena y sus gráficos son alucinantes. Otra cosa que no me gusta son esas rayas negras que aparecen arriba y abajo de la pantalla y no se pueden quitar. Y menos mal que viene en español porque los subtitulos son pequeños y difíciles de ver.
    La verdad es que la idea de Londres es buena y clásica con respecto a los hombres lobos. Eso sí, el diseño del dirigible es muy buenos. Una cosa muy importante que afecta al juego para mal son sus largar escenas que te acabaran aburriendo. Le doy un cuatro porque para ser un juego de acción no tiene mucha acción. Tiene muy buenos gráficos, sonido, ambientación... pero entre la falta de acción, las largas escenas y sus largos y aburridos paseos por el mapa hunden este juegos aunque su historia sea tan interesante. Ademas también tiene esa nota por la falta de interacción con el medio, puesto que yo creo que ese pequeño detalle le habría venido muy bien al juego.
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  65. Apr 12, 2016
    1
    The game is riddled with video scenes. These videos are very long to get bored. But skip some do not understand the story. It does so boring and unplayable.
  66. Apr 5, 2016
    0
    No dure mucho completando el juego, graficamente es espectacular pero mas aburrido que una pelicula sin sonido, es una estafa este juego, el fail de la generacion!
  67. Feb 29, 2016
    3
    Sooooo...The Order 1886, this game was one of the biggest disappointments of 2015 for many people, it was presented as THE PS4 exclusive and in the end...well, let's just start.

    STORY: The Order 1886 is one of the few games that i have ever played that the story is told so badly, so very poorly explained and just all around confusing, that i never understood what was this story about,
    Sooooo...The Order 1886, this game was one of the biggest disappointments of 2015 for many people, it was presented as THE PS4 exclusive and in the end...well, let's just start.

    STORY: The Order 1886 is one of the few games that i have ever played that the story is told so badly, so very poorly explained and just all around confusing, that i never understood what was this story about, so i can't tell anything about it. Let's put it this way: the game has a beginning, a climax, but no resolution!, the story doesn't end, we are left with many unfinished and unanswered things that the game introduced that just never get resolved. On top of that while the world that the game sets-up is interesting, the characters are not and the game is filled with so many cliches that make this story just so dreadful to witness that after the "ending", you will feel ripped-off.

    PRESENTATION: The Order's presentation is the best thing about the, but it still has it's problems. First of, the game is locked at 30fps which for a supposed "new generation" is a complete rip-off, not only that, but the game also doesn't run at 1080p, so the only way the developers figure out how to make up for this problems is to put 2 giant black bars on the screen that take up 30-40% of the screen (no joke).

    The music ,just like arkham knight is only used for atmosphere, which makes it very forgettable. On the other hand, the graphics do look pretty sweet, BUT just like many other games, for some reason that i don't know they, once again sacrificed the color pallet for no reason (paradox), this leads to somethings looking very obscure and as a result some times you can't see where you're going because the game it's too ******* dark. Oh and there's Grey EVERYWHERE!!, not black because that color is not on the ps4's color pallet, but GREY!...GREY!!!.

    Plus the over amount of cutscenes make this game pretty ******* boring to play, this is more of a movie than a game, there's 127! minutes of cutscenes and 4 out of the 16 chapters are just you watching the "game"! and it's not like they're cutscenes of 1-2 minutes, NO! there's more than 4 cutscenes that are 10 minutes long!. On top of that you can't skip cutscenes! not even on repeated playthroughs (if you even want to play this **** more than 1 time), why? you may ask, simple! the game would be 4 hours long without them...that's great!, isn't it?

    GAMEPLAY: I'm not gonna bother to explain how the gameplay mechanics work, because it's just more of the same **** that we've seen over and over again (Gears of War gameplay), instead i'm going to say the "new" stuff that it has. The game has a parkour system that (no joke) is the exact same as the one that uncharted 1-2-3 have!, also the game has a "slow down" feature, but the game never tells you that, so basically all we have left is the incredible amount of quicktime events (if you even consider it as a positive), the semi-decent variety of weapons and the "recover" mechanic...when you are almost gonna die you press triangle and X a few times to stand up (That's it). This game really has nothing going for it and the gameplay gets very repetitive and boring very fast and that's just sad.

    In conclusion The Order 1886 is a BAD title that deserves every single amount of criticism that it gets, because the only thing that the game has, to save it from the 1 is the graphics, but even does have it's problems since there are a number of low-res textures. So what we are left with is a game with a confusing and underdeveloped plot, repetitive gameplay, short length, no replay value, forgettable "music", cliché characters, 2 hours of cutscenes, unoriginal ideas, over amounts of quicktime-events and dull "new" gimmicks. With that said i'll give The Order 1886 a 3/10. Oh and did i mentioned that the 2 bosses that the game has are the exact same?.
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  68. Feb 23, 2016
    2
    The Order is a smart template for future fun installments, but the details need a lot of work. When it comes to getting this kind of game onto Next Gen hardware then, Ready at Dawn has, in more ways than one, done all the boring parts. The Order mimics Gears of War's core gameplay so closely that if it were published on Xbox One, it would have been immediately branded as a desperateThe Order is a smart template for future fun installments, but the details need a lot of work. When it comes to getting this kind of game onto Next Gen hardware then, Ready at Dawn has, in more ways than one, done all the boring parts. The Order mimics Gears of War's core gameplay so closely that if it were published on Xbox One, it would have been immediately branded as a desperate knock-off. Avoid The Order unless you see it in a used bin for under $30. Expand
  69. Feb 23, 2016
    0
    I almost feel like The Order wants to be the PS4's Gears of War – a new intellectual property by a studio known for pretty good games, and a title that can perhaps kick off a franchise. But The Order is too shallow, too simple and too familiar to be anything more than a fleeting bit of fun. I beat this game in only 4 hours, so it's not even worth it as a $20 downloadable title in my opinion.
  70. Feb 3, 2016
    4
    It's the type of game that reminds me that graphics aren't everything. The Order: 1886 is probably one of the best looking console games at the moment but the game overall is okay at best. It's a third-person shooter but there are other games in the same genre that are much better and don't exist just to show how good PS4 graphics can be.

    The story had potential but in the end doesn't
    It's the type of game that reminds me that graphics aren't everything. The Order: 1886 is probably one of the best looking console games at the moment but the game overall is okay at best. It's a third-person shooter but there are other games in the same genre that are much better and don't exist just to show how good PS4 graphics can be.

    The story had potential but in the end doesn't really go anywhere. There are black bars at the top and bottom of the screen as if it was a movie which isn't great for PS4 users with smaller HDTVs. The QTE (quick time events) can get annoying as they appear quite often and it becomes repetitive.

    I don't think a game being short is always a bad thing, it works for some games but I wouldn't want to play 15 hours of this. 5-6 was more than enough. Ready at Dawn have made much better games in the past.
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  71. Jan 26, 2016
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. este es el juego que decía Sony que iba a cambiar la forma de ver los videojuegos? o que nos confirmaría toda la mierda de sus promesas? de seguro por juegos así de "grandes" ha vendido tanto Sony, es el gran reflejo de lo que nos ofrece Sony, productos de dudosa calidad, productos carente de profundidad, productos desechables, no entiendo el éxito de la consola, pues los juegos mas o menos buenos se pueden jugar en Xbox One, y aunado a que en la consola de Microsoft, uno se evita la pena de toparse con juegos así de nefastos Expand
  72. Jan 25, 2016
    2
    After having heard all of the bad reviews of The Order 1886, I decided to wait until it came out secondhand before even risking it. Glad I did. It left me feeling like when you go to see an over-hyped movie that's pure Sh-- ...garbage.

    Quick Summary: World Aesthetic Design: Nothing special. Assassin’s creed syndicate is far better Players Options: None. The game is 100% linear.
    After having heard all of the bad reviews of The Order 1886, I decided to wait until it came out secondhand before even risking it. Glad I did. It left me feeling like when you go to see an over-hyped movie that's pure Sh-- ...garbage.

    Quick Summary:
    World Aesthetic Design: Nothing special. Assassin’s creed syndicate is far better
    Players Options: None. The game is 100% linear. Nothing you can do to change that.
    Control over character: Limited motion, no tech tree or leveling of any sort. Combat is like a watered down CoD.
    Story: Okay. Nothing special.
    Concept: Kind of cool Steampunk thing going on.
    Difficulty: The only games I have played that were easier were Telltale games.

    Duration of Entertainment: You can finish the game in 8 hours. Half the time you’ll be watching cut-scenes.
    As it’s 100% linear, there is no real replay value.
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  73. Jan 24, 2016
    4
    I've never felt so sad playing a game as I did with The Order. The visuals, the design, the animations, it's top notch and I mean really the best there is. It looks gorgeous. But the game itself is so so bad that it cannot be saved by the graphics. It is unforgivably bad. I have never seen a game with extremes like that before.

    So what is so unforgivably wrong with this game? the
    I've never felt so sad playing a game as I did with The Order. The visuals, the design, the animations, it's top notch and I mean really the best there is. It looks gorgeous. But the game itself is so so bad that it cannot be saved by the graphics. It is unforgivably bad. I have never seen a game with extremes like that before.

    So what is so unforgivably wrong with this game?

    the gameplay is ... outdated. Quicktime events are ok, but not if your whole game consists of it. Basically the flow is "walk here, press triangle, walk back, press triangle", cinematic " press triangle to continue the cinematic" . That with cowboy style shooter intermezzos in which you hide behind an object and shoot endless hordes of resembling enemies. There are even explosive barrels.

    But even that might be ok, if it were solid gameplay. Instead the rules are not clear. sometimes you cannot hide behind random objects. sometimes you are not permitted to run. sometimes you can't switch weapons.

    Messing up one quicktime event results in instant death. The loading points are too scarce making you replay frustrating parts of the game over and over because of one mistake. The sneaking arae on the zeppelin is a good example of this. Not only did the game never introduce sneaking into its gameplay, the minute the enemy spots you (which is hard to figure out when that is) you get shot in the head and can start all over again.

    Which brings me to the violence that is weirdly over the top and unnecessary. Look, it's a shooter, so killing is part of the play, I get that, but in this beautiful looking game with its story about righteousness it feels so out of place to brutally murder everyone you meet, often in short scenes to show extra violence (like dramatically breaking someones neck with a loud crack, or slicing the throat to make the blood spatter). Do I HAVE to murder everyone? All the personnel on the zeppelin, were they so evil? The guy in the brothel, what did he do? The game has creepy half-bred monsters for gods sake, can't I focus the murdering on them? At a certain point in the game, after massacring whole troops of rebels in a dehumanizing fashion, the main characters ponder "what if the rebels are right?". It feels so out of place.

    Character wise the game is interesting, but the utter lack of female characters stands out, especially when one of the few women in the game has worse facial animations than the great, great majority of grey, bearded old men. The characters can get very confusing. No one gets a real introduction with a backstory and apparently in 1886 90 percent of the population was a Caucasian, bearded male lookalike. To make it even worse, they all have at least three names (Isi, Isabeau, Igraine) and to make it even MORE worse, halfway through the game one of the main characters takes over the name of another main character.

    The lack of overview shots (The zeppelin from outside? The crash?), the linearity (no you can't open this door if you haven't clicked X at the other door yet), the very tiny view frame, it all makes this game a pain to play.

    I understand that they wanted to make this a film like experience with the lack of interface, the movie viewpoint, the beautiful graphics. But they forgot that this is NOT a film. It's a game.
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  74. Jan 12, 2016
    0
    0. The reason is one. Double standard in showing nudity. On the one hand there are no problems in showing male genitalia. This is another game that does that. On the other hand, female genital not be shown. It wasn't quite the game in history that showed women's genitals. It's a terrible double standard. In the order we go to a brothel and instead of completely nude female workers we have0. The reason is one. Double standard in showing nudity. On the one hand there are no problems in showing male genitalia. This is another game that does that. On the other hand, female genital not be shown. It wasn't quite the game in history that showed women's genitals. It's a terrible double standard. In the order we go to a brothel and instead of completely nude female workers we have completely nude male customers. Where is the logic? This is a typical procedure of feminist radicals. I will not support servants of anita sarkeesian and nazi sexism against males. Go home SCEA. Expand
  75. Jan 6, 2016
    4
    This game is like a cover shooter of 5 years ago complete with the dark browns. Lots of walking around and listening to some dumb **** about half werewolves. And damn why do I need to pick up so many things and just look at it??? Hells no.
  76. Jan 4, 2016
    0
    I give a score 0. For two reasons. The game is too short and too cinematic. The second reason is sexism against men. Male genitals were shown and women do not. Not for inequality in showing nudity. The breasts are not the same level of nudity as the genitals. If you wanted to make a game for women and gays you succeeded. I will not be playing on feminist propaganda title. The players areI give a score 0. For two reasons. The game is too short and too cinematic. The second reason is sexism against men. Male genitals were shown and women do not. Not for inequality in showing nudity. The breasts are not the same level of nudity as the genitals. If you wanted to make a game for women and gays you succeeded. I will not be playing on feminist propaganda title. The players are males in the vast majority and we do not want gay **** Vagina in games is a too big taboo. It was a lot of games with penises in recent years. Why can not you show a vagina? It's sexist. It's a double standard. I hate it. Expand
  77. Dec 7, 2015
    2
    A very boring, bland and tedious game regardless of how good the graphics are, i played the first hour, it was like paying to pull my own teeth out, needless to say its a game id never pick up again, i traded it and i have great pity for the poor bugger who buys it.
  78. Dec 4, 2015
    0
    THIS GAEME IS BAD.... bad gampley bad desiged enviroment bad designed boss bad everthing it has nothing of good you can eaven intercact with stuff and is full of useless stuff like looking at things at the strees bad perspective bad history bad shooter exeprience bad weapon design bad bad bad bad this game is made with the ass and you cant eaven do things by your self the game just saysTHIS GAEME IS BAD.... bad gampley bad desiged enviroment bad designed boss bad everthing it has nothing of good you can eaven intercact with stuff and is full of useless stuff like looking at things at the strees bad perspective bad history bad shooter exeprience bad weapon design bad bad bad bad this game is made with the ass and you cant eaven do things by your self the game just says press x press tirangle its a pice off ********** Expand
  79. Oct 30, 2015
    0
    Beauty is only skin deep on this game.
    And once you get past that you are left with nothing but the bitter taste of disappointment at what was promised to be a good game but only became the latest reincarnation of Dragon's Lair.
  80. Oct 29, 2015
    0
    As good as the graphics are "The Order 1886" delivers in no other field, this insultingly short game of a pitiful 2 hours without cutscenes has poor cover based shooting with no dynamic areas and is presented in an incredibly linear fashion.

    The guns lack variety as well as the poorly made AI which either throw themselves in front of your gun or trap themselves in areas which they are
    As good as the graphics are "The Order 1886" delivers in no other field, this insultingly short game of a pitiful 2 hours without cutscenes has poor cover based shooting with no dynamic areas and is presented in an incredibly linear fashion.

    The guns lack variety as well as the poorly made AI which either throw themselves in front of your gun or trap themselves in areas which they are too stupid to get out of.

    The story (if it can be called that) is generic and limp lacking any real connection with the characters or their motives. The game practically gives the ending away the moment you start up the game with hints which I can only assume were supposed to be subtle, yet you would have to be an imbecile not to notice.

    Lacking any multiplayer gameplay offline or online meant there is little content to back up the pathetic campaign making this game one of the absolute worst games you can buy for your playstation 4 today.
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  81. Oct 29, 2015
    4
    STORY: 3/10
    GAMEPLAY: 4/10
    VISUALS: 10/10 SOUNDS: 7/10 MUSIC: 8/10 I’m a fan of narrative-driven stories, but if a game is going to make the story its focus the writing needs to actually be good. A cliched-filled meandering plot, combined with lackluster gameplay and a lifeless (if beautiful) world add up to a disappointing 6-7 hours. The length wasn’t an issue for me, it’s
    STORY: 3/10
    GAMEPLAY: 4/10
    VISUALS: 10/10
    SOUNDS: 7/10
    MUSIC: 8/10

    I’m a fan of narrative-driven stories, but if a game is going to make the story its focus the writing needs to actually be good.

    A cliched-filled meandering plot, combined with lackluster gameplay and a lifeless (if beautiful) world add up to a disappointing 6-7 hours. The length wasn’t an issue for me, it’s actually a blessing in disguise; if it had plodded on for several more hours the game would’ve become intolerable. As it was, I basically just switched my brain off as the level design and combat sections never require you to think. You’ve seen it all before, and the action never once gets close to being stimulating or tense. There are no risks involved, the only variable being how long it takes to plow through the unimaginative AI enemies.

    As an aside, one thing that bothered me throughout my time with the game was how lazy your character and his compatriots are. They never bother to distinguish friend from foe, and there is no non-lethal option. A frequent sticking point in the plot is that there are never any enemy combatants to interrogate, but the player is never given any other option.

    As much as I enjoy good writing, games are an interactive medium. Unlike movies or books, the key factor in video games is that the player is driving the action. Making games that put story-first is fine and has been done well before, but involving the player is critical. If gameplay is going to be limited to QTEs and isolated snippets of combat, then there needs to be multiple branches to the story. The player needs to feel like they are in charge of their characters decisions if their actions are scripted and combat is unavoidable and rote. You can tell a fixed story in an open-world or you can have a multiple-choice plot in a closed-world, but you can’t have both. Player input in this game amounts to nothing more than a gimmick, an afterthought.

    Again, all of this would be a moot point if the key feature (the story) that Ready at Dawn harped on was actually worth it, but it’s not. It’s the exact same kind of drivel you’ll find in any other AAA game. A laughable narrative combined with boring gameplay make for an unremarkable (and nearly unpleasant) experience. It’s just saddening that the best graphics to-date on console are wasted on this bore of a game.

    PROS:

    - Best graphics on console, bar none
    - Interesting art direction
    - Decent voice acting and excellent facial mo-cap
    - Textured and imaginative musical score
    - Relatively bug-free

    CONS:

    - Awful writing
    - Uninspired combat and QTE implementation
    - Brainless AI
    - Insta-death stealth segments
    - Lifeless world

    Replay value: Marginal (Only if you want to replay the exact same story in the exact same way; no bonus game modes or multiple story choices, and the only collectibles are audio recordings that are negligible to the overall story.)
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  82. Oct 27, 2015
    0
    Graphics are impressive, game play is a joke. The camera is unresponsive, the aiming is HORRID, and the enemies are basically pin cushions (it takes a stupid amount of damage to kill even basic enemies, and when they outnumber you 40 to 1 it makes it more than frustrating). Poor poor game design, linear and downright dumb.
  83. Aug 25, 2015
    4
    This is what you get if you priorities graphics over everything else, game play is non existent and the who thing just turns into a boring experience after around 20mins.
  84. Jul 15, 2015
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Order: 1886 started out as a game that everyone in the world thought was going to be about werewolves, then it throws off the covers on launch day and says, "Ha, ha! Got you! It's a cover based shooter, but not a good one like Uncharted or Spec Ops: The Line!" I've heard this game was really short, and I must tell you that I played the game on hard and still finished the game in under five hours, cut scenes included. The story got off to a compelling start when Sir Galahad discovers that there is something sinister going on within the order of knights he is sworn into, and there is. The story pretty much ends right there because nothing gets resolved except for one bloke's part in the game. The story pretty much goes like this: it is going to start off bland, but with a compelling springboard to build the story off of. We will then build up the story to a suspenseful climax and before it reaches any part of the story that would make it super exciting, say "The End." Going through the story was like going up a roller coaster and the car gets stuck at the top of the hill and never comes back down. Game play is somewhat cut down, as there is about an hour of "shoot people in the face that look the least amount suspicious" and a handful of quick-time event boss fights. As for werewolves, they only appear about five times in the entire game and the problem they brought to the table is never resolved either. I felt that this game was just an overpriced digital store game, and any praise that it gets should be sent back because the only thing that this game deserves is..... The End. Expand
  85. Jul 2, 2015
    4
    This game feels unfinished, the graphics look great but the combat is straight up awful and the single-player campaign is way too short and boring to enjoy this game, if you're an experienced third-person shooter gamer, you can finish this game in less than 3-4 hours, it's just so laughable.
  86. Jun 26, 2015
    3
    This game. Well, there's not much to say about it, really. I even had to write this stupid intro to my review to even make 150 characters worth of text. Well, to call this a game would be a lie. This is not a game. It's an expensive, crappy movie with some random button masking here and there - something which most of you probably know translates to so-called "Quick-time events". Boring asThis game. Well, there's not much to say about it, really. I even had to write this stupid intro to my review to even make 150 characters worth of text. Well, to call this a game would be a lie. This is not a game. It's an expensive, crappy movie with some random button masking here and there - something which most of you probably know translates to so-called "Quick-time events". Boring as hell. Time I will never, ever get back.

    I gave this game a 3 due to its presentation. It really is beautiful, but that's more or less the only thing this ga-.. erm.. interactive movie has going for it.
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  87. Jun 24, 2015
    2
    the game is only 3 hours long. its filled with a ton of quick time events. barley any game play. not worth $60, hell its not even worth $15. The game is more of a movie than a game and a pretty bad, generic movie at that.
  88. May 31, 2015
    4
    This is hardly a game. Its an interactive movie! I play for only 9 hours and done all the quest and 5 hours in the game are cutscenes and quick-time events! What a joke! But i have to give credit to the amazing graphics it has. It has an amazing story in it but the ending screws it up without finishing the story! Is this the future of gaming?
  89. May 26, 2015
    1
    Not a game, just a narrow tunneling movie. What a pity, even the story is not cool or surprising. The cut scenes are nice but boring, the shooting sequences are too short but good looking. This is not enough for a full prize game.
  90. May 5, 2015
    0
    it makes a good screenshot, but not a good game. Very good ideas on the story but poorly developed to an end only made to justify The Order 2. The time you're not watcing cutscenes you're walking around or making QTE. I really doubt you have an hour of real gameplay over the 5 hours of story mode. Collectibles add 0 to the story (not like bioshock, where you get to know Rapture thanks toit makes a good screenshot, but not a good game. Very good ideas on the story but poorly developed to an end only made to justify The Order 2. The time you're not watcing cutscenes you're walking around or making QTE. I really doubt you have an hour of real gameplay over the 5 hours of story mode. Collectibles add 0 to the story (not like bioshock, where you get to know Rapture thanks to the audio files) and the games has 0 replayability. In any mean would I recommend this game to anyone. Expand
  91. Apr 3, 2015
    4
    The Order is a pile of **** they had five years of development time and a ****load of resources and this is what they came up with:
    -6 hour single player campaign
    -****ty godawful ending -****ty A.I for partners and lycans -****ty QTE's during stealth sections (who the hell uses QTE's for stealth sections...seriously?!) -****ty pointless interactive cutscenes -Unskippable cutscenes,
    The Order is a pile of **** they had five years of development time and a ****load of resources and this is what they came up with:
    -6 hour single player campaign
    -****ty godawful ending
    -****ty A.I for partners and lycans
    -****ty QTE's during stealth sections (who the hell uses QTE's for stealth sections...seriously?!)
    -****ty pointless interactive cutscenes
    -Unskippable cutscenes, which means once you beat the game and you feel like playing it again you wont be able to skip the cutscenes.
    -****ty boss fights, there are only 2 of them....really guys?!
    -Lack of weaponry, there are only a few weapons in the whole game.
    -No multiplayer
    -No coop
    -****ty walking sections where all you do is walk around the map.
    -****ty collectables or should i say "Inspectables" because thats all you f**king do with them.
    -A ****ty story which could have been great if the campaign was longer and if it answered all unanswered questions.
    -****ty insta-fail stealth sections
    -Extremely linear map design and story
    -No branching paths
    -No multiple endings
    The only good thing about the order is the setting and the graphics, the gun play is good but extremely short lived, you'd be done with those gun fight sections in a few seconds, the game wastes too much time in having you walk around those boring ass locations.
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  92. Apr 3, 2015
    3
    This is the embodiment of what I hate about modern AAA games. All surface, no substance. It looks awesome, but that gets old in about twenty minutes. Generic story. Stereotypical characters. Same old gameplay we have seen a hundred times before. Glorified quicktime events. Lots of "press X to win" moments. I couldn't stand more than a couple of hours and the thought of returning makes meThis is the embodiment of what I hate about modern AAA games. All surface, no substance. It looks awesome, but that gets old in about twenty minutes. Generic story. Stereotypical characters. Same old gameplay we have seen a hundred times before. Glorified quicktime events. Lots of "press X to win" moments. I couldn't stand more than a couple of hours and the thought of returning makes me depressed. I wish I could have my money back. Expand
  93. Apr 2, 2015
    4
    Much like Destiny, The Order was dangled in front of our faces for two years with TV commercials, magazine ad's, and written about in gaming media outlets. Simply put, with The Order, the product that was advertised ended up being completely different than the finished product. Because The Order *looked* amazing, I bought it. I quickly learned the hard way that looks aren't everything whenMuch like Destiny, The Order was dangled in front of our faces for two years with TV commercials, magazine ad's, and written about in gaming media outlets. Simply put, with The Order, the product that was advertised ended up being completely different than the finished product. Because The Order *looked* amazing, I bought it. I quickly learned the hard way that looks aren't everything when it comes to making a good game!
    The game is essentially a movie which requires you to take part in. There are some difficult gun battles, but they're not difficult because the enemy A.I. is good; it's difficult because the game is poorly designed.

    The fact that everything looks amazing in the game only makes it worse, as you are walked through each level with this "look-but-don't-touch" environment. In this beautiful-looking game, there are no rewards for exploration, and the collectible items serve no purpose to the story or the game. The Order is--by far & without any doubt, the worst PS4-exclusive title to date, which is why I'm so surprised to see almost 1,500 positive user reviews which are obviously dishonest, and should be ignored--just like this game. I honestly wouldn't recommend The Order to anyone. Sold entirely on hype and by way of aggressive advertising, The Order is as hollow as a pumpkin and shallow as a puddle!
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  94. Mar 28, 2015
    3
    Amazing graphic, above average music, sound effect and voice, predictable story I have seen like a hundred times, dull game play, no character upgrade, no weapons upgrade, no inventory, every things is fixed, zero replay value, it just like a short movie with a lot of gun fighting.
  95. Mar 26, 2015
    2
    This game represents everything wrong with modern gaming:

    - Uninteresting and boring story that you'll forget about in a month or less, combined with a terrible ending that screams BUY THE SEQUEL TO SEE THE REST AND GIVE US MORE MONEY! - Lackluster gameplay that doesn't add anything new to the table - QTEs shoved down your throat - Very easy, even at HARD DIFFICULTY - No
    This game represents everything wrong with modern gaming:

    - Uninteresting and boring story that you'll forget about in a month or less, combined with a terrible ending that screams BUY THE SEQUEL TO SEE THE REST AND GIVE US MORE MONEY!
    - Lackluster gameplay that doesn't add anything new to the table
    - QTEs shoved down your throat
    - Very easy, even at HARD DIFFICULTY
    - No replayability
    - Only the graphics are good

    You think it's over? Oh no, there's more:

    - You spend more time watching cutscenes than playing the game (yes MGS does the same thing but whatever little gameplay had was actually good, gameplay here is dull at best).
    - QTEs every 5 minutes of gameplay (you have to press buttons EVEN TO TALK at some point of the game)
    - The game can be completed in less than 5 hours... but without the unskippable cutscenes it wouldn't even last 2 hours (why do you think they made them unskippable?)

    The only positive thing I can say about this game is that there isn't any shoehorned multiplayer mode.
    But that's pretty much it.

    My vote is 2/10. Avoid this game and save your money for Bloodborne which is actually good.

    P.S. to Dana Jan: people are hating on this game because it's a piece of garbage and they're tired of wasting 60$ on games that are not worth it. Maybe if you had spent more time on the actual gameplay and less on the graphics the reaction wouldn't be so negative. Cry me a river.
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  96. Mar 25, 2015
    4
    Let's be honest here, The Order just simple didn't live up to the insulting $60 price tag. The game doesn't even allow you to explore It's world either, and the God awful ending doesn't help AT ALL. You will be terring your hair out and yelling at the TV set asking Wtf just happen? Graphics aren't everything folks
  97. Mar 25, 2015
    2
    My god!
    Its ok to make a game hardly interactive, but I'm seriously falling asleep just reading the characters bio.
    They are all just cliches of characters we have seen million and million times.
    How can a studio have so many talented people work for them and such a great engine, and then falter at the most important point!
    CONTENT! Why is it the same thing every time?
    BORING!
  98. Mar 22, 2015
    0
    this game is garbage i play some ps4 games this sucks of them all and boring everything in this game even a story can do well for this game this might be the worst game 2015 so far
  99. Mar 22, 2015
    4
    I haven't played the game, but from what I have seen on YouTube it looks very cinematic, which means there are tons of cut scenes. It also plays out in a letter box format, which is a shame, as it restricts the field of view. The cover-based shooting seems fine. I give it a 4 because it looks like a below average cover based shooter.
  100. Mar 22, 2015
    2
    Your left feeling like u barely did anything after just slow playing I got 12 hours . 1/3 I got to control .
    Well done in design but like all 8th gen console games more glitz than substance.

    They should have put more into game mechanics instead of ultra realistic graphics which kind of downplay even more the sad broken game ai.
Metascore
63

Mixed or average reviews - based on 94 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 94
  2. Negative: 11 out of 94
  1. Games Master UK
    May 6, 2015
    61
    A limp story, repetitive combat and lack of agency take the shine off a great technical achievement. [May 2015, p.64]
  2. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Apr 22, 2015
    50
    Visually it's everything you could have hoped for, but the compromises required to reach that fidelity, and moments of narcissism as a result of it, are hugely damaging. [Apr 2015, p.81]
  3. Apr 6, 2015
    40
    Although the storyline invokes weighty subjects like colonialization and socioeconomic inequality, it fails to address these topics in any substantive way. Ditto the game’s dialogue, which contains flourishes of eloquence that founder because, as pleasing as the words are to the ear, the actions they affect have no bite.