Last night, I completed a playthrough of The Order: 1886 on Kotaku’s Twitch channel. When the PlayStation 4 game released in 2015, the critical response, including our review, was less than kind. But I’ve found that playing it a few years later reveals a game that, while certainly flawed, offers an intriguing,…
We’re finishing up our playthrough of the alternate history shooter The Order 1886 right now on Twitch. Chin up, lads! And ladies! And non-binary pals!
Tally ho and what-not! We’re checking out The Order 1886 live now on Twitch. Was is really as bad as people say or can we find a silver lining?
Tom Bissell is the author of my favorite book on video games, Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, which I called “the finest account yet of what it feels like to be a video game player” when I reviewed it in The New York Times. These days, he is a writer for video games like Uncharted 4, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter…
Do you like movies? Do you like video games? If you answered “yes” to either of those questions, you should probably skip The Order: 1886.
On February 14, a YouTube account called PlayMeThrough uploaded a series of videos titled "The Order: 1886 Gameplay Walkthrough." The title was rather literal—the videos, which were separated into 16 parts, walked viewers through the entirety of The Order: 1886, from prologue to final boss.
This new trailer for The Order: 1886 shows some unexpectedly gib-tastic gunplay: exploding heads, arms blown off, a leg stripped away at the knee by a shotgun. There’s a lot of ouch.
I wasn't really sold on The Order 1886 before. Even after playing the upcoming PS4 shooter during this year's E3, I left feeling like it was just another Gears of War-style gun-and-cover game. This trailer, though... well, I'm starting to change my mind. I totally want to hijack airships and assassinate nobles in…
Last time we saw The Order: 1886, we described it by saying it's like "shooting through an old movie." Sony just dropped a new trailer for the stylish third-person shooter during its Gamescom press conference that gives us all a new glimpse at some of its Tesla-inspired shooting devices, and they look pretty awesome.…
You know, I didn't think about framerate or resolution once when I got to play The Order 1886 yesterday. What I did think was that it felt like playing through an old Cinemascope movie. With at least one very cool signature weapon.
Back when new-gen was known as next-gen, gamers and critics alike pondered and daydreamed about the kinds of experiences we'd get with new hardware and promises of impressive power. And a lot of that anticipation has been squarely on the topic of shiny visuals. But there's more to the look of a game than just pretty…
The Order: 1886 has been delayed to 2015, still exclusive to the PS4.
At the start of this new generation of consoles the debate of framerate and resolution importance still wages on. The gold standard to live by is a solid 60 fps and 1080p. If those numbers aren't on a bullet pointed press release somewhere, eyebrows and questions are raised. But what if hitting 30 fps is intentional…
Sony just streamed a short preview of their upcoming steampunk shooter on Twitch. It sure looks impressive.
The Order: 1886 brings you a good two and a-half minutes of gameplay in this trailer Sony released today. It lingers on the firepower (and quick timer events) available in the alternate-history landscape. Is it just me, or does that stuff look like it would be monstrously heavy with Victorian-era metallurgy?
The Order: 1886 does what it wants. Zeppelins, elevated trains and automatic rifles? It might not fit the history it's based on, but hey, why not? Toss them in. Developers Ready at Dawn are telling a story about men and women fighting half-bred monster people that never existed in their own vision of 19th century…
Developed by Ready At Dawn and Sony Santa Monica, The Order 1886 is a 19th century PS4 exclusive.
