Gameplay, official cinematic trailers released for The Order: 1886

A couple of new trailers have spawned on Tuesday for Ready at Dawn's newest exclusive for the PlayStation 4, The Order: 1886.

First, a gameplay trailer was leaked by The Gamer Access earlier today, before the release of the official trailer. Lots of copies were taken down, but the one over at Dailymotion still exists:


The Order: 1886 Merges CG and Gameplay Visuals... by TheGamerAccess

There are two major items to take away from the gameplay trailer. First, the game looks to be a 3rd-person cover shooter, a different feel that what happens in the cinematic trailer that we'll go over later.

Second, the gameplay visuals look amazing. It's clear they were going for a cinematic feel with a wider aspect ratio than standard widescreen TVs.

Next, let's take a look at the cinematic trailer that was released earlier this afternoon (via Youtube):

In this trailer, it gives The Order more of a survival horror feel than a traditional 3rd person shooter. At the very least, we know the game will have plenty of suspense and won't be a traditional adventure game that some expected from the developers.

Comparing both trailers, the gameplay visuals nearly holds up to the cinematic scenes. Nothing has taken me back like this since seeing Resident Evil 4 in action back when it was first released on the Nintendo GameCube.

It would be an incredible achievement to see the PS4 run a game like this, and it looks to be another winner in the PlayStation exclusive library.

The Order: 1886 developer confirms no multiplayer, FPS rate

PlayStation 4 exclusive, The Order: 1886, will not have a multiplayer option and will run at 30 frames per second according to one of the game's developers.


Ready at Dawn founder and CEO Andrea Pessino confirmed on Twitter (via Attack of the Fanboy) that the game would just include a single-player campaign, and the studio said in an interview that the goal was to get the game to run in 1080p at 30 FPS.

When asked why 30 FPS, Ready at Dawn claims that was the frame rate that they had been targeting all along, focusing on the cinematic experience.
When asked why only single player for The Order, Pessino had this to say. “Better to do one thing well than a whole bunch half-assed. We are trying to make a SP experience you will enjoy.”

A trend of PlayStation-exclusive titles not receiving multiplayer is trending on Sony's new console. inFamous: Second Son won't have multiplayer either.

As a gamer that barely touches multiplayer in any game, this mode won't be missed and a full-fledged first-person experience exceeds any tedious multiplayer option that would have been added.

The new inFamous will give players a different experience if they play through the single-player mode twice, similar to previous games in the franchise. Perhaps this game will give players numerous reasons to replay the campaign.

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