The Order: 1886 Review (Patreon)

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2015-02-19 14:06:52

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2020-05

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I expected to be an outlier on this one and was not looking forward to it (contrary to popular belief, the attention I get when I score a game lower than others is NOT much fun!). Apparently this game should be renamed The Order: Eighteen Eighty Six Out Of Ten though, because now everyone's doing it. I've seen some folks accuse reviewers of "bullying" this corporate product, as if that's what criticism is now. That's weird and kind of creepy. At any rate, I certainly don't think I was mean to the game - quite generous, in fact, despite the final score. The Order is a game with a beautiful premise and a world I want more of. It's just a shame they didn't *do* anything with it, and seem so intensely focused on a sequel that they're merely using this one as a prologue, a primer for something more complete later on.

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The Order: 1886 Review - Short Order

Fantastic teaser... can't wait for the actual game to come out. If The Order: 1886 does one thing perfectly, it's encapsulate exactly how homogeneous videogames have become in the big-budget space. Here we have a game set in Victorian London, a time when light bulbs were in their infancy, horses were still the primary method of travel...