The Order: 1886 Reveals Actual Gameplay Footage

[ThunderCavalier]

Cover-based shooter with burly men, QTEs, and guns that seem to perform almost the same.

... Please tell me that there's more to this game. The concept is too awesome to be wasted on another generic cover-based shooter.

 

[balfore]

Most of the actual gameplay in that video has been attached to numerous other preview videos for the game where people actually talked about the gamplay itself. Watching those preview videos they point out some of the interesting mechanics of the game unlike the above video.

 

[F'Angus]

Looks more like a graphics showcase than an interesting game. Which is unfortunate because I want this to be good. And I guess with the graphics like that this won't be a particularly long game. But won't really know till it's out. It could end up fantastic. And I hope it does.

 

[Insideout Ink Demon]

oh joy, 3rd person cover based exclusives

do we have gears of war to blame for all this?

 

[LordMonty]

Could be fun but we'll wait and see. This might push me to getting a ps4.

 

[Fynik]

Huh.

I'm not sure I'm comfortable playing an ornately decorated knight who has literal gold neck protection shooting rabble rebel rabble who are only really "rebels" because they don't want to be worked to death in a factory owned by some noble. I mean that angle is a little... odd. I get that rebels against the queen's peace is kind of a bad thing for the britishly inclined, but literally going out there and machine gunning working class sods because they're breaking martial law when I could (And should) be focusing on fighting werewolves?

Yeaaaaaahh...

 

[sXeth]

So, cinematic, run down a narrow hall of chest-walls, cinematic with QTEs. More hallway of chest walls. Cinematic.

It looks pretty, but the (shown) gameplay is on the level of the Time Crisis machine at the arcade with a QTE dumped in the middle. Choosing between two things to play peek-a-boo is barely an input.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Looks like a turd...wasn't this supposed to have werewolves? Sure the setting is a bit different but it looks like another chest-high wall, corridor-shooter with QTEs. Prettiness doesn't excuse the sameness does it because, this kind of thing could have been released on modern consoles (minus the prettiness).

 

[Valagetti]

3rd Person shooter
QTEs
And they managed to make steam punk(ish) boring
Glad I'm sticking with PC

 

[bluegate]

This short cut up doesn't seem to do the game justice. People should go watch Playstation Access or Adam Sesslers video's of the game.

I'm looking forward to this game, it seems to have an interesting story told from an interesting point of view and that is enough for me. I don't care that other games have already done the cover based shooter thing.

 

[Darks63]

ANOTHER Goddamn shooter? REALLY? Why not an action RPG? Welp, who's prepared for this thing to be wonderfully average?

Agreed for a setting like this having it be a regular old shooter seems a huge waste of potential. They could at least got the System shock/Bioshock route with a setting like this if it has to be a shooter.

 

[RA92]

I like the flow and facial hair, but too much cover shooting and too many cutscenes.

 

[Senare]

Really doesn't look good. Linear cover-based shooter with QTEs? Who thought we needed more of those?

The investors, the publisher and possibly the game designers thought so. Probably two-three years ago when the project probably started.
Personally I would rather see <a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/131561-Kingdom-Come-Deliverance-Rips-It-Up-On-Kickstarter>Kingdom Come: Deliverance invested in. But hey, it's not out yet - so there is still room for The Order: 1886 to surprise us.

 

[Lightknight]

I was actually hoping for something like Metro 2033. I don't mind it being a shooter but damn if that trailer doesn't cut in awkward ways and make it look like a 3rd person shooter (which, FYI, 3rd person views always makes shooting weird). At least in The Last of US there was mostly a stealth element but this looks like a run and gun which has almost always been better off as an FPS.

 

[Lightknight]

Even then, high def burly men won't save you from what would amount to a gears of war clone over 6 years after the fact.

So a 3rd person cover system makes it a clone of another game?

Don't get me wrong, I'm disappointed with what I see, but being the first (or one of the first?) to rely on a mechanic doesn't magically make everything that follows a clone. Additionally, wasn't Gears of War insanely popular? I'd far rather see a clone of good games than clones of say, Colonial Space Marines. Are cover based shooters off the table now? Looks to me like GOW3 performed really well and GOW4 is likely to do well for its platform. So why the hate? I didn't like the series because it felt clunky.

I'm hoping that the story will be compelling. I mean, The Last of Us and Uncharted are both 3rd party platformers with a cover system and I liked those. But the shooting element was shit and in the Last of Us that felt intentional. If this game has a legitimate story and if they do a decent job with shooting then it could end up being fantastic. This is Ready at Dawn and Santa Monica working together, they have an ok history of good games. This can go either way. Way too early to tell. I'm just hesitant at the moment.

Who knows, maybe the rest of the game has a serious stealth component?

I want it to be good. Lord knows I'd like a well-done steam punk game set in the Van Helsing universe. But I still need more info. If the only draw is the universe they've created then this will fall flat.

 

[Korzack]

Sweet premise, doesn't look to be that well executed, with some pretty bad enemy AI as well. I wait patiently for the "Ye Olde Gears of War" puns, though