“THE ORDER: 1886 WAS A DISTINCT FAILURE – AND IT DESERVES A PROPER SEQUEL.”

Strip away the disastrous content and you’ll see a rock solid franchise foundation

Generally, I’m against the idea of franchise-building. It’s a transparent, financially-propelled imperative that dilutes a good 350 pages of novel into a trilogy of Hobbit films, and dictates that whatever good ideas Ubisoft Montreal has must forevermore be dressed up in a dozen fancy belts and a hood. Marketing types might argue that it’s somehow immature or naïve to ask for creative media to stand on its own two feet rather than rest on the crutch of a roman numeral or ostentatious subtitle. But they would say that, wouldn’t they? However, in the case of The Order: 1886, I ally with my marketeer foes. As a videogame it’s an inarguable letdown, but of a very specific type: technically spellbinding, built on a fascinating alt-history universe, and almost entirely bereft of engaging content.…

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Official PlayStation Magazine - UK Edition (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 1, 2015

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