PS4 Exclusive The Order: 1886 Was Planned as the First in a Trilogy of History-Bending Games, Director Reveals

Alternative past PS4 exclusive The Order: 1886 was primitively meant to beryllium the archetypal crippled successful a trilogy, 1 of its developers has revealed.

Two different games — The Order 1891 and The Order 1899 — were besides planned (thanks, VGC). As Ru Weerasuriya, originative manager of The Order: 1886, explained successful an French-language interrogation with Julien Chieze, the sequel was successful the aboriginal stages of improvement earlier it was cancelled.

In The Order: 1886, a crippled that re-writes past by introducing a unsocial imaginativeness of Victorian-Era London, you observe history’s darkest secret. From its 10-page pitch, Weerasuriya said the archetypal sequel would person boasted bigger combat sequences, arsenic good arsenic an further multiplayer mode. The 3rd crippled didn't adjacent marque it to aboriginal production, but Weerasuriya and the squad astatine Ready astatine Dawn had planned wherever the communicative would've taken them, arsenic good arsenic different instalments which could've taken the franchise into the 20th century.

Ready astatine Dawn was a venerable, 20-year-old crippled workplace that worked connected God of War and Daxter among different projects. Following the mixed reception of The Order: 1886, Ready astatine Dawn began to determination into VR, releasing Lone Echo for the Oculus Rift successful 2017. It was acquired by Meta successful 2020, but closed down wholly successful August 2024.

Weerasuriya suggested that it was the mixed captious reception to the archetypal crippled that saw the bid cancelled. Like a batch of players astatine the time, present astatine IGN we thought the 2015 crippled was okay, awarding it a 6.5, writing: "Though a stylish adventure, The Order: 1886 emphasizes its cinematic polish astatine the crippling outgo of gameplay freedom."

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