They made the game that they wanted to make, and not something designed to compete with what's already there. Nothing wrong with that. So far, from what I've played, it's a solid game. The cutscene-gameplay transition is flawless, the story, characters, and universe are very interesting, the gameplay itself is fluid and solid, and the game is virtually glitch free. They didn't take part in the penis measuring contest, and now they're getting hate for it.
I'm really not trying to be a fanboy here, but I can't help but notice that people are so quick to bash it for not being revolutionary or genre defining, yet will praise games like NSMB, DKCTF, MK8, Halo, CoD, etc., to no end. There's a clear double standard, not only amongst fanboys (that one's been obvious), but amongst the people who actually get paid to do gaming journalism, and The Order has proven that fact. If you actually read a lot of the reviews being posted on Metacritic, most of them just blather on about the game being more of the same, yet give no reason as to why it's actually bad and deserves anything lower than a 7. It's literally a conglomerate of reviews similar to AV Club's UC3 review.
That being said, I hope the game sells well and R@D keeps their heads up high and get's to work on a sequel, because the franchise is already on my radar.
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