IMO the game looks good, it's a story driven title, looks no more linear than Uncharted IMO, the QTE sections actually seem to have choice, rather than just one option of a single button to push in a given time.
Ready at Dawn can't go giving away too many major plot points or huge story spoilers when their game is all about that and engaging the player within that.

As for the whole idea that you can completely judge a title off of the small amount of footage and demo gameplay that has been shown, that's rubbish in my mind, utterly laughable, the most you can say is whether you're interested in what's been shown so far and whether you want to find out more.


As for the whole topic of linear titles vs open world games, I like a mix, if a game is linear I'll throw myself into that, if a game is the opposite then I'll explore what that world has to offer.
It's quite funny really when Sony are offering more open world games exclusive than anyone, with the likes of Infamous already out, then WiLD and Rime being unveiled for the future. We also have rumors of more like open world Horror from Bend, Sci-Fi/Mecha/Tribal uniqueness of gameplay open world from Guerrilla, possibly a new Getaway or some realistic title from London.

Really the only area they appear to lack in genres of open world games is racing and that's really covered with the likes of The Crew and Need For Speed: Rivals for now, from 3rd party.


Who says that each game has to be everything to every single gamer?
Why can't people look at the library of content on the platform and pick the games that suite them?
If the platform doesn't have some exclusives which interest you (which I find hard too believe could possibly be the case), then get another system that does have those games.

Well, look how many of these points are matching with Ryse and see how this turned out.

Well, it's one of the games I really want to play, so I don't care. I'll be buying it Day 1 next year if it kills me. We already know it's going to get a <80 metascore because games aren't actually reviewed these days. Their score is based on how well the developers "cooperated" with reviewers, and how much hype is behind the game overall. When a reviewer plays a 10 minute demo of a game and gives it bad prievew rating, that's typically what the review score of the game is going to be because that 10 minutes isn't far from the actual ammount of time they spent playing before writing a review. 

That only happens with Nintendo games though. Reviewers have a different standard of reviewing Sony's games. That's why Driveclub was criticised in most reviews for not being open-world, even though that was a design choice. Critics wouldn't judge this game for what it is, but for what it isn't.

I'm sure the game will be awesome though, all of Ready At Dawn's games have been awesome in both story and gameplay, and have been short, incredible experiences.

The ps4 Ryse

Well look at the calibur of the developers. Ready At Dawn haven't made a game with less than 85 on metacritic, while Crytek haven't made a game with more than 84 on metacritic.

Then again look at how games get reviewed this gen and how they got reviewed last gen. Ryse was judged based on the E3 clip and it looks that it even got reviewed based on that. Actually there were many who had fun with Ryse although critics shit on it. I doubt this will be different with The Order.

The developers don't imbue me with much confidence in their product.

This person is on to something.  Order bsically looks like Sony's Ryse.  Beautiful to look at, with an intriguing and interesting setting, but probably boring and dull to play.

I think it'll be one of those exclusive games that fans of the respective consoles will say they enjoy but in reality, it is a mediocre experience.  We'll have to wait on see what's really going on when it releases though, but so far it seems pretty meh, but who knows, they might be holding back all the good stuff....hopefully.

It simply doesn't looking that engaging from a gameplay perspective and the QTE look ugly and forced.

Maybe the most compelling element will be the story and the world, but they've shown the game off in the most awkward segmented way possible, I've yet to see much substance. They need to do a proper story trailer, or just give us a solid 10min demo of some interesting game content and story.