The Order: 1886 for PS4 News: PlayStation Game Tops UK Games Charts
Sony PlayStation 4's "The Order: 1886" is dominating U.K. games charts, taking first place at the top.
The Sony PS4 exclusive "The Order: 1886" has just gotten the number one spot on the U.K. game charts, following "The Last of Us: Remastered," a Naughty Boy PS4 offering in August 2014.
Despite its short and rocky launch last Friday, and an average critical reception following, "The Order," a single player third person shooter game, jumped to first place based on sales monitored by Chart-Track.
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The Sony Computer Entertainment-published video game was developed by SCE Santa Monica Studio and Ready at Dawn, and exclusively released for PS4. The games chart topper marks history as Sony's first in-house team-created number one game in the U.K.
The game is set in a visually engaging alternate reality of London in 1886, featuring an ancient order of knights tasked with keeping the world safe from half-breed man/beast monstrosities that have declared war on humans. The game has its own King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table who use Blackwater, a mystical potion giving drinkers extraordinarily swift healing abilities.
Gamers are treated to advanced technology in the form of zeppelins, thermal imaging, electricity-throwing weapons, wireless communications, and even proximity mines and fragmentation grenades.
Praised for its beautifully detailed graphics of a pseudo-Victorian period backdrop and impressive character models, the game captures the gritty and imperfect appearance of old films, complete with depth-of-field special effects. It nonetheless received criticism for its story, gameplay, game length, and replay value, with critics pointing out its style-over-substance features, feeble weaponry and a suspicious cover-system.
Critics are saying "The Order" may be a one-off for Sony, waiting to see if the game's success will last until the coming weeks, giving the opening for fans to anticipate a sequel.
