The Order: 1886

The Order: 1886 is set in an alternate history London, where an old order of knights keep all of the world safe from half breed monsters, who are a combination of animal and man. In the game's history, around the seventh or eighth centuries a small number of humans took on bestial traits. The majority of humans feared these half breeds and war broke out. Despite the humans outnumbering the half breeds, their animal strength gave them the upper hand in centuries of conflict.

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"We want to hold true to something we've talked about in the past," he says, "which is delivering the experience without having this ebb and flow of: oh, this was really great and that was kind of meh, because we sacrificed a little time on it."

"We have an open discussion with Sony all the time," Weerasuriya explains. "We said, 'Look, we can achieve the quality you expect everywhere, but delivering on this is going to take a few more months.'

"It's not that long. It's worth it if we can deliver on the promise we made."

"The project is always bigger than what everybody expects," Weerasuriya says. "That's what this is. It is bigger than what everybody expected. Everything we've shot, everything we've done, is quite a bit larger than what we had planned for. But we're not going to sacrifice just because of time. Quality has to come first.

"That's what I commend Sony for, for so many games they've done. They always say, 'PlayStation stands for what it has done for so long because we will always take the side of quality when it comes down to it.' That is one of the strengths Sony has had for so many years."

"As much as you think it would be easy to put together those moment to moments, and the camera falling into something then falling out, it's more intricate than what everybody expected," he says. "Without the delay, we probably wouldn't be seamless because we'd have to do what a lot of other games do, like hard cuts, then straight gameplay, and then you're somewhere else. You're like, 'wait, I just finished over there.' Or, 'wait, I didn't get it.'

"From a straightforward navigation and jump, you fall straight into melee," Weerasuriya says. "There is no, 'I fell and then cut and then, okay, melee moment, branching QTE, and then cut, and then something else.' It's a bigger proposition than we even knew, because we're learning as we do it."

"We've known Sony for long enough that there is a very easy conversation that goes on," Weerasuriya says, highlighting Ready at Dawn's past work on the God of War PlayStation Portable games. "It's not like anybody is blind to anything that's happening. We don't work and just go, 'Hey, we'll show it when we show it.'

"Ready at Dawn is always at work on the game. We don't make any qualms about saying, 'We need more time on that.' Or, 'That took less time than we thought.' Scott Rohde [PlayStation software product development head] and all of those guys are always aware of everything that's going on. So when a conversation comes up they never feel like, 'Hey, we have to sit down.' It's more like, 'Hey guys, this is really cool, but look at the amount of work we have to do... we could really deliver on the experience if we gave it until early 2015.'"

"Of course there's good and bad," Weerasuriya says of the reaction to the February gameplay reveal. "The good reinforces the decisions you take. People talk about the visual fidelity we're able to achieve, the character performances, and the fact it's all in-game. We still have people, even after the February stuff, say, 'Oh, that was totally pre-rendered.' I'm like, 'Okay, I don't know how else to explain it to you, but it's okay. If you believe that, it's fine.' But that is amazing."

CVG wrote:CVG: So of the three key aspects of a game - visuals, gameplay and story - which would you say was your priority with The Order 1886?

Game director (Dana Jan): I think story and visuals are very high. Gameplay is something that... it's a game, we make games, we can't get around it. We love games, but we also love telling stories, so I think story is always going to be at the top because it's what we start with. It's at the top of the pyramid and everything else supports that. I think it'd be more challenging to make a game for the gameplay's sake, then try to make a story that fits in there.