Ready at Dawn's famous for giving Kratos a personality and creating the second-best looking game on the PlayStation 4, so forgive us for being somewhat shocked by De-formers – its brand new title, which is being published by US retailer GameStop. The release appears to be some kind of King of the Hill-esque arena multiplayer experience, with spherical animals or… Something.
To be fair, it could be quite fun. The experiment appears to mix Super Smash Bros, Super Monkey Ball, and Twisted Metal all into one zany party package. There'll be local four-player split-screen, as well as, we assume, online multiplayer. It's nice to see something different, we suppose – but one can't help but wonder whether the studio would be working on this if The Order: 1886 was a hit.
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Fun looking 4 player local co-op with some colour... Colour me interested!
I can't say it was what I expected but in some ways it is. I was expecting some 'indie/arcade' level game - not a big AAA release like the Order so from that perspective, this fits. I was kind of expecting a 2 - 2.5D platformer - maybe like the Assassins Creed Chronicle game or maybe a twin stick shooter - something along those lines...
In terms of sales then did The Order not do very well? I admit I'm being a bit lazy here by not looking it up, but sales spreadsheets sometimes confuse me.
Personally I quite enjoyed it for what it was.
@AhabSpampurse It didn't bomb or anything like that, but it performed under expectations.
"and creating the second-best looking game on the PlayStation 4"
Out of interest do you mean The Order as second best? After U4?
I've noticed that there's a bit of a revisionist history going on the web with The Order now when it seemed to be the most hated game in the world . That's what happens when too many people take what mainstream gaming sites say at face value.
Looks like Madballs characters in the DeBlob multiplayer, with the game influenced by a Splatoon theme of colour and music.
Doesn't look like there would be much to it in single player, but we'll keep an eye out. We keep the Dreamcast around for Ooga Booga so this might be a suitable replacement.
I... Have no words for this. Could be fun, but the concept just isn't clicking for me
@Dodoo Yup!
Well, I can't say they got their title wrong.
Oh they are using colours now!
@get2sammyb Oooh, I'll have to disagree with you there though! U4 may be better in every other way but I still think The Order beats it in the graphics department!
Reminds me of Splatoon, and I'm intrigued.
@Dodoo I thought the same of the order actually, it did look better than U4. But then U4 did have more open environments etc.
@JoeBlogs No. PS4, PC, Xbox.
Look meh, but it looks like it took some inspiration from Splatoon.
I would think it would take them longer to make the order 2. GameStop may have suggested do something easier first and take your time with the order 2.
Could be good. Always nice to see developers trying new things. Maybe we'll see more at E3?
@Grawlog @get2sammyb cheers both.
It might be fun but sad that this is what they have been working on. There is a market for this type of game though. Not sure how well The Order did sales wise but would have looked forward to something evolving from that.
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Thank all "The Order" haters. Now ALL of you go buy TWO copies of this.
You owe it to Ready at Dawn and everyone who wanted to have a sequel to "The Order".
I thoroughly enjoyed The Order: 1886, and this is also a new, fresh IP. The best of luck to Ready At Dawn Studios with this!
So, it's a game about gross goo balls rolling into eachother...?
No thanks. I'll stick to Splatoon.
Lemme hear the price I'm not paying retail but if this is $15ish I'm down, well you know the price most people paid for the order.
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Since this studio gave me Daxter and The Order I'll give this a try but I'm not sure what I just witnessed. It reminds me of those horror rubber ball face things kids collected in the 90s made into a saturday morning 2000s cartoon.
It'll probably do Better financially than The order. But it doesn't find me as interested. Just another moba style arena fighter.
Always good to see something new but I would like to see the order be built up into the great game it could have been
fun fun ^-^
@get2sammyb Hey quick question, you'll be showing e3 on this site right?
@TVRFLY Yessir!
Yeah, I'm certainly feeling the Splatoon vibe as well. Which is good news, because I love Splatoon to bits.
I'm definitely intrigued. I hope there's some sort of single-player component, though.
My guess is this is a side project that was spun up as part of Gamestops new publishing program. I wouldn't be surprised if something else came out at E3 as well from them.
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