Sony allegedly turned down a sequel to PlayStation 4 game The Order: 1886 due to its poor critical reception, the co-founder of developer Ready at Dawn has said.
Andrea Pessino told MinnMax that Ready at Dawn pitched an “incredible” sequel and would’ve “signed [its] life away” to make it purely for the sake of players. The Order: 1886 arrived in 2015 as an action game about werewolves in Victorian London but, despite being among the best looking games of the generation, it received middling reviews from critics.
“It would have been an incredible sequel, I can tell you that for a fact,” Pessino said, though admitted he couldn’t say much because he doesn’t own the franchise rights. “We pitched the sequel to Sony regardless of [the critical reception] and, in a way, it’s better…