• The Order: 1886 (Sony, PS4)

    Style versus substance. The eternal question. Which you favour, of course, very much depends upon your personality. There are those who will be wowed by the purest aesthetics of an art form, in this case videogames, who will froth and rave about graphical detail, texture pop-in, draw distance, facial animations, particle blur and so on. And then there are those who will prefer to be immersed in an engaging story deftly told with empathic characters, surprising twists and an emotional pay-off. Unfortunately, The Order: 1886 falls between these two stools, and is more often that not perched uncomfortably on the former. There…