Get ready for thermite guns and seamless cinematics in The Order: 1886 (hands-on demo)

Sony’s Ready at Dawn Studios has an extremely ambitious goal of making the gameplay and movie-like cutscenes completely seamless in the PlayStation 4 flagship game The Order: 1886. Based on a demo I’ve seen, the developers are going to deliver on that goal.

The title is coming out in early 2015, as this kind of cinematic polish isn’t easy to do. But Sony plans to highlight the title at the upcoming Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) video game show as one of the reasons that players need to buy PS4s instead of Xbox Ones. There’s still a lot more of the game to see, but clearly Sony means The Order to be one of its next blockbusters that capture the hearts of games because of the combination of story, characters, gameplay, and beautiful graphics.