Ready at Dawn’s The Order: 1886 joins the ranks of other PS4 titles like The Last of Us Remastered, Infamous: Second Son, DriveClub to receive a photo mode. The video above offers a succinct, if cursory, overview of the photo editor in this game, which is roughly the same as the other games which feature a photo editor mode. Unlike those games, however, this photo editor mode allows the player to keep the filter options activate during gameplay. Whether players will actually want to play this (albeit brief) game through a knockoff instagram filter is uncertain, but the feature nonetheless points to an interesting future of game design in which the very cinematography of the game will be open to the player’s discretion to an unprecedented degree. Whether most players will approach this feature with the same way say Michelangelo Antonioni approached colour in film (which led Hitchcock to famously remark that Antonioni taught him how to see in colour) remains to be seen.
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