There are no big glowing arrows showing you where to go and the mini-map is pretty hard to use. That said, this isn’t the kind of experience that pushes you in any one particular direction. It can be frustrating coming up against doors that are locked because you’re not at the right security level yet, but it at least makes some sense within the game’s fiction.
Its design is something of a mashup of Metroid and Breath of the Wild you have a lot of freedom to explore, but some areas are closed off until you unlock the right ability or hit the next major story beat. It’s worth it to read memos from field agents about expense reports being lost due to temporal shifts.Ĭontrol is also a very open experience. It’s one of just a few games where I set aside time to read all of the (heavily redacted) files I collected along the way and listen to the many audio logs. There’s a tremendous amount of world-building that has gone into the creation of Control. If there was a wing of the American government dedicated to the study and containment of paranormal activity, I imagine it’d look a lot like this. Even before you factor in the newfound appearance of the Hiss, the Oldest House is a very odd place.īut it also feels surprisingly real, thanks to all of those small details. Eventually, you’ll discover a vast subterranean quarry filled with floating rocks and a light switch that can transport you to a seemingly random motel.
The signs pointing you in the direction of specific departments look almost forgettably normal - until you see fields of research like parapsychology and astral exhibition. You’ll notice cheerfully mundane posters that warn how excessive hours caused by temporal shifts won’t result in overtime and old VHS training videos that explain what a “threshold” is. The closer you look, though, the weirder things get. There are rows of cubicles, sprawling conference rooms, and observation areas for studying seemingly normal objects that possess supernatural powers. The entirety of the game takes place within the Oldest House, a massive brutalist structure that seamlessly transitions between the banal and the bizarre. “I would like to believe that there’s fun in being lost.” - Control director Mikael Kasurinen But it’s worth pushing through to see the uniquely uncomfortable world Remedy has created. It can make an otherwise excellent experience drag. There are times when the action becomes too much, though, and in these moments, Control devolves into a mostly generic third-person shooter where you’re hiding behind cover. It’s very satisfying floating through the air while using psychic powers to toss fire extinguishers at bad guys. This also makes for some thrilling action you’ll fight all kinds of strange creatures while utilizing an array of supernatural skills.
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It’s full of mysteries that only get weirder and more interesting the further you delve in. Control’s disturbing and atmospheric setting is incredible. It’s what would happen if you mixed the X-Files with a Jeff VanderMeer novel and then structured the whole thing as an open-world video game like Breath of the Wild.įor the most part, this blend works well. Control is an experience built on those moments.
That’s far from the only strange and unsettling occurrence in the game. After hours of playing that, chanting still made me uneasy. But while I became accustomed to seeing them, I never quite got comfortable with hearing them: a steady drone of nonsense words that gets louder as more bodies cling to the air. They’re just a fixture of the landscape, like stairs or cubicles or coffee makers. They’re disturbing at first, but the more you explore the game’s paranormal world, the less unsettling they become. You walk into a room, and there they are, lifeless forms clad in drab office attire or bright orange hard hats and safety vests. In Control, the latest game from Alan Wake and Quantum Break studio Remedy Entertainment, those bodies are absolutely everywhere. It only took a few hours before I got used to the floating bodies.
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