CONTROL
NEED TO KNOW
RELEASE August 2019
DEVELOPER Remedy Interactive
PUBLISHER 505 Games
LINK remedygames.com
YOU ARE NEW BOSS JESSE FADEN, AND IT’S YOUR FIRST DAY ON THE JOB
As I levitate with almost complete freedom around the Brutalist atrium of the Central Research area—all clean concrete walkways broken up by formidable trees—I have a sense that this is finally the game that Remedy always wanted to make, the developer’s creative promised land.
Conversations around Remedy games revolve as much around their constraints and shortcomings as their brilliance and ambition, but Control feels liberated, untethered from past limitations.
A big part of that is the hub-based and more systemic structure of the game. Control has something of the immersive sim, encouraging you to explore rooms you might otherwise miss to pick up new powers.
