Control Made by Remedy Entertainment which is a Finnish company. Released on 27th of August in 2019. Game director is Mikael Kasurinen.
Control is a supernatural action adventure game. You play in third person. Shooting enemies with your weapons and using your abilities to your advantage. Through a story of mystery.
Previous games Quantum break and Alan wake follows the same third person and action of Control.
Development
After release of Quantum break Remedy Entertainment started working on Control originally known as Project 7 or P7 in 2017. Control was announced in E3 conference on June 11, 2018.
Influences
Control has influences from novel Annihilation and other "weird" media. Remedy has also
mentioned, film Inception directed by Christopher Nolan, and the SCP Foundation wiki.
Introduction (Spoilers)
In Control you play as a civilian named Jesse Faden. Jesse Faden has been searching for a secret
agency named Federal Bureau of Control shortened to Bureau.
In 2002 she and her brother Dylan discovered a weird slide projector that had an ability to open doors to other dimensions. Jesse and Dylan would visit these dimensions frequently. in one of these dimensions they found an entity who could telepathically communicate to them. They named the entity to Polaris. Some of these dimensions were bad so they closed the slide projector with the help of Polaris.
Federal Bureau of Control sent a team to investigate this event in which Jesse and Dylan led them to the Slide Projector, at which point the Bureau attempted to lock them both. Jesse escaped, but Dylan was captured.
For next 17 years Jesse drifted between jobs and residences searching for the Bureau with Polaris.
On October 29, 2019, Jesse arrived in the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Control named
Oldest House guided by Polaris. Inside, Jesse founds janitor named Ahti that bypasses the lockdown and directs her to the office of the Director, Trench.
In Trench’s office, Jesse found that Trench had shot himself with his Service Weapon. She picks up the Service Weapon becoming the new director of the Bureau.
Jesse learns that the Oldest house was in a lockdown because it was invaded by a hostile force which Jesse referred to as “The Hiss”. Hiss has turned some Bureau agents into mindless slaves, but number of agents had survived thanks to a device called Hedron Resonance Amplifiers. Hiss cannot turn Jesse into a mindless slave thanks to Polaris which is some sort of a Hiss but not a bad one.
Jesse began working with the Bureau to stop the Hiss and the whereabouts of Dylan.
You play through Jesse killing the hiss with her service weapon. This service weapon also has mods and upgrades which makes weapon unique for your preference. End of the game you can have 3 weapons which have their advantages.
Also, Jesse founds abilities to
1. Launch objects to enemies with telekinesis.
2. Shield which allows Jesse to take more damage.
3. Seize which allows her to friendly hiss or fight with her.
4. Levitate which allows her to fly around the area for a short amount of time.
These abilities add gameplay which makes it even more fun. Also, you find people with different quests like
1. Emily Pope. She is Head of research of the Bureau. She can be asked about everything about the Bureau.
2. Ahti. He is Janitor of the Bureau. He asks you to clean stuff.
3. Simon Arish. He is Security Chief of the Bureau. He helps you turning NSC Power Plant on which acts as the central power for the entirety of the Oldest House.
4. Helen Marshall. She is Head of operations of the Bureau. She also helps you finding Dylan.
End of the game Jesse founds Dylan. He is infected by the hiss. Jesse tries to destroy Hiss from Dylan. After that he falls into a coma. This is one bad ending where you do not know what happens to next to Dylan and you need to buy downloadable expansions to continue the story.
Actors
Jesse Faden (Player)played by Courtney Hope. She is an American actress. She has portrayed the character Beth in Quantum break, previous game of Remedy. She has taken this role seriously making vlogs as Jesse Faden in Remedy studios.
Ahti played by Martti Suosalo. He is a Finnish actor. He has acted in several Finnish films and
shows. In Control he speaks with a Finnish accent like most finnish people.
Emily Pope is played by Antonia Bernath. She is an English/American actress, voiceover artist and singer. She starred as Priscilla Presley in the show Elvis. Player can ask Emily questions about everything from the hiss to the oldest house.
Simon Arish is played by Ronan Summers. He is a British voiceover artist and actor. He is known for voicing in several games like Wolfenstein and Forza. He helps the player repairing the NSC Power Plant which is important part of the Oldest house.
Helen Marshall is played by Brig Bennett. She is – actress. She is known for acting in a movie called Open All Night as Mrs. Carter. She helps the player to find Dylan.
Highlights
Remedy’s amazing engine to make photoreal graphics and NVIDIA’s raytracing are awesome. This game also haves one of the best physics of any game example throwing a table to an enemy or shooting pieces of a table is cool. The story and side quests take up to 22 hours to complete so it’s worth for your money also you can continue playing it when the story ends upgrading weapons and collecting extra stuff for your character.