Control

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7.5

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  1. boeph
    Nov 17, 2019
    6
    Эта игра не так хороша, как, возможно, ожидалось. Дизайн уровней оставляет желать лучшего, главная героиня не очень интересна, а изучение в духе Метроидвании может быть слишком сложным. Тем не менее, игра становится немного лучше в конце.Эта игра не так хороша, как, возможно, ожидалось. Дизайн уровней оставляет желать лучшего, главная героиня не очень интересна, а изучение в духе Метроидвании может быть слишком сложным. Тем не менее, игра становится немного лучше в конце.
  2. Kairax
    Aug 27, 2019
    6
    Hey, are you old enough to remember "Psi-Ops: the mindgate conspiracy" ? This is new age re-imagining of that game but with flare of SCP, new graphics and blander story.

    If you are new to games - enjoy destructibility and new way to control environment, you will like it.
  3. AllNewSuperfake
    Sep 16, 2019
    6
    They did a great job of telling an interesting, well paced story that still made me feel like I was in control. No aggressive cutscenes, no heaps of exposition, just letting me figure out stuff for myself.

    Then came the next 15 minutes of the game, and I found myself mostly in the role of the co-pilot. Still, things were interesting, and the destruction physics quite nice. Except that    They did a great job of telling an interesting, well paced story that still made me feel like I was in control. No aggressive cutscenes, no heaps of exposition, just letting me figure out stuff for myself.

    Then came the next 15 minutes of the game, and I found myself mostly in the role of the co-pilot. Still, things were interesting, and the destruction physics quite nice. Except that they only really worked in the tutorial when it came to crushing enemies who turned into bullet-spongy annoyances from the first encounter onwards.

    And yes, you could still destroy everything except for the stuff that you couldn't destroy, which is quite a lot and therefore makes it seem like a gimmick. It never was really used as a game mechanic, as a way to get from A to B without having to shoot the same set of increasingly hard to destroy mobs, or to uncover the unseen, or do anything else except for making your attacks way more impressive than they were, and of course that kind of destruction is great material for videos and trailers.

    It couldn't keep me from getting bored really fast. If this had been an animated movie, not longer than 150 minutes, where I could just sit back instead of going through waves of clones and bosses and having to pick up shinies along the way just to get on with the story, I would have enjoyed it a lot more. The feeling of disconnect with the character due to the direction and presentation was less dominant than in Quantum Break, but still left me wondering why these people make games instead of films.

    Really liked the tone and atmosphere and the general style though, and if you enjoy shooting and blasting your way through a decent movie while collecting stuff you will find a polished experience that gives you exactly that. Or watch someone else playing it, because - and that's my main grieve here - it doesn't really feel any different.    … Expand
  4. Ingepunk
    Sep 1, 2019
    6
    In English:
    What should I say about this mediocre game, now let's start with the story.
    It's about something that has infected a building. Why, you do not know! Now Jessie Faden goes in there to ... look for the brother and becomes the director of the building because they find a "living weapon". Graphics: Northlight Engine, as in Quantum Break very mediocre. Owners of an RT graphics    In English:
    What should I say about this mediocre game, now let's start with the story.
    It's about something that has infected a building. Why, you do not know! Now Jessie Faden goes in there to ... look for the brother and becomes the director of the building because they find a "living weapon".
    Graphics: Northlight Engine, as in Quantum Break very mediocre. Owners of an RT graphics card can be happy otherwise the graphic does not tear anybody off the stool.
    Sound: In German the purest catastrophe, In English good.
    Gameplay: Here comes the biggest weakness of Control to wear.
    At first it is entertaining enough to chase after the mysterious story, but after about 5 ~ 6 hours the game does not even know where to lead it. I like games with a tick challenge, but Control leaves you completely in the lurch.
    Even sidequests take you on an endless journey, because you're not strong enough to get any further or you're lacking in certain skills, but where do other side quests make you end up?
    This Metroidvania concept annoys without end!
    It is indecisive, illogical and makes quite a good game concept completely broken.
    Even the gunplay in the often too narrow spaces is more difficult than funny, right when you get 5 rockets at once in the face. The super powers help there just as much as Pooping, namely not at all.

    My conclusion 6/10
    It could have been such a good game from Control, but no, it had to be different (do not mind) just so different that it just becomes unpleasant after 6 to 7 hours. One tortures himself mainly by having fun instead of having fun.

    In Deutsch:
    Was soll ich zu diesem Mittelmäßigen Spiel sagen, nun fangen wir bei der Story an.
    Es geht um etwas das ein Gebäude Infiziert hat. Warum, weiß man nicht! Nun geht man als Jessie Faden dort rein um...den Bruder zu suchen und wird zur Direktorin des Gebäudes weil man eine "lebendige Waffe" findet.
    Grafik: Northlight Engine, wie bei Quantum Break sehr Mittelmäßig. Besitzer einer RT Grafikkarte können sich freuen sonst reißt die Grafik niemanden vom Hocker.
    Sound: Auf Deutsch die reinste Katastrophe, In English gut.
    Gameplay: Hier kommt die größte Schwäche von Control zum tragen.
    Anfangs ist es noch ganz Unterhaltsam der mysteriösen Story nachzujagen, nach etwa 5~6 Stunden weiß aber nicht mal mehr das Spiel selbst wohin es lotsen soll. Ich mag ja Spiele mit einem Tick herausforderung aber Control lässt dich völlig im Stich.
    Sogar Sidequests nehmen einen mit ohne ein Ende zu finden weil, du bist längst nicht Stark genug um da weiter zu kommen oder dir fehlt es an bestimmten Fähigkeiten, aber woher nehmen wenn selbst wieder andere Sidequests dich nicht zum Ende kommen lassen?
    Dieses Metroidvania Konzept nervt ohne Ende!
    Es ist unschlüssig, unlogisch und mach ein recht gutes Spielkonzept völlig kaputt.
    Selbst das Gunplay in den oftmals viel zu engen Räumen ist eher Anstrengent als lustig, erstrecht wenn man 5 Raketen auf einmal ins Gesicht bekommt. Die Superkräfte helfen da genausoviel wie Pupsen, nämlich gar nicht.

    Mein Fazit 6/10
    Man hätte so ein gutes Spiel aus Control machen können, aber nein, es musste ja anders sein (nichts dagegen) nur so anders das es nach 6 bis 7 Stunden einfach unlustig wird. Man Quält sich hauptsächlich durch statt Spaß am Spiel zu haben.    … Expand
  5. zbysiek123456
    Sep 22, 2019
    6
    Pretty good game, very good face animation with nice story. Shooting was little disapointing. There is nothing bad to say about this game and also nothing revolutionary in this title. Just average. Main story took me 9h, average on HLTB is 10, I expected more for this price. Wait for sale and you can enjoy this game.
  6. baconmania
    Jun 1, 2020
    6
    This is a pretty good game. Interesting story, good visuals. It'd be a much better game if it wasn't trying so hard to be a Soulslike. The studio seems to have gone out of their way to make the game frustrating to play, and in an exploration-focused game like this, there's just no need for that. A lot of potential in this game, but in many ways the experience is spoiled by choices theThis is a pretty good game. Interesting story, good visuals. It'd be a much better game if it wasn't trying so hard to be a Soulslike. The studio seems to have gone out of their way to make the game frustrating to play, and in an exploration-focused game like this, there's just no need for that. A lot of potential in this game, but in many ways the experience is spoiled by choices the designers made.

    Some examples:
    - Combat difficulty is absurd, even for just random enemy encounters, and there's no difficulty setting
    - Fast travel points aren't well distributed, so you have to struggle your way back to where you were every time you die, which will happen constantly
    - There's no minimap, and the map that *is* provided is a single graphic which overlays all floors (of which there can be five or six). This makes the map much less useful than just one map per floor.

    My feedback to 505 Games would be, next time, don't try so hard to be "hardcore". Just make pretty games with good stories and let people enjoy the game if they want to play at a more relaxed pace!    … Expand
  7. kezzyhko
    Sep 1, 2020
    6
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  8. KarnaK
    Feb 7, 2022
    6
    I stopped playing after just a few hours. The good: great graphics, paranormal/sci-fi atmosphere, acting, physics and combat is fun, although I've heard it gets repetitive toward the end. The story is interesting but convoluted and confusing, and this is a VERY story-focused game. What I didn't like: there's WAY too much lore to read. You pick up countless documents from the start, beforeI stopped playing after just a few hours. The good: great graphics, paranormal/sci-fi atmosphere, acting, physics and combat is fun, although I've heard it gets repetitive toward the end. The story is interesting but convoluted and confusing, and this is a VERY story-focused game. What I didn't like: there's WAY too much lore to read. You pick up countless documents from the start, before you're even interested or invested in the world. Some of it's cool but with so much of it being pointless it seems like a chore. The map is awful as it doesn't change according to what level you are on. You can't zoom in or out. (Also why the hell would they put the map on the directional pad UP button?! Never got used to it.) The enemy variety is a bit lacking and a lot of environments feel the same. Ultimately if you like paranormal/sci-fi story-driven games, you should give this a try. The atmosphere is great. Just don't go into it looking for a top notch game play experience like I did, it's a bit of a let down on that front.… Expand
  9. Vaeu
    Dec 25, 2021
    6
    The story and characters are the weakest part of Control, the graphics, and music are decent. Control shines in its gameplay, the multitude of ways to engage combat with levitating, ground-pounding, chucking objects, and shooting with different weapons is great fun. Since the game isn't too long I don't think the gameplay gets repetitive quick enough.
  10. KevLooney
    May 13, 2022
    6
    control sucked because one didn’t know where to go and the gunplay was terrible. enemies took far too many bullets relative to magazine size. the story was confusing too. It made me think "what is this game about"
  11. greystrange
    Jun 24, 2021
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Woke game with a few interesting mechanics and some lore.
    As a game developer, I'm glad to see that skills weren't as dumbed down as in the most of the games, and they allow some interesting interactions, overall they fill pretty organic and fluid in the battle.
    Shooting feels heavily impaired, even with a few variations of the gun. Mods are simply boring and not powerful enough at any level. I mean, realism is great, but I've rarely seen situations where I'd use anything but sniper mode for long-range targets, everything else dies much faster from the skills.
    Writing is disappointing, to say the least. It's some "young-adult novel" level mixed with fanfic about SCP foundation. Epilogue is really empty.
    Replayability is non-existent, repetitive tasks are getting boring even during main campaign.

    Wokeness level is annoying. All positive characters are female, all antagonists(and looks like all enemies at all) are male. Guess who's dying in all side quests? You've guessed right.
    Overall I'm not disappointed about time spent, but I've played it only because it was free on Epic, to see skill mechanics.    … Expand
  12. Woolee
    Sep 29, 2021
    6
    So ... i just finished the game and I dont know how to feel about this. First up gameplay:
    The gameplay and shooting mechanics are great and I really like them. The game offers several abilities which are just fun to use like force push, hovering etc. In fact, killing stuff with ur "force" is so mu
  13. j4ck_fl4sh_3k
    Apr 15, 2022
    6
    This is going to have to be a that I put away without completing, which is something i very rarely do, especially if I have gotta as far in as I have with Control (The Face of the Enemy mission is where I tapout). I might end up finishing but its hardly a game that has kept me hooked to say the least.

    This game manages to tick many pet peaves... *Pointless weapon upgrades that make    This is going to have to be a that I put away without completing, which is something i very rarely do, especially if I have gotta as far in as I have with Control (The Face of the Enemy mission is where I tapout). I might end up finishing but its hardly a game that has kept me hooked to say the least.

    This game manages to tick many pet peaves...

    *Pointless weapon upgrades that make me laugh... Check. (2% damage increase, 5% off weapon recoil) the amount they drop is ridicules, and you'll soon run outta space.

    *Pointless collectibles... Check. (TONS of them too, I can't tell you how many "classified docs" i pick up)

    *A game that fells like it what's to be a movie... Check. (every character delivers there lines like a hammie actor, instead of saying "okay, I'll go now" you'll get "Okay.................................................................. I'll go.............................................................. now..................................................." with more less every line of dialog)

    *A map that confuses people more then it helps... Check, and i know that I'm not the only one with this issue by a long shot, just google it.

    I just couldn't go on sadly, don't get me wrong it looks amazing and damaging the environment is very cool.    … Expand
  14. Major_PC_92
    May 19, 2022
    6
    Good action games with a beautiful graphism. The story was very strange but the gunfight are very cool!
  15. PetyaBiszeps
    Sep 6, 2022
    6
    I finished control with really mixed feelings. Interesting start, intrigues, interesting gameplay. But with time plot and story overall were making my interest lower and lower. At the end, story just failed to meet expectations. Yes, it's still NICE game, it has nice gameplay, amazing RTX and concept of control being part of Alan Wake is amazing.

    And yes, what about both DLCs, they're    I finished control with really mixed feelings. Interesting start, intrigues, interesting gameplay. But with time plot and story overall were making my interest lower and lower. At the end, story just failed to meet expectations. Yes, it's still NICE game, it has nice gameplay, amazing RTX and concept of control being part of Alan Wake is amazing.

    And yes, what about both DLCs, they're worse, than general game. In, almost, everything.    … Expand
  16. realWhiteMan
    Apr 8, 2023
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My rating is based on my impressions of the game. This is not an objective review. I play quite a big number of titles per year and decided to review them as a peace of art and not as a product.… Expand
  17. Ivan
    Sep 9, 2019
    5
    I was excited to buy this game after reading so many positive reviews. What a disappointment!!! After three hours of play I can say that I have understood nothing or almost nothing in history.The beautiful graphics are not enough. The variety of settings is nothing. The gameplay is fun but not enough to save the game. I really love complex and intricate stories but this just doesn'tI was excited to buy this game after reading so many positive reviews. What a disappointment!!! After three hours of play I can say that I have understood nothing or almost nothing in history.The beautiful graphics are not enough. The variety of settings is nothing. The gameplay is fun but not enough to save the game. I really love complex and intricate stories but this just doesn't involve me. Sin… Expand
  18. chelmianin
    Jan 5, 2022
    5
    The gameplay is really boring after a few hours as it gets repetitive pretty easily because of overwhelming backtracking. Too bad, as the idea behind the game is quite interesting.
  19. Acquire
    Sep 12, 2020
    5
    On its surface this seems like an easy recommendation. It’s beautiful to look at with some of the best ray tracing visuals out there. The paranormal intrigue of the story hooked me in. The combat system and action is immensely satisfying. It quickly more or less falls apart.

    I couldn’t tell you what’s actually happening with the story. The intro sets up a good premise, but nothing    On its surface this seems like an easy recommendation. It’s beautiful to look at with some of the best ray tracing visuals out there. The paranormal intrigue of the story hooked me in. The combat system and action is immensely satisfying. It quickly more or less falls apart.

    I couldn’t tell you what’s actually happening with the story. The intro sets up a good premise, but nothing of interest really happens after that. There seems to be a big tone disconnect between the main character and everyone else. We get to hear her inner thought bubbles, which present a person in high distress. Everyone else, despite being in a situation of clear calamity, doesn’t reflect that at all. They all seem calm, composed, worry free, maybe not by intention, but by lack of character development. All NPCs are just there to serve as objective givers and receivers. They’re not actual characters, which makes the whole experience feel disjointed. The game is properly challenging for the most part, but it employs some badly implemented souls like mechanics. Deaths are punished by permanently removing upgrade points and teleporting you back to the last activated save point. Enemies usually won’t respawn, so all this second mechanic does is waste your time. To make matters worse the game is frustratingly difficult to navigate. I felt constantly lost and the in game map is awful. About three hours in and you’ve seen the entire variety of the gameplay and the story will be dead by then. The game quickly becomes repetitive as you struggle to find your way from area to area while fighting the same enemies using the same basic tactics over and over all through an absent story.

    The game would also regularly freeze on me. It was annoying enough to get the game process killed, but upon restarting I would find that for some reason the last half hour or so of my game progress was lost.

    This is unfortunately the first Remedy game I won’t be completing. I’ve loved their work before with Max Payne, Alan Wake, and Quantum Break. This game has a good first three hours and that’s about it.    … Expand
  20. OverWind
    Sep 16, 2019
    5
    Decent enough game, but not the 10/10 a lot of magazines claim it is.

    The setting is really bland (anonymous offices, which is basically pretty much the whole game).
    The enemies get's boring as well. Yawn.
  21. Chaython
    Sep 8, 2019
    5
    I appreciate the implementation of Ray Tracing and physics.
    The superpowers are "fun" but repetitive.
    The map however is very confusing. The lore is uninteresting, the story is campy, the acting and facial animations are bad. cut scenes have terrible camera angles that it randomly jumps between because the scenes are just talking... The AI is bad, flying enemies cannot float below a    I appreciate the implementation of Ray Tracing and physics.
    The superpowers are "fun" but repetitive.
    The map however is very confusing.
    The lore is uninteresting, the story is campy, the acting and facial animations are bad. cut scenes have terrible camera angles that it randomly jumps between because the scenes are just talking...
    The AI is bad, flying enemies cannot float below a certain height, enemies often can't come up stairs...
    Enemies do high damage and they throw 10 at you at once, to overwhelm you rather than giving them any logic. n most rooms there's an area you can defend without the enemies being able to hit you.    … Expand
  22. czg
    Jan 1, 2020
    5
    Visuals are very nice. Architecture is cool. Backstory and world are interesting, though the creepypasta vibe and the main character's cliche inner monologue wears thin after a while.

    On the negative side, the gameplay is more of an obstacle than a boon. Difficulty curve is unenjoyably punishing and the gameplay is too slow for the dozen-or-more retries a boss battle takes. After each    Visuals are very nice. Architecture is cool. Backstory and world are interesting, though the creepypasta vibe and the main character's cliche inner monologue wears thin after a while.

    On the negative side, the gameplay is more of an obstacle than a boon. Difficulty curve is unenjoyably punishing and the gameplay is too slow for the dozen-or-more retries a boss battle takes. After each death, I have to start again from a save point miles back and navigate the map to the boss fight to be killed again, rinse and repeat ad nauseam.
    I work on games for a living and I don't have the time for this.

    Would ask the devs to add difficulty settings to the game; if not, I'd ask for a refund if I could.    … Expand
  23. nilsy
    Jun 17, 2021
    5
    Very annoying map, the story is hampered so much by not being able to find were to go making what should be fun frustrating and a overall average experience.
    Like a nice park and good weather and a icecream but you got something sharp in your shoe and it stops you from smelling the flowers and having a good time.
  24. GoodMorningAss
    Mar 6, 2020
    5
    This may be for someone a "masterpiece" I have not mastered, too boring. The wait was a completely different project. The graphics and destruction are excellent.
  25. Thegm963
    Aug 29, 2019
    5
    Lets begin by saying that this game is a massive resource hog with my 1080 barely being able to keep up, and that at 60fps. To make matters worse, this does not translate to visual fidelity, not only the setting is a by 70-80% a very bland set of offices and gray corridors, the rest looks outdated too. Like, trees/plants/foliage don't even animate, what year is it?

    The story is cool,    Lets begin by saying that this game is a massive resource hog with my 1080 barely being able to keep up, and that at 60fps. To make matters worse, this does not translate to visual fidelity, not only the setting is a by 70-80% a very bland set of offices and gray corridors, the rest looks outdated too. Like, trees/plants/foliage don't even animate, what year is it?

    The story is cool, though rather predictable, which is a shame because the overall setting and mood would make an amazing stage for a kickass story with plot twists, mysteries and stuff. Oh well.

    Unfortunately, the game also suffers from a Dark Souls complex to put it this way, which is extremely annoying to see in more and more games. You unlock checkpoints as the game goes on, you can only level up/upgrade stuff to them, you can teleport between them and when you die, you return to them with some ending up being annoyingly far away from where you died. Oh, and most enemies respawn as well! To add insult to injury, loading times are probably the longest I have seen since a long time, I would pick up my phone and chat when they d pop up. And they do pop up a lot. Wanna save some time and fast travel to a point nearby in the same level? Better go pee or eat something because it's loading time!

    Overall, a very meh game. Not great, not terrible. Maybe if it was on Steam and it would go on some decent sale...    … Expand
  26. Kekkone
    Aug 28, 2019
    5
    This game is beautiful if you have the hardware to run it. Too bad you spend your time inside a restricted grayish-blueish facility. However, when you get some variation to that, it's always awesome. I'd say this game's strongest points are artistic and mysterious level design at least in some parts, sound design and overall graphics and effects. Controls are adequate but a bit clunky. InThis game is beautiful if you have the hardware to run it. Too bad you spend your time inside a restricted grayish-blueish facility. However, when you get some variation to that, it's always awesome. I'd say this game's strongest points are artistic and mysterious level design at least in some parts, sound design and overall graphics and effects. Controls are adequate but a bit clunky. In the end, however, it's just another Remedy games with recurring Remedy problems:

    +First: very low or zero replayability (well, death rally had replayability for sure, but the games after that didn't, except maybe Max Payne for some nostalgia). Once you have completed this game, you can practically just sell it. Quantum Break theoretically had replayability, but the game was so painful that I don't really want to do it again just to see the movie clips.

    +Second: linearity. You are just running from place to another in a restricted area.

    +Third: recycled ideas. The ability to manipulate environment has been around since Max Payne. In the later games this same concept is just reused in a slightly different ways. Sure it looks cool and is fun for a
    while, but it gets very soon repetitive and can't carry the whole game.

    +Fourth: exclusivity to stores no one wants to use.

    +Fifth: boss fights.

    +Sixth: average storyline.

    +Seventh: performance issues on PC.

    +Eighth: Forced over-the-shoulder mode with no possibility to go first person. Also no stealth. All fights are practically shoot & hide.

    Btw. if you didn't notice it already, 90% of the 10/10 reviews seem to be user score manipulation. Lots of accounts have been created just to give full score to this game.    … Expand
  27. MppS
    Oct 1, 2019
    5
    An empty, boring and lazy game made with the sole purpose of promoting RTX and with some feminism bulls**t references just so this wouldn't be a complete financial failure
  28. NoCashLeft
    Jan 1, 2020
    5
    A mediocre game that won game of the year 2019 by IGN. What a joke. According to IGN, this game beats Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Resident Evil 2 Remake and Disco Elysium, can't believe it. Control is in most aspects a worse game than the other title by Remedy - Quantum Break. As with Quantum Break the player obtains special powers that spice up the combat. Control has smoother game playA mediocre game that won game of the year 2019 by IGN. What a joke. According to IGN, this game beats Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Resident Evil 2 Remake and Disco Elysium, can't believe it. Control is in most aspects a worse game than the other title by Remedy - Quantum Break. As with Quantum Break the player obtains special powers that spice up the combat. Control has smoother game play with less stutter issues. This is the only advantage against Quantum Break. Control has a more boring story, a lot more difficult combat, a lot less diverse environments and it uses the same uninspiring engine, Northlight, which has water washed colors but at least Control does not freeze or stutter like Quantum Break. The sound effects are acceptable except for the annoying voices in the head of the protagonist (don't use headphones unless you want to go mad). The story progresses through obtaining pieces of information but it is constructed in a rather boring way. The game play is repetitive and boring. Wait for a sale, rent or borrow from a friend. Not worth the current price tag.… Expand
  29. Galaxian
    Jan 1, 2020
    5
    I stopped playing the game to create a metacritic account and review this mediocre game. The game is very tiring. The boss fights are difficult and not satisfyingly difficult. The checkpoint system makes you fight spawning enemies every time you die and make your way to the boss fight. This gets very tiring and is a pure waste of time.

    The level design is impressive at times, but you're    I stopped playing the game to create a metacritic account and review this mediocre game. The game is very tiring. The boss fights are difficult and not satisfyingly difficult. The checkpoint system makes you fight spawning enemies every time you die and make your way to the boss fight. This gets very tiring and is a pure waste of time.

    The level design is impressive at times, but you're so tired from seeing the same places all the time (because you die in vain) that it loses its charm.

    There are good elements in the game. Like the powers that you have and are impressive and fun to use. Like the story that is intriguing (although way too much on the supernatural side), but these elements do not make the game enjoyable in the end.

    I'm struggling to finish the game. I really want to give the game a good rating but it became so tiring with all the bad design choices that prohibits me from doing that. Only recommended in a heavy sale (like 5 euros).    … Expand
  30. hertzian68
    Sep 2, 2020
    5
    Good graphics, although the whole game is pretty easy to render and drab office space etc No reason it should be so hard on systems tbh Remedy must have got money from Nvidia.
    Atrocious map that is largely useless when you are talking about 3d levels and finding your way to some hidden places, very easy to get lost in this endless office space. This is a story about black magic used by    Good graphics, although the whole game is pretty easy to render and drab office space etc No reason it should be so hard on systems tbh Remedy must have got money from Nvidia.
    Atrocious map that is largely useless when you are talking about 3d levels and finding your way to some hidden places, very easy to get lost in this endless office space. This is a story about black magic used by organizations for control or slavery of mankind. The so called checkpoints if you notice are just black magic circles except technological but tech worship and satanism are two sides of a single coin really. See all sorts of government programs, military, police forces like the FBI, social revolution etc and you will see this sort of black magic performed publicly with tech and its army of jargonists with degrees, in it's deepest you will have real satanism on kabbalistic lines. This just attempts to bamboozle people into thinking, hey it's funny and weird so it must be good, nonsense. Software like this is mind control programming.

    Annoying mumbling type of narration and the lead character is sjw to the core, as a christian it's also pretty offensive using the Lords name as a swear word but we live in "modern" wink wink times of the cursed ones dominance, the kabbalists. Get this at a 100% discount. Speaking to that Remedy obviously has writers who are kabbalists and who are into the whole mkultra monarch mind control(which is alan wake's condition btw, probably based on the real stephen king, not his real name btw) that is based on it, among other terrible things.

    It's good for a playthrough but gets kinda boring tbh, the two dlcs are nothing different, same stuff just more of it. No replay ability. I thought the Fra Mauro reference was apt, this was mentioned in the "something happened on the way to the moon" by a toothy brit-commie woman who was part of long range agitation in the perestroika deception phase of the other major kabbalistic pillar of communism vs. central banksterism/monopoly megacorps. The synthesis of the two by the evil people of antichrist. She mentions a supposed monk, Fra Mauro, who supposedly sat in a cell and drew a map of the "real" world which seems to be close to what they present us with as an accurate "map" today, subtle messaging indeed. In game this accompanies a lunar lander film set, again subtle indeed lol There is a remedy for remedy games.    … Expand
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Awards & Rankings

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#17 Best PC Game of 2019
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#14 Most Discussed PC Game of 2019
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#82 Most Shared PC Game of 2019

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
85

Generally favorable reviews - based on 33 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 33
  3. Negative: 0 out of 33
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Feb 28, 2020
    80
    An audio-visual action banquet that will entertain you with physics and flirting with the supernatural. The story could have been better, the enemy line-up can be quite monotonous towards the end, but the great atmosphere overcomes these shortcomings. And most importantly, the gameplay is great. [Issue#298]
  2. Giant Bomb
    Oct 22, 2019
    100
    Control feels like Remedy firing on all cylinders, resulting in a smart and sensational action-adventure.
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  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Oct 11, 2019
    83
    Control takes a while to get in gear, but overall it’s one of the most memorable experiences of the year. [Issue#240, p.36]
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