Control

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7.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 2611 Ratings

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  1. ME123
    Sep 29, 2019
    2
    Over hyped.

    The graphics are beautiful but character models are very ugly. The story is full of plot holes and makes little sense. Pretentious with no real substance. The characters have no growth or development. The main character is a total Mary Sue. The game makes good use of visual story telling, but the story itself never really goes nowhere and falls flat on its face at the end.    Over hyped.

    The graphics are beautiful but character models are very ugly. The story is full of plot holes and makes little sense. Pretentious with no real substance. The characters have no growth or development. The main character is a total Mary Sue. The game makes good use of visual story telling, but the story itself never really goes nowhere and falls flat on its face at the end. Weird for weirdness sake which is just bad honestly.

    Now to the game part. The shooting is loose but all the abilities are quite fun to play around with. The map design is awful and navigation can be pain. The level design is weak. Once again, graphics and visual aesthetic over real core design. Performance is unstable on the base PS4.

    And finally the game is 8 hours along definitely not worth 60$.

    2/10.    … Expand
  2. ZaPaAl
    May 6, 2021
    2
    It's not enjoyable on any level. The setting is wierd and doesn't make sense in any way. Not a single interesting character, just minor fragments of a story, many, many tidbits of notes and recordings, and all are totally unrelevant and not fun. Even the sound (permanent sermon whisping) is aggrevating.
    Missions and Sidemission are not fun. Some get repeated over and over and are just    It's not enjoyable on any level. The setting is wierd and doesn't make sense in any way. Not a single interesting character, just minor fragments of a story, many, many tidbits of notes and recordings, and all are totally unrelevant and not fun. Even the sound (permanent sermon whisping) is aggrevating.
    Missions and Sidemission are not fun. Some get repeated over and over and are just annoying.
    Graphics are partly nice, but totally bland. Level design and navigation are just terrible.
    There is no emotion involved on any level, everything is under control. The enemy is nameless and every encounter has basically the same enemy types, and they all look just unhealthy. And they keep coming. You have no idea why you have to keep fighting them at all. Combat and it's gameplay is lifeless. You are kind of required to spam your throwing powers, everything else is fluff. You find many, many mods, but they just add a percent onto something you probably already have.

    I got more and more annoyed, hoping something would get better, but it does not, it just stays at that level. It takes incredibly effort to make me actually hate a game, but this one really worked hard for it. I gave up about 3/4 into the game. Don't buy this without studying videos and really considering, is this for you?    … Expand
  3. Alecj
    Aug 27, 2019
    2
    Do you want to play a generic version of The Force Unleashed in a haunted building with dull characters and Sharknado level dialogue? Then this game is for you!

    Yeah, i dont get it. I found this game to be boring, horribly written, and derivative of much older games that were more fun. Again, it was like playing The Force Unleashed in a dark room with boring characters. The dialogue was    Do you want to play a generic version of The Force Unleashed in a haunted building with dull characters and Sharknado level dialogue? Then this game is for you!

    Yeah, i dont get it. I found this game to be boring, horribly written, and derivative of much older games that were more fun. Again, it was like playing The Force Unleashed in a dark room with boring characters. The dialogue was bad enough to take me out of the moment, and i just didnt care about the story. It was like dollar store X-Files, with the replacement agent instead of Scully.

    The gun play was clumsy but the "force" powers were fine. I just didnt find the whole scenario interesting.

    The one thing i was impressed with, and again its just another "The Force Unleashed" mechanic, but its done well is the destructibility. The way things broke apart and cover was destroyed was done quite well. I thought it at least made the setting a bit less sterile during battles.

    Obviously, some people like this game. Im just here to offer another point of view. Before you run out and drop 60 bucks, make sure you know what the game is and what its about. I believed the hype and am disappointed with my purchase.

    Dont make impulse buys.    … Expand
  4. Maugaran
    Feb 3, 2021
    2
    Boring jump and shoot game. Brainless Game without deepness. Cant understand the ratings
  5. VALiSiMO_BG
    Aug 31, 2019
    2
    Well, I gave this... thing several tries, but only after 40-50 minutes, I couldn't force myself to continue playing it! The game is boring as hell - run, cover, shoot, die, repeat by 1000! This is by far the worst game /and Rage 2 is still better/ for me of the year. Do not spend even a dollar on this! You've been warned!
  6. Lestatman
    Aug 27, 2019
    2
    Any single player game that does not have a diffitculty settings for the player in this day and age is a no no for me. I'm a firm believer in individualism and choice and treating us all the same with no diffficulty options and especially since this is a single player game with no multiplayer aspect is so wrong.
  7. Redrako
    Feb 7, 2021
    2
    Repetitive, boring, especially frustrating.
    Banal story, nice graphic but a really boring and repetitive gameplay.
    Already said repetitive in this review?
  8. CitySpellsword
    Dec 8, 2022
    2
    This game starts strong and hooks you with some great characters and story elements. There's genuine suspense and intrigue, and the game design while unlocking new powers is pretty well balanced. You'll probably die once or twice each big fight, but then you learn and improve and feel great. All the way past the Ashtray Maze (a masterpiece), I really liked the game. Unfortunately, thatThis game starts strong and hooks you with some great characters and story elements. There's genuine suspense and intrigue, and the game design while unlocking new powers is pretty well balanced. You'll probably die once or twice each big fight, but then you learn and improve and feel great. All the way past the Ashtray Maze (a masterpiece), I really liked the game. Unfortunately, that game ends all to soon. And a new, horrible game takes its place.

    The curtain drops and suddenly you're playing a very bad Dark Souls. The difficulty scales in the most infuriating ways for every side quest and the end of the main quest. Long load times and long runs back make for gameplay loops of just dying over and over to have a slim chance at the perfection needed to succeed. When you do win a fight, it's usually because you found a cheesy spot where the AI is too dumb to engage and you just fling auto-aimed bricks. Otherwise, it's nonstop homing attacks and enemy design that couldn't be worse or lazier if it tried.

    The Jukebox is an embarrassment to good game design. The weapon upgrades and customization feels so poorly balanced that there's often a "correct" option. Although, even that can be hard to tell because this game loves to punish you for trying anything new at this point. You'll be dead before you know what did or didn't work.

    Add in bugs, crashes, and performance issues on the PS4 and your nightmare is complete. One loading screen after another. If you enjoy that amount of grind and masochism, then I hope you enjoy Control. Otherwise, play something with competent balance that respects your time.    … Expand
  9. Trainspotting
    Oct 21, 2019
    2
    The pros of this game are that it has good graphics, a good story and some interesting game mechanics like launch and the ever-changing gun for the director. However, the cons vastly outnumber the pros.

    After even playing more of the game the absolute worse check point system of any game I have played, total dumpster fire of a system. Do you like starting check points 5 minutes away    The pros of this game are that it has good graphics, a good story and some interesting game mechanics like launch and the ever-changing gun for the director. However, the cons vastly outnumber the pros.

    After even playing more of the game the absolute worse check point system of any game I have played, total dumpster fire of a system. Do you like starting check points 5 minutes away from where you died and have to fight your way back to a boss fight only to die again and do it all over again? This would also include large amount of times between check points and having to go back and keep doing over the same old garbage.

    Do you like especially long game load times?

    Do you like when every once in a while, you go into aim mode for your gun and the graphics basically block your entire view of the enemy you are shooting at?

    Do you like long, long, long gun reload times? The worst reload mechanic of any game I have ever played. It is the same gun that morphs into different models but switching (Grip, Charge, Pierce etc..) to other models does not mean you have a full magazine you only have one reload for all guns.

    Do you like whenever you empty your gun or use up all your energy the reload times basically double so you are left defenseless?

    Do you like getting a very limited amount of resources to buy upgrades and find out that the last gun you can purchase in the game should have been essentially labelled GARBAGE( it is called Charge don’t bother with it), and you find out to late that it was just a waste of resources?

    Do you like a poor mapping mechanic and getting lost and a lot of needless running around?

    Do you like when you are low health and near death to have the screen turn almost completely red and not be able to see your enemies?

    Do you like saving up to increase your health only to find out that it doesn’t matter because the enemies still one or two hit kill you anyways? (This is probably the most annoying feature of the game).

    Do you like walking a few feet out of a room you just cleared only to find everything has respawned? Learn to dash by these idiot enemies.

    Do you like being behind full cover only to be one shoted by an enemy you can’t see?

    If you answered yes to all or some of the previous questions than this is the game for you.

    This game becomes very frustrating and if I knew now before I started the game, I would have never bothered to play it. By the end of this game which I finished, I absolutely hated it. The finale is just wave after wave of guys with only one check point at the beginning of the level that I had to repeat a number of times (that happens a number of times throughout the game). Will not play another game developed by Remedy again.    … Expand
  10. BaphiTheOld
    Aug 28, 2019
    2
    It feels like a graphicdemo, bad combat with weapons and a bad storytelling.
  11. lexb
    Oct 1, 2019
    2
    Играл на ПК. Совсем не зашла. Сюжет скучный ни разу не цепляет. Наоборот раздражает как в квантум брейк. Удовольствия от прохождения вообще не получил.
  12. demanius13
    Apr 19, 2020
    2
    Очень скучная игра. Чем дальше, тем мучительнее ее проходить. Последние уровни худшие. Единственное что в этой игре хорошо - это графика разрушений, которая дико тормозит на ps4
  13. KrisDeVirm
    Nov 10, 2019
    2
    A nightmare. After two hours of playing, I did not find the answers to even the simplest questions. I went to the wikipedia and read the plot, I realized that the developers are not interested in answering the questions of the players. If only the visual series remained from the game, it would be better. Submission of the plot in notes that need to be selected, as in Quantum Break, isA nightmare. After two hours of playing, I did not find the answers to even the simplest questions. I went to the wikipedia and read the plot, I realized that the developers are not interested in answering the questions of the players. If only the visual series remained from the game, it would be better. Submission of the plot in notes that need to be selected, as in Quantum Break, is horrible, and these audio recordings with noir thoughts ... This is a shame for 2019.… Expand
  14. Raccoon--
    Apr 6, 2020
    2
    It takes way too long to control stuff. In a game literally named Control and about Controlling things it takes way too much time to be able to control things.
  15. Holliday47
    Apr 29, 2020
    2
    honestly made an account just to help someone not buy this game unless you're looking for: unecessarily hard npc's completely at random ( you can cost or waves and just rock it then one little grunt fires a rickety that does sbout %75 damage whist you can put s whole mag inyo him and scuries away), to restart at a check point close or maybe far away and have to fight your way back beforehonestly made an account just to help someone not buy this game unless you're looking for: unecessarily hard npc's completely at random ( you can cost or waves and just rock it then one little grunt fires a rickety that does sbout %75 damage whist you can put s whole mag inyo him and scuries away), to restart at a check point close or maybe far away and have to fight your way back before you get to try again, controls that become stiffer the furthest you get, so many overbearing npcs attacking at once that the frame rate drops to about 5fps.… Expand
  16. Seken
    Sep 30, 2020
    2
    Das spiel hat unglaublich viel Potential, aber es ist auf der ps4 und der ps4 pro nicht spielbar. 25fps sind das maximum der Standard ps4 trz hochskalierung und das spiel sieht grafisch nicht ansprechend aus. Viel ghosting und schlechte skalierung füren dazu das es wie ein reiner pixelhaufen aussieht und alles was mehr als 3 meter weg ist sieht aus wie brei. Und egal was man macht. AuchDas spiel hat unglaublich viel Potential, aber es ist auf der ps4 und der ps4 pro nicht spielbar. 25fps sind das maximum der Standard ps4 trz hochskalierung und das spiel sieht grafisch nicht ansprechend aus. Viel ghosting und schlechte skalierung füren dazu das es wie ein reiner pixelhaufen aussieht und alles was mehr als 3 meter weg ist sieht aus wie brei. Und egal was man macht. Auch die texturen wollen ums verecken nicht rendern. Das führt dazu das zb die gesichter in cutscenes aussehen wie geleckt und die Augenbrauen wie angemalt aussehen, außerdem sind die lippen mega desychron. Ladezeiten brauchen 3 Minuten nach jedem sterben und die Steuerung ist sehr matschig. Viele sagen das es daran liegt das das spiel grafisch sehr hübsch ist. Allerdings muss ich sagen das viele spiele viel besser aussehen mit mehr fps. Die schönen gameplays sind alle auf dem pc. Sogar ein nfs heat oder ein untcharted 4 sehen viel besser aus und laufen auch konstanter. Das spiel macht mit allen den sachen keinen Spaß und es ist krebs es zu spielen. Habe das spiel schon nach 3 spielstunden aufgegeben. Nichts auf der ps4 version ist fertig und gut. Auch nicht das kämpfen, denn sobald eine Explosion kommt (was häufig ist) hat man für min eine sekunde eine standbildschirm). Keine 60€ euro wert. Pc version ist super. Aber die PlayStation schafft es mit besserer hardware als der pc meiner Freundin nicht ansatzweise so gut. Wer das spiel spielen will sollte es auf einem pc machen. Da fühlt es sich viel besser an. Aber sonst rate ich davon ab.… Expand
  17. Kabeljo
    Aug 10, 2020
    2
    This game is **** Bad graphic, impossible to navigate the map. And the story is boring. Remedys badest game.
    The best part is the abilities you learn. And a cool GUN. Finished the main story, now i try to finish the boring sidequest...
  18. Bwixn
    Jul 20, 2020
    2
    Honestly, I just have no idea what the hell was going on,the story is confusing, the gameplay is frustrating, lack of atmosphere for whatever this game is. Terrible dialogues and monologues, where they stutter or talk to themselves, repetitive monsters. The only well made thing in this game are the graphics. Aside from that this game can be described in one word. ATROCIOUS!
  19. Davor11
    Feb 2, 2021
    2
    Very fustrating game,depresive story, colors to weird for eyes and for head
  20. iihackerii
    Feb 26, 2021
    2
    First of all this is nothing compared to Alan wake !! Well this is one of the worst games i ever played In a while! ignore the high ratings this game has ... poor map Guide , Re-used assets , poor story writing , very f**** slow upgrading system gosh i finished the game and still haven’t finished half of my upgrades!! Weapon upgrades are stupid & silly gives u a Headache , they justFirst of all this is nothing compared to Alan wake !! Well this is one of the worst games i ever played In a while! ignore the high ratings this game has ... poor map Guide , Re-used assets , poor story writing , very f**** slow upgrading system gosh i finished the game and still haven’t finished half of my upgrades!! Weapon upgrades are stupid & silly gives u a Headache , they just throw you in different offices & just spawn the same enemies all over again , literally everything is dull about this game...... i just enjoyed 10% out of the whole game + it gets fustrating sometimes due to too much enemies spawning at the same time , game feels hollow & unfinished . Gosh even for a ps+ game it’s too much . Glad i didn’t buy at launch day! That’s all… Expand
  21. infernal_
    May 26, 2021
    2
    Map so bad im lost and cannot find how can i go to marked point why map is like this this is realy bad choice
  22. rinasciimento
    Feb 15, 2021
    2
    The first game in my life that caused such a huge amount of negative impressions. In this game, almost everything is bad. 90% of the time you just run to no purpose along the corridors, not knowing where to go and what to do. 5% of the time these are boring skirmishes (the developers apparently understood this themselves, so they made simplifying functions like one-shot kills andThe first game in my life that caused such a huge amount of negative impressions. In this game, almost everything is bad. 90% of the time you just run to no purpose along the corridors, not knowing where to go and what to do. 5% of the time these are boring skirmishes (the developers apparently understood this themselves, so they made simplifying functions like one-shot kills and immortality). So if you turn them on, it only gets better. And the remaining 5% are cut-scenes in which nothing happens, but they talk a lot about something (or, on the contrary, nothing, it was not possible to figure it out). The game does not hold interest at all.
    The only thing I can praise the game for is its amazing destruction system. Almost anything can be broken. And there is nothing more to catch on ...    … Expand
  23. VPRFX
    Jun 15, 2021
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Yeah i'm on rage mode. I bought this game because i'm a freak when its comes to telekinesis like sh*ts i love them. And i love the most of the games when i'm feeling i'm free. This game doesnt give you the feeling of freedom. You're playing almost entire game in a god damn building. Oo i'm flying but you know i have a god damn ceiling of my head. Let me give you a good review. First of all games graphics arts good. I loved it. But everywhere is concrete so you're feeling playing the game like its in grayscale mode. When i first started the playing this game i had a feeling this game is little bit scary the atmosphere is amazing like lord of the rings. You were embraced with darkness and the feeling of how the hell i am gonna alive this place? Then the things happened. You kill red head robot like creatures. One two tree bam bam bam then it hits you. Dude why can't i get any response. Looks like i'm killing punching bags. One two tree down. So in the beginning you think damn i'm in a claustrophobic place and this god damn monsters ain't help the mood. You see people hanging in the air and you were waiting the game needs badass foes but you are getting only the silent sh*theads. Then you are not going to understand where are you and what are you doing. You're going to speak some people and baaaaaaamm you realised your characters dialogues are like sh*ts. Ton of sh*ts. She is always sob* what i'm gonna dooo, plis help meeee sob* sob* Dude no sister. YOU ARE THE F*CKING HEAD OF THIS PLACE! WHAT KIND OF CHARACTER YOU HAVE YOU SAID I'M GONNA BE THE LEADER OF THIS BUREU. WORLDS GOING TO BECOME HISS KINGDOM. DROP THAT SH*TTY ATTITUDE.

    So i played this game to the end. There where some amazing things like superpowers. You can play whit foes with good reflexes. I said look at me ma i'm crazy as sh*t. Bam bam bam *silent noodle like foes dies* Why the f*ck i can't torture them. This enemies never going to end. You play almost entire game doing someones footwork and repetitive mission. Go there and find someone. Dude are you f*cking kidding me what kind of map is this. You have spawn point. But that building has stories. Where is the god damn spawn point. And when i die or quit the game i begin at the nearest spawn point. Don't start with the building plan. Because that buildings architecture maybe one of hiss agent i suspect. You are playing amazing game but story is sh*t, environment is sh*t. OP is crying sh*t. One thing isn't **** wepons and superpowers aaaaaaaaand one hallway in front of bathrooms. That place is looking green plants i loved it. I LOVED A F*CKING BATHROOM HALLWAY BECAUSE EVERYWHERE IS GRAY. *calms down*

    So your character is tells you, you are my only and a only family polaris. Help me. And then she's causing to polaris being killed by the hiss. God! *histerical laughs* How the hell this sheila get the job being the director i couldn't understand. So Polaris dies game ends, but not end. Story is sh*t i didn't get whats happening. I swear and swear because i needed to wait 15 min cast screen. Dude i f*cking hate this i've bought this game why the hell i cant skip this sh*t. Every time i open game i have to wait some f*cking logos thats angering me but why the hell i need to wait cast crew names? Get over it.

    So game needs to be more freedom like and color management is boring you need to give some color change. Story is like sh*t and the dialogues. I hate almost every time when Jesse speaks. She is waiting too long every between sentences and this game needs boss enemies. I though i'm gonna kill my brother but i'm went to give that douche a head massage wtf? And this is the most i'm curious about. 52 GB game, and the map is not that big. WHY? Every enemies looks alike. Flying to mold ones. I only see red, head, arms, legs. Boring. When i kill enemy at least i can tore apart them. I'm hitting them with forklift but they are like they made of adamantium and puff they are smoke. Let me see blood, broken pieces. They took my brothers and sister and made them fly in the air. And the f*cking doors. If i can't throw some huge sh*t with my finger i'm sure i can open them.

    Umm i'm thinking do i forget something. Yes. I didn't get the feeling of hero who saves people. I must have killed thousand enemies and hundreds of people but didn't get. So you need to threw some people which is medic helping some someone or yelling hail the queen. And please do not use wuss characters. When i play game i can use variables techniques and make them great but. Oo sob* what i'm gonna do now i need to save my brother like characters killing the mood. Use freedom elements such as bouce from wall, run on the wall, when character uses levitate and dash she needs to continue, etc. And i can't heal by myself. WHY? Last of all running. This girl got some god power and she can't use that to run fast? She can use levitate some extend make herself light and dash in theory. Facepalm*

    This is it. Stinson out.    … Expand
  24. Denarzi
    Nov 8, 2021
    2
    I cannot believe the amount of positive reviews for this game. (edit: upon reading many of the positive reviews I am actually convinced they were written either by actual AIs, people who didn't even play the game, or just morons.) The writers (both of the reviews and game) should be deeply ashamed. They (the game developers) took a great concept, which they even marketed as based on SCPI cannot believe the amount of positive reviews for this game. (edit: upon reading many of the positive reviews I am actually convinced they were written either by actual AIs, people who didn't even play the game, or just morons.) The writers (both of the reviews and game) should be deeply ashamed. They (the game developers) took a great concept, which they even marketed as based on SCP Foundation, and absolutely ruined it. The main character won't shut the **** up. It's maddening. She constantly narrates everything with the most inane commentary of all time. There is zero immersion because you are not the main character, some moron is. The best parts of the game are totally immolated by this. The gameplay loop is also tragically bad. Run through office space after office space shooting enemies who for some reason take your entire clip to kill, but themselves are armed with SMGs and sometimes even forcefields (that also take your whole clip to bring down). There are no difficulty settings either, except to make yourself invincible or turn on one-hitting. Which of course, ruins any tension in the fights. The dialogue is all poorly written exposition, and then followed by more inane and incredibly annoying narration by the main character. All I could think is "why won't she shut the **** up so I can have my own thoughts about what is happening." The mystery and paranormal intrigue is the only redeeming factor, but they ripped the concepts straight from SCP, which is a much much better use of your time if you enjoy that kind of fiction content, because SCP contains literally thousands of stories, and "objects of power", and this game contains maybe 5 or so. The game's best quality is that it isn't totally linear, and you can explore around and find clues and hints about the mysterious objects and events. But this is not the focus, and there isn't nearly enough of this content to justify the game's existence.

    Do not buy this game. I was lucky that I got it for free from a friend and didn't waste a dime on it    … Expand
  25. Gamemonster
    Aug 28, 2019
    1
    We have been spoiled with 60fps games like DMC5 and Resident evil 2. This 30fps game feels really dated.
  26. starsi360
    Oct 7, 2019
    1
    I wanted to love this game so much, and at first I thought it was going to be a little gem as I enjoyed the opening hour or 2. But the game gives you very little direction in terms of finding specific things and sometimes you can literally be running round for 20-30 minutes ending up at the same door or corridor again and again just trying to find what it is that the game is expecting youI wanted to love this game so much, and at first I thought it was going to be a little gem as I enjoyed the opening hour or 2. But the game gives you very little direction in terms of finding specific things and sometimes you can literally be running round for 20-30 minutes ending up at the same door or corridor again and again just trying to find what it is that the game is expecting you to find. Some of the combat is great but other parts just feel like a button mashing mess of confusion. Remedy brought an absolute classic in Alan Wake, then a decent but flawed game with Quantum Break... then in my opinion Control brings them down yet another notch to the realms of mediocre. Wouldn't bother unless you like frustrating games that try to put more effort into being 'clever' and obtuse than they do intuitive and enjoyable.… Expand
  27. Steyraus
    Aug 18, 2020
    1
    First they released a jenky 30fp3 corridor run around game, then double dip and charge the customer twice to get it to run on a next gen machine. RIP REMEDY.
    Boring and repetitive. Non stop spooky spooky noises, are not scary. No map just one top down mess of the whole complex, Character to OP , so to make it harder invisible enemies one hit you. Boring after 4 hours if you brain requires    First they released a jenky 30fp3 corridor run around game, then double dip and charge the customer twice to get it to run on a next gen machine. RIP REMEDY.
    Boring and repetitive. Non stop spooky spooky noises, are not scary. No map just one top down mess of the whole complex, Character to OP , so to make it harder invisible enemies one hit you. Boring after 4 hours if you brain requires any sort of stimulation besides running around similar look corridors occasionally force throwing desk at blurry things.    … Expand
  28. MinimoMalizia
    Aug 27, 2019
    1
    on ps4 this is really bad. optimized by really bad, incredible frame dips and really annoying motion blur
  29. Johnnytsunami
    Dec 16, 2019
    1
    This is probably the clunkiest made game I've ever played in my entire life.
  30. megadirk
    Aug 28, 2019
    1
    Boy am I glad I got this game for free when I bought a RTX 2080 Super. Ray tracing looks great, it really sells what is going to be the future of gaming. That's it though.

    Pros: Lighting Sound Design Cons: Graphics (without ray tracing it looks extremely dated) Story (Literally makes no sense, ever) Dialog (See above) Controls (For a game named control, average at    Boy am I glad I got this game for free when I bought a RTX 2080 Super. Ray tracing looks great, it really sells what is going to be the future of gaming. That's it though.

    Pros:

    Lighting

    Sound Design

    Cons:
    Graphics (without ray tracing it looks extremely dated)

    Story (Literally makes no sense, ever)

    Dialog (See above)

    Controls (For a game named control, average at best)

    Level design (You are in a boring terribly laid out government building
    and then briefly transported to worlds that look like a poor mans Vex construct from Destiny)

    Enemy AI (They just walk towards you shooting, or in the case of Boss battles just terribly frustrating)

    Lets collect trash out of futuristic bins! Then we'll cobble together things later to try to add a level
    of RPG to this game cause that might be the only thing that saves it. It doesn't.)

    There is really nothing about this game worth playing. You can watch better ray tracing demos if you want to see how that works. You can play much better games with better stories, better level design, better graphics, and better mechanics that are from 5 years ago.    … Expand
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Awards & Rankings

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#35 Best PS4 Game of 2019
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#8 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2019
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#40 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2019

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
82

Generally favorable reviews - based on 63 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 52 out of 63
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 63
  3. Negative: 1 out of 63
  1. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Sep 25, 2019
    90
    Impactful gunplay bolstered by a telekinetic twist, and a mystery you’ll be turning over for a long time afterwards. Welcome to the Oldest House, Director. [Issue#167, p.79]
  2. VG247
    Sep 18, 2019
    80
    The writing, direction, and performances are consistently brilliant. This is Remedy at the peak of its game. Control feels like a company rediscovering itself, waking from a long slumber. Remedy’s legs work as intended once more, the vestiges of sleep paralysis a distant memory.
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  3. Quarter to Three
    Sep 17, 2019
    100
    I don’t want to use the word masterpiece lightly, but what else do you call the combination of gleefully chaotic gameplay with earnest storytelling in a setting as refreshingly unique as Bioshock? What else do you call a combat system that goes so far beyond the simple act of shooting a gun without drilling down into a set of intricate menus and complicated controls? What else do you call darkly malevolent horror that doesn’t feel like it was cribbed from someplace else? What else do you call the crowning achievement of a studio with a unique voice, an uneven track record, and 25 years of experience? If there’s a better word to describe what Remedy has achieved with Control, I can’t think of it.
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