Control

 Xbox One
User Score
7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 479 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 345 out of 479
  2. Mixed: 60 out of 479
  3. Negative: 74 out of 479
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  1. CrossGuy
    Jan 6, 2020
    0
    BIG performance issues, terrible graphics for a console game, and the worst issue of all, the cinematics crash And have poor animations
  2. VforValentino
    Dec 31, 2019
    0
    On the 31th of dec 2019 this game still had performance issues on the base xbox one. Would strongly not recommend this game until fixed.
  3. Xboxgamerxxx
    Aug 20, 2020
    0
    The game is a really good game however I am only giving it a zero rating because they are screwing over everyone who bought the base game and dlc pass for $85 and are not getting the next gen Upgrade free. In order to get the next GEN upgrade free you have to buy a $40 ultimate edition which includes the exact same content that we already paid for.
  4. Gamemonster
    Aug 28, 2019
    1
    We have been spoiled with 60fps games like DMC5 and Resident evil 2. This 30fps game feels really dated.
  5. tdebug
    Apr 25, 2021
    0
    Story is unique as well as visually game looks very nice. I don't like constantly re-spawning enemies, which makes it a bit annoying as very typical and repetitive combat happens in exactly same areas you just visited over and over again. Also no guidance for quest directions and complex level design make it a little difficult to navigate and map is often not easy to read at all. SomeStory is unique as well as visually game looks very nice. I don't like constantly re-spawning enemies, which makes it a bit annoying as very typical and repetitive combat happens in exactly same areas you just visited over and over again. Also no guidance for quest directions and complex level design make it a little difficult to navigate and map is often not easy to read at all. Some minor performance issues and glitches still happening in July 2020, like map often take 10-30 seconds to display correctly.

    Upd: lowered my rating all the way to 0, because developers and publisher demonstrated nothing but greed and no support for early adopters of the game. Everything they do is aimed to get more money also from those who paid premium for the game already. Pushing to buy another copy of the game to have an XS upgrade and even to play DLCs. This is lame.    … Expand
  6. D1gitalR0nin
    Aug 26, 2020
    0
    Игру изначально оценил на 10, чтобы поддержатт разработчиков, верил в то что будет качественный проект. Но свинское отношение разработчиков и издателя заставило изменить мнение. Задержки с длс, уникальный контент для плойки - владельцев иксбокса вертели на половом органе. А под конец поколения и вовсе всех игроков кинули с платным улучшением игры.Игру изначально оценил на 10, чтобы поддержатт разработчиков, верил в то что будет качественный проект. Но свинское отношение разработчиков и издателя заставило изменить мнение. Задержки с длс, уникальный контент для плойки - владельцев иксбокса вертели на половом органе. А под конец поколения и вовсе всех игроков кинули с платным улучшением игры.
  7. umkara
    Apr 4, 2021
    0
    cant recommend this game on xbox one fat and series s, lots of framerates drops that make it unplayable. just downloaded the game on pc by gamepass and the game is actually really good without the low resolution and terrible framerate.
  8. HumanoidGREY
    May 14, 2020
    4
    This game is a huge disappointment. Basically just Quantum Break with an arguably worse and vague story. Never managed to even spark my interest in the slightest and even after playing for 8+ hours the game hardly makes any sense at all. Characters are uninspired and boring to the point I didn't even bother remembering names. There is no option to change the difficulty and the game isThis game is a huge disappointment. Basically just Quantum Break with an arguably worse and vague story. Never managed to even spark my interest in the slightest and even after playing for 8+ hours the game hardly makes any sense at all. Characters are uninspired and boring to the point I didn't even bother remembering names. There is no option to change the difficulty and the game is filled with cheap deaths. You cannot save from the menu but need to go to 'control points'. And when you die you will be greeted with a long loading screen that usually spawns you back quite some distance from the point you need to be. The game has major texture loading issues and physics that go haywire from time to time. My advice would be to stay away from this game and enjoy Quantum Break. Better story, better gameplay, more settings and to my opinion looks better (on One X) too. Don't trust popular review websites on this one. It will probably burn you.… Expand
  9. Nerevarinho
    Dec 20, 2020
    3
    Too long dialogues in cutscenes instead of a good balance or just storytelling during playing. Too many video clips of real persons, tries to imitate Hellblade but does it poorly.
    There are Chests, but they feel out of place, i dont expect any loot or crafting mechanic in an Alan Wake-like.
    First mini boss, a bullet sponge. Camera movement feels cheap and not immersive like in other    Too long dialogues in cutscenes instead of a good balance or just storytelling during playing. Too many video clips of real persons, tries to imitate Hellblade but does it poorly.
    There are Chests, but they feel out of place, i dont expect any loot or crafting mechanic in an Alan Wake-like.
    First mini boss, a bullet sponge.
    Camera movement feels cheap and not immersive like in other games.
    Running as standard instead of walking, breaks immersion.
    Feels 30 fps locked, blurry and lowres in Xbox Series S.
    There is spanish voiceover but not italian, im pretty sure Alan Wake had italian voiceovers.
    Uninstall.    … Expand
  10. Rwbytalk
    Feb 19, 2020
    4
    I really like this game and the story The difficulty is really bad 'the enemies are taking me out easy in the bosses will take you out really easy and they don't take a lot of damage from the gun the big problem is the enemies and the difficulty
  11. bmarci
    Sep 5, 2021
    3
    There is no difficulty setting, which makes this game unenjoyable for some, like me. I gave it up at Tommasi. Also the saving system (which is non-existing) makes the experience painful. After every death you end up somewhere in the way too complex office labyrinth and you have to navigate through the unnecessarily overcomplicated corridors. The whole thing feels very outdated. This gameThere is no difficulty setting, which makes this game unenjoyable for some, like me. I gave it up at Tommasi. Also the saving system (which is non-existing) makes the experience painful. After every death you end up somewhere in the way too complex office labyrinth and you have to navigate through the unnecessarily overcomplicated corridors. The whole thing feels very outdated. This game feels like a wasted opportunity to make something unique, but it is clearly a hit and miss. Running surprisingly poorly on a Series X.… Expand
  12. HauMauKhau
    Mar 20, 2021
    0
    It's modern Devil May Cry 3 or some 2000 era crap. Bosses are over powered, NO USEFUL TUTORIAL FOR UNLOCKING MOD SLOTS, UPGRADING ABILITIES. CAN'T CUSTOMIZE/UPGRADE ANYTHING OUTSIDE CONTROL POINTS, IF DEAD, GAME LOADS FROM CONYROL POINT MEANING PLAYER HAS TO KILL THE ENEMIES AGAIN FROM THE BEGINNING OF CONTROL POINT IF HE DIES. I call this a BUG, because in 2021 it cannot be a feature.It's modern Devil May Cry 3 or some 2000 era crap. Bosses are over powered, NO USEFUL TUTORIAL FOR UNLOCKING MOD SLOTS, UPGRADING ABILITIES. CAN'T CUSTOMIZE/UPGRADE ANYTHING OUTSIDE CONTROL POINTS, IF DEAD, GAME LOADS FROM CONYROL POINT MEANING PLAYER HAS TO KILL THE ENEMIES AGAIN FROM THE BEGINNING OF CONTROL POINT IF HE DIES. I call this a BUG, because in 2021 it cannot be a feature. NOOB DEVELOPERS. THANK GOD I DIDNT BUY THIS JUNK. WASTE OF TIME. IDIOTIC PUZZLES FORCED UPON PLAYERS TO MAKE THE STORY BIG THAN IT IS.… Expand
  13. Uedro
    Jan 22, 2021
    4
    a videogame that technically deserves a 9 but unfortunately I have to evaluate it badly because it was more stress than fun .... every time you want to tackle a mission you find yourself wandering around the game map to get to the point of interest because the game it never gives you a precise indication of where you need to go .. I was really disappointed to have to uninstall it
  14. Vaxzan
    Aug 8, 2021
    4
    Control is a frustrating mess of a game with a fantastic premise that leads to nothing.

    Gameplay A fairly standard TPS with little weapon variety. The one weapon is the service weapon which is a pistol, it does have different forms that will make it similar to a shotgun or hand cannon but this is only in look and as such it still acts as a pistol. There is a modification system with    Control is a frustrating mess of a game with a fantastic premise that leads to nothing.

    Gameplay

    A fairly standard TPS with little weapon variety. The one weapon is the service weapon which is a pistol, it does have different forms that will make it similar to a shotgun or hand cannon but this is only in look and as such it still acts as a pistol. There is a modification system with the weapon that can give minor buffs to the gun or to health and such, there are also these mods for yourself for the same thing. Enemies in the game lack variety and are essentially your standard zombie-type enemies present in many games, while some of them do interesting things like throw rubble at you it effectively just serves as a long-range option. The player does have superhero-like abilities which are actually pretty neat, the launch ability, for example, allows you to pick up pretty much anything on the map and throw it at people with a force power, this ability feels great to use and is a whole lot of fun. However a problem with this ability is that it is imprecise as a result of how much can be picked up, it can be hard to pick up a certain item you want which can be extremely frustrating and even lead to death if you were planning to throw a grenade back at the enemy. This problem was especially prevalent in a particular boss fight about halfway through the game. The shield ability is fantastic, I have no issues with this and it is the best of the abilities you get, the ability upgrades for it make it possible to be a weapon as well and offer extra protection and some unique combat options. Evade is a simple dodge. Levitate is a floating ability that should be really cool but it works so strangely that it is oftentimes not a lot of fun. For some reason the game severely limits how high you can go with the levitate, this makes it frustrating to platform as if you are not in the exact right spot when you levitate you won’t get enough height to get to the platform, this is annoying if there is a platform beneath youtube land on and frustrating if there is no floor and doing so will result in death. Difficulty in the game comes from enemies being bullet sponges, as you get further in the game enemies will have more health thus increasing the difficulty. This way of having difficulty increase is not interesting at all and is just painful to play through especially with rather generic combat. Exploration is a big part of the game and how you get lore in the game and for the most part, the exploration is pretty good with some interesting areas.

    Story

    The story is one of the worst aspects of Control, it follows Jesse Faden finally arriving at the FBC to hunt for her brother Dylan. The story quickly goes off the rails as a force called The Hiss invades and Jesse becomes The Director. Next, Jesse must help the FBC get the situation under control to unlock more of the building to lead to Dylan. The world is an incredibly interesting SCP-like world with anomalies and strange items, the setup is incredible as it seems that there are limitless possibilities with this set-up, the lore even features the standard redacted documents like on the SCP wiki. This is why it is so disappointing when the story is just a basic zombie story with a corrupting influence, they could’ve done anything and choose the most boring option, the lore of the game is more interesting than the main story. The characters featured in the main story, with some exceptions, are incredibly one-note and boring. Jesse for example has few emotions and a quirk where she will talk to herself essentially to comment on things that are currently happening in the game, these monologues are quite jarring and really take away from the experience as what is said are things easily deduced or completely unnecessary to have explained. Dylan is an even worse offender of this getting absolutely no build-up or connection to the main character. The game tells us we should care for Dylan but doesn’t show us why, a big part of the game’s story revolves around a specific incident from Jesse and Dylan’s childhood but we never see or experience this event as the player, it is only talked about and alluded to mainly in the optional collectibles, it is completely baffling that they would not have this very important incident be something playable or at least in a cutscene. The game attempts to set up a potential twist where The Hiss might actually be a good thing and the FBC might be the evil ones, however, this idea only shows up halfway through the game after you’ve spent hours working with the FBC and having them help you save people and them help you out, it is so jarring and not set up at all that it is completely unbelievable that The Hiss would actually be good. The set-up of the story is so good but the payoff and actually story and how it is presented fall short.

    Conclusion

    Control is a game of missed potential, I wouldn’t recommend buying it.    … Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#22 Best Xbox One Game of 2019
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#19 Most Discussed Xbox One Game of 2019
38
#38 Most Shared Xbox One Game of 2019

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Metascore
84

Generally favorable reviews - based on 31 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 31
  3. Negative: 0 out of 31
  1. Official Xbox Magazine UK
    Oct 12, 2019
    80
    A stylish shooter that subverts and surprises at every turn. A little glitchy, though. [Issue#182, p.79]
  2. XboxAddict
    Sep 16, 2019
    88
    Control has that signature Remedy feel to it, from its unique combat to its completely out there narrative, something only Sam Lake could be a part of. Although the story is Control’s strongest asset, it will take a lot of concentration and thought to piece it all together, as I’ve still got many questions even after the credits have rolled. Luckily you can continue Jesse’s journey once completed, allowing you to finish up any sidequests and other activities as we wait on the upcoming DLC that will hopefully answer more questions. Welcome to the FBC Director.
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  3. 3DJuegos
    Sep 11, 2019
    80
    Control is Remedy's most daring work. A courageous level design that encourages exploration and limits visual guides is mixed with fierce combat. In the second half, this combate can be somewhat monotonous and repetitive. Its story is neither the best nor is it told in the best way. Quite the opposite of its setting, which seduces the player with shocking scenarios and situations.
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