Control Review – Conspiracies, Bureaucracy, and Ghost Bullets

After Quantum Break didn’t seem to do so hot as a Xbox One exclusive, development studio Remedy has returned to multiplatform with Control, another story-driven action game about paranormal phenomenon. Despite the pattern studio head Sam Lake seems to love following, he and his teams always find new ways to dress it up, and this time we’re looking at a sort of…

  • Fun sci-fi story filled with compelling government secrecy-flavored lore
  • Challenging combat makes you use all your tools
  • Awesome reality-bending environment visuals
  • "Day one" build suffers from consistent performance issues
  • Cumbersome map makes navigation annoying sometimes
  • Main character is a bit boring

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