Control (computer game)
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Studio | Remedy Entertainment | ||
Publisher | 505 games | ||
Senior Developer | Sam Lake | ||
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27th August 2019 | ||
platform | Windows , PlayStation 4 , Xbox One | ||
Game engine | Northlight | ||
genre | Third-person shooter , action-adventure | ||
Subject | Parapsychology | ||
Game mode | Single player | ||
control | Mouse & keyboard, controller | ||
system advantages preconditions |
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medium | DVD , Blu-ray , download | ||
language | German English | ||
copy protection | none | ||
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Control is a third-person shooter released in August 2019 by the Finnish developer Remedy Entertainment . The level structure is based on the Metroidvania genre. It is named after the fictional Federal Bureau of Control . The main character Jesse Faden (played by Courtney Hope ) uses telekinetic skills to free the federal agency from a supernatural power. The game was published exclusively on PC in the Epic Games Store for the equivalent of € 9.5 million. The first expansion, The Foundation , was also released on March 26th for PS4 and PC (in the Epic Games Store) for three months exclusively before the DLC appears on June 25th for Xbox One.
development
The designers were heavily inspired by brutalism . The structures in the game are geometric and block-like. The materials used are concrete, brick and steel. The building should appear safe and solid. The windowless Long Lines Building served as the inspiration for the Oldest House , in which the game takes place. Secret services are stationed there both in the real model and in the game. The astral projection is also called the switchboard in the game , an allusion to the telephone operator AT&T , which operated its switchboard on 33 Thomas Street for a long time.
The Northlight game engine already known from Quantum Break has been expanded to include ray tracing . This enables dynamic shadows and reflections. In connection with the destructible environment, this creates a very realistic graphic. The particularly computationally intensive global lighting is also supported. Graphics cards that are not powerful enough fall back on shadow mapping and screen space reflections . The screen space reflections are generated by signed distance fields . The rendering pipeline is physics-based, which results in a high degree of realism and precision in the interaction of materials. With the help of Temporal Accumulation , the impression of a sharper image is created.
reception
“Remedy shows its better side with the rapidly staged mixture of ballistic action, but it also reveals unusual design weaknesses. Even after the finale, the exciting story makes you want more. "
The game won the IGN Award for Game of the Year 2019, Best Action Adventure Game and Best Video Game Graphics , and Best Video Game Story. In addition, Remedy won the Critics' Award of the Golden Joystick Awards 2019. Control also won at The Game Awards 2019 in the category “best art direction”. It also received the “Most Entertaining PlayStation 4 Game 2019” award .
Extensions
Even after the release of Control, further expansions (DLCs) will appear, which have already been announced in advance by the developer Remedy Entertainment . At least two expansions appear, which bring new content to the game.
Control: The Foundation
In addition to new story content, the expansion The Foundation, which was released on March 26, 2020, also features new side missions, weapons and mods. The extension brings with it background knowledge of the history of the "oldest house".
Control: AWE
The AWE expansion, which will be released on September 30, 2020, is all about the eponymous Altered World Events. In AWE, the player is sent to a new area of the Old House called "Investigations Sector".
With this expansion, developer Remedy Entertainment is giving its long-time supporters confirmation of the rumors that have been circulating since the release that Control is in the same game universe as Alan Wake.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Control | 505 games
- ↑ Alessio Palumbo: Remedy's Sam Lake Talks About Introducing the 'New Weird' Setting with Control , November 29
- ↑ Control System Requirements
- ↑ Control devs roll back an update that added DRM - “no need to blame Epic for our mistakes”
- ↑ Control title
- ↑ GameStar: Control
- ↑ Control: Jesse Faden guides you through the Remedy Studio , March 8, 2019
- ↑ Control: So much paid for Epic Games for the exclusive release , 09/22/2019
- ↑ Control will receive its first major expansion for PS4 and PC with The Foundation in March, and later for Xbox One
- ↑ Control: How a Single Senior Artist Built a Brutalist Material Library
- ↑ Ewan Wilson: The real buildings that inspired Control's Oldest House , October 14, 2019
- ↑ Raffael Vötter: Control in the Technical Inspectorate : Raytracing done right - with heavy service costs, 08/27/2019
- ↑ John Linneman: Control on console is brilliant if you play on the right hardware , August 30, 2019
- ↑ Test 4Players
- ↑ Control wins big at IGN's 'Game of the Year 2019' Awards.
- ↑ Marcel Kleffmann: Golden Joystick Awards 2019: Resident Evil 2 Remake wins the main prize; the critic's award goes to Control , November 16, 2019
- ↑ Control wins Best Art Direction at The Game Awards , December 13, 2019
- ↑ PS4 Game Of The Year Awards 2019 - Best PlayStation 4 Games , December 18, 2019
- ↑ Control AWE - A crossover with Alan Wake. Retrieved August 1, 2020 .