Control (computer game)

Control

Studio

Sam Lake

Erstveröffent-
lichung

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

Windows 7 (64 bit)
DirectX 11
CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 / AMD FX 4350
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 / AMD Radeon R9 280x
RAM: 8 GB

medium

DVD , Blu-ray , download

German English

none

information

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

AT&T Long Lines Building (33 Thomas Street)

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. "

- Mathias Oertel : 4Players

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.