Control Shows Off Its Beautiful and Ominous First 13-Minutes

Remedy Entertainment's Control won't hit shelves until late August, but you lot tin can check out the outset fifteen-minutes-or-so of the game correct now, courtesy of the folks at IGN. The footage kicks off with some moody narration and evocative imagery, so we cutting to protagonist Jesse Faden every bit she makes her manner effectually the Federal Bureau of Control'southward headquarters for the first time. The building seems to be mostly abandoned, except for a creepy janitor, which Jesse doesn't actually question, equally it seems the game volition be surreal correct from the go go. Eventually, Jesse runs across the body of FBC's director, seemingly dead by his own hand, and so ends upward in a bit of an action tutorial in a trippy alternate dimension. Honestly, it'southward tough to describe the footage in words – bank check information technology out for yourself, beneath.

Nice-looking stuff! The game's brutalist skyscraper office environments are both impressively realistic and oddly otherworldly all at once. Remedy are definitely doing something unique here. That said, I hope they don't go overboard with the trippiness – a certain corporeality is fine, but I don't want to be confused the entire game. For now though, I'm definitely optimistic.

Desire to know more about Control? You tin check out Wccftech'southward exclusive interviews with the game's developers here and here, and can check out an official synopsis, below.

Ready in a unique and e'er-changing world that juxtaposes our familiar reality with the strange and unexplainable, Control is a third-person action-adventure game combining Remedy's trademark gunplay with supernatural abilities.

Afterwards a secretive bureau in New York is invaded by an otherworldly threat, players will take on the function of Jesse Faden, the new Director struggling to regain Control. This sandbox-style, gameplay-driven feel built on the proprietary Northlight engine challenges players to principal a combination of supernatural abilities, modifiable loadouts and reactive environments while fighting through the deep and mysterious worlds Remedy is known and loved for.

Control hovers onto PC, Xbox One, and PS4 on August 27.