CONTROL Ultimate Edition
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Strong profanity appears in dialogue and recorded case files.
Third-person gunfire and telekinetic combat against human agents possessed by a hostile force, with blood but no dismemberment or lingering gore.
The story centers on a corrupted secret agency, a missing brother, possession, and disturbing paranormal lore, including unsettling notes about deaths and altered objects.
An eerie, oppressive atmosphere with body-horror enemies, floating chanting corpses, and reality-warping spaces creates frequent dread and frightening moments without being a dedicated horror game.
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What it is
Control is a single-player third-person action-adventure in which Jesse Faden becomes the new director of a secret U.S. agency that studies supernatural phenomena, and must retake its shifting headquarters from an otherworldly force called the Hiss that has possessed the staff. Combat uses a shapeshifting gun plus psychic powers like hurling furniture and levitating, producing frequent gunfire and blood but no gore or dismemberment. The tone is weird and eerie, with disturbing paranormal imagery, mutated enemies, and heavy story material about family loss and secretive experiments, and the dialogue and case files contain strong language. There are no purchases, gambling, or online interaction.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence as a defensive struggle to contain and cleanse a corrupting invasion, casting Jesse as an investigator restoring order to a broken agency. Its dark and unnerving material is presented through a cerebral, bureaucratic-mystery lens rather than for shock, treating the paranormal as a subject to be studied and understood.
Details
- Developer
- Remedy Entertainment
- Publisher
- Remedy Entertainment
- Released
- Aug 27, 2020
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