Control is Remedy’s latest game. The creators of Max Payne, Alan Wake, and Quantum Break are back with a third-person shooter that sits in the New Weird genre, a relatively new genre that the likes of X-Files and Twin Peaks sits in. It’s very creepy.
Our protagonist, Jesse Faden, is super badass and seems to take on what’s going on without so much as a flinch. She’s just like “oh, this gun that shapeshifts? Sure thing. Oh, I’m the Director of the Federal Bureau of Control now? No biggie.” The story has a lot of unravelling to do, and the two hours I played just left me wishing I could play the entire game there and then. I almost refused to leave. I don’t think that would’ve gone down well though.