Developer: Remedy Entertainment
Publisher: 505 Games
Release: August 27th
On: Windows
From: Epic Game Store
Price: 48/ 60/$
Control wasn’t what I was expecting. The developers of this third-person psy-shooter have been nattering about weird fiction and belabouring the game’s literary inspirations. After telekinetically yeeting myself through it, however, I ve found little insightful storytelling, just a trad conspiracy/mystery story, and lots of colourful excuses as to how someone can suddenly develop superpowers. But when it feels this satisfying to lift an office chair with your brain and hoof it at a row of monster guards, I don t care that it s the videogame equivalent of Warehouse 13. Control is also surprisingly funny. Those looking for a Lynchian labyrinth of hidden meaning might find it here if they squint, but what I found was a solid comedy pastiche of the X-Files, right down to a mysterious smoking man. I wouldn t want it to be anything else.