Control Resonant Review: Remedy Turns Manhattan Into a Paranatural Nightmare Unlike Anything I've Seen

Control Resonant: A Game That Loves Freaky New York City Just as Much as I Do

This surreal sequel is instantly one of gaming’s best depictions of the Big Apple, an urban kaleidoscope that’s unnerving to witness yet incredible to explore. When I first fell down an endless Manhattan subway tunnel in Control Resonant, I knew I was back in the greatest city in the world. My relationship with New York has transformed radically and constantly since I first moved here 11 years ago for this job. I watched Daredevil in …

Control Resonant review: A violent horror of a video game packed with action

Remedy returns with a sequel to the 2019 PS5 hit Control and they've upped the ante by taking the ghouls and beasties of the Oldest House and letting them loose on an unsuspecting Manhattan

CONTROL Resonant Review: Mind-bendingly magnificent

As I plot how to outsmart a camera that can freeze time, I think CONTROL Resonant isn’t that much of a deviation from the original. Then I’m back in Manhattan, dodging attacks from a possessed city bus, and I’m reassured there’s not a lot of commonality at all. CONTROL Resonant builds an unapologetic, whiplash-inducing distance from its sibling from the first minutes. The hardest part for me was accepting how different it is, both in gameplay an…

Control Resonant review: Remedy turns Manhattan into a paranatural nightmare unlike anything I've seen

Remedy's paranatural sequel is ambitious and visually unique, though it still shares its predecessor's problems in different ways.

CONTROL Resonant Review – Remedy at Its Strangest and Most Confident (PC)

Remedy spent seven years on the follow-up to CONTROL, and the first thing CONTROL Resonant does is throw open the doors of the Oldest House. The paranatural crisis has spilled into Manhattan, the Federal Bureau of Control has run out of options, and the man they release to deal with it is Dylan Faden. Dylan fights in melee rather than at range and moves through a city divided into open zones rather than shifting corridors. My time with the PC bu…

Control Resonant Review - A Shapeshifting Rollercoaster Of Weirdness

No developer makes games with the same juice as Remedy. They’re a developer who, through strong work thus far, has set the expectation of strong presentation and a knack for weirdness in games that nobody else dares to touch. Control Resonant delivers on that implicit Remedy promise in many ways, though at the same time is a significant departure from anything they’ve ever done before. That ambition comes with caveats: it’s easily Remedy’s most …