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Remedy is one my favorite game developers. Their relatively small and exceptionally talented team is behind some of the best action games from the last two decades. Max Payne 2 remains a criminally undersold film noir masterpiece. Alan Wake’s dense and foggy forests are as haunting today as they were ten years ago. And Quantum Break was an awesome experiment in fusing live action TV and gaming in a way we might never see again.
But in 2019’s Control, Remedy pushed their action gameplay, storytelling, and audiovisual presentation to new incredible levels. The game launched with a few severe console performance issues, but that’s largely in the past. Now, just shy of its first DLC expansion on PS4 and PC, and a free general update on all three platforms, it’s patched up and much more marvelous.
Control plays with lighting, reflections, dynamic animations, and environmental physics in a way most games only dream of. Whether you’re running the game on a beefed-up PC with an RTX card, or a more modest current generation console, Control’s labyrinthine hallways and play spaces are bathed in realistic…
