Control Standard Edition - Xbox One

I can say with confidence that this game is memorable in a way that only a couple games over the past decade have been for me. This game grabs ahold of your psyche in a way that few others can and, once you unlock your abilities and learn to properly utilize them, you truly understand the title of the game.

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Control has an incredible feel to it in terms of story. The world it creates, all from within the Control facility, feels so very fleshed out and vast. You will be doing yourself a disservice if you don't seek out and read every document, watch every video, and find every secret. It is such fun to find easter eggs joining Control's world with other Remedy titles. The combat can be fun. It can be frantic and require you to make the right choices or be forced to start over at the last checkpoint. When you have all of your powers, you can feel like a superhero, however, obtaining those powers takes a while. The game has performance issues, with noticeable frame drops during busy sequences. This is especially true on the base consoles, which makes me only able to truly recommend the game on PS4 Pro, XB1X, or PC. While a mostly fun mystery to unfold, Control has a problem with unfair difficulty spikes with many of its boss fights. Instead of losing the battle because you were off your game, Control's bosses instead like to rely on throwing unlimited waves of smaller enemies at you, and also making the battle arenas prone to deadly pit falls. I say definitely check out Control if you have one of the advanced console or a PC, and save yourself some frustration and play on easy mode.

If you enjoyed other Remedy games such as Allen Wake and Quantum Break, then you will definitely like the story of Control. As far as gameplay, it is a 3rd person action-adventure platformer using guns, powers, and slight puzzle-solving mechanics. I enjoyed the game. It is very similar to Quantum Break as far as gameplay. If the only thing you didn't like about quantum break was the last boss fight, then you will enjoy this game.

I did not think I would enjoy Control as much as I did. I knew I would like it, but I found myself looking forward to getting back to it when I wasn't playing during the day. The story is the true star, it's very engaging and often I wanted to keep playing just to see what was next. I found myself hunting for each collectible not to get an achievement, but just so I could read more cool/funny things about the world they built. Gameplay is a lot of fun and it never got that repetitive with new abilities or upgrades being introduced slowly. You also use those abilities to explore new areas in The Oldest House, the game's setting, which is a character on it's own. I have heard some people have issues with frame rate drops and bugs, and I did experience a bug that won't let me complete a side mission, but I'm still giving it 5 stars because it's that good (also playing on an Xbox One X so that probably helped avoid issues). They have a mid-September patch planned to address these issues if you are worried. Overall a very solid single player experience that I would recommend to anyone (especially those who have played Remedy's other games like Alan Wake or Quantum Break).