There are plenty of side missions to go along with the main story, but they're pretty well-hidden throughout the game world. Side missions are more than filler, though. As you take down enemies, they'll drop health power-ups, so you can heal yourself as you fight on. Jesse's customizable Service Weapon starts out as a self-reloading pistol with self-recharging ammo. The story was written by Max Payne creator Sam Lake, and it has all of the twists and turns you'd expect from a Remedy game's plot.įor the most part, Remedy's latest plays like a typical third-person shooter where you can run, duck, jump, melee, and your way through baddies or stand back and pick them off. The director of this agency (voiced by James McCafferty, the voice of Max Payne) advises Jesse throughout the early part of the game.
Jesse has some supernatural powers that stem from a mysterious event that happened during her childhood. You are Jesse Faden (played by Courtney Hope, who was Beth in Quantum Break), and you're looking for answers, but instead she finds a whole lot more questions. A secretive agency in New York has been overrun by an other-worldly presence. Remedy's Control is a third-person shooter set in an alternate version of the present. What'd these chairs ever do to you? What Is Control? You're here to see how the game runs on modern hardware and how it looks with all the effects turned up to 11, and we want to save the plot for you to experience on your own. We won't show any areas that Remedy hasn't already unveiled in the game's official trailers, and we won't discuss any plot points. To avoid that, we captured all of our screenshots and performed all of our tests in the first 20 minutes of the game. Since Control's experience is built on a sense of adventure and mystery, plot spoilers would completely ruin the fun. Remedy's latest third-person adventure doesn't ship until tomorrow, and you can safely read this article without fear of spoiling the adventure. The environments in the trailer look nice with all the effects enabled, and it'll be interesting to see what you lose if you don't have a GeForce RTX card in your PC. We're going to take a deep dive into how Remedy applied these effects to the world of Jesse Faden. The developer teamed up with NVIDIA to bring a variety of ray tracing effects and the green team's Deep Learning Super Sampled anti-aliasing technique to Remedy's latest title. When the House that Max Built gave us an opportunity to check out what its latest thriller, Control, had in store, we had to say yes.