Remedy Entertainment confirmed the launch date of Control Resonant, their sequel to the acclaimed 2019 game, during today's State of Play event.
Control Resonant will be released on Thursday, September 24, which means it will be available within 24 hours of two other big triple-A games: KONAMI and Screen Burn Interactive's Silent Hill: Townfall, and CAPCOM's Onimusha: Way of the Sword.
The new trailer finally featured some voiceover from Jesse, even though Dylan will be the only playable character. It's a deliberate role reversal given that in the original Control, he was essentially the antagonist, a warped being under the Hiss's influence, responsible for hundreds of deaths before Jesse stopped and cleansed him. He then spent years in a coma, trapped inside his own mind.
Control Resonant begins with him waking up in a world he doesn't understand, with his sister, Jesse, now missing. The developers highlighted him as someone who has never truly been in control of his own life: taken by the FBC as a child, institutionalized, and later possessed by the Hiss. His central question going into the game is existential: who is he now that he's finally free of everything that defined him?
Jesse is still present and described as central to the story. The sibling dynamic is described as a mirror of the first game: where Jesse moved the story forward while Dylan shaped her path from the outside, now it's Dylan pushing through the narrative while Jesse's actions and mysterious absence define his journey.
As they've said before, both games are ultimately about the siblings confronting their destinies together, even when they're apart. The cost of what they carry, their shared traumatic past, their paranatural abilities, and the weight of what happened in the Oldest House, will be fully explored in the plot.
On PC, the game will feature DLSS 4.5 and path tracing support. Those who don't have powerful enough hardware can stream it through GeForce NOW.
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