Control Reviews

Control is ranked in the 91st percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Aug 26, 2019

Control offers over-the-top action, a bizarre but interesting story, and a focus on fun over realism that helps solidify it as one of the year's best.

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8.8 / 10.0
Aug 26, 2019

Control is set in an engrossingly weird paranormal world that I couldn’t help but explore.

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Recommended
Aug 26, 2019

Giddy action and astonishing art design combine in one of the great locations of modern video games.

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88 / 100
Aug 26, 2019

Jesse's telekinesis joins Half-Life 2's juiced gravity gun in the videogame physics toy hall of fame.

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Aug 26, 2019

The perfect blend of narrative and gameplay, coherency and strangeness, Control is a game we'll be talking about for generations.

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8.8 / 10.0
Aug 26, 2019

Control's intense firefights are fun, but they don't evolve much in the second half. Fortunately, its unsettling mood and explosive moments more than balance the scales

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Polygon
Top Critic
Unscored
Aug 26, 2019

Behold, one of 2019’s best and weirdest games

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GameSpot
Top Critic
8 / 10
Aug 26, 2019

A different kind of haunted house makes Control hard to resist.

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Oct 22, 2019

Control feels like Remedy firing on all cylinders, resulting in a smart and sensational action-adventure.

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4.5 / 5.0
Sep 2, 2019

One could easily make the argument that Control could very well be Remedy's magnum opus.

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9 / 10.0
Aug 26, 2019
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Aug 26, 2019

I can’t overstate the fact that it’s a funny game – funny enough that the humour keeps you going from fight to fight, searching not for the source of your mysterious enemy, or for the answer to all the sub-mysteries surrounding Jesse, but for the next episode of the Threshold Kids.

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8 / 10.0
Aug 26, 2019

Despite some iffy performance issues and some very frustrating narrative choices, Control's compelling gameplay, excellent combat and dedication to the bizarre make it an easy game to recommend

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8 / 10
Aug 26, 2019

Control is Remedy at its best: pulpy, weird, and immensely satisfying to play. Its setting is a potent concoction of '60s brutalist style and wacky sci-fi. Performance issues hamper the shootouts, and the characters are a little cold, but it's the setting and atmosphere that win the day.

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8.7 / 10.0
Aug 26, 2019

There are small edges that could be polished, such as the low number of enemies, certain lows in the rhythm of the game and some pulls in the rate of images per second, but it is the least when it comes to facing this adventure.

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7.5 / 10.0
Aug 26, 2019

Remedy Entertainment's latest game, Control, continues to embrace the weirdness that has permeated in the studio's past titles but fails to excel in any one area.

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8 / 10
Aug 30, 2019

It's fast-paced, fun, and pretty damn freaky — all the right elements of a perfect sci-fi thriller.

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78 / 100
Aug 28, 2019

An adventure with some of the best Remedy qualities, with some ingredients that may appeal to the fans of supernatural games. On the other side, the exploration is unnecessarily frustrating and the graphical department feels as a mixed bag.

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8.5 / 10.0
Aug 26, 2019

Remedy returns to the glories of the past with a beautiful science fiction adventure in paranormal salsa.

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Metro GameCentral
Top Critic
8 / 10
Aug 26, 2019

The flawed storytelling squanders its full potential but even with a few missteps this is still one of the most enjoyable action games of the year.

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