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Tower play 1 Jesse Faden carries out some DIY demolition in The Oldest House. 2 Employees of the Federal Bureau of Control admire the architecture – but can Jesse trust them? 3 It seems unlikely that machine is just for decoration...
CONTROL
How do you know who to trust when stuck inside a shapeshifting building?
Format PS4, XO, PC | Release date 27 August | Publisher 505 Games | Developer Remedy Games T | Info
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he Oldest House is a bewildering place. The towering HQ of the Federal Bureau of Control is a
writhing labyrinth where alternate dimensions clash with brutalist architecture. In our hands-on demo, we play as the organisation’s new director, Jesse Faden. And it turns out it’s hard to find the break room when the walls have a habit of shifting around you. The Hiss doesn’t help
matters either. This interdimensional force has taken root in The Oldest House, corrupting those within. Using Jesse’s telekinetic powers, we hurl barrels, boxes, and bits of office equipment to soften up infected enemies. Then we close in for the kill with Jesse’s properly punchy Service Weapon, which can transform from a precision pistol to a devastating shotgun at the touch of a button. One especially agile Hiss-monster
manages to dodge past our barrage and take a swipe at us, but fortunately you can recover your health by hoovering up the blue crystals dropped by vanquished
foes. It’s a system that encourages aggression – the way to survive here is to run into danger, not away from it.
Brother beyond Not all of Jesse’s co-workers have been
corrupted. Some can be spoken to, but that doesn’t mean they can be trusted. Talking to a military overseer, Jesse mentions her missing brother, Dylan, but cuts the conversation short. He was captured by the Bureau when the two siblings were kids and remains missing to this day. If Jesse hopes to see him again, she’s clearly going to have to figure out who she can trust first. The question rears its
head again when we bump
into Ahti, an oddball janitor whose incoherent mutterings leave us
wondering whether he’s been touched by the Hiss himself. In Control, it seems that you can’t rely on the people you meet any more than you can rely on the shifting rooms that you fight and puzzle through. At least we have superpowers that can bend time and physics. They’ll never let us down.
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