The Control sequel takes place in a warped version of Manhattan, a totally new environment from the first game’s interior setting of The Oldest House, which offers more “open-world” exploration and pushes players to engage in side content alongside the main story<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The setting has been compared to Christopher Nolan’s Inception, with its surreal art style and gravity-defying buildings; however, according to Alanko, he didn’t want to copy the movie because it would have diminished Remedy’s storytelling.<\/p>\n Latest Videos FromTechRadar<\/p>\n “I tried not to re-do Inception,” Alanko said. “That would\u2019ve been a tad tacky and would have reduced Remedy\u2019s concept to something less worthwhile. I don\u2019t personally believe in replicating or redoing, although in some rare cases an homage is fitting, actually, but such cases are indeed very few.”<\/p>\n He added, “It was a great relief that we exited The Oldest House and used the nightmarish Manhattan-like surroundings for the game setting,” with the scale of the buildings being a source of inspiration, particularly when it came to depicting Dylan within such a huge world.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n “It\u2019s beautiful, epic, majestic even,” Alanko explained. “There\u2019s so much more to the scenery than just the buildings; it\u2019s about the scale and the feeling, feeling small and replaceable\u2026 how would you represent Dylan there so that one felt he\u2019d be irreplaceable? That was the source of the backbone of Dylan-related pieces in the game.”<\/p>\n The composer went on to say that “Accentuating Dylan\u2019s starting point was an origin point for conceptualizing the music and among the first things I did,” explaining that since Dylan is “a blank slate,” it helped formulate the tracks to go alongside his journey.<\/p>\n “He\u2019s a blank slate, a tabula rasa, and he\u2019s to recover and become first a human, then something else,” he said. “Hence the descending nature of the harmony of ‘Tabula Rasa’ and the clangorous percussion \u2014 it\u2019s an introduction to Dylan and Hedron, in simple terms, a little like a concert overture.<\/p>\n “One could easily think the undulating noisy sounds towards the end would represent breathing – or, breathing again after a coma – for both the protagonist and the antagonist. I wanted to express the fragility and how brittle Dylan actually was, from how little he started, and where he ended up.”<\/p>\n Control Resonant is playable now on PlayStation 5<\/a>, Xbox Series X<\/a>, Series S<\/a>, and PC.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n <\/a><\/p>\n Follow TechRadar on Google News<\/a> and add us as a preferred source <\/a>to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button!<\/p>\n \nThe best gaming consoles\n<\/p>\n All the best consoles of this generation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Control Resonant composer Petri Alanko says the game’s “nightmarish” open environment influenced his approach to creating the soundtrackHe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-794428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Google](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791345491_192_diM9tpwF2Lz85R8q85CT78.jpg\")
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