{"id":131989,"date":"2026-02-13T01:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131989\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T01:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:07:11","slug":"the-first-control-resonant-gameplay-trailer-shows-dylan-defying-physics-in-a-sideways-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131989\/","title":{"rendered":"The first Control Resonant gameplay trailer shows Dylan defying physics in a sideways NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been less than three months since we got our first look at Control Resonant, the sequel to Remedy\u2019s mind-bending, third-person adventure that introduced us to Jesse Faden and the Federal Bureau of Control. At today\u2019s State of Play event, we got to see the first extended bit of gameplay<\/a> from Control Resonant \u2014 and the combat looks as inspired as ever, though the setting is completely new.<\/p>\n

As we learned in December, the next Control games doesn\u2019t focus on Jesse Faden; instead, you\u2019ll primarily play as her brother Dylan who Jesse was trying to find for much of the first game. Dylan\u2019s out in a warped version of New York City trying to track the game\u2019s Resonant creatures that are responsible for whatever calamity has taken place. We knew this already, but the change of setting from the Bureau of Control building into the more open city setting should go a long way towards making this game feel fresh.<\/p>\n

Dylan\u2019s capabilities are also completely different than what we saw from Jesse in the original. There\u2019s a much bigger emphasis on melee combat, as Dylan has a shapeshifting weapon called the Aberrant. You can switch from hammer to blades to other various forms, much in the way that Jesse\u2019s firearm in the first game could morph between different types of guns.<\/p>\n

But the thing that stood out the most to me in the brief preview was the way that NYC completely disobeyed the laws of physics. Buildings and streets would just head into the sky at 90-degree angles \u2014\u00a0and Dylan\u2019s powers let him completely which surface is the \u201cground\u201d for him.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s still no firm release date for Control Resonant, but that\u2019s not unreasonable \u2014\u00a0the game was only announced a few months ago. Remedy says they\u2019re still on target to launch in 2026. And, at the end of today\u2019s PlayStation blog post, they promise that \u201cthings are going to get weirder.\u201d Just what I was hoping for!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been less than three months since we got our first look at Control Resonant, the sequel to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35474,56496,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-131989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-control-resonant","tag-jesse-faden","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}