{"id":343509,"date":"2025-12-12T02:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/343509\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T02:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:46:06","slug":"control-2-is-a-trippy-character-action-game-set-in-a-twisted-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/343509\/","title":{"rendered":"Control 2 Is A Trippy Character Action Game Set In A Twisted NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the Game Awards 2025, Remedy Entertainment announced its next big game: Control Resonant, a direct sequel to 2019\u2019s excellent Control<\/a>. The upcoming open-ended character action RPG is set to launch in 2026 on consoles and PC, and Kotaku talked to Remedy about it before its official reveal.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the trippy trailer for Control Resonant, which was previously referred to as Control 2, that debuted at the Game Awards:<\/p>\n

In Control Resonant, players will take on the role of Dylan Faden, the brother of Control\u2019s main character, Jesse. Resonant is set seven years after the events of the first Control. The Oldest House, a secretive facility that acts as the Federal Bureau of Control\u2019s HQ, is no longer under lockdown, and something horrible has spilled out of it and into the streets of New York City. And Dylan, who was in a coma, is up and about, exploring and fighting in this twisted version of NYC that is locked away from the world via an unknown and powerful supernatural force.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, I was invited to check out Control Resonant\u2018s trailer ahead of its Game Awards reveal, and I was shocked by how different this sequel is. The first game was a third-person shooter with some horror elements sprinkled in for good measure<\/a>. Control Resonant isn\u2019t that at all. Instead, it seems to play more like Jedi: Fallen Order, Ninja Gaiden, or even Bayonetta.\u00a0During the digital event, Remedy devs admitted that Resonant is \u201cnot a safe sequel\u201d and also called it the \u201cdeepest, most expansive game\u201d the studio has made. Remedy promised that this is a real RPG with many build options and hard choices. And yes, this is part of the Remedy Connected Universe, just like Alan Wake.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Unlike Jesse\u2019s transforming magic handgun in Control, Dylan wields a powerful melee weapon known as the \u201cAberrant.\u201d Remedy says this thing can transform into different shapes and calls it a \u201cparanormal weapon for a supernatural street fight.\u201d You\u2019ll be getting up close to enemies in the sequel, and the Aberrant will be the key to cutting them down while exploring an open Manhattan that includes side quests and other experiences to discover. Remedy was careful not to label Resonant as an open-world game, comparing it to the original Control\u2019s open-ended map that offered players some choice and freedom, but without being a massive playspace covered in towers and icons.<\/p>\n

\u201cControl Resonant pushes our paranatural action RPG series into an expansive, reality-warping playground of choice, power, and consequence,\u201d said Mikael Kasurinen, Creative Director of Control Resonant, in a press release. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to know the first game to jump into the sequel. We\u2019ve made this one easy to pick up and hard to put down. We\u2019re pushing the scale beyond anything we\u2019ve done before, elevating combat, exploration, and storytelling into a bigger, more memorable experience. It\u2019s ambitious, a little wild, and we can\u2019t wait for players to get lost in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

As someone who loved Control when it came out and finished it multiple times on different platforms, I\u2019m very excited about Control Resonant. While I wasn\u2019t expecting the sequel to be an action RPG, I\u2019m not upset about the shift. Remedy is a studio that loves to shake things up and offer players new experiences and stories. And more often than not, they succeed. I hope next year, Resonant is another Remedy success story. Control Resonant is set to launch sometime in 2026 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X\/S, PC, and Mac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the Game Awards 2025, Remedy Entertainment announced its next big game: Control Resonant, a direct sequel to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[172030,172031,172032,81514,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-343509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-control-2","9":"tag-control-resonant","10":"tag-game-awards-2025","11":"tag-remedy","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}