Control

excellent jeu en tout point graphiquement et techniquement impeccable gamplay plaisant ost et doublage de qualité bonne durée de vie et scénario intéressant

I love games that try something new and aren't afraid to explore more "out there" stories, but I also hate "artsy-fartsy" games. It's like, I love art, but hate abstractionism. Control tip toes the line with its story, so you might love it, or you might just get frustated. It's a story straight vibing like the Lost series, a bunch of conspirecies and threads, but some are there just to bring weirdness, some are plot holes and some weave a great story that rewards being carefull and paying atention. Gameplay wise, it has some strenghts, dashing and flying around a shadow government office building is fun, using Jesse's powers is fun, and the guns are okay, but eventually everything starts looking the same, and the unique wow factor fades. It doesn't help that the enemies are repetitive and the game does the thing were it spawns infinite waves of them if you keep returning to the same area. In a game that requires you to backtrack and search back and forth an area for objectives, it gets anoying really quick. Also, the game has the worst map I've ever seen in a videogame since Starfield while giving you quests like finding an hidden item in a huge area with 0 pointers other than "yeah, its in this section" so consider going for a guide for this sections, wich is never a good thing. All in all, actually a good take on the X-Files/STCP genre, weird but compeling story, decent gameplay and some genuine WOW moments.

It's truly a unique setting and atmosphere for a game, I just wish they did more with it or wrapped it up in a remotely satisfying way. The gameplay, which does occasionally have some truly cool moments and memorable pieces, is way too repetitive and takes far too long to ramp up to an interesting level. The progression system also feels completely inconsequential. While it seems like it's supposed to let you tailor a build to your playstyle, none of it seems to make that much of an impact in practice. Still worth playing if you can get a deal on it. The game really does have some very cool ideas and writing that is often great.

I had such an amazing time playing this game, the atmosphere, intense mystery, the fast telekinetic gameplay. It was a blast, found myself doing every sidequest I possibly could & exploring absolutely everything before continuing on the main quest. And that is where the fault lies. Mission 6, I spent 5hours doing every sidequest possible, then was excited to get back to the main scenario. I made it into the Panopticon, crossed the bridge on level 4, where I found Fortified Room 716. A large empty room, with absolutely no progression, basically an empty airport hanger with a glitched out wall where the entrance was, capable of viewing all the textures outside of the room pop in and out. I tried absolutely everything, closing & repoening the game, completeing various other sidequests in other sectors, revisiting the main scenario sector through the elevator instead of fast travel. The only solution seemed to be to erase multiple hours worth of progression & loot to completely restart the mission. The fact there is a bug so large in this game to not only halt progression, but to also require erasing it, is absolutely discouraging & frustrating to the player experience. It seems totally unacceptable that a hardlock like this would even exist. I was excited to finish the game, but this feeling of discouragement, the now promise of hardlocks being a possibility to erase hours of progression, I sadly cannot continue this game wholeheartedly.

I just wrote a long review and it got deleted. *Sigh* So, I'll just leave my last sentence here....even with my OCD-like gaming with regards to finishing games (even bad ones), I put this down after 8 hours. I think that says it all. In short, cool graphics, physics, and lore potential, but bad lore overload, boring levels, repeating enemies, bad map, and more.