
The Investigations Sector (the setting of AWE) was active up until a couple of years before the start of the game, but was abandoned following the containment breach of "The Third Thing".The Bureau was quickly forced to abandon the area after an entity they encountered became murderous, and had remained mostly sealed off, only accessible to Jesse after The Board opens a path to it. The Foundation Sector (the titular locale of the Foundation DLC) was first explored by the Bureau in the 60s, who set up a permanent research base to observe its phenomena, including a mysterious structure called The Nail.By the time you explore the area, the rooms and main hall are still utterly buried in clocks. One office area of the Containment Sector has been sealed off ever since an Altered Item (in the form of an anchor) created a Threshold effect that inexplicably flooded it with endless clones of clocks, rendering it unusable.Abandoned Area: A few areas of the Oldest House have been long-abandoned by the Bureau, most due to some previous supernatural occurrence.No relation to the 2007 Ian Curtis biopic or a 2011 anime series. On June 29th, 2021, a multiplayer spin-off of Control, code-named Condor, and a higher budget game also taking place in the world of Control were announced. The game has two major story DLCs designed to be handled after the main game is completed: The Foundation, which takes Jesse into the depths of The Oldest House, and AWE, which represents a new chapter for another much-loved Remedy game: Alan Wake.Īn Ultimate Edition using Cloud Gaming for the Nintendo Switch was released on October 28th, 2020. She'll need to take control, both of the Bureau and of her life… If Jesse hopes to survive, find Dylan, and finally get some answers to her past, she'll need to do the one thing she never has ever been able to do. Appointed the new Director by a strange entity called The Board, Jesse must fight back the "Hiss" as she delves deeper into the Bureau's strange headquarters and history. The Bureau is under attack, its Director is dead, and most of its agents are either the same, missing or corrupted by the malevolent, otherworldly force that's invaded the building.

Unfortunately, her timing couldn't be worse. There she discovers the Federal Bureau of Control, a clandestine government agency charged with suppressing knowledge of the supernatural - the very same group that took Dylan. After seventeen years of fruitlessly searching for answers for what happened to her and Dylan, a mysterious presence from that event leads her to a concrete skyscraper in New York. It was released on August 27, 2019.Īs a child in the town of Ordinary, Jesse Faden was caught up in a strange and terrifying event that shattered her world, took her brother Dylan away from her, and sent her on the run from the government. Control is a 2019 New Weird Action-Adventure video game with Metroidvania elements created by Remedy Entertainment for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
