Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is finally out in the wild, and while it’s getting less positive reviews than what longtime Marvel Studios fans have grown accustomed to, it’s still a solid reception for the director’s trippy take on the MCU. The movie adopted a distinctly Raimi tone, bringing out some of the horror weirdness that’s defined so much of the director’s catalog. Some might understandably feel it’s a much-needed shakeup to the typically safe Marvel formula, with horror fans surely finding something to love.
Video games are also a medium where developers can get noticeably inventive and bizarre with their worlds, and the action-adventure and survival-horror genres have certainly flexed those creative muscles. Recent years have seen delightfully strange gaming titles that, in some form or another, should strike similar tones that Multiverse of Madness does.
Developer Remedy Entertainment has long since been a fan-favorite studio for its surprise hits like Alan Wake and the first two entries in the Max Payne series. 2019’s Control arguably falls in the former category, with it being the start of an original series that garnered such a strong critical reception that many cited it as one of the best games of the year.
Control revolves around Jesse Faden, the new director of the secret government agency called the Federal Bureau of Control, which is tasked with containing and studying inexplicable phenomena. Jesse goes in to neutralize a mysterious enemy that’s corrupted the fabric of reality, using her own supernatural powers to combat them. The conspiratorial and secretive premise combined with interdimensional sci-fi should offer a thrilling supernatural story for fans coming off Doctor
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