Xbox Game Pass Subscribers Should Play Control Before It Leaves
With the announcement of Alan Wake 2 at The Game Awards 2021, now is a good time to revisit the first game. However, there's only so much to explore, so for fans looking to play something else to tide them over until Alan Wake 2, Remedy Entertainment's most recent release is the best place to start. Control wasreleased in 2019 to great reviews, and Xbox Game Pass subscribers have access to it right now. Control will leave the service later this month, so subscribers should check it out soon. Control's main story features many references to Alan Wake, and Control's expansion AWE is a crossover between the two games.
Those unfamiliar with Alan Wake need not be put off by these connections, as Control is very much its own experience. In fact, one of Control's biggest inspiration is the SCP Foundation, a viral collaborative piece of fiction that has inspired a number of games and other media. Rather than the SCP Foundation, Control revolves around the FBC (Federal Bureau of Control), a similarly secret and hidden organization responsible for handling the supernatural and paranormal. Upon its release, Control quickly became Remedy's fastest-selling IP since Max Payne.
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Development of the game began with the conception of the FBC, and developers studied various documents and files associated with the SCP Foundation in order to design the structure of Control. Further inspiration was taken from late 19th/early 20th Century weird fiction, and developers wanted to utilize weirdness in order to create an ongoing sense of dread in the player rather than having adrenaline-boosting jump scares.
In having the strange events of the story focus around the
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