Today, on February 28, nearly five years after Control’s initial launch, Remedy Entertainment, the team behind the Alan Wake, Quantum Break, and Control series, released an announcement regarding a deal between them and 505 Games, detailing a full transition to Remedy acquiring full rights to the franchise. While Remedy Entertainment previously developed the game with 505 Games having publishing, distribution, and marketing rights over Control, this latest transaction converts this authority to Remedy, giving them full rights over Control, Control 2, and their upcoming multiplayer game currently under the code Condor.
Well this is concerning. If they’re not getting any more funding from 505 to make Control 2 and Condor then, uh, who’s funding Control 2 and Condor?
The team behind the Alan Wake, Quantum Break, and Control series…
Proceeds to leave out Max Payne.
“Look how they massacred my boy”
As someone who loves the first two Max Paynes, and enjoys the third; the series should be left alone. With the way Max Payne 3 ended, there’s no good way to revive that franchise.
Mona comes back alive again.
Look at the games Remedy have been making since splitting from Rockstar.
I really enjoyed Control and the Alan Wakes for the plot and narrative decisions. That’s who Remedy have become, story focused with emphasis on world building. MoCap actors, FMV segments, parallel world building via audio logs and journals, etc while keeping the lessons learned from the Max Payne series for the gameplay combat loops.
All the Max Payne games are mechanics centric; tight gunplay and bullet-time combat. They also have decent-to-solid plots, but I didn’t replay MP2 dozens of times because I wanted the Mona-Max arc’s dopamine hit, nor pathfinding through NYC apartment mazes. Nimble combat against formidable and fair AI is the core part of that series.
It wouldn’t be what you want it to be, and that’s okay that it’s in the past. Remedy have worked an EU and are leaning into that instead, and have done well consistently.
Hope they can get quantum break too
Quantum Break was SO good. I’ll die on that hill. I want more of it.
Great story and really cool atmosphere but dogshit gameplay lol.
So they have full Control now.
ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Good for them. Now please release future games on steam.
Seriously. I want to play Alan Wake 2, but not if it’s on Epic’s store.
Asian Wake 2 will likely never come to another platform. It’s published by epic games. Not a timed exclusive situation.
I’d like to play this game.
So play it. Support the developer. I’m staunchly anti epic, Alan Wake 2 has been my only exception.
Asian Wake
🤦
