Control Ultimate Edition

The Game is awesome. The atmosphere sorounding the game is really cool. I never seen such a thing in my life. To inspect every room is an awesome time in itself. The Concept Designers outdid themselves here. I do not know where they got the inspiration from though. Graphics are also pretty cool, but it doesn't run too well on my 6th gen i7 + GTX 1060 6GB Ram. Runs well on my ryzen 7 + RTX 2060 Laptop though. The Story is pretty interesting and mysterious at first but nothing too special. The Gameplay is pretty solid, but eventually really linear. All I am doing is throwing things and shoot here and there. Not bad, nothing special either. 2 Negatives: - It is a bit shady how they treated their Day-1-Customers. In reagards to DLC and the Ultimate Edition. - The Price dropped really hard on this one. I bought it for 33 €. You can get it for half that price now. It is a really good deal.

Game crashing bugs. Durring "ANCHOR" boss fight if the boss hits ground units the game crashes. Checked many solutions but it turned out that the problem is actually "bad coding". Only solution found was to set game to one-shot-kill and clear enemies before boss can hit them. Just at the end of fight (small health portion) the boss hits more erratic and enemy ground forces spawn randomly. The bug will then crash the game as soon as boss shoots at any enemy ground unit. Reproducing and testing this bug was very easy and it felt like developer did not care about users experience enough to deal with such bugs. Besides above, the game feels like tech demo (which failed at some point) and gameplay is very repetitive.

I have to wonder if all these people who've given this game great ratings and reviews have actually finished it. I can barely get through the side missions for getting new powers without raging after dying or the clock running out at least 100 times. I think it's all bs. In other words, this is a game you want to like, but, just can't get around all the problems that are preventing you from doing so.

The game is good, but for me it was a meh or annoying to continuing playing after a few hours, the main plot of the game is the boring part of the game, but the secondary mission is what make me continuing playing the game and not excluding the Alan Wake DLC, the other one was not bother finished or interested to played. All the items in the facility are what any fan from the SCP series may enjoy to watch and read, a lot of the document are interesting to read mainly to know what they say, but considering the big4$$ number of documents in the game are I got overwhelm after reading a few of them, and just keep playing and graving them to not miss one part of a mini story or a classify document. One thing that makes me stop carrying about exploring the facility is the lack of reward the moment you found a secret area and the game rewards you with a document about the world, upgrades for your weapons or your character and receiving that sound of reward and progress, something like the Metroid games after getting an upgrade from your health or missiles. Most of the things in these areas are a flat upgrade for you, your weapons, or a document, and that makes me feel I waste my time exploring the areas. And just to rant a little bit, I cannot understand why they do not fix the boss fight against the anchor, after trying to find what cause that fight to crash or make not crash, I need to make the resolution go the lowest I can, all sound to 0 and pray to Jesus the fight does not crash. After a few tries I defeat the boss, but I cannot steal understand why they fixed or changed in the version of the game, the game is “Control Ultimate Edition” not “Control, the DLC’S, not fixing some stuff & goodies.” They are more stuff I want to say but I feel some are just nitpicks from my part.

May update my review if they ever fix the game. Both the Steam and GoG versions apparently have serious stability issues. Some people have very reproducible crashes during a particular boss fight...I can't get past about the 30 minute mark in the game since it just randomly crashes when interacting with objects, walking through an empty corridor, pausing the game... Not an issue with my hardware. This is a pretty widespread problem and I've not had this problem with other graphically intensive games. None of the suggested fixes have helped, so if they don't eventually patch it I'll just return the game; it's unplayable like this. Can't review the rest of the game because I can't get to it.