In addition to hosting a Twitch livestream last night, Remedy have released a new story trailer for Control that details some genuinely creepy stuff going on in the game’s world.
The trailer details the discovery of an “altered world event” in New York City’s subway tunnels in 1964 that leads to the discovery of The Oldest House, a building that from the outside, appears rather ordinary, but inside, the building “breaks the laws of our reality”, where other dimensions leak into our own, and bringing with them unknown, hostile forces.
In fact, it turns out that The Oldest House has largely been taken over by one of those hostile forces, known as the Hiss. This is where the player (as new Bureau director Jesse Faden) comes in. It’s your job to clean up the mess that’s been left by former Federal Bureau of Control director, Zachariah Trench.
This is all tying into Remedy’s penchant for world-building through their narrative, which is no surprise if you’ve played any of Remedy’s previous games, including the Alan Wake series.
Control is currently slated to come out in 2019 for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.