Remedy Entertainment`s upcoming third-person shooter Control has gone gold, according to a developer on the team. Effectively, development on the game has completed and discs are ready for manufacturing and distribution. Everyone can rejoice and wait with bated breath as the game`s August release date inches closer.Remedy`s game director Mikael Kasurinen tweeted that Control is `done,` noting that the work the Finnish studio`s put in over the past three years was `an achievement from the best dev team on the planet.` Control is headed to PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on August 27.It is done. New IP, new tech, new game structure, new direction, three platforms. And three years. What an achievement from the best dev team on the planet! @ControlRemedy pic.twitter.com/laFc0ocNvQ - Mikael Kasurinen (@MikaelKasurinen) July 24, 2019Ville Ruusutie, Remedy`s principal animation programmer, offered some additional context on Kasurinen`s news. In a tweet of his own, Ruusutie said the team `lost animation middleware and wrote new from scratch` while noting it was a `big risk` but thinks the studio has done well considering some of the `big tech challenges` Remedy has faced working on Control.`Itīs been quite a ride. Big tech challenges. We lost animation middleware and wrote new from scratch which depends heavily on Motion Matching. It was big risk but I think we nailed it. Proud of our team. Ex and current ones. @remedygames @505_Games. https://t.co/KG8tjrph4d - Ville Ruusutie (@villeruusutie) July 24, 2019Control comes three years after the studio`s last outing, Quantum Break. In Control, you play as Jesse Faden, the Federal Bureau of Control`s new director, exploring the Oldest House and harnessing supernatural abilities to defeat enemies and find her brother. We found it to be Remedy`s most interesting game since Alan Wake after spending some time with it, saying, `Control is being designed with a Metroidvania-like structure that requires you to re-examine previousl ...
|
