control ultimate edition review editors choice

Control: Ultimate Edition Review | ‘Weirdness, perfected and fully realized’

By Michael Leri

Control: Ultimate Edition review for PS5.

Control was not only one of the best games of 2019, but also the culmination of the writing, worldbuilding, and third-person shooter skills that Remedy had been cultivating since Max Payne. But its ambitions were too big for most of the systems it was on, which led to its embarrassing performance on…

  • Smooth frame rate and vastly improved technical performance in both performance and quality mode.
  • Environments are mysterious, gorgeous, and highly destructive.
  • Deep worldbuilding makes for an intriguing setting that rewards and encourages player curiosity.
  • Combat is fast, responsive, and rewards aggression and thoughtful play.
  • Collection of previous patches and expansions fill out the game and address the base title’s shortcomings.
  • No new content.

10

Michael Leri
Michael Leri

Michael Leri is Evolve's senior gaming editor. He prides himself on playing and finishing as many video games as he can in all sorts of genres from shooters to platformers to weird indie experiments. There's always something to learn from rolling credits and that thirst for experience and knowledge is mostly what drives him. You can find him on Twitter, Backloggd, Bluesky, and Letterboxd as @OrangeFlavored.

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