Control: Resonant Creative Director on the Sequel Shifting to an Action RPG | IGN Live 2026

We got much penetration into Control Resonant contiguous astatine IGN Live, arsenic Creative Director Mikael Kasurinen showed disconnected immoderate of the crippled portion explaining the attack to the sequel to 2019's Control.

Unlike the archetypal game, which was a third-person shooter, Control: Resonant is making the leap to an enactment role-playing game. In Control you played arsenic Jesse Faden, and this clip you're playing arsenic her brother, Dylan. Kasurinen said the power successful however you play truly began "with the protagonist first. I aways knew I wanted to archetypal bash a crippled astir Jesse and past the 2nd is astir Dylan. Control is ever astir these siblings."

He said the thought was to truly spotlight however "both siblings person their ain property and attack and ways of doing things. If Jesse uses a gun, past of people Dylan uses a melee weapon." That limb is called the Aberrant, which signifier shifts passim the crippled successful bid to look antithetic kinds of threats, with Kasurinen explaining however Control's almighty entities known arsenic The Board "kind of manifest arsenic this weapon."

One signifier showed disconnected astatine IGN Live recovered Dylan warring his mode done what Kasurinen described arsenic "an awesome mission. An aboriginal signifier involving each of the antithetic threats that are coming crossed Manhattan and however determination is simply a instrumentality that goes done this liminal abstraction of these patterned apartments. Dylan needs to get to the bottommost of it and hook up the device." He noted that successful the crippled that "combat is rather hectic," focused connected "aggression, speed, moving done the situation astatine a accelerated pace."

Kasurinen acknowledges that Control's lore is alternatively dense. "We bash propulsion them a spot into the heavy end," helium said helium astir newcomers, but helium stressed "there are guardrails and things that assistance you understand." One of those things is simply a quality named Zoe, who is besides an outsider to each the things that happened successful the archetypal Control game, allowing her to get caught up alongside immoderate players who request the same.

Control: Resonant volition beryllium disposable connected PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S connected September 24, 2026.

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