Control Resonant Expands Into Warped Manhattan Ahead of Sept. 24 Launch as Backrooms Echoes Grow
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Updated · Polygon · Jun 6
Control Resonant Expands Into Warped Manhattan Ahead of Sept. 24 Launch as Backrooms Echoes Grow
1 articles · Updated · Polygon · Jun 6
Summary
Sept. 24 is the release date for Control Resonant, which Remedy now frames around a Hiss-warped Manhattan built to amplify the series’ signature disorienting spaces.
Mikael Kasurinen said moving beyond the Oldest House let the sequel turn urban chaos into level design, with mirrored skyscrapers, roads dropping into chasms, shifting time and weather, and repeating architectural patterns.
The design also aligns unexpectedly with the Backrooms trend: missions such as The Sinkhole send Dylan Faden through looping living rooms and bedrooms, using mundane spaces made subtly wrong to create dread.
Remedy said it researched New York architecture but avoided a landmark tour, instead treating the city as a canvas for Control’s surreal forces when the game arrives on PS5, Windows PC and Xbox Series X.