Jesse Faden Channels Her Inner Dark Phoenix In Action-Packed CONTROL Gameplay Footage

In Remedy Entertainment's Control, you will play as Jesse Faden, the newly promoted director of the Federal Bureau of Control, a clandestine government agency tasked with studying and containing supernatural phenomena. At its core, Control is a metroidvania, as the upcoming video game will feature only one ever-changing location – the agency's headquarters, known as the Oldest House.

That Brutalist building might be pretty old, but it's still a truly fascinating place, featuring gates to alternate timelines and dimensions. To survive in this hostile environment, the brave heroin will have to use not only futuristic guns, but also special abilities that would make X-Men's Jean Grey jealous.

While Control is being developed by the team that gave us Max Payne and Alan Wake, it's more similar to Remedy's latest title, Quantum Break, rather than their previous games. “In this case, we actually have a supernatural hero who has abilities,” Creative Director Mikael Kasurinen said in an interview with Game Informer. “Sure, in Quantum [Break] we had similar ideas, but I think here we’re really, really embracing that through the different attacks you can do. That was a conscious decision from the get-go: Let’s embrace that you have supernatural powers and go as far as we can with them.”

According to Kasurinen, Remedy tried really hard to design Jesse's powers as realistically as possible to avoid making her abilities unrecognizable to players. “Though they are crazy and extraordinary, there’s kind of this realistic flair to them,” Kasurinen said. “Everything you see is what you’d imagine it to look like. We want to avoid magical [visual effects] like fireballs and things like that. We try to use the art and visuals of this world and use that in an extraordinary or supernatural way,” he concluded.

Be sure to take a look at Faden's powerful telekinetic and telepathic abilities (including those that will allow you to use objects in the environment as shields or weapons, levitating to explore normally unreachable areas, and even mess up with her enemies' brains to force them to kill each other) below:

After a secretive agency in New York is invaded by an otherworldly threat, you become the new Director struggling to regain Control. This supernatural third-person action-adventure game will challenge you to master a combination of supernatural abilities, modifiable loadouts and reactive environments, while fighting through a deep and unpredictable world.