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GAME · 2019 · FINLAND

Control

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CONTROL

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Control is a 2019 action-adventure game by Remedy Entertainment, set in the shifting halls of a secret government agency. It shares a universe with the studio's earlier Alan Wake.

8 Interesting Facts About Control

Interesting Facts (3)

  1. #001

    Every magazine rack in The Oldest House holds copies of a magazine titled Game, whose cover story concerns a "game about secret agents" and shows a woman with hair and a body like Jesse Faden's, but with a blurred face.

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  2. #002

    Matthew Porretta said in an interview that he based his performance as Dr. Darling on Richard Feynman.

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  3. #003
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    The Old Gods of Asgard, the fictional band from Alan Wake (2010), perform "Take Control", the song that is the key to getting through the ashtray maze. The band does not exist in real life, and the song was most likely sung by Poets of the Fall.

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Easter Eggs & References (4)

  1. #004

    The janitor Ahti speaks several Finnish idioms that were translated into English literally rather than by meaning, so they sound like nonsense to most players, though Finns who catch the references may get a kick out of them. For example, "I am not a son of yesterdays grouse", rendered from the Finnish "en ole eilisen teeren poika", roughly matches the English "I was not born yesterday", meaning "I am not an idiot".

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  2. #005

    In the mission "Self-Reflection", Jesse faces a mirror image of herself named esseJ. Confronted behind a plate-glass window, esseJ says in reverse: "I'm much wilder than you." This may reference Courtney Hope's earlier role as Beth Wilder in Remedy's Quantum Break (2016).

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  3. #006

    Cigarette machines in The Oldest House stock brands such as Dudebro, Jack's Choice and Holy Smokes, along with one called Payne, a nod to Remedy's earlier Max Payne games. Its logo is a "smoking gun" — a handgun with a lit cigarette in the barrel. A carton of Black Pyramid cigarettes also sits in the lobby.

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  4. #007
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    Set in the same universe as Alan Wake (2010), the game references a "Bright Falls" AWE in numerous documents, where Alan's actions from the first game are shown to have taken a different turn. A hidden section of the Panopticon also holds several altered items from Alan Wake, among them the thermos and a manuscript page.

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Deeper Meaning (1)

  1. #008
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    In a recorded interview, Jessie cites a poem by a poet named Tom Zane, yet the interviewer knows neither the poem nor the poet she names. In Remedy's Alan Wake (2010), Zane was a celebrated poet who had to erase his own existence to undo a mistake that could have unleashed a paranormal darkness. The implication is that Jessie possesses some gift that shielded her from Tom's self-erasure.

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