Control Resonant Metro Fault Mission Gameplay Revealed in IGN First

IGN First for August is Control Resonant, Remedy Entertainment's sequel to the 2019 original Control, and the first exclusive look is a full mission gameplay walkthrough of the Metro Fault dungeon.

In Control Resonant you play as Dylan Faden, tasked with clearing a warped, paranatural-corrupted version of Manhattan. The Metro Fault is one of several Fault zones scattered across this alternate New York — essentially self-contained dungeons that gate new traversal abilities behind their completion. The Metro Fault specifically rewards you with Reach, the game's grappling-hook equivalent, once you fight your way through it. Getting there means going deep underground, dodging trains hurling at you from multiple directions, and taking on fungal Mold enemies along the way.

Remedy built a devoted following with the original Control, which leaned hard into the Federal Bureau of Control's brutalist architecture and the New Weird fiction aesthetic. Resonant shifts the setting to a corrupted Manhattan and puts a new protagonist front and center, though the paranatural threat and the ability-driven combat loop look to carry over the DNA of the first game.

IGN says more Control Resonant coverage is coming throughout August as part of the IGN First series, so expect additional deep dives into combat, enemies, and the broader world of the game in the weeks ahead.