{"id":4308,"date":"2024-08-02T18:52:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T17:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/?p=4308"},"modified":"2024-08-02T18:52:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T17:52:02","slug":"control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/02\/control\/","title":{"rendered":"Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eventually picked up a copy of <em>Control<\/em>, a five year-old game I didn&#8217;t realise I wanted to play until the release of <em>Alan Wake 2<\/em> revealed that it was set in a shared universe. Described as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/control-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;a solid comedy pastiche of the X-Files, right down to a mysterious smoking man&#8221;<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rock, Paper, Shotgun<\/a> reviewer Brendan Caldwell. He calls it a &#8220;servceable shooter&#8221; and that &#8220;the story, once you scratch away the &#8220;weird&#8221; stuff, is actually fairly rote.&#8221; Actual player comments have been more positive and enjoyed the game to the point that they are joyous that a <em>Control 2<\/em> is close to release. When it was released it was a top-tier title and cost the usual \u00a350+. Cost me \u00a36 for the Ultimate Edition.<\/p>\n<p>All I need to do is find the time to play and fight the kids for control of the tv and Xbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eventually picked up a copy of Control, a five year-old game I didn&#8217;t realise I wanted to play until the release of Alan Wake 2 revealed that it was set in a shared universe. Described as &#8220;a solid comedy pastiche of the X-Files, right down to a mysterious smoking man&#8221; by Rock, Paper, Shotgun reviewer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-microblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4310,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions\/4310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}