Remedy Leisure has introduced Management: Resonant, the follow-up to IGN’s 2019 Game of the 12 months, Management on the 2025 Game Awards. It’s due out in 2026 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Sequence X and S, and it goals to be something however a simple sequel.
For starters, you’re not enjoying as Jesse Faden anymore. As an alternative, it’s seven years later and also you’ll take management of her youthful brother, Dylan. He was taken by the Federal Bureau of Management at age 10, ending up in a coma after being inflicted by The Hiss. And talking of The Hiss, it’s escaped The Oldest Home the place the primary Management was set, spilling out onto the streets of Manhattan and turning it into a really weird place (as you’ll be able to see within the trailer), overrun and actually twisted and folded by supernatural forces.
However the protagonist and setting aren’t the one vital departures for Management: Resonant. The type of fight differs as properly. You gained’t be wielding Jesse’s remodeling Service Weapon. As an alternative, Dylan will get up shut and private with a crude, remodeling melee weapon referred to as the Aberrant, which will probably be augmented by Dylan’s supernatural particular skills. At first look, it jogs my memory a little bit of the lightsaber/Pressure powers combo in Respawns Jedi Fallen Order and Jedi Survivor video games. I requested Remedy in regards to the fight really feel of Management: Resonant, and inventive director Mikael Kasurinen advised me: “Our fight is kind of distinctive, and it has that Management DNA. It is push-forward, quick, and proactive. You grasp the mixture of weapon blows and supernatural skills, and chase enemies down. Dylan is nimble and light-weight on his toes; motion is integral to our fight loop.
“Preparation can also be essential, making a construct that clicks with you; and an enormous a part of the expertise is tactical pondering: How one can mix shape-shifting melee assaults with supernatural skills whereas in movement.
“There are intricacies to the way you form your character, and a variety of completely different development methods that will let you develop into extra versatile, and stronger.”
So sure, you’ll have the ability to customise your builds. You’ll additionally encounter facet quests and different factions to cope with. In the meantime, enemies may have paranatural assaults, and so they can traverse the setting as rapidly as you’ll be able to.
Remedy says that you simply don’t must have performed the primary Management to grasp the story right here, and that the 2 video games are, properly… siblings.
“This isn’t a protected sequel,” Kasurinen guarantees.
You should definitely try all the pieces introduced at The Game Awards 2025 for extra, in addition to the winners record in full.
Ryan McCaffrey is IGN’s government editor of previews and host of each IGN’s weekly Xbox present, Podcast Unlocked, in addition to our month-to-month(-ish) interview present, IGN Unfiltered. He is a North Jersey man, so it is “Taylor ham,” not “pork roll.” Debate it with him on Twitter at @DMC_Ryan.