Yeah, Control is a pretty good game on modern consoles, but what about if we got to experience it a few decades back on PlayStation 1 instead? Principle gameplay designer Tommi Saalasti at Remedy has made it a reality with a demake that takes the Federal Bureau of Control and protagonist Jesse Faden back to the 1990s. 51 seconds of purposefully dated footage shares what the title would look like if it had released alongside Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy VII.
We see Jesse taking down bad guys with the eccentric weapons of Control as well as floating through the air and dashing about the place, all to the tune of a ripping song from artist XTaKeRuX. You could claim this is an April Fools gag, but to be honest, the clip looks pretty cool anyway. Would you have played this version of Control on PS1? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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Pretty cool that. Needs more Darling, though.
This look amazing , wish it could see an actual release
1996 if i had to guess a year that this control game for ps1 came.its always fun looking back.assasins.creed.borderlands.infamous etc.games that wasn't made on ps1 would look cool either way.word up son
Have we had any April fools articles yet?
Somehow nails it lol
No way is this real lol. 😂
I'd play that. With the volume down.
The animation looks too good, and the textures don’t look good enough.
Should be more like this:
@kyleforrester87 yea these demakes always look worse then what PS1 graphics actually were. Still cool though
I'd guess because a modern audience expects the graphics to be a bit primitive but for things to be reasonably responsive? The same graphics Vs performance compromises were a thing on PS1, and it's worth remembering that everything in tomb raider was a 3x3 cube (walking would take you one square in a given direction while running would take you three)
Really there would have to be a lot of level redesign, because I don't see them managing to fit all of the oldest house into 850MB without sacrificing audio, let alone the number of loading screens you'd end up with. PS1 didn't have multidisk games did it? Was fairly common on PC as a hangover from it being absolutely necessary with floppy disks. Fond memories of "Insert disk 4 to continue"
@kyleforrester87 absolutely right. PS1 can perform better with textures.
But the animation is too good.
And there is no weapon visible
@theheadofabroom
FF7 and Metal Gear Solid were multidisc
@BrotherFilmriss Yay, glad it's not just a PC thing. I just remember CDs being 850MB and my hard drive only 500MB, and thinking "how could you possibly need more than one of those?" Then I played Wing Commander IV and was like: ah, yes, right
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