Stepping back into the shoes of psychic agent Nick Scryer, I had my mind wiped in order to infiltrate a psychic terrorist group known as “The Movement”. Instantly the game felt familiar, although it took me a while to realise that I wasn’t getting any tutorial advice on using my psychic powers as I’d accidentally started a new game plus. I found a game that holds up surprisingly well. Here we go again The REAL Nick ScryerĪfter a partially successful attempt to find a copy of the game on PC ( see below), I dug deep into my own “oldest house” to dig out my original Xbox and get it working with my copy of Psi-Ops and soon found myself so engrossed I’d completed the first level before my Xbox died on me! While waiting for Control’s release on 27th August, I decided to replay Psi-Ops to whet my appetite and see if my memories of it from 15 years ago (!) were accurate or if I was just looking at it through rose-tinted nostalgia glasses. Psi-Ops used the Havok physics engine to upgrade a 3rd person action shooter with telepathic powers and is very fondly remembered by those who played it. In the various gameplay and developer videos released by Remedy, the way Jesse plucks cabinets, vending machines and fire extinguishers out of the environment before hurling them at enemies, is incredibly reminiscent of Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, a PS2/original Xbox game from now-defunct Midway Games back in 2004. While she has a funky morphing gun to help her clean house, the thing that got Psi-Ops players like me excited was the way she was flinging objects around the environment WITH THE POWER OF HER MIND!!
Rather than taking on the administrative duties that a role as a director would imply, Jesse has to regain control (dammit!) of the bureau’s headquarters, The Oldest House, from an invading entity known as The Hiss. From the moment that Remedy, makers of Max Payne and Quantum Break, revealed Control at E3 2018 gamers of a certain age were struck by the same thought “Hey! This looks like Psi-Ops!” “Hey! This looks like Psi-Ops!”Ĭontrol sees the player… um… control Jesse Faden, the newest director of the Federal Bureau of Control, a secretive agency tasked with handling paranormal phenomena.
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