Well, it's coming out this year, but we don't know when this year.
Our first trailer dedicated to just gameplay, we're given a glimpse of what Dylan's journey across a warped and weird Manhattan will look like.
A few takeaways:
I get the sense that Resonant might be a little more action-focused - Dylan seems to have to fight off a number of monsters en route to his mission objective, and while that certainly happened with Jesse, the first Control game was, I felt, more about exploration interrupted by bursts of action.
We see what appears to be Hiss (or maybe Hiss/Dark Presence hybrids, as the monsters seem to be more inhuman like Emil Hartman was) as well as some Mold Infected along his route.
Dylan is seen shifting weapon-types rapidly throughout combat. While I'm sure this is a developer with intimate knowledge of the systems trying to show it all off, I'm curious to see how fluidly we can play.
It's said to be an "early" mission in the game, and Dylan already has a lot of abilities, including what seems to be the ability to hover (a pretty late-game thing for Jesse).
The Shift ability that they showcase allows Dylan to hop to surfaces that aren't parallel to his own ground and change gravity - we see him hop onto a wall, making that "down" for him, and when he fights a foe, it seems he has the ability to shift them off of that plane of gravity to send them falling sideways.
Enemy design looks like it's getting a lot more diverse, which is awesome (though I suppose we'll see as the game goes on).
"Resonants" appear to be the game's major bosses. In the announcement trailer we saw some posters for what looks to be some kind of dance show called "Parting," and that seems to then be the focal point for this actually rather human-looking boss.
We see signs for a Casino, a Hotel, and a Theater in similar neon lights. Casinos aren't a think in New York, but it does make me think of the Oceanview Motel and Casino, the Place of Power from the first game, and of course its Oceanview Hotel seen in the Dark Place (which... maybe is the same place? Honestly, if not for the familiar name, the Hotel in Alan Wake II might have seemed no more notable than Caldera Street Station or Poet's Cinema).
We seem to have a friendly woman on the radio named Zoe. Is she an FBC agent? I don't remember any Zoes in previous games.
The game's UI seems to retain a lot of its look from the first game - I'm eager to see all the environmental storytelling and document-hunting that I enjoyed so much in the first game.
Symmetries seem to be a major motif - the road leading to the dancer Resonant is mirrored, with smears of blood creating symmetrical patterns that look almost like an intentional design.
Anyway, I'm really excited to have more morsels of this game, one that I've been really looking forward to since playing the first game three years ago (and I'm a newbie, others have been waiting seven years! Not quite the same wait as we had for Alan Wake II, but still!)
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