“In both modes the rendering resolution is set at 1440p, which is then upscaled to 4K. All this is running on Remedy’s own Northlight engine, which has undergone important upgrades since we first released Control back in 2019.
“Ray tracing in Control Ultimate Edition brings improved image quality and realistic reflections to the environments in the Oldest House.
“These changes are most visible on non-transparent reflective surfaces across the game, as well as on transparent materials such as glass. This enables Control’s award-winning art direction to look and feel even more striking.
“We hope PS5 players will find new inspiration for taking shots with Control’s Photo Mode with all those gorgeous looking, ray-traced reflections.”
Control Ultimate Edition now available on PS5 and Xbox Series X with ray tracing
Control is a beautiful third-person shooter that truly shows off the power of ray tracing. PC gamers with a compatible RTX graphics card were able to enjoy the game’s world with the gorgeous reflections and better performance thanks to DLSS. Today, Control Ultimate Edition is available for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, and although there won’t be DLSS available, the new consoles will be capable of ray tracing. It will also be available for the Xbox Series S sans ray tracing.
Check out the trailer for Control Ultimate Edition below:
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Face-off by Thomas Morgan, Senior Staff Writer, Digital Foundry 3 February 2021
Remedy s Control Ultimate Edition is out now for next (current?) generation console systems, delivering a substantial revamp of its 2019 classic. Bundling up the original release with its DLC, plus 60 frames per second performance and 30fps ray tracing modes, Control is a game made for the new machines. The technological limitations of the last-gen machines are effortlessly overcome and the new console editions offer more than a taste of the fully enabled PC rendition of the game - but are we looking at platform parity between the new Sony and Microsoft systems?
The setup is not-so-simple. Players take on the role of Jesse Faden as she treks into the Federal Bureau of Control to locate her missing brother. Jesse is quickly given the role of Director after she picks up the service weapon of the recently deceased Director. For whatever reason, the Bureau operates on the same rules as
The Santa Clause starring Tim Allen. Oddly enough, that’s not even the strangest thing happening in
Control.
Things get wild pretty quickly. It’s not long before you’ve encountered a mixture of Lovecraftian Eldritch horrors and Jungian philosophies. The Oldest House is still one of the most compelling video game locales in recent years. And it just keeps ramping up from the moment you walk through the front doors.