NOTE: There are spoilers forward for Alan Wake 2: The Lake Home.
Just a few years in the past, Treatment Leisure used Management’s second enlargement – AWE – to arrange Alan Wake 2, and it appears the developer has adopted that very same sample as soon as once more, this time utilizing Alan Wake 2’s just lately launched The Lake Home DLC to sneakily provide the primary glimpses of the upcoming Management 2.
In direction of the tip of the enlargement, protagonist Kiran Estevez is transported to acquainted Management places in first the Oceanview Lodge, after which the Panoptican within the Oldest Home, the FBC’s headquarters, itself. On the Panoptican, apparently sufficient, she has a dialog with Dylan, the brother of Management protagonist (and FBC Director) Jesse Faden.
That dialog is usually cryptic and purposefully imprecise, although it does finish with Dylan seemingly displaying Estevez glimpses of the longer term, with pictures being proven from what appears like Management 2. Based mostly on these pictures, it looks like the sport isn’t going to be set throughout the confines of the Oldest Home, however as an alternative take gamers out into New York itself- which has seemingly been corrupted by the Hiss’ affect.
You possibly can view screenshots of these places and the scene in its entirety beneath, courtesy of IGN importing the latter to YouTube.
In fact, previous to Alan Wake 2’s launch final 12 months, author and artistic director Sam Lake did affirm that the sport would proceed increasing on and setting issues up for the way forward for the bigger Treatment Linked Universe, so that is very a lot on-brand for the developer.
Management 2 was formally confirmed to be in improvement again in 2022, whereas earlier this 12 months, it was introduced that the sport had entered the “manufacturing readiness” stage behind the scenes. Treatment Leisure has additionally confirmed that it is going to be self-publishing the title.
A standalone co-op spinoff set within the Management universe, titled FBC: Firebreak, was additionally just lately introduced and is due out subsequent 12 months.