Remedy Entertainment

Remedy Entertainment Oyj is a Finnish video game developer based in Espoo, Finland. Founded in 1995, the company is well known for developing Max Payne, Quantum Break, Alan Wake, Control and Death Rally.

Why They and Their Games Rock

 * 1) They're best known for developing Max Payne and Alan Wake, which they're pretty good.
 * 2) Their games are pretty fun, challenging and have good plots.
 * 3) They established bullet time as a game mechanic.
 * 4) Sami Järvi AKA Sam Lake, is well adored by the Max Payne fanbase thanks to his famous "Constipated Grimace" and well known as the main protagonist's definitive face model. Even his poem inspired "Late Goodbye" by Poets of the Fall, which was also featured in the sequel.
 * 5) Great soundtracks, especially in Max Payne with its sequel.
 * 6) They managed to make Max Payne 2's visuals look good before the release of Valve Software's Half-Life 2.
 * 7) Their games have a lot of well done psychological elements.
 * 8) Last, but not least, they've confirmed that they will remake the first two Max Payne games with Rockstar Games.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) It was reported that the next-gen upgrade for Control will be free, but you have to buy the Ultimate Edition of the game to get it, which costs $40.
 * 2) CrossfireX is so far Remedy's first failure. Although they only developed a single-player campaign, which turned into generic, unfinished and too short, it sadly did not save enough the game that suffers from numerous issues, mostly for its multiplayer counterpart, itself a main offer of the game. Although Smilegate is mainly to blame, who did not guarantee enough time to develop the game.

Trivia

 * The company was founded by some employees of Future Crew, the demogroup that created PC demos and software. The most notable are Unreal and Second Reality.