Since max payne all of their games have had a rathe frustrating disconnect between narrative and gameplay where the latter suffers heavily causing their games to feel rather repetitive or in the case of the original Alan Wake an actual slog at times.

This game actually melds the narrative and gameplay into one making the entire experience feel much more coherent and enjoyable to play. It takes heavily from the modern resident evil games but that's not an issue.

The game still has issues but it no longer feels like a exceptional story and world tacked onto an extremely mediocre third person shooter.

Other than that the style that matured in Control seems to have stayed and it's very good.