Unlike the first game, which put you in the shoes of paraplegic turned exo-rig warrior Warren, The Surge 2 lets you create your own protagonist, male or female, with plenty of customisation options. You’ll be fighting through it block-by-block, opening shortcuts as you go. You swiftly discover the city has been quarantined by the military to avoid the spread of the “Defrag” disease, and there’s a giant nano-virus anomaly looming above.ĭespite its apparent size, Jericho City is more dense than sprawling. Two months later, you awake in a detention centre falling apart around you (which serves as the tutorial), before escaping onto the Jericho City streets - on the hunt for Athena, the daughter of CREO’s former CEO Jonah Guttenberg, who seems to have some connection to the player. Events in The Surge 2 pick up right after the climax of the first game where, irrespective of your final choice, a semi-sentient nano-virus payload was detonated in the atmosphere, sending a shard crashing into the aircraft your new protagonist was travelling on. However, the Fledge engine that powers The Surge 2 is starting to show its age, especially on the base consoles.Īlthough it’s not vital to have played the first game, The Surge 2 benefits from the player understanding a bit of the back story, and several key characters – some of whom were just voices on an audiolog - reappear in Jericho City. The Surge 2 has expanded on that solid foundation, offering up a larger and more diverse environment, new and challenging enemy types, more gear, a refined progression and crafting systems, and more than double the number of bosses.
What it lacked was polish and a key component that many fans were after – a multitude of mechanically interesting and challenging bosses to slay. A faster-paced ‘ Souls-like that stood out thanks to its sci-fi setting, limb-targeting exo-rig combat, and intuitive, flexible progression system. After the mixed reception to 2014’s Lords of the Fallen, Deck 13 parted with CI Games to develop 2017’s The Surge by their lonesome.
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