The Surge is an action RPG set in a world ravaged by war and global warming. The game offers a hardcore experience, with a focus on challenging, visceral melee combat. It features fresh fighting, looting and crafting mechanics, alongside a unique character progression system. Fitted with your exo-suit and cybernetic implants, harness super-human strength to survive the CREO complex, a mega-corporation that set out to save the world. Enhance your exo-suit with near-endless combinations of armor and weapons, each with their own move sets as you slice your way through steel and flesh to loot, craft, and improve your rig. Salvage weapons and modular armour, by using the dynamic targeting system to attack and dismember limbs individually. From lighting rigs to heavy lifters, security armor to advanced, secretive technology - mix and match equipment to suit your playstyle and overcome the adversarial and environmental challenges that plague the malfunctioning complex. Take on huge, industrial bosses in a complex gone mad and discover the truth about CREO.
Features:
COMBAT AND TARGETING
Combat is challenging and unforgiving. You’ll need to carefully study your enemies, rather than blindly rushing and wildly swinging your weapon without focus. Study their attack patterns and weaknesses, then strike hard and fast – even the weakest of enemies can be deadly! Thanks to the dynamic targeting system, you can aim at your opponents’ specific limbs to dismember them, in order to loot or craft the attached equipment. Go for the easy kill by hitting unarmored limbs, or attempt to claim a piece of equipment from the enemy by targeting a specific area. Balancing your need to survive against your desire for new equipment is key to moving through the CREO complex.
EXO-RIG AND IMPLANTS
As an employee of CREO, you are fitted with an exo-suit intended for industrial work inside the CREO complex. This base rig can be enhanced with light, medium, or heavy attachments, allowing you to specialize into your chosen playstyle. Granted super-human strength, you are able to wield huge weapons and inflict massive damage onto your enemies, as well as survive dangerous environmental hazards such as toxic spills. Alongside the exo-rig, you are fitted with a cognitive interface between your brain and the exo-suit, powering implants looted from enemies and the game world. Your exo-suit has a limited power output, so it’ll be up to you to balance the benefits and downsides of each implant against the power requirements of your exo-suit upgrades and equipment.
GETTING STRONGER
The further you delve into CREO and the longer you survive, the more tech scrap (XP) you’ll gain from defeating enemies and bosses. Die, and the metal scrap farmed to that point will be dropped where you fall. You will have to fight your way back to regain it, or lose it forever. In operations, you can use that tech scrap to either upgrade your exo-rig and increase its power-output (level), allowing you to use more and stronger implants, or use the scrap as base material to craft and upgrade armor and weapons. You will also naturally increase your efficiency with the various weapon types by using them in combat. Over time, it will improve your affinity with them, consequently increasing the amount of damage you inflict and letting you take on far more fearsome enemies and bosses.
LOOTING AND CRAFTING
Explore CREO’s many varied environments, both inside and out, and use your implants to target specific enemy ligaments to gain crafting resources. Use these to improve your equipment, upgrading your weapons and armor throughout CREO’s scattered safe-rooms. Specialize to meet your needs - from heavy armor attached to your exo-rig to staves, axes, and heavy-lifting equipment, use CREO’s cutting-edge industrial technology against the threats that lay ahead. Crafting materials are widespread at CREO, but accessing them is dangerous… and necessary!
THE CREO COMPLEX
CREO’s complex is huge and filled with secrets, intrigue, and threats warped by a catastrophic event. Although many of its inhabitants were not originally designed for combat, each area houses dangerous combatants that once worked in these environments. Armed with lethal industrial equipment, you must risk everything to explore, loot, and craft to survive. Explore vast mechanical areas, delve into toxic underground passages, and climb to the sleek executive levels to discover exactly what happened at CREO through audio messages, dialogues from survivors, and environmental storytelling.
Deck13 has built on the successes and mistakes of Lords of the Fallen and has created something that is able to not only stand toe-to-toe with the Souls franchise but is also capable of standing on its own with its unique identity. The new and different systems The Surge has introduced makes it an enjoyable and different experience for both newcomers to the genre and those who have already played Souls-like games previously. Deck13 has done a great job at combining the familiar and the new to create a unique vision that’s both fun and challenging.
First review Ive seen.
8/10 is not bad!
Might have to invest in this one.
I like it so far, I love the weight of those blows and hits on enemies..and ofc finishing moves. It's an interesting concept and idea in general and the story is ok. I was a bit shocked at the beginning, that train scene when need you to go out, I wasn't expecting that at all..you'll see.. I was like wtf.. lol.. What Im afraid of is repetitiveness and enemy variety. The game is not perfect, but miles better than Lords of the Fallen. It looks and works great in 4k mode. And you can choose between performance and quality options. The controls are quick and responsive..so far 8.0/10 and overall a pleasant surprise.
Yeah I like it more than I thought I would. Doesnt feel like a Souls game but maybe its because its so futuristic. Its also equally as tough. Damn the PAX boss. Took me about 10 attempts but eventually applying different implants paved the way forward. The environments are great and are so sprawling I often get lost!
Trying to tackle the 2nd boss now :/
Oh and that song! ...
I was born in prison ...
It was kinda a cool but just like my implants its implanted! :/
Deck13 Interactive has released a new The Surge update today, and it’s one that graphic aficionados should be ecstatic over. Chief among the tweaks to the game is the addition of HDR support for the PS4 and PS4 Pro! Yep, that means that if you have a 4K TV and PS4 Pro, The Surge now features 60 frames-per-second, Dynamic 4K resolution and HDR!
Focus Home Interactive has announced that a demo will be available next week for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Those with a PS4 Pro will be able utilize the extra features, including HDR, dynamic 4K, and 1080p/60fps.
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It's an interesting concept and idea in general and the story is ok. I was a bit shocked at the beginning, that train scene when need you to go out, I wasn't expecting that at all..you'll see.. I was like wtf.. lol.. What Im afraid of is repetitiveness and enemy variety. The game is not perfect, but miles better than Lords of the Fallen. It looks and works great in 4k mode. And you can choose between performance and quality options. The controls are quick and responsive..so far 8.0/10 and overall a pleasant surprise.
this game is the perfect example of how do you support your game..
