![]() ![]() One of the best things about video games when compared to most other media, particularly films, is that each series generally gets better with each successive instalment there’s rarely a case of diminishing returns when it comes to gaming, so I came to The Surge 2 optimistic that Deck13 had managed to build upon the potential of the admittedly engaging foundation present in their first go around. With that said, I did enjoy the futuristic setting of The Surge, as well as the enemy designs, although the lack of bosses served as a strike against it and the combat never felt as fluid as I would have liked. ![]() When The Surge first released in 2017, there was kind of a dearth of Soulslike titles on the market, which led to Deck13 Interactive’s sci-fi inspired take on the genre easily finding its niche as a relatively worthy alternative to the Souls games, with enough minor additions to the format, such as specific limb targeting and dismemberment, to forge its own unique identity.įast forward two years later and the soulslike genre is more than a little saturated, with recent attempts to build upon Fromsoft’s Action/RPG foundations, such as Ashen, Remnant: From the Ashes, Immortal: Unchained, Code Vein and many others, constantly jostling for attention in an attempt to rise to the top of the pack.Īlthough I’d played a bit of the first Surge title, the truth is that I rarely spend much time with games that attempt to ape Fromsoft’s formula there’s always some intangible element that never quite clicks on a personal level, and most efforts fall far short of what Miyazaki and company have achieved, so I usually just end up returning to the progenitors of the genre. 3.9 Feel the Urge to Purge? Try The Surge!
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