Each defeated enemy earns "scrap", the game's currency, used at medbays (think bonfires in Dark Souls) to level up stats, armor, implants, and weapons.
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As you march through the streets, alleys, and decaying buildings of Jericho City, you'll fight monsters, robots, and humans in a series of deadly encounters. It features visceral third-person hack-and-slash combat set in an interconnected world. Gratefully, on the gameplay front The Surge 2 delivers a better product. With its biblical allusions and nanite cultists, the game seems to want to say something about religion, but it never goes anywhere. Unlike the original, which subverted technology and technocracy, this installment adopts a generic plotline with a missing girl and a host of stereotypical villains-the kind of narrative found in a dozen seventh-gen AA and AAA games. Thematically, the story is also less impressive. Multiple NPCs, some of them familiar faces from The Surge, offer plenty of exposition, as do nanite visions left behind by Athena, the mystery girl. Where the first game focused mostly on environmental storytelling-leveraging the creepy, blood-splattered hallways of CREO to tell a wordless story-this sequel is more intent on telling, not showing. Storytelling, however, is a clear step backward.
Now, surrounded by enemies and haunted by visions of a girl from the plane crash, the unnamed hero looks to escape the city alive.įor the most part, The Surge 2 improves on the formula Deck13 designed two years ago. In the character's absence, a nanite swarm infected the city, allowing gangs and nanotechnology cultists to rise to power and prompting the A.I.D., a paramilitary organization, to erect the wall and issue a quarantine. The player character, a passenger on the jet, wakes from a coma several months later to find the city badly damaged, overrun with hostile forces, and surrounded by a giant magnetic wall.
A rocket containing deadly nanites, launched from CREO headquarters, collides with a commercial jet and lands in Jericho City. The Surge 2 takes place several months after the events of the first game. It's not a quantum leap over its predecessor-some issues with storytelling and technical performance mar the package-but it is a solid entry in the Souls-like sub-genre, with improved combat, interesting new asynchronous multiplayer features, and a larger, more varied game world. Its sequel, The Surge 2, is more of the same, which is a good thing. It probably didn't make anyone forget about From Software's signature series, but it carved out a niche all its own in the cottage industry started by Dark Souls. It took a successful Souls-like formula, wrapped it up in a dystopian science-fiction setting, softened its punishing gameplay, and introduced a rewarding limb-severing mechanic. The premier Surge game was a solid start for developer Deck 13. By Evan Norris, posted on 01 October 2019 / 2,755 Views
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