SeekerThe Surge
The Surge makes good use of its detailed sci-fi setting and provides an engaging experience throughout the 30 to 40-hour campaign, mostly thanks to its widely customizable inventory and wickedly fun combat system. It may struggle to keep the action moving and tell a strong story amid the chaos of battle, and its weapon progression plateaued early, but it offers some interesting ideas and delivers a solid new take on a familiar genre.
-- As reviewed by IGN
Product details
- Hardcore, brutal melee combat
- Face deadly foes and colossal bosses
- Cut off parts of the enemy you want to loot
- Rich character progression and customization
PROS
+ Brilliant, brutal combat
+ Fantastic part-harvesting upgrade systems
+ Well-balanced difficulty level
+ Becoming half-man, half badass battle-bot is cool
CONS
- Slightly generic sci-fi art style
- Confusing level design
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Expert reviews and ratings
By IGN on May 15, 2017
The Surge makes good use of its detailed sci-fi setting and provides an engaging experience throughout the 30 to 40-hour campaign, mostly thanks to its widely customizable inventory and wickedly fun combat system. It may struggle to keep the action moving and tell a strong story amid the chaos of battle, and its weapon progression plateaued early, but it offers some interesting ideas and delivers a solid new take on a familiar genre.
79
By TrustedReviews on May 09, 2017
The Surge imagines a future where mankind has exhausted the Earth’s resources, and where our only hope is a huge corporation and its ambitious plans to expand off-planet. Your hero, Warren, takes on a new job with the company, volunteering to be fitted with a robotic exosuit for heavy-duty work. Needless to say, neither the job nor the fitting goes to plan, and Warren awakens in the junkyard of a seemingly abandoned desert factory, with hostile drones and deranged, exosuit-clad co-workers everywhere he looks. Can he find out what’s happened, discover who’s to blame and manage to make his way out alive?
80