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The Surge - A Walk in the Park Review

by Hiddenx, 2017-12-22 10:39:24

Gamingbolt has reviewed the addon The Surge: A Walk in the Park:

The Surge: A Walk in the Park DLC Review – Ashes of CREOland

A Walk in the Park shows improvement, but is still rough around the edges.

2017 was the year that the rest of the gaming landscape caught up with From Software and we saw more than a few Soulslikes, each taking a mutation of the punishing action RPG series and going a different way with it. While ELEX took that and gave it an open world, and Nioh brought the exacting combat Team Ninja is famous for to bear on the genre in feudal Japan, Deck13’s The Surge decided that a sci-fi setting would be a great fit.

The Surge, while certainly a good time, had a few issues when it launched. Despite that, it was a solid game, and a competent Souls-like with some unique ideas that made it stand out a bit. All of that is also true of the expanded content found within A Walk In The Park, but the setting alone doesn’t drastically change the mechanics or tone of The Surge as a whole.

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THE GOOD
Better world design and a willingness to slow down as it tells its story, good level design, a tighter experience compared to the base game.

THE BAD
The flaws of the original game such as bad storytelling and mechanical nitpicks, persist. The new drops also won't do much for players unless they're on a fresh run.

Final Verdict
The Surge: A Walk in the Park shows the team at Deck 13 are getting better and better with everything they develop, and the expansion as well as the base game itself remains compelling enough if you're a fan of the Souls-like. Whatever the team does next, I'm sure they'll bring something even more absorbing than The Surge.

Score: 8/10

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The Surge

SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Sci-Fi
Genre: Action-RPG
Platform: PC
Release: Released


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