This is a pleasant surprise: The Surge is taking Dark Souls' gameplay and turning it sci-fi. Apparently announced eons ago, this is the first your humble host has seen of Deck 13's latest, and while it obviously lacks the artistic panache of a From Software release, the gameplay loop's looking strong – even if the obligatory emphasis on crafting has caused us to roll our eyes just a touch.
The game's set in a dystopian future, and sees you equipped with a CREO exo-suit. You can use parts that you salvage from enemies to upgrade your robotic outfit, augmenting yourself with combative and armour upgrades that best suit your playstyle. Of course, the combat is the chief appeal – it's all melee-based, and definitely has the slow, methodical pace of the Souls series.
There's about 15 minutes of gameplay embedded above, which shows off the core combat loop across a couple of minor boss bouts. Those paying extra attention may also notice that the button prompts change between a DualShock 4 and an Xbox controller depending on the circumstance, so we've no idea which platform this footage was captured on. PC, perhaps?
[source blog.eu.playstation.com]
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I hadn't heard about this game. As long as the combat is responsive and 'smooth', this game shows a lot of promise. I can't be the only one tired with the souls series.
Looks sick! Is it coming to retail?
The first minute of that video made me want Darksiders 3, then I turned it off b/c nothing happened.
Mmm, mean
Sci-fi dark souls sounds like an amazing idea on paper. Having a quick look at the video, it looks like fun, so I'll likely get this at some point. Will wait to hear more first of course.
Theyre clearly trying to release this before the next From Software game comes out. I like the futuristic take, but im really home From Software will go with something more like Dead Space.
Crafting is funny. Who crafts stuff in real life? Games lols
Is this the game from lords of the fallen devs? Yes LOTF was very meh in my opinion but hopefully this will be better
It'd be great if this came out and then a month later Bloodborne 2 dropped.
I really enjoyed lords of the fallen(the combat felt very weighty and the armor designs were really cool)but I'm sure I had a quick glance at a headline awhile after LoF came out saying that MS had bought deck13...I did read the article as I was a bit down that MS had apperntly acquired the dev
#CraftingNeedsToStop
This looks really cool but I wish someone would make a game like Dark Souls without an emphasis on blood spraying everywhere. Makes me sick.
I like the gameplay style but the only game of a similar style that I ever could stomach was Maximo (one of my favorite games ever).
First heard about this probably 18 months ago and was intrigued the. Always a sucker for sci-fi rpg/action titles. Seems to have come quite a long ways, no about that release date...
Pretty sure IGN did a gameplay demo at E3 and I tried to link the video to one of the pushsquare writers twitter. Does look interesting
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